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Ethereum Scaling Tool Polygon's MATIC Token Surges Amid Spike in Transactions
The token's price is up 48% this year. The blockchain has the second-most number of daily active users, according to data from Token Terminal.
Updated Jan 27, 2023, 4:06 p.m. Published Jan 26, 2023, 11:38 p.m.
Ethereum scaling tool Polygon’s MATIC token has surged 12% over the past 24 hours, continuing its strong momentum this year.
MATIC was recently trading at $1.11. It is up 48% since Dec. 31 amid a spike in daily transactions that have made the blockchain the second largest for daily active users (DAU), according to data from Token Terminal.
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The rally comes amid a January upturn in the crypto market that has seen Aptos’ APT token skyrocketing more than 400%, Fantom’s FTM jumping about 145% and bitcoin rising nearly 40%.
The Polygon platform ranks second behind Binance’s BNB chain recording 344,000 daily active users (DAU), ahead of Solana and Ethereum.
Polygon’s announced partnerships and launches over the last month that have increased DAUs may also be behind the price increase, along with anticipation of Polygon’s mainnet launch of its zero-knowledge EVM. The mainnet launch is scheduled for early this year. Its zk-EVM public testnet went live in October.
“We’re starting to see users and interest come back to these kinds of networks and seeing activity again,” Charles Storry, head of growth at crypto index platform Phuture, told CoinDesk.
“There’s also a lot of projects that have built on top of Polygon that haven’t released their tokens yet, which will be coming out soon and add to the already increasing activity levels,” Storry added.
Polygon currently has around $1.1 billion total value locked (TVL), according to data from DeFiLlama.
“We are seeing mass TVL increases for riskier projects and early stage applications,” Storry said. “In a bear market investors are more conservative and don't want to take on huge risk, but now prices have picked up a little, they are more open to newer and riskier ecosystems like Polygon.
“We will see more of that come through as the market continues to pick up.”
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