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By The Numbers
Polygon daily active addresses: 613.0K (+18.63%)
Polygon daily txns: 7.29M (+0.97%)
Polygon Total Volume Locked (TVL): $1.10B (-1.09%)
Daily DEX Trading Volume: $184.85M (-45.77%)
Stablecoin Market Cap: $3.07B (+0.78%)
USDT: $212.69M (-39.32%)
USDC: $808.82M (-13.57%)
DAI: $124.31M (-15.12%)
The percentages and metrics are based on a 7-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise.
Polygon Spotlight
🟪 What happened: Polygon increased its gas limit from 65 million to 80 million over the past two weeks, increasing capacity by 23% and pushing network throughput to over 1,900 TPS.
Polygon’s Daily TPS has doubled over the past year, with the network processing $1.93 billion in DEX volume last week, marking a 12-month high. Stablecoin transactions also reached a daily all-time high of 14.6 million transfers on February 11.
🟪 Why it matters: The capacity increase is in response to sustained demand growth for traditional stablecoin transactions, and emerging use cases like prediction markets and AI agent commerce.
Polymarket accounted for $886 million of last week's DEX volume, driven by wagers related to the Super Bowl that extended beyond game outcomes to include prop bets on halftime performances, national anthem duration, and Gatorade shower colors.
Markets tied to cultural events like the Super Bowl show how blockchain-based betting infrastructure can capture retail interest beyond crypto-native users, especially when markets cover accessible outcomes like entertainment rather than financial instruments only.
Separately, OpenClaw, an AI coding assistant with over 187,000 GitHub stars, executed the first autonomous AI agent-to-AI agent commerce transaction using USDC on Polygon. The entire transaction flow, including the product listing, price negotiation, sale and payment settlement, was executed by AI agents without human intervention.
Complementing this development, platforms like RentAHuman.ai have emerged to address execution gaps by allowing AI agents to hire people to do tasks. Meanwhile, tools like Semantic Layer enable users to replicate the trading strategies of any Polymarket address using LLMs, creating copy-trading infrastructure for prediction markets.
🟪 The big picture: The capacity expansion positions Polygon to handle concurrent growth across payment infrastructure and experimental applications while maintaining fees below the 1-cent threshold.
Total stablecoin market cap on the network stands at $3.07 billion, and the record 14.6 million daily transfers demonstrates the network can process significant transaction volume as multiple use cases scale simultaneously.
Chart Of The Week
Stablecoin transactions reached a daily all-time high of 14.6 million transfers on February 11.
Into the Agglayer
Sentient launched CryptoAnalystBench, an open-source benchmark that evaluates AI bots for crypto analysis by grading answers on relevance, temporal accuracy, depth and data consistency
Espresso Foundation announced that the ESP token is now live for claiming and staking
Sentient explains attack vectors that threaten AI agents operating in “cryptoland”
DL Research posted a deep dive on Katana that explains how the protocol brings ve(3,3) tokenomics to the chain level
Katana launched in-app questing, allowing users to complete quests, earn badges, and stack XP on the leaderboard
Ecosystem Showcase
Polygon joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, alongside Nethermind and Ethena, to collaborate on global settlement infrastructure and payment rails
Turnkey launched Gas Sponsorship to help developers cover users' transaction fees
Tazapay processed $687M on Polygon in January 2026, setting a new monthly record and leading all payment protocols on the network
Dyadnum launched on Polygon as a WhatsApp bot that lets users trade and conduct DeFi via text messages
Polygon is enabling stablecoin-based tax refunds at Italian airports during the Winter Olympics, allowing international shoppers to claim instant USDC
Polygon explains how stablecoin remittances rails reduce cross-border transfer costs from the World Bank's reported 6.49% average to cents
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