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The platform combines regulated money movement with Polygon’s infrastructure, and its first customers are already using it for payments, payroll and USD services.
Beyond the lending debut, the week brought Polygon retiring 100M POL permanently, World shipping a finance app, and Linera winding down operations.
Jenson's mandate covers capital strategy and operating discipline as Polymarket races to scale its CFTC-regulated U.S. exchange after years of being locked out of the American market.
The structural question is coexistence, not competition. Stablecoins handle the exporter leg, a potential digital pound clears the importer side, and the design feeds the joint assessment.
France's regulator wants prediction-market trading off-limits; Polymarket argues the read-only site still belongs in the European information stack and will fight the geoblock in court.
The pivot from base-layer infrastructure to payments is a survival move, not a growth one. Polygon is trading developer mindshare for a narrower bet on stablecoin rails.
The layoffs arrive as Polygon Labs pushes to finalize its Coinme acquisition and refocus the business around payments infrastructure, marking the second workforce reduction this year.
John Egan frames throughput and finality, not fees, as the metric that decides whether AI-to-AI commerce runs on-chain at all.
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