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WazirX Hacked for $230M; Mark Cuban, Vitalik Buterin Speak Up on Crypto and Politics
WazirX Hacked for $230M; Mark Cuban, Vitalik Buterin Speak Up on Crypto and Politics
"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines in the crypto industry today, as Indian crypto exchange WazirX experienced a security breach in one of...
WazirX Hacked for $230M; Mark Cuban, Vitalik Buterin Speak Up on Crypto and Politics

Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal (left) and Mihailo Bjelic (Polygon Labs)
Polygon Sets September Date for Migration to POL Token from MATIC
The migration comes as a part of Polygon’s planned revamp laid out last year in its “Polygon 2.0” roadmap. The change was initially proposed in July 2023 to its community, and...
Polygon co-founders Sandeep Nailwal (left) and Mihailo Bjelic (Polygon Labs)

Polygon Co-founder Daniel Lubarov (Polygon Labs)
Polygon's New ZK Proving System, 'Plonky3,' Comes as Open-Source Toolkit
Proving systems are a crucial component at the heart of blockchain ecosystems, allowing secondary "rollup" networks to confirm transactions on a base chain like Ethereum. Poly...
Polygon Co-founder Daniel Lubarov (Polygon Labs)

Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)
Polygon Creates New Grants Program, 1B POL Unlocked Over 10 Years
The program will tap into funds made available by Polygon’s Community Treasury, and the team shared that roughly 100 million POL tokens will be given out each year.
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Polygon Labs CEO, Marc Boiron. (Polygon Labs)
Polygon Acquires Zero-Knowledge Cryptography Firm Toposware
Sources close to the deal told CoinDesk that the company was valued at $30-50 million. The purchase means that Polygon Labs has invested over $1 billion on zero-knowledge rese...
Polygon Labs CEO, Marc Boiron. (Polygon Labs)

OKX Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique (OKX)
Crypto Exchange OKX's Polygon-Powered Layer 2, 'X Layer,' Hits Public Mainnet
OKX's comes as other major cryptocurrency exchanges, like Coinbase and Kraken, have also pursued their own layer 2 networks over the last year.
OKX Chief Marketing Officer Haider Rafique (OKX)

Why Did Starbucks' Web3 Project Fail?
Why Did Starbucks' Web3 Project Fail?
Starbucks announced that it is sunsetting Odyssey, the 18-month experiment that uses collectible non-fungible tokens as the anchor of a loyalty program. According to two peopl...
Why Did Starbucks' Web3 Project Fail?

Why ETH ETFs Might Not Get Approved; 3AC's Kyle Davies Not Sorry
Why ETH ETFs Might Not Get Approved; 3AC's Kyle Davies Not Sorry
"CoinDesk Daily" host Jennifer Sanasie breaks down the biggest headlines impacting the crypto industry today, including a Bloomberg analyst's prediction that ether ETFs likely...
Why ETH ETFs Might Not Get Approved; 3AC's Kyle Davies Not Sorry

Video game controller (Jose Gil/Unsplash)
Immutable, King River Capital, Polygon Labs Set Up $100M Web3 Gaming Fund
Immutable and Polygon Labs will identify investment opportunities while King River will manage the investment process and deploy the capital across game studios and web3 infra...
Video game controller (Jose Gil/Unsplash)

Polygon is promoting its new "AggLayer" by distributing hoodies with a depiction evocative of human evolution. (Margaux Nijkerk)
Polygon Lands Astar Network as First User of New 'AggLayer'
By plugging into the AggLayer, Astar users will have access to the liquidity in the Polygon ecosystem, allowing cross-chain transactions between Astar and Polygon zkEVM, suppo...
Polygon is promoting its new "AggLayer" by distributing hoodies with a depiction evocative of human evolution. (Margaux Nijkerk)