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Here's what you missed this week on Polygon:
■ @openstandard launches Open USD stablecoin with Polygon as a supported network
■ @crediblefin crosses $152M+ moved across US, India, Brazil, Germany on Polygon
■ @katana marks one year since mainnet launch on Polygon CDK and Agglayer
■ @ClawHarbor's Harbor demos cross-chain agent payments via Polygon Trails
■ @matchametaxyz crosses $348M June volume on Polygon
■ @AgentMail integrates Polygon as x402 payment rail for AI agents
■ Polygon becomes #2 stablecoin DEX aggregation chain, hits $1.23B via 0xproject
■ Polygon crosses 743M transactions in Q2 2026, up 160% YoY
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Building something cool and looking for a little more support?
Team1 just announced their new Builder Grants program with up to $30,000 in funding per project.
Accelerator grants will also include a voting committee of community contributors 🔺
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The Avalanche Foundation is pleased to announce Retro9000 C-Chain Round 3 rewards.
A full breakdown of awards, eligibility, and next steps below ⤵️
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Agents need payment rails that run at machine speed.
We're excited to join @Mastercard’s Agent Pay for Machines, to help establish common rules for agent-to-agent use cases and accelerate the adoption of agentic commerce, with always-on settlement powered by Polygon.
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Here we go ✅
The latest retro9000 round introduces NEW measures to better track the projects with real community interactions, and rewards them for doing so.
We will be watching 👀
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Retro9000: C-Chain Round 4 is live 🔥
New this round: verified users now impact project rankings, and smaller projects receive a meaningfully larger share of rewards relative to what they have burned.
The leaderboard just got a lot more interesting 🔺
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Retro9000 C-Chain Round 2 is complete 🔺
Thank you to every project that participated, built, and drove real onchain activity on Avalanche throughout this round. The snapshot has been finalized.
Here's what happens next ⤵️
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The future of marketplace commerce is on Polygon.
@Meta launched stablecoin payouts for creators on the Polygon Chain.
Live in Colombia and the Philippines, with 160+ markets coming, users now get faster settlement with USDC while gaining access to dollar denominated assets.
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At the Foundation we're building the analytical frameworks to deeply understand on-chain economies.
@eric_lu_sc's work on tokenomics is one of those frameworks in motion. Validator incentive design is one of the hardest problems in crypto.
This is how we're approaching it 👇
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Who is Crypto Factor actually being built for?
It’s a question that is often overlooked.
Many projects focus on attracting attention, users, or short term participation. But sustainable systems are not designed around temporary activity. They are built for those who create, maintain, and grow ecosystems over time.
This is where Crypto Factor becomes very clear in its positioning.
@_Crypto_Factor is not built for speculation cycles. It is built for builders, ecosystems, and long term operators.
- Builders
At the core are builders. The individuals and teams responsible for creating new systems, applications, and digital economies. These are the people who need reliable infrastructure, clear frameworks, and tools that allow them to move from idea to execution without unnecessary friction.
Crypto Factor provides the structure that allows builders to focus on design and innovation rather than constantly solving foundational problems. Instead of rebuilding core components from scratch, they can operate within a system that is already designed for coordination, scalability, and long term use.
- Ecosystems
Beyond individual builders are ecosystems. Groups of interconnected components that must function together in a stable and coherent way. This includes tokens, governance systems, liquidity structures, and user interactions.
Crypto Factor is designed to support entire ecosystems, not just isolated applications. It enables coordination between different parts of a system, ensuring that growth in one area contributes to the strength of the whole. This reduces fragmentation and creates environments where value can move efficiently and sustainably.
- Long term operators
Perhaps most importantly, Crypto Factor is built for long term operators. These are the individuals and organisations responsible for maintaining, evolving, and guiding systems over time.
Operating a blockchain ecosystem is not a short term activity. It requires consistent decision making, economic management, and system oversight. Crypto Factor provides the infrastructure that allows operators to manage complexity while maintaining stability and alignment.
This long term focus changes how systems are designed. Instead of optimising for immediate attention, the emphasis is placed on resilience, adaptability, and sustained growth.
- The result
By focusing on builders, ecosystems, and long term operators, Crypto Factor defines a different path for Web3. One that prioritises creation over speculation, coordination over fragmentation, and longevity over short term cycles.
Because the future of Web3 will not be built by those who pass through it.
