Agglayer connects to Solana’s network via Rome protocol
Polygon Weekly Overview - February 27, 2025
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By The Numbers
Polygon daily active users: 581.75K (+8.43%)
Polygon daily txns: 3.54M (+3.51%)
Polygon Total Volume Locked (TVL): $696.31M (-13.56%)
NFT weekly sales volume: $13.1M (+37.59%)
Top 3 NFT collections by sales volume:
Courtyard: $11M (+31.08%)
LEDNFT: $671.79K (+143.08%)
LED COLLECTION: $139.65K
The percentages and metrics are based on a 7-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise.
Agglayer Spotlight
🟪What happened: Rome protocol is integrating with Agglayer to unify liquidity across Ethereum and Solana ecosystems.
🟪Why does it matter: This partnership connects the users and liquidity of two major blockchains, while helping developers leverage the strengths of each network. By connecting two popular chains into one unified ecosystem, Agglayer expands onchain possibilities for developers and users. It also has the potential to remove the need for complex bridging, fragmentation across blockchains and generally hard to use user interfaces. In turn, Agglayer’s interoperability layer can attract a broader user base, including those unfamiliar with the complexities of web3.
The Rome protocol’s integration into the Agglayer can help dApp developers build projects to create unified onchain experiences. It combines Ethereum and Solana Virtual Machines (EVM and SVM) and gives dApp developers “the best of both worlds,” Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, said in a recent press release.
This can simplify the development process by allowing developers to write code once and deploy dApps across both ecosystems without needing to learn the two EVM and SVM environments.
For context, Solana currently has a nominal average transaction cost of $0.0035 with 4,583 transactions per second. That means users can benefit from lower costs and better execution prices since applications would be able to tap into Solana’s fast and cheap transaction capabilities.
These elements have led to wide adoption of the network, with high trading volumes through areas like memecoin on platforms like Jupiter Exchange and Pump.fun. With this integration, similar dApps can emerge in the Agglayer ecosystem by enabling developers to leverage low cost and high speed transactions while also utilizing the security features of Ethereum and Agglayer.
Agglayer can function like a bridge and unifying layer between Ethereum, Solana and other chains, enabling users and assets to flow freely between them. In this case, it can be thought of as building a high-speed railway connecting two major cities or networks, allowing people and goods to move efficiently between them without friction. Lastly, this integration can help solve fragmentation challenges by creating unified users and liquidity between Ethereum and Solana.
🟪The big picture: This unification is further strengthened by being able to tap into the Agglayer’s interoperability layer for users and liquidity across many other ecosystems.
In general, Agglayer has continued to make aggregation and unification a priority, especially with the recent integration to Tria that connects Agglayer to all virtual machines, not just EVM and SVM.
The adoption of Polygon CDK Erigon and pessimistic proofs further adds performance and security to the Agglayer ecosystem. The continuous technology upgrades makes Agglayer an attractive option for any developer looking to deploy cross-chain dApps, allowing them to integrate the best parts of all the connected chains in its ecosystem.
This year, the Agglayer roadmap is accelerating towards fast interop, the ecosystem can be the home to many innovative and performant dApps connecting the fragmented blockchain landscape.
Into the Agglayer
Lumia released Hyperlaunch, a hybrid launchpad for RWAs and DeFi
Moonveil shared its L2 hit over 100K unique active wallets one week after deploying its testnet
Wirex Pay deployed its stablecoin payment-centric network to testnet using Polygon CDK
Learn how Espresso Network will bring composability to L2s for communication
Ecosystem Showcase
Circle’s Modular Wallets is bringing more customization to on Polygon PoS
Polygon committed to the DePIN Pledge aimed at maintaining decentralization and sovereignty
Polygon is securing GR1D Network’s Node Cluster to help scale web3 gaming
Watch Polygon Labs’ Head of DeFi Daniel Oon at Consensus speaking on building DeFi in Asia
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