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Solana hires Binance CMO, Polygon exec to lead strategy, payments

Rachel Conlan joins the Solana Foundation as chief strategy officer after three years as Binance's global CMOJamal Raees becomes general manager of payments, arriving...

Polygon Labs quietly fixes critical security bugs with hard forks

Polygon Labs disclosed it patched a batch of security vulnerabilities through two hard forks — Austin on its Bor client and Kyoto on Heimdall...

Polygon Labs buys Coinme, Sequence in $250M payments push…

Polygon Labs is buying Coinme and Sequence for a combined $250 million to build regulated payments middleware.The acquisitions will feed a new toolkit aimed...

Polygon’s Open Money Stack boosts POL amid stablecoin rushes

Polygon Labs announced the Open Money Stack, a stablecoin payments framework to move money across decentralized finance.The system aims to keep funds onchain with...

Mastercard Launches Username Crypto Transfers on Polygon Network

Mastercard expands its Crypto Credential program to include self-custody wallets with username-style aliases.Polygon blockchain is the first to support this feature, with Mercuryo handling...

Polygon to Boost Block Gas Limit, Aiming for 33% Faster Payments

Polygon plans to raise its block gas limit by 33%, increasing transaction capacity to meet growing demand. The change aims to improve processing speeds as...

Polygon (POL) Jumps 9% Amid Volume Surge, Outperforms Market

Polygon (POL) recorded a 9% jump in early U.S. trading, reaching $0.225 before encountering heavy selling.Trading volumes more than doubled compared to the 24-hour...

Polygon Suffers One-Hour Outage After Validator Exits Network

Polygon experienced about an hour-long outage due to a technical incident involving a validator exit. The network’s Heimdall service became unresponsive, stopping blockchain progression temporarily. Polygon...

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a16z drops crypto from flagship fund, rebrands to ‘frontier’

Andreessen Horowitz dropped "crypto" from its flagship fund, rebranding it as the "frontier" while vowing to keep investing in...

Google Cloud previews MPC service for joint Bitcoin custody

Google Cloud is previewing a Multi-party Compute service for institutional Bitcoin custody, enabling shared transaction authorization without exposing private...

US seizes Virtualine domain over child abuse hosting

The U.S. Department of Justice seized the domain of bulletproof hosting provider Virtualine, alleging it facilitated child sexual abuse...