This is a significant moment for Uniswap, but also a time to address the issue of rising gas fees & how Matic can help Ethereum scale to ensure a bright future for #DeFi.
2/🙅♂️During the UNI issuance event, ETH gas prices reached highs of over 1000 GWEI for a ‘very fast’ transaction (~20 seconds), which caused huge congestion on the network leading to users reportedly spending over $20 per transaction in some instances.
3/🚧As the DeFi revolution continues its impressive upwards trajectory, the trickle-down effect will continue to cause the entire Ethereum ecosystem to experience an increase in transaction costs and slower confirmation times due to worsening network congestion.
4/🚀Matic Network was conceived to combat this very situation. Matic provides a secure, high-performance L2 solution for Ethereum transactions at a rate of 7,200 TPS, with gas fees less than 1/1000th the cost on the Ethereum mainchain (2-3 second transaction for ~$0.000002 USD).
5/👥The future of finance is decentralized, but we need scalable, low-cost infrastructure to remove the barriers of entry relating to cost and speed. Matic is providing the means to allow the DeFi ecosystem on Ethereum to continue its impressive growth and thrive.
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introducing the Polygon Governance Hub — a unified & transparent interface for community governance, developed with @AragonProject.
built hand-in-hand with the community, the hub marks the next chapter of Polygon governance and community ownership.
more on what this means 🧵
the governance hub is designed to empower users and builders to influence core development of Polygon tech.
built in phases together with Aragon, it will incorporate community feedback at every step, ensuring the platform is decentralized and infused with community values.
the hub features a unified interface for two of the three Polygon governance pillars:
- protocol governance
- system smart contract governance
for the former, the hub increases transparency and participation. for the latter, it introduces an upgraded governance framework.
1,000,000,000 POL over 10 years, unlocked in grant funding.
Season 01 of the Community Grants Program is here, with 35 million MATIC allocated towards funding the best projects across the Polygon and Ethereum landscape.
builders, this one’s for you...
details
• S01 applications: open June 11, 2024 and close Aug 31, 2024
• Grant range: 5,000 - 50,000+ MATIC
• Total S01 allocation: up to 35,000,000 MATIC
• Every month: Community Treasury Board reviews and selects projects
• Grant payouts: begin the first of each month
Interested projects should apply early, as applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Expect an average four-week turnaround for grant allocation.
1 billion?! where is this coming from?!
You heard that right. Announced last year in the POL whitepaper, 1% of token emissions will be dedicated to the growth of the Polygon builder community.
DeFi revolutionizes the way we interact with money and financial services.
Polygon PoS, zkEVM and CDK have emerged as top choices for DeFi builders, providing devs scalable networks and tools to build financial solutions — the future of finance is closer than you think.
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let’s dive into DeFi on polygon. scroll 👇🏽 more
through blockchain rails, DeFi opens up financial systems, enables peer-to-peer transactions, and eliminates the need for intermediaries.
many of these innovative financial dApps call Polygon home, addressing needs from lending and borrowing to rewards optimization and stablecoins within an aggregated network.
why Polygon?
Polygon PoS, Polygon zkEVM, and Polygon CDK offer developers networks and a toolkit that suits developers’ needs to provide flexibility, scalability, and security to build and scale innovative DeFi applications.