Polygon (MATIC) Price Prediction 2025-2030: MATIC continues to impress

Disclaimer: The datasets shared in the following article have been compiled from a set of online resources and do not reflect AMBCrypto’s own research on the subject

Polygon [MATIC], formerly known as the Matic Network, is a scaling solution that aims to improve the speed and reduce the cost of transactions on blockchain networks. It operates using the Ethereum [ETH] blockchain and connects Ethereum-based projects, allowing for increased flexibility, scalability, and sovereignty for blockchain projects.

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The Polygon platform still offers the security, interoperability, and structural benefits of the Ethereum blockchain, making it an attractive option for projects looking to scale.

MATIC is the native cryptocurrency token of the Polygon platform. The Polygon plasma chains use a Proof of Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, and MATIC is used to pay for all transactions on the plasma chains. As more projects adopt Polygon as a scaling solution, the demand for the token is expected to increase.

In addition to being used for transactions, MATIC also serves as a governance token. Holders of MATIC have the right to vote on which of the several scaling solutions planned by the Polygon team should be rolled out. MATIC is currently worth $0.95. 

MATIC has seen a price appreciation of more than 28% since the beginning of 2023. The Polygon network recently underwent a key hard fork, an upgrade that its community had been anticipating. The hard fork addressed the spikes in the network’s gas fees and disruptive chain reorganizations.

The token has a market capitalization of $10,040,236,333 with a 24-hour trading volume of $899,105,537. 

MATIC’s popularity has been driven by its use case as a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, providing faster and cheaper transactions and increased scalability to the Ethereum network. This is especially useful for dApps, which often struggle with high transaction fees and slow transaction speeds on Ethereum. Additionally, MATIC has a strong community and developer base, which has helped to drive its adoption and usage.

A report published by Blockchain analytics firm Messari shows that the third quarter of 2022 saw a 180% increase in the number of MATIC’s active addresses Q0Q, with total transactions for the quarter coming in at 2 billion. 

Additionally, Polygon’s partnership with Warren Buffet-backed Nubank, which was announced last week, is being seen as a positive development for the network.

Popular TV Network SHOWTIME recently announced a collaboration with Polygon and Spotify. 

In other news, Polygon informed users that Ethereum’s Merge had dramatically reduced its carbon dioxide emissions.

Polygon Network reached a new milestone on 15 November after the number of unique addresses reached 191.2 million. Data from polygonscan shows that the daily transactions on the Polygon chain took a significant hit following the news of FTX’s bankruptcy. As of 15 November, the total transactions stood at 3.26 million.

Polygon announced a partnership with Nike earlier this week. This joint venture will see the sportswear apparel brand bild it’s web3 experiences exclusively on Polygon.

MATIC’s YTD chart may suggest a buy signal, given that the crypto is currently well above $1, compared to $2.58 towards the beginning of the year. While this may look like a ripe opportunity to beef up MATIC holdings at a discounted price, it is important to look at other factors while making an investment decision.

Numbers from the trading volume, however, are quite worrisome. Ethereum’s most popular layer 2 scaling solution has lost more than 21.02% of its daily trading volume over the last 24 hours. $898,152,309 worth of MATIC was traded over the past 24 hours.

One possible reason for the decline in the daily volume of MATIC is the Ethereum Merge, which took place on 15 September. The crypto has taken a hit following the Merge event, with both market cap and daily volume on a downtrend. 

Polygon recently published an analytical insight into its bridge flow between January and August 2022. A closer look at the numbers revealed that in these eight months, more than $11 billion entered the Polygon ecosystem from multiple chains. Ethereum and Fantom Opera contributed the most with an inflow of $8.2 billion and $1.06 billion, respectively, which also puts it at the top in terms of net volume.

As far as bridges are concerned, Ethereum’s PoS bridge and Plasma bridge accounted for a net volume of $1 billion and $250 million within this time period. Meanwhile, Ethereum’s PoS and Fantom Opera’s Multichain bridge accounted for a combined outflow volume of more than $7.2 billion. Considering all 43 bridge chain pairs, the average volume comes out to be $48 million.

At press time, MATIC was trading at $1.1461.

Source: TradingView

In February 2021, Matic rebranded to Polygon in a bid to provide a scalable version of Ethereum’s infrastructure and introduce overlay rollups to combine another layer 2 platforms for instant transactions, among other things. Polygon retained the name of its native token MATIC. The token proceeded to gain by over 200% over the next 30 days. Polygon runs on the proof-of-stake consensus protocol and can be described as an Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution with the best of both worlds.

In 2021, MATIC’s price went soaring thanks to the increasing popularity of Ethereum and surging activity in NFTs and play-to-earn games like Axie Infinity. MATIC began the year at a humble $0.018 and a market cap of $81 million. By the end of the year, MATIC’s market cap hit a whopping $20 billion, with the altcoin touching its all-time high of $2.92 on 27 December.

On 12 May 2021, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated crypto worth $1 billion to the India Covid-19 relief fund set up by Nailwal. This seemingly unrelated event caused MATIC to surge by 145% within the next 48 hours. By 18 May, the token had gone from $1.01 all the way up to $2.45, gaining 240%.

In May 2021, Polygon was in the news after it received backing from billionaire investor Mark Cuban, who revealed plans to integrate his NFT platform Lazy.com with Polygon. Following his investment in Polygon, Cuban claimed that the Polygon Network was “destroying everybody else” at the Defi Summit Virtual Conference in June 2021.

Since the beginning of 2022, Polygon has secured various partnerships, most notably with Adobe’s Behance, Draftkings, and billionaire hedge fund manager Alan Howard for the development of Web3 projects. Polygon boasts partnerships across various industries. Instagram and Polygon have collaborated on NFTs too.

Stripe has launched global crypto pay-outs with Polygon. Fashion brands like Adidas Originals and Prada have launched NFT collections on polygon

Based on gathered adoption metrics, Alchemy has described Polygon to be the best-positioned protocol to drive the booming Web3 ecosystem. Data from Alchemy also showed that at press time, Polygon hosted more than 19,000 decentralized applications (dApps) on its network.

On 27 May 2022, Tether (USDT), the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, announced that it was launching on the Polygon Network. MATIC rose by more than 10% following news of the launch.

Citigroup released a report in April 2022, one in which it described Polygon as the AWS of Web3. The report went on to claim that the Metaverse economy is estimated to be worth a whopping $13 trillion by 2030, with most of it being developed on the Polygon Network. Citigroup also believes that Polygon will see widespread adoption thanks to its low transaction fees and developer-friendly ecosystem.

The Terra network’s collapse in May 2022 triggered an exodus of developers and projects. Polygon soon announced a multi-million dollar, Terra Developers Fund, in a bid to help the migration of anyone looking to switch networks. On 8 July, Polygon Studios CEO Ryan Wyatt tweeted that over 48 Terra projects had migrated to Polygon.

Crypto exchange Coinbase published a report on 8 August 2022 that claimed that the future of Layer 2 scaling solutions could very well be a zero-sum game, hinting that layer 2 solutions like Polygon could overtake Ethereum in terms of economic activity.

On 8 August 2022, blockchain security form PeckShield reported a rug pull by the Polygon-based play-to-earn game Dragoma, following a sharp decline in the value of its native token DMA. The same has been corroborated by data from Polygonscan which shows a clear surge in token transfers and transfer amount on the day of the alleged rug pull which led to a loss of over $1 million.

In the week following Polygon’s announcement of the Gnosis bridge, MATIC surged more than 18% breaking the crucial resistance at $1 for a brief period. This feature paves the way for Web3 teams like DeFi protocols and DAOs to transfer assets between Ethereum and Polygon, for considerably fewer gas fees without compromising on security.

Numbers from the 32nd edition of PolygonInsights, a weekly report published by Polygon outlining key network metrics, indicated that in spite of dropping down from the…