Polygon to launch payments platform.
Jumper launches a portfolio manager.
Staked ETH supply hits a new ATH.
Lighter releases a mobile app.
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Polygon Labs announced plans to launch a regulated stablecoin payments platform in the U.S. following its upcoming acquisitions of Coinme, a fiat-to-crypto on- and off-ramp provider licensed in 48 states, and Sequence, an enterprise wallet and cross-chain infrastructure provider. The acquisitions form the Open Money Stack, a vertically integrated payments platform that combines regulated fiat access, wallet infrastructure, enterprise APIs, cross-chain payment orchestration, and stablecoin settlement on Polygon. The move turns Polygon Labs into a revenue-generating payments company.
Jumper, a bridge aggregation protocol, launched Jumper Earn and Jumper Portfolio, two new products designed to help users move, deploy, and manage capital across DeFi through a single user interface. Jumper Portfolio provides a unified view of assets and DeFi positions across multiple chains. Users can sort their assets by token or protocol. Jumper Earn identifies personalized yield opportunities based on a wallet's holdings, activity, and positions, drawing from 15 major DeFi protocols and more than 79 markets. Users can also use the Quick Deposit feature, powered by LI.FI's Composer, to deploy assets into liquidity pools or vaults directly from the Jumper interface.
The amount of ETH staked on Ethereum's Beacon Chain has reached a new record, now representing over 29% of the total ETH supply. According to data from Beaconcha.in, more than 35.9 million ETH is currently staked across 900,000 validators. An additional 2.3 million ETH is queued in the validator entry queue. Staked ETH plays a critical role in securing the Ethereum network by providing economic incentives for validators to propose, verify, and attest to valid blocks. Lido Finance remains the largest staking provider, holding a market share of 24% of all staked ETH on the Beacon Chain.
Lighter, an application-specific ZK rollup on Ethereum focused on trading, launched its mobile app on both iOS and Android. Users can now trade perpetuals, spot assets, RWAs, and pre-markets directly from their phones. Lighter is hosting a mobile-only trading competition starting January 15, featuring a 100,000 $LIT prize pool. Users must download the app in advance and complete most of their trading on mobile to be eligible. Lighter is the leading chain in the Ethereum ecosystem by throughput, processing around 3,000 TPS over the past day. The trading platform has surpassed $1 billion in TVL and more than $1.3 trillion in all-time perpetuals trading volume.
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