It will be built by those who stay, contribute, and continue to develop systems over time.
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A quick Alpha here
Real multi-chain execution isn’t sending tokens from Chain A → Chain B. That’s just a bridge.
@_Crypto_Factor goes further. One transaction can trigger smart contracts across multiple chains at once. Assets move. Logic moves. Everything executes seamlessly, atomically.
This is what true interchain systems look like: no friction, no separate transactions per chain, no waiting. Just cross-chain operations working as one.
Think of it like sending a single command, and watching it ripple across Ethereum, Polygon, BNB Chain… without you touching each one. That’s composability at its finest.
Bridges transfer value. Interchain execution transfers value + action + strategy. That’s the difference between jumping chains and truly operating across them.
With systems like Crypto Factor, developers and projects don’t just adapt to multi-chain. They embrace it. Deploying, staking, distributing rewards, coordinating governance — all in one orchestrated flow.
If you’re building multi-chain today but still relying on bridges, you’re only seeing half the picture. Real cross-chain is automated, secure, and scalable.
Crypto Factor isn’t just bridging chains. It’s redefining how blockchains work together.
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Retro9000 C-Chain Round 2 applications are now open 🔺
New multipliers have been introduced for Build Games projects and new projects joining the ecosystem, alongside further updates to the program.
Here is what you need to know ⤵️
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GM Avalanche
For over a month, the team at Crypto Factor Labs has been focused on Avalanche. This includes enhancing the new version of our execution layer, deploying InterChain, and progressing with new protocol developments. While Crypto Factor has already shared some information, this post will provide an overview of the key technical details.
AVAX and InterChain Mainnet
We have successfully deployed a partial chain on @avax, connecting it to the Crypto Factor InterChain mainnet. Running an InterChain partial chain allows us to deploy and integrate our infrastructure while extending existing ecosystems.
Avalanche is the fourth blockchain connected via InterChain and the first added after the Anchor fork. This fork enabled lighter, faster confirmations, allowing InterChain to scale more effectively with a greater number of partial chains. Consequently, the AVAX partial chain manages its state independently of the rest of the InterChain network and benefits from low-cost, rapid transactions.
Following the Anchor update, we also halved the target block time and block confirmation times, resulting in 30-minute blocks with 15-minute confirmation times when fully saturated.
CFR and CFEL v2 on AVAX
After successfully deploying the partial chain on Avalanche, we began implementing the Crypto Factor Execution Layer. AVAX is the first blockchain where the v2 infrastructure is being deployed on the mainnet, starting with the token and distributor templates necessary for CFR token deployment.
Some improvements made to the simple token ecosystem template in v2 include:
- Tokenomics that no longer require external state calls, reducing gas usage and eliminating the need for external call management.
- Like all v2 templates, tokens now offer metrics and state interfaces for easy backend indexing and real-time analytics.
- A focus on distributor-based tokenomics, simplifying transfers and lowering token transfer costs.
Notable improvements to the simple distributor template introduced in v2 include:
- Distribution now occurs with a single smart contract call, eliminating partial states and simplifying management.
- The distribution process is now structured as an execution tree, where each node forwards or consumes the payload. This can all be audited on-chain, resulting in a more transparent and stable process.
- The Distributor service is now a subscription service running on the Crypto Factor relay protocol, with operational fees covered by CFR.
With the first set of v2 services implemented on AVAX, we successfully deployed the CFR token, which is now awaiting the token bridge's public launch. This will enable InterChain transfers, and we expect to make the bridge available to the public in the next 1-2 weeks.
New Protocols
Crypto Factor has announced the development of two new protocols focused on real-world assets (RWA), which will be deployed on AVAX using v2 infrastructure: one for building lifecycle-based digital assets and another for managing tokenized assets, such as carbon credits.
We will provide more detailed technical information about both protocols in separate posts in the coming days.
As always, we look forward to seeing you all on-chain.
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We are happy to announce that Anchor was successfully activated on mainnet at height 1055. 🎉
Currently, the confirmation time is set to 30 minutes, and as expected, transaction fees have decreased, and InterChain usage has increased.
Introducing Anchor
Last week, we shared the exciting "Anchor" fork with you, and this week, we are back with more details on the changes coming to InterChain.
Here's a quick summary; you can find the full details in the article below.
