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Polygon Labs is seeking up to $100m to cement its pivot from generic L2 infra to a regulated stablecoin payments stack built around Coinme, Sequence and its Open Money Stack.<\/p>\n
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Polygon Labs is seeking up to $100 million in fresh capital to expand its payments business, a move that would formalize the company\u2019s pivot from general\u2011purpose Layer\u20112 scaling to purpose\u2011built consumer and merchant payment rails, according to a report.<\/p>\n
The targeted raise would sit on top of a previously announced $250 million acquisition program for U.S. crypto payments firm Coinme and wallet\u2011infra provider Sequence, giving Polygon a vertically integrated stack spanning fiat on\u2011 and off\u2011ramps, card and ATM distribution, and developer APIs. CEO Marc Boiron has framed the strategy bluntly: <\/p>\n
\u201cOur ambition is to establish ourselves as a regulated payments entity in the U.S. Payments represent the most compelling use case,\u201d he told Reuters in January.<\/p>\n
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The new funding comes after Polygon, which earlier raised about $450 million from investors including Sequoia Capital India, SoftBank and Tiger Global, began consolidating its bet that stablecoin flows will define the next decade of blockchain adoption. <\/p>\n
In a recent podcast, Boiron said Polygon had already helped move roughly $2.3 trillion on\u2011chain and concluded that \u201cstablecoin payments was the standout vertical,\u201d pushing the team to \u201cbet everything on payments\u201d as generalized L1 and L2 performance began to converge. Polygon\u2019s own blog now describes its \u201cOpen Money Stack\u201d as a modular payments platform aimed at making cross\u2011chain, cross\u2011currency transactions feel like a single network for fintechs and enterprises.<\/p>\n
Polygon\u2019s shift from token incentives to fee\u2011driven payments economics is already visible in hard numbers. Combined, Polygon, Coinme and Sequence have processed more than $1 billion in off\u2011chain sales and over $2 trillion in on\u2011chain value transfers, according to a January briefing on the Coinme and Sequence deals. The network has also surpassed $11.1 billion in lifetime non\u2011USD stablecoin transfer volume and now handles more than 43% of all non\u2011USD stablecoin transfers on public blockchains, positioning it as a leading home for local\u2011currency payments, Polygon Labs said in an April ecosystem update. Separate analytics from Allium cited by MEXC show Polygon processed 178.1 million USD\u2011stablecoin transactions in a single month, including 42.7 million operations in the last week of March alone, underscoring its role as a high\u2011frequency payments rail.<\/p>\n
With dedicated capital for payments layered on top of its infrastructure roadmap, Polygon is setting itself up as a direct rival to Solana\u2011based payment protocols and bank\u2011integrated stablecoin rails rather than just another Ethereum scaling option. Boiron has argued that as chain architectures converge, \u201cdifferentiation through speed and low fees is over,\u201d and that the real moat will be regulated distribution, enterprise integration and the ability to move real\u2011world money at scale. If Polygon successfully closes a $100 million round into this vertical, it will sharpen a broader market contest over who owns the plumbing for global dollar and local\u2011currency stablecoin flows\u2014a contest that increasingly looks less like speculative DeFi and more like the next iteration of Visa, Mastercard and Stripe on\u2011chain.<\/p>\n
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