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Polygon Token
Research Report
             3rd June 2021

       FINANCE
Polygon Token 3rd June 2021 - Admantium Finance's Research Desk
Summary

                                          Particulars       Polygon

                                           Target Price      $3.29*

                                          Current Price       $1.83

                            Transaction Volume (in Mn)      $2,078.60

                                        MarketCap.(in Mn)   $11,412.77

                                 Market cap. dominance       0.63%

                                           APY (Avg.)        15.56%

     * Based on quantitative analysis
Polygon Token 3rd June 2021 - Admantium Finance's Research Desk
1. About Polygon

  A. A Brief Introduction

   Formerly referred to as Matic Network (rebranded in February 2021), Polygon is a layer-2
   network, developed to add additional scalability to Ethereum and improve interoperability
   between its blockchains.

   Preserving the MATIC token symbol, Polygon is described as “Ethereum’s internet
   of blockchains”, which represents an easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and
   infrastructure development.

   Polygon strives to solve some of Ethereum’s major drawbacks, including poor user experience
   (delayed transactions), insufficient throughput, and lack of community governance, with
   a new sidechain solution. Users can deposit Ethereum tokens to a Polygon bridge smart
   contract, interact with them within Polygon sidechain, and then later withdraw them back
   to the Ethereum main chain, if need be. The MATIC token is used to pay transaction fees and
   participate in proof-of-stake consensus.

   The core element of the platform is Polygon SDK, a flexible modular framework, which
   contributes to creating numerous types of applications. With the use of Plasma side
   chains (designed to facilitate off-chain transactions, making them fast and cost-effective
   for blockchains), Matic Network built an environment that enabled cheaper, easier and
   faster launch of decentralized applications (dApps) to market. The attractiveness of the
   Matic solution was backed by high gas fees on Ethereum and increased demand in the
   development of dApps.

  B. Products

   I) Matic Wallet
   Matic Wallet is a Plasma wallet mobile app, integrated with WalletConnect, to ensure secure
   storage of keys, intuitive access to the features provided by Polygon, as well as a seamless
   mechanism to connect browser based DApps to the mobile app.

   II) Dagger
   Developers can use Dagger to track their own smart contracts, accounts and transactions.
   They can create custom service or integrate with third-party services through IFTTT or
   Zapier.
III) Matic Token
 The MATIC token has three key use cases:
          a) Participating in the Proof of Stake consensus
          b) Paying for the transaction fees in the network
          c) Using a portion of the transaction fees, paid in terms of Matic tokens. This would
          create a fund to help support developers working on features and dApps needed by the
          network to get a part of block rewards. It would also support staking mechanism for
          backing the ecosystem projects.

C. Mission

 Polygon’s mission is to be Ethereum’s Internet of Blockchains, by providing a framework for
 building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks.

D. Revenue

 Matic has allotted 1.2 billion Matic tokens (12% of the total supply) towards staking rewards.
 This is to ensure that the network is seeded well enough until transaction fees gain traction.
 These rewards are primarily meant to jump-start the network, while the protocol in the long
 run is intended to sustain itself on the basis of transaction fees.

                       Validator Rewards = Staking Rewards + Transaction Fees

 This is allocated in a way to ensure gradual decoupling of staking rewards from being the
 dominant component of the validator rewards.

      Year            Target Stake (30% of            Reward Rate for         Reward Pool
                       circulating supply)             30% Bonding
    First                1,977,909,431                     20%                312,917,369
   Second                2,556,580,023                     12%                275,625,675
    Third                2,890,642,855                     9%                 246,933,140
   Fourth                2,951,934,048                     7%                 204,303,976
    Fifth                2,996,518,749                     5%           148,615,670 + 11,604,170
 Source:BlogMatic
Yearly rewards as mentioned above are absolute, regardless of the overall stake or the
target bonding rate in the network. The platform has committed that the above amount will
be given out as a reward to all checkpoint signers periodically.

Stakers running validator nodes and stakers delegating their tokens toward a validator that
they prefer, would be able to avail of these rewards. Validators will have an option to charge
a commission on the reward earned by delegators. Funds belonging to all stakers will be
locked in a contract deployed on the Ethereum main-chain and no validator would hold
custody over delegator ’s tokens.

