Welcome to week 19 of the Village Times, a weekly newsletter run by the Polygon DAO for the community. The Village Times includes Village updates, announcements, partner and grantee spotlights, and more.
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DeSci Writing Contest Updates
Now that weβve arrived at the end of the month, submissions for the DeSci Writing Competition have closed.
Next, weβll take a look at all the submissions to determine the recipients of visibility via various Polygon social handles, a chance to feature on the Polygon blog, and USDC prizes.
Winners will be announced in late December.
Thank you to all who participated!
New Voucher Partners
Weβd like to welcome our latest addition to the Village - BlockPi, a distributed multi-chain accelerator layer, solving the RPC requests congestion problem.
BlockPi has joined the Village as one of our voucher partners, providing Village projects with their highly performant and globally distributed RPC service. Check the link below to find out more about this partnership.
For projects looking to apply for Village vouchers, you can use this link here.
Our Village Talk sessions are a great marketing opportunity for projects, whereas, for the community, itβs a great time to get some sweet alpha.
Last week we held three Village Talk sessions:
WAGMI JobDrops AMA
On Monday, we hosted a WAGMI JobDrops AMA in lead-up to todayβs event, giving an opportunity for participants to meet their potential employers.
Expert Talk & Project Pitches
On last weekβs Expert Talk session, we had Wonder join us to talk about βLessons Learned in Decentralized Operationsβ. Wonder is a coordination layer βfor people to change the world and beyond.β
For the βproject pitchesβ segment of the event, we had Frontier DAO take the stage to tell us all about their platform. Frontier DAO is a DeSci incubator that uses web3 tools to support and decentralize research funding.
Village Wonders AMA
Last Thursday, we hosted a Village Wonders AMA session featuring Rightsfually, a platform that allows you to discover, secure, and trade content in web3, to talk all about βCreators & Web3β.
Next Weekβs Events Schedule
Dec. 7th: Expert Talks AMA w/ OnMeta at 5:30 PM UTC | 6:30 PM CET | 12:30 PM EST
Join the Polygon DAO Discord and stay up-to-date with the AMA event schedule.
ICYMI, here are some of the biggest headlines from this past week in the world of Polygon:
Phantom x Polygon
On November 29th, Polygon announced its partnership with Phantom wallet, the leading user-friendly, custodial crypto wallet.
Phantom is offering a first-class wallet experience for the rapidly growing number of NFTs, games, and defi dapps on the Polygon ecosystem.
Their private multi-chain beta is set to go live sometime in Q4, with a public release expected to follow shortly after. You can actually sign up for the waitlist today to be one of the first to access Phantomβs new upcoming multi-chain feature.
For anyone interested, you can read the official announcement here to learn more.
Polygon NFT Volumes
Throughout this past month, Polygon NFT volumes surpassed both Ethereum & Solana, with Polygon experiencing a +70% increase in sales volumes over the month.
Even if we zoom out to this past year, we can see that Polygon NFTs have been on the rise, with sales volume crossing over $300M for this year alone (already more than last year).
Polygon NFTs are here.
zkEVM x ETH India
This past week, the Polygon team posted a blog article going over some of the stats for the first 30 days of zkEVMβs public testnet launch. Some of the highlights included:
zkEVM batched, processed, and verified close to 20K transactions (3K in a single day at peak)
zkEVM onboarded nearly 6K addresses
zkEVM generated 10K proofs with zero downtime
there are about 20 defi projects in testing right now
According to the blog post, the Hermez team has been debugging all month long, and as a result, βthe Polygon zkEVM now passes 98.56% of all vectors on Ethereumβs test suite - a valuable metric that no other rollups have yet providedβ
Over the next 30 days, theyβll look to add some of the remaining Ethereum precompiles, as well as have an audit completed for Polygon zkEVM, with mainnet launch expected in Q1 2023.
For anyone interested, you can read the complete article here.
Polygon Ecosystem Updates
Citizen βtaps Polygon to connect defi and eCommerceβ. Citizen is a shop-to-earn platform where users can shop at any of the 300+ registered merchants while earning a yield on balances held in the app.
