Polygon (※,※) (@0xPolygon): Top breakout moments on Polygon PoS in 2024

Top breakout moments on Polygon PoS in 2024 • @Polymarket helped crypto go mainstream: With 26.2M transactions and $8.8B in volume by EOY, traditional political analysts, economists, and millions of everyday users were turning to the platform to peek into the future • Stablecoin integrations translated to realworld use cases: Payments on Polygon drove real world adoption, with volume that exceeded major chains like Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Base. s/o @Dune for the data (dune.com/sealaunch/poly…) • Games went exponential: @Matr1xOfficial showed the world what adoption can look like with over 4.7M downloads and 138M transactions. @WilderWorld ended 2024 in the top 10 most wishlisted games on the Epic Games Store. @GasHeroOfficial pulled off an epic launch in Jan 2024. And @Planetix0 continued to grow its userbase with a fusion of gaming and staking. • @Courtyard_io put more than 500k physical collectibles onchain: With over 1.9M transactions, Courtyard.io shook up traditional collectible marketplaces. A lot of eyes turned to a first edition Charizard, with seamlessness of crypto rails. • DEXes neared $60B in volume: Polygon DEX volume hit $59B, with @Uniswap and @PancakeSwap leading the way. Major traffic continued to flow to @QuickswapDEX, a leading DEX across chains built with Polygon CDK. • @Spiko_finance entered the chat with tokenized treasury bills: Spiko is rebuilding capital markets infrastructure with crypto rails—starting with money markets. Since launch last April, Spiko has seen net flows of more than €244M in tokenized treasury bills for Eurozone countries and $47M in tokenized U.S. treasury bills. • Verify teamed up with @TIME as first publishing partner: Verify, built by Fox Corporation, is an open source protocol to prove the origin of registered media. After it registered 106k articles and 300k pieces of content on Polygon PoS, Fox announced in 2024 that Verify would build a dedicated chain using Polygon CDK. • @MintStarsReal gave adult entertainment content creators more power: Mintstars is disrupting a huge global industry putting crypto rails on an OnlyFans-like platform. No chargebacks and creators keep 100% of their earnings.