In addition to the above rewards, a bonus is also paid to the validator who is ready to
work with an additional element of committing periodic checkpoints (a Merkle tree hash
representation of the Matic sidechain blocks) to the Ethereum mainnet. Such validators are
called proposers. The bonus given is based on a cost-reward ratio as explained below, with
the following assumptions:

ETH Price: $200
MATIC Price: $0.013
Gwei considered: 30
Gas considered: 1,000,000
Checkpoint interval: 15 mins

Checkpoint cost-to-reward ratio pertaining to the checkpoint reward during the first year of
live network, based on the above assumptions, comes to 5.18%.
If we were to update the interval to 30 mins, then the same ratio comes down to 2.59%.

Lastly, each block producer at BOR layer (the block producer layer) will be given a certain
percentage of the transaction fees collected in each block. The exact percentage of transaction
fees is decided taking into consideration the overall statistics of the live network. Until
then, the bundle flows through the same funnel, disbursing everything collected among all
validators.
E. Team

                           Previously AVP (Product Management) with IRIS Business, a
                           leader in software products for Regulatory bodies across the
                           globe. He is also a serial entrepreneur and has had an exit
                           with his previous firm named Dexter Consultancy. Previously at
      Anurag Arjun
   Co-Founder & Chief      Cognizant Technologies and SNL Financial.
     Product Officer

                           Core contributor for the first Plasma MVP implementation. Wrote
                           the first Node implementation of the original Walletconnect
                           protocol. Contributed to Web3 and developer ecosystem tools
                           like sol-trace. Previously Data Scientist with Housing.com
      Jaynti Kanani
    Co-founder & CEO

                           Ex-CTO (Ecommerce) of Welspun Group. Previously ran a
                           Blockchain services & product firm working with various clients
                           to design and implement their Decentralized app architectures.
                           An ex-Deloitte Technology consultant, he comes from a top
    Sandeep Nailwal
   Co-founder & Chief      B-School in India.
   Operations Officer

                           Mihailo is the recent addition to the co-founders of Polygon.
                           He is also the co-founder for 0xPolygon and an active crypto
                           influencer on Twitter. He currently resides in Serbia.
          Mihailo Bjelic
          Co-founder
2. Tokenomics

                                                 12%
                                                                            19%

                                                                                 2.09%
                                                                                 1.71%

                                     23.33%
                                                                                 16%

                                                                      4%
                                              21.86%

                    Launchpad Sale             Seed                 Early Supporters       Team

                    Advisors                     Foundation          Ecosystem              Staking
                                                                                            Rewards
   Source:Binance

        A. Token Supply Distribution
           I) Private Sale
           Tokens comprise 3.80% of the total supply:

                    a) Seed Round: Sale conducted at a rate of 1 MATIC = 0.00079 USD and raised a total of
                    USD 165,000, selling 2.09% of total token supply

                    b) Early Supporters: Sale conducted at a rate of 1 MATIC = 0.00263 USD and raised a
                    total of USD 450,000, selling 1.71% of the total token supply.

           II) Launchpad Sale
           Tokens comprise 19% of total supply. It was conducted in April 2019 for a total raise of
           $5,000,000 USD worth of BNB at $0.00263 per token for 19% of the total token supply. The
           BNB to MATIC rate will be determined on the day of the sale.

           III) Team
           Tokens comprise 16% of the total supply.
           IV) Advisors
           Tokens comprise 4% of the total supply.
           V) Network Operations
           Tokens comprise 12% of the total supply.
           VI) Foundation
           Tokens comprise 21.86% of the total
           supply.
           VII) Ecosystem
           Tokens comprise 23.33% of the total
           supply.
B. Token Governance and Use of Funds

 Matic Network has used approximately 7% of TGE funds according to the allocations below:

 •   1% Partnerships.
 •   9% Marketing.
 •   15% Legal.
 •   75% Technical Development.

 As per their risk management strategy, Matic plans to perpetually hold sufficient fiat
 reserves to fund their operational costs for at least 12 months. The rest of any funds held
 in crypto will be stored in cold wallets with multi-signature support.

C. MATIC Token Release Schedule

 The following chart represents the number and breakdown of all MATIC tokens that are
 intended to be released into circulation on a monthly basis.

 MATIC release schedule (%)

 Source: Binance

                      Particulars         April 2019   April 2020   April 2021   April 2022

                   Launchpad Sale (%)         19           19           19           19

                        Seed (%)             1.05         2.09         2.09         2.09

                   Early Supporters (%)      0.86         1.71         1.71         1.71

                        Team (%)              0           3.2          9.6           16

                      Advisors (%)            0           2.67          4            4

                     Foundation (%)          2.74         8.21        13.69         19.16

                     Ecosystem (%)           4.67          14         23.33         23.33

                   Staking Rewards (%)        4            7            10           12
3. Social Media Analysis

   Social media metrics:

                          Particulars                         Polygon       Solana     Polkadot     Ethereum     Cardano

                 Date of incorporation                        10/15/2017   04/8/2020   11/10/2016   07/30/2015   09/27/2017

                      Number of Days                            1326          421        1666          2135         1345

                                Tweets                          3,522        3,241       3,207         3,015       4,309

                       Tweets per day                           2.66         7.69         1.92         1.41         3.20

                               Followers                       422,285      303,428     450,513      1,302,458    652,681

                     Followers per day                          318.46      720.73      270.41        610.05      485.26

                                Replies                         0 /100       1 /100     0 / 100       0 /100       3 / 100

              Tweets with @mentions                            74 / 100     75 / 100    73 / 100     98 / 100     57 / 100

               Tweets with #hashtags                           23 / 100     9 / 100    69 / 100      19 / 100     37 / 100

                Telegram Subscribers                            51,227      84,822      34,063         5,261       53,942

   Community Engagement on Telegram                              Yes          Yes         Yes           No          Yes

                     Discord Members                            16,383      43,487       8,057         4,915       N/A*

                      Reddit Members                            10,897      16,985      25,396       987,315      496,196
   Source: Platform websites   *N/A – Account not Available

   As per the above table, we observe that Polygon has posted approx. 3 tweets on average per
   day since its incorporation, which is higher than that of Polkadot and Ethereum. However,
   Cardano exceeds Polygon with approximately 8 tweets per day.

   Solana exceeds the considered group in terms of the average number of followers per day
   with approximately 720.73 additions every day since incorporation. Polygon comes fourth
   with 55.81% followers less than Solana at 318.46. This is a positive signal on the popularity
   of Polygon as it has been gaining more followers than comparatively mature peers like
   Polkadot (270.41). Polygon ranks third in the group in terms of the number of Twitter
   mentions of 74 tweets per 100 tweets and this further reflects positively on its community
   engagement. Polkadot leads the group in the number of tweets with hashtags at 69 out of
   100, while Polygon ranks third in this metric with a total of 23 tweets with hashtags, out of
   100.

   Lastly, Polygon has a strong community built on both Telegram and Discord, with number of
   members at 51,227 and 16,383 respectively, higher than most peers in the group. However,
   Polygon currently has 10,897 members on Reddit as compared to Ethereum with 987,315
   members, Cardano with 496,196 members and Polkadot with 25,396 members. This reflects
   that Polygon has a long way to go in order to create a larger community on Reddit.

   Thus, we can conclude that the social media engagement of Polygon is quite decent and is
   expected to maintain momentum as the awareness about the platform increases.
A. Correlation Rank

 Source: Lunar Crush

 The Correlation Rank (0-100) is an algorithm that determines the correlation between the
 social media activity of a coin or a token and the price of the token. As can be seen from
 the above chart, the Correlation Rank for Polygon was 42 on 2nd June ‘21, which indicates
 the correlation between the price and social media activity is low for Polygon and that both
 bullish and bearish social media sentiments have low influence on the price of MATIC token.

 For comparison, the Correlation Rank of Tether is 64, Bitcoin is 52, and of Dogecoin is 68,
 out of a total of 100 as on 2nd June 2021.

B. Galaxy Score

 Source: Lunar Crush
The Galaxy Score is a combined measure of cryptocurrency indicators, used to correlate and
 understand the overall health, quality and performance of a specific project. The overall
 score combines the Price Score, Social Sentiment, Social Impact & Correlation Ranking.
 This score can indicate the right time to buy, hold or sell the coin. On 2nd June 2021, the
 Galaxy Score for Polygon was 52. The lowest value that the score has reached for Solana is
 51 on 15th April 2021. As the score has ranged consistently above 50, we can deduce that
 the crypto has been performing quite well and the overall market sentiment for the token
 is bullish, as well as reflecting the right time to buy and/or hold.

 For comparison, the Galaxy Score of Tether is 64, Bitcoin is 64, and of Dogecoin is 68.5, out
 of a total of 100 as on 2nd June 2021.

C. Alt Rank

 Source: Lunar Crush

 AltRank reflects the value of positive popularity of coins built using a unique algorithm
 that analyses each news article, comments and provides efficient sentiment ranks between
 0–2252. As per Lunar Crush, a lower AltRank is often considered better. It uses Price Change,
 Trading Volume, Social Volume and Social Score to measure the AltRank. The rank also looks
 at both financial metrics alongside community metrics and seeks to identify altcoins that
 outperform Bitcoin during specific timeframes. As on 2nd June 2021, Polygon’s AltRank was
 96159. Its AltRank Average is 60; that indicates good health and performance of the MATIC
 token.

 For comparison, the AltRank of Tether is 37, Bitcoin is 35, and of Dogecoin is 1 as on 2nd
 June 2021.
D. Volatility

   Source: Lunar Crush

   Volatility on Lunar Crush measures the price fluctuations over time and uses a standard
   deviation of logarithmic returns to detect patterns. As can be seen in the above chart, the
   volatility in price of Polygon has ranged between 0.011 and 0.186. The volatility peaked on
   12th March 2021 to 0.186 as the price rose from $0.07 to $0.19 on the same day.

   For comparison, the Volatility of Tether is 0.001, Bitcoin is 0.01, and of Dogecoin is 0.05 as
   on 2nd June 2021.

4.Fundamental Analysis

  Market Statistics

                           Particulars     Polygon      Solana       Polkadot     Ethereum      Cardano

                           Today’s Price     $1.82       $35.63       $27.64       $2,817.55      $1.79

                  Market Cap. (in Mn)      $11,363.99   $9,712.96    $27,610.51   $327,829.15   $57,376.75

           Circulating Supply (in Mn)      6,262.08      272.63       998,87         116.13     32,066.39

                   Max Supply (in Mn)       10,000       488.63       1,079.81         ∞         45,000

         Market Cap. Dominance (%)           0.64         0.55          1.56         18.15         3.18

       Fully Diluted Valuation (in Mn)     $18,147.29   $17,407.93    $30,169          -         $80,519

              Trading Volume (in Mn)       $2,003.43    $600.66      $2,270.21    $42,320.82    $4,087.40

                             Website       Polygon       Solana      Polkadot     Ethereum      Cardano
   Source: Coingecko.com
A. Ratio Analysis

Note: To calculate the group average, we have considered tokens with varying levels of market capitalization.

   I. Network Value to Transaction Ratio

                        Particulars            Polygon       Solana Polkadot Ethereum Cardano Average

Network value-to-transactions(NVT)ratio           5.67         15.38        11.86        8.64          14.12    11.13
Source: Coingecko

Market Cap. to TVL Ratio for Polygon is 5.67x, which is approx. 51% lower than the group
average; it thus indicates Polygon is undervalued and that there are a significant number
of transactions taking place on the platform. Though undervalued, the MATIC token in the
past few months has seen high growth due to a high rate in its blockchain adoption by major
decentralized financial platforms, including SushiSwap, Aave, Curve Finance, and Open Sea.

Over time Polygon’s price is likely to increase simultaneously with demand and is likely to
approach the Average Market Cap. to TVL Ratio. Hence, this signifies a strong buy signal.

   II. Market Cap. to TVL Ratio

                        Particulars            Polygon       Solana Polkadot Ethereum Cardano Average

         Market Cap./ Total Value Locked           1.05         0.46         1.16         5.41         5.58     2.13
Source: Coingecko

Market Cap. to TVL Ratio for Polygon is 1.05x, which is 49% lower than the group average
and thus indicates Polygon is undervalued. Over time Polygon’s price is likely to increase
simultaneously with supply and is likely to approach the Average Market Cap. to TVL Ratio.
Hence, this signifies a strong buy signal.
III. Volume to Market Cap. Ratio

                       Particulars       Polygon   Solana Polkadot Ethereum Cardano Average

                    Volume/Market Cap.    0.1767   0.0653   0.0843   0.1157   0.0713   0.1027
Source: Coingecko

The Volume to market Cap. Ratio indicates the liquidity of a token in the market. Liquidity
is vital because illiquid markets are often volatile.

For Polygon, the Volume to Market Cap. Ratio is higher than the peer group’s average by
72%, at value 0.1767. Investors have a slightly higher preference towards trading the MATIC
token, rather than holding the token over a longer period.