A couple of days ago, the Polygon Daily team provided us with an image, showcasing the landscape of the Lens ecosystem. Hint: thereβs a lot happening there.
Β The BVIV index and EVIV index are now live on Polygon. These measure the 30-day implied volatility of Bitcoin and Ethereum respectively. Β
A bit late to this one, but the Swaap Protocol crossed $1M in TVL a couple of days ago, with over $1.4M deposited into the protocol by LPs.
Revert just started this campaign of 150K MATIC in staking incentives for selected pools.
Worldpay/FIS just settled the first live transaction of a customer card purchase using USDC on Polygon
Polygon Studios & NFTs:
Here is the latest episode of the βWeekly briefingβ by Polygon Studios.
Tower Conquest: Metaverse Edition is now live on mainnet. Tower Conquest is a free-to-earn Tower Defense game powered by Polygon.
Tower Token joins One Planet: The Tower franchise partnered with One Planet to βlist their iconic NFT collection, Tower battle Card, and Tower treasuryβ. Tower is behind the web3 game Crazy Defense Heroes, which have accrued +2M downloads.
Check out Astro Armadillo, an upcoming web3 game that will be launching on Polygon. Picture something similar to the βFall Guysβ game.
Smile Miya Club x Polygon: GMarket Smile pay, Koreaβs largest circulation company, βis redefining shopping cultureβ.
Dustland introduces crafting: Dustland is a fitness game that describes itself as the running version of Diablo, with a Netflix worthy storyβ.
For all you NFT enthusiasts, if you havenβt already, check out One Planetβs Art Gallery which was just recently launched on Polygon - itβs super dope.
It looks like Polygonβs Digital Football Collectibles have officially sold out.
Hell Cats partners with Polygon Studios. Hell Cats is an NFT PFP project that will be receiving support in marketing and upcoming developments.
Threads, Articles & Media
Hereβs a thread on how Uquid integrated Polygon to create one of the best web3 shopping experiences.
Hereβs a thread about what exactly Synquote, a decentralized options trading platform, is building.
Hereβs a thread going over an overview of DIMO, a connected vehicle ecosystem that helps drivers get the most out of their cars.
Check out this thread by Aishwary, a fellow Polygon giga-chad, titled βThe Last Mile Playbook for Fintechβ.
Amit Chaudhary, head of Defi research at Polygon, just wrote this piece titled βA Recipe for Making Defi Lending Sustainable & Stableβ
The Polygon team posted this blog article titled, βPolygon Presents: Lessons Learned In Zero Knowledgeβ.
The Polygon team posted this blog titled, βETHVietnam Spotlights Ethereumβs Viet Communityβ
Hereβs Week 47 of Polygon Insights, a weekly article highlighting recent Polygon stats for the week, including WAUs, top dapps, & NFT stats.
Hereβs a blog article about Polygonβs recent partnership with Hell Cats.
Hereβs an article about Polygonβs recent partnership with the Phantom wallet.
Layer3 hosted a Twitter space with team members from Coinbase Cloud & Polygon to discuss both ecosystems, along with non-custodial staking.
Hereβs an AMA session with Nori: βNori Talks Scaling Carbon Removal on Polygonβ
Hereβs a Twitter space between Polygon & Magic Eden regarding their recent partnership.
The Polygon Defi team hosted this session with Tenderize, which was all about βRedefining Liquid Stakingβ
The Polygon Defi team hosted this event with Mysterium Network, which centered around the topic of βmaking interest borderlessβ
Here is an unfiltered interview Sandeep (Polygon co-founder) just did, going over his personal story of a man coming from poverty to a man that helped build a multi-billion dollar web3 startup.
This past week, the Polygon team posted a 4-part βzkEVM Audit Educationβ series. You can visit the Polygon TV youtube page to catch all four sessions.
On the latest episode of the Polygon Alpha podcast, host Crypto Texan talks to Mario Zavala from Revert Finance to talk all about staking incentives for Uniswap V3.
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