Polygon Ecosystem Token (POL)

$POL looks cooked now https://t.co/WrZ5g5LQQs

🧲What Polygon did best in 2026 ⁉️ The recent interview regarding @0xPolygon was quite shocking to me. A Polygon representative is being interviewed at the New York Stock Exchange about acquisitions and mergers of real companies? Was this imaginable in the past? Seeing a blockchain figure interviewed at the New York Stock Exchange, a symbol of traditional finance, is astonishing. Most people still think blockchain and Web3 have nothing to do with them and that they don’t need to know about it. However, as with Polygon, blockchain projects are now integrating existing finance and payment companies through acquisitions and mergers and entering the real-world payment arena (PayFi). If Coinme and Sequence are combined… Now, even without thinking about wallets within Polygon’s Open Money stack, and regardless of the chain, you can connect bank money on-chain and make payments. Of course, this is recognized as a legal form in the United States. Ordinary people may continue to live unaware of blockchain for several more years. But they may be making on-chain payments unknowingly. Although 2026 has barely been a month old, I think the best thing Polygon will do in 2026 might be these concrete corporate mergers. One more thing? Following me 🥰

This year. https://t.co/RUReWWOtvT

Reasons to watch Polygon in 2026 : Polygon emerging from L2 to become a payment infrastructure One of the best-performing projects at the start of 2026 is undoubtedly @0xPolygon. As of January 1st, it has seen a maximum increase of 87% and is currently close to a 67% rise. Considering it merely a short-term rebound would overlook the fairly structural background of the price movement. We will outline why $POL has been in the spotlight since the beginning of 2026, and whether this trend is a short‑term swing or the starting point of a core project that will span the entire year. -------- 1. Token economy structurally changed The starting point of this rally is a clear change in the token structure. - A single‑criterion, all‑time largest POL burn (about 3 M POL burned, 0.03% of total supply) - Based on the cumulative burn rate of the first week of 2026, annual deflation potential of roughly 3.5% - Automatic burn mechanism based on base fee revenue - Increased network usage → demand rises + supply drops simultaneously The most important point is that this burn is not a one‑off event. Polygon is about six years old now, and the total supply of 10 B $POL has already been fully minted. This structure means that as network usage grows, it has a very positive impact on price appreciation. 2. Polygon Open Money Stack announcement The Open Money Stack unveiled on January 9th was the key event that completed the narrative of this rally. Polygon no longer remains just a fast and cheap L2. It now defines itself as a global stable‑coin payment infrastructure. The core of the Open Money Stack is not a list of features but the design of the entire money‑movement process as a single flow. In traditional blockchains, payment rails, wallets, on‑off ramps, and compliance were each interfaced with different parties and fragmented. The Open Money Stack removes this fragmentation, consolidating it into a unified stack. * Blockchain payment rails