Shibarium wallets surpass 100K after SHIB devs relaunch bridge

    Shytoshi Kusama, the co-founder of the SHIB token, said the bridge was fixed with the help of Polygon Labs co-founder Sandeep Nailwal. Shibarium, a new layer-2 blockchain for Shiba Inu, has surpassed 100,000 wallets on its platform, with 35,000 coming within 24 hours of Shibarium’s relaunch on Aug. 28. Shytoshi Kusama, the lead developer and co-founder…

    Num Finance launches Colombian peso stablecoin on Polygon

    Num Finance received $1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round in May and is now issuing stablecoins in the local currencies of Argentina, Peru and Colombia. Argentina-based Num Finance has gone live with a stablecoin pegged to the Colombian peso, the company announced Aug. 24 in an X post. The stablecoin — called nCOP —…

    Kresus launches curated marketplace for Polygon projects

    Web3 developer KresusLabs announced the launch of Kresus Market, a curated marketplace that acts as a portal to Polygon projects, on Aug. 23. Unveiling The #Kresus Marketplace: A Curated Marketplace To Explore What Polygon Has to Offer!https://t.co/PiYVx9kwUb The world of crypto can be overwhelming, so we made the Kresus Marketplace to make navigating it easier…

    Polygon Zero accuses Matter Labs’ developers of plagiarism

    Polygon Zero has accused Matter Labs of copying significant code from its Plonky2 library to zkSync, a rival Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution. Polygon’s zero-knowledge scaling arm, Polygon Zero, is accusing developers of Matter Labs of copy-pasting “a substantial amount of source code” from its Plonky2 library, according to an announcement on Aug. 3. The allegedly plagiarized code was…

    Healthy competition welcome — Polygon zkEVM lead

    Prominent Ethereum development firms have rolled out varying zero-knowledge scaling solutions that drive healthy competition in the ecosystem. An environment of healthy competition is being fostered between the Ethereum ecosystem’s top development firms building zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machines (zkEVMs) to scale the network, according to one of Polygon’s co-founders. Jordi Baylina, technical lead of Polygon Hermez zkEVM,…

    Chainlink launches cross-chain protocol bridging blockchain to TradFi

    Several top banks around the world are already collaborating with Chainlink to explore applications for the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. The development firm behind the Chainlink protocol and its native token has gone live with its cross-chain protocol, aimed at providing interoperability between traditional financial firms and both public and private blockchains. In a July 17 post on…