   IV. Average Transaction Value (ATV)

Source: Etherscan

Average Transaction Value measures how much, on average, users are spending on each
transaction. A higher value usually indicates that users are transacting more tokens. Based on
the graph above, Polygon’s AVT is significantly higher on date 2nd June 2021, at $25,493.14
than that of Polygon at the beginning of the year at value, $3,769.77. This tells us that users
prefer to use the MATIC token now for transacting and trading as compared to before. This
represents higher demand and increases the probability to see a push in the price of MATIC.
V. ROI

                            Particulars         Polygon    Solana Polkadot Ethereum Cardano Average

     Low-Frequency Trading Strategy (%)         7,301.67    761.91    488.60   561.80     1,093.79   2041.554

     High-Frequency Trading Strategy (%)        3,697.34   1,273.97   488.60    11.56      -1.84     1036.96

                        Holding (HODLer) (%)    8,549.99   1,569.25   507.59   1,081.06   1,580.15   2657.61
Source: Token Metrics

ROI evaluates the return on investment with its purchasing cost and ROI can also be used
when comparing different types of investments or multiple trading operations. A high ROI
value indicates that the investment is profitable, while a negative ROI means the return was
lower than the costs. As seen from the above table, Polygon surpasses the peer average for
Low-Frequency Trading Strategy, High-Frequency Trading Strategy and Holding (HODLer)
strategy average with ROIs of 7,301.67%, 3,697.34% and 8,549.99% respectively. It can
thus be inferred that Polygon offers higher potential earning to its investors and signifies
that staking the MATIC token for longer periods is comparatively more fruitful than low
frequency trading by 17% and high frequency trading by approx. 131%.

   VI. Sharpe Ratio

                            Particulars         Polygon    Solana Polkadot Ethereum Cardano Average

                     Sharpe Ratio (30 Days)      4.36       -0.24     -0.57    -0.55        2.46       1.09

                     Sharpe Ratio (90 Days)       4.18      2.85      0.0115    2.37        1.84       2.25

                        Sharpe Ratio (1 Year)    3.00       2.95       1.24     2.37        2.78       2.54

                        Sharpe Ratio (3 Year)     2.30      2.84        -       0.740      0.924       1.70
Source: Messari.io

Sharpe ratio is the measure of the risk-adjusted return of a financial portfolio. A portfolio
with a higher Sharpe ratio is considered superior relative to its peers. As we can observe
from the above table, the Sharpe ratio of Polygon is higher in 30 days, 90 days, 1 year and 3
years as compared to the peer group’s average. This represents a positive signal for holding
MATIC tokens for a longer period.
B. On-Chain Analysis

   I. Top 5 Token Holders

                                               5.3%

                                   7.8%
                                                                      17.4%

                                   13.9%

                                                                    16.5%

                       0x5...908           Vesting    Foundation   0xc...4ab   0x4...88b
                                           Contract    Contract
Source: Etherscan.io

The above table gives a breakup of the top holders of the coin. As can be seen, there are
three wallets that hold a sizeable portion of the coin’s supply. The total share help by these
wallets amounts to 48% of the total token supply.

Thus, there is a liquidity risk, since that may have the power to influence the price of the
MATIC. The largest holding in the coin stands at 17.477%.

   II. Unique Senders and Receivers

Source: Etherscan

On 2nd June 2021, the total number of Unique Receivers on the platform stood at 6846 and
the total Unique Senders stood at 5299. This is an indication that the popularity of Polygon
is reaching mainstream users of DeFi. The chart above shows a gradual and continuous rise
in the number of unique senders and receivers of the MATIC token.
III. Value of Transactions on Polygon

Source: Etherscan

The value of transactions for Polygon has been on a similar average since the start of 2021,
with some highs placed unevenly. However, since mid-May an average growth in the value
of transactions can be indicating an increasing demand for the token and presents a good
signal for investors to invest in it. As of 2nd June 2021, the total value of transactions stood
at 198Mn MATIC.

    IV. Polygon Market Volume

                                 31%
                                                                              39%

                                   7%

                                            7%                 16%

                         Binance             Coinbase   OKEx         Others         Digifinance
Source: Etherscan.io
                                             Exchange

Around 39% of Polygon related transactions are done via Binance, 16% through Digifinance,
7% via Coinbase Exchange, 7% of the same are done via OKEx and the remaining 31% by
other exchanges. This suggests that the availability of the token is high.
5.Technical Analysis

   A. Oscillators and Moving Averages

                         Oscillators                                    Moving Average

                           Name          Value      Action                    Name               Value      Action

        Relative Strength Index (14)    76.41485    Neutral    Exponential Moving Average (10)   1.14498     Buy

             Stochastic %K (14, 3, 3)   57.52570    Neutral       Simple Moving Average (10)     0.97953     Buy

   Commodity Channel Index (20)         177.71240    Sell      Exponential Moving Average(20)    0.77637     Buy

     Average Directional Index (14)     71.85257    Neutral       Simple Moving Average (20)     0.58738     Buy
                                                                      Volume Weighted Moving
                    Momentum (10)        1.51896     Buy                   Average (20)          0.68243     Buy

                MACD Level (12, 26)      0.39418     Buy              Hull Moving Average (9)     1.91110    Sell

       Williams Percent Range (14)      −33.16489   Neutral
   Source: Tradingview

                                            2                 9                13
                                            Sell            Neutral            Buy

   Source: Tradingview

   The above weekly chart of the Oscillators and Moving averages are indicating 13 buy signals,
   9 neutral signals, and 2 sell signals. So, this represents a strong buy signal.
B. MACD and RSI

The above chart represents that as per MACD if the green line cuts the red line from below,
prices are expected to rise. If the green line is above the red line, it indicates a buy signal.
From the above graph we see that the green line cuts the red line from above and hence it
is probable that price for the MATIC token falls briefly.

RSI dictates that values of 70 or above, suggest a security is becoming overbought or
overvalued and may be primed for a trend reversal or corrective price pullback. However,
RSI for Polygon is near 56.16 which is a bullish sign, showing scope for an upside. This
represents a buy signal.

C. Support Levels Using Daily Support Chart

If an all-time high is broken on the upside, we will see new price discovery; then the previous
all-time high becomes new support. If the previous all-time high is broken on the downside,
we can expect some correction. The support is visible at $1.73.
D. Fibonacci Analysis

The above chart shows that in the start of April, we had seen retracement of 52% approx. In
the third wave of Fibonacci technical analysis, if the all-time high is broken on the upside,
we will see a new price discovery to $3.209 at the first level in short term; it is also probable
to see a price of $4.258 in the mid-term. If the previous all-time high is broken on the
downside, a short-term correction may be probable, and we can take advantage by buying
MATIC token.
6.Quantitative Analysis

    We take historical data for Polygon which includes the price – open, low, high, volume, and
    daily percentage change in the price. The data spans from 3rd June 2020 to 3rd June 2021.
    After running an Augmented Dickey-Fuller test on the dataset, we find the resulting Dickey-
    Fuller value to be -1.141 and the related p-value to be 0.9151. As the p-value is significantly
    higher than 0.05, we find that the data is nonstationary.

    To construct a model and to forecast, we perform three key functions on the dataset, i.e. we
    take a first difference, we apply a Box-Cox transformation on the updated dataset, and use
    the auto.Arima() function in R to find the best ARIMA model with drift for our data.

    The best ARIMA model for our dataset is (2,2,2). The Ljung-Box test shows that the Q*
    is 17.49 and the p-value is 0.007643. Since the p-value is higher than the threshold, we
    proceed to forecast.

    Further analysis suggests that prices tend to be highest on Tuesday and lowest on the
    weekend. It also suggests that prices for Polygon tend to be bullish in the second quarter
    of the year.
Our model predicts that over the next 100 days after June 3rd , Polygon can trade within
   the range of $1.69 to $3.29.

7. Roadmap

   Polygon as well as its competitors, are working to be the first interoperability solution to go
   fully live. As of 2nd June 2021, Polkadot is considered the biggest competitor for Polygon
   and has yet to launch public parachains.

   Polygon’s proof-of-stake chain and Plasma scaling solution are live; however, the launch of
   ZK-rollups and optimistic rollups are awaited on the network. These are the main features
   that the team at Polygon is working on. Currently, Plasma is the only scaling solution
   available on Polygon.

   Given that Polygon was only announced in February 2021, there is not yet a roadmap
   detailing how its development will move ahead or which features will be prioritized.
   However, the team behind Polygon has been busy forging partnerships with the likes of
   Mogul Productions, Umbria, Atari, and OpenPredict—which intends to launch its first
   speculation markets product on Polygon.

8. Conclusion

   MATIC has been one of the most promising cryptocurrencies this year so far. Since the start
   of 2021, the price of Polygon’s cryptocurrency has ballooned from $0.01 on 1st January
   2021 to the all-time high of $2.68 on 11th March. An increase of almost 26.70% serves as
   a positive argument to the bullish Polygon (MATIC) crypto price prediction. Our detailed
   analysis and forecast also predicts a strong growth for Polygon.
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