InterChain before Anchor
The fee model behind InterChain comprises three main components: masterchain consensus fees, partial-chain consensus fees, and transaction execution and mempool fees.
The largest contributor to the overall fee is the masterchain consensus fees, paid in wMPC on the Partisia Blockchain. The size of the fee and wMPC gas properties directly affect InterChain execution and transaction fees.
Masterchain consensus fees cover on-chain execution of multi-chain block proposals, state validation, and the full signing and publishing lifecycle. The subsidy introduced earlier this year temporarily reduced fees; block signing and publishing remain the main fee contributors.
Currently, confirmation of blocks is part of the block publish execution. After the set confirmation time passes, the next minted block confirms past master blocks, leading to variable transaction finality times depending on the blockchain's usage.
"Anchor" fork
Let's look over "Anchor" in greater detail and showcase how the fork makes InterChain faster, cheaper, and more scalable.
Off-chain block signing
As a first step towards greater balance in off-chain and on-chain masterchain consensus execution, "Anchor" introduces off-chain block signing.
The change splits the current block lifecycle, removing the on-chain trigger for block signing and replacing it with an off-chain process that uses the already available p2p protocol.
The consensus changes eliminate unnecessary on-chain event registration overhead, resulting in a faster, cheaper signing process.
Independent confirmation
"Anchor" introduces independent block confirmations. The change decouples confirmation from the block publish lifecycle and introduces an independent step in the master and partial block lifecycles.
As a result, an independent block confirmation step is added to the partial block lifecycle. Once partial block confirmation is completed, all scheduled transactions in the block are executed and cannot be reverted, achieving finality.
Conclusion
The changes introduced by "Anchor" are the first step towards the bigger goals set for 2026: lowering the fees for masterchain consensus and transaction execution, and achieving predictable execution time.
To see the full details, check out our article - links below.
As always, we will see you all on-chain.
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Introducing Anchor
Last week, we shared the exciting "Anchor" fork with you, and this week, we are back with more details on the changes coming to InterChain.
Here's a quick summary; you can find the full details in the article below.
InterChain before Anchor
The fee model behind InterChain comprises three main components: masterchain consensus fees, partial-chain consensus fees, and transaction execution and mempool fees.
The largest contributor to the overall fee is the masterchain consensus fees, paid in wMPC on the Partisia Blockchain. The size of the fee and wMPC gas properties directly affect InterChain execution and transaction fees.
Masterchain consensus fees cover on-chain execution of multi-chain block proposals, state validation, and the full signing and publishing lifecycle. The subsidy introduced earlier this year temporarily reduced fees; block signing and publishing remain the main fee contributors.
Currently, confirmation of blocks is part of the block publish execution. After the set confirmation time passes, the next minted block confirms past master blocks, leading to variable transaction finality times depending on the blockchain's usage.
"Anchor" fork
Let's look over "Anchor" in greater detail and showcase how the fork makes InterChain faster, cheaper, and more scalable.
Off-chain block signing
As a first step towards greater balance in off-chain and on-chain masterchain consensus execution, "Anchor" introduces off-chain block signing.
The change splits the current block lifecycle, removing the on-chain trigger for block signing and replacing it with an off-chain process that uses the already available p2p protocol.
The consensus changes eliminate unnecessary on-chain event registration overhead, resulting in a faster, cheaper signing process.
Independent confirmation
"Anchor" introduces independent block confirmations. The change decouples confirmation from the block publish lifecycle and introduces an independent step in the master and partial block lifecycles.
As a result, an independent block confirmation step is added to the partial block lifecycle. Once partial block confirmation is completed, all scheduled transactions in the block are executed and cannot be reverted, achieving finality.
Conclusion
The changes introduced by "Anchor" are the first step towards the bigger goals set for 2026: lowering the fees for masterchain consensus and transaction execution, and achieving predictable execution time.
To see the full details, check out our article - links below.
As always, we will see you all on-chain.
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The Retro9000 C-Chain Round leaderboard is heating up 🔺
Blackhole sits at the top, with LFJ (formerly Trader Joe) and Pharaoh Exchange close behind.
Across the verticals, DeFi leads the charge, with gaming, SocialFi, consumer, and AI all represented ⬇️
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Avalanche, Crypto Factor Execution Layer v2, and InterChain Anchor Update
At Crypto Factor Labs, we are in the midst of a busy Q1, and as we approach Q2, we want to share some exciting news with everyone over the next few weeks.
Avalanche
As previously announced, we are deploying our infrastructure on Avalanche, which is now our next supported blockchain. Some reasons for this choice include its cost-effectiveness and fast execution, the target user base, and its unique technical features that enhance our infrastructure offerings.
To start, we have deployed some components of the Crypto Factor Execution Layer (CFEL) on the C-Chain testnet and have begun developing a new set of services and protocols. As part of this deployment, we have also launched an InterChain partial chain on Fuji and successfully integrated it into the IC testnet. CFR is now flowing seamlessly between the Polygon and Avalanche testnets as we conduct extensive testing before the mainnet deployment.
There is much more innovative technology to come on Avalanche from Crypto Factor, so stay tuned for our updates.
Crypto Factor Execution Layer
For over two years, we have maintained the codebase for the Crypto Factor Execution Layer (CFEL), originally known as the decentralized SaaS engine (ODA). The execution layer comprises a set of on-chain SaaS/IaaS components and services that form the foundation of our token ecosystem deployments.
The execution layer has supported the Crypto Factor Ecosystem and notable client ecosystems on DeFiChain and Polygon. While it has served us well, the evolution of Crypto Factor, our clients, and the products we are developing has outgrown the capabilities of the original execution layer. As a result, we are now introducing the next iteration: CFEL v2.
The v2 of the execution layer has been redesigned; it will function as a library of flexible and extendable on-chain and off-chain components, establishing it as a foundation for protocol building rather than predefined template deployments. Token ecosystems will be just one type of protocol built on top of v2; CFEL can also be utilized to develop fixed-income products, tokenization protocols, marketplaces, and much more, by us or others using the on-chain components.
The new Crypto Factor Execution Layer is currently being developed on the Avalanche C-Chain Testnet and will initially launch there, where the first set of protocols based on v2 is also being created. Once deployed on the C-Chain mainnet, it will later be extended to all supported chains.
InterChain "Anchor" Fork
We are excited to announce the first-ever fork for the Crypto Factor InterChain mainnet, codenamed "Anchor."
The updates and significance of "Anchor" deserve a dedicated post, which we will share next week. For now, we wanted to give you a heads up—it will involve improvements in block and execution speeds, along with changes to fees.
We are looking forward to an exciting 2026 and will keep you informed with our upcoming updates. As always, we look forward to meeting you all on-chain.
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Lisovo Hardfork is now live on Polygon Mainnet for block number 83756500.
Lisovo Hardfork
The Lisovo hardfork will be released on Polygon mainnet before block number 83756500, at approximately 2pm UTC on Mar 4.
This update: subsidizes agent-to-agent gas costs for payments (PIP-82), improves smart contract compatibility for the Count Leading Zeros (CLZ), includes better support for passkey-based wallets, enables flexible fee tuning, and includes improvements for more reliable transaction delivery and stronger checks.
All node operators should upgrade Bor to v2.6.0 (or Erigon to v3.4.0).
See the countdown: polygonscan.com/block/countd…
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Why do so many promising Web3 projects collapse even when they launch with bold ideas and polished branding?
Because ideas, on their own, do not build working systems. Execution does.
In Web3, attention is often fueled by narratives, hype cycles, and short-term visibility. But turning a vision into something durable requires far more than marketing. It demands infrastructure that works consistently over time. Sustainable ecosystems are built through continuous research, development, testing, and refinement. Without disciplined execution, even the most compelling concepts struggle to last.
That is the reason Crypto Factor Labs exists.
Crypto Factor Labs operates as the execution and research engine behind Crypto Factor. It is the environment where ideas move beyond theory and are shaped into practical, functioning systems. Instead of prioritizing external visibility, Labs concentrates on building the technical architecture that enables the ecosystem to run securely and scale with confidence.
- Research and development
At its foundation, Crypto Factor Labs explores new models, stress-tests system designs, and refines protocol-level infrastructure. This means analyzing how components interact, identifying weaknesses before they become risks, and ensuring stability under real-world conditions.
Research is treated as an ongoing commitment, not a one-time phase. As Web3 evolves, infrastructure must evolve with it. Continuous iteration keeps the ecosystem resilient, adaptable, and prepared for future innovation.
- Security and stability
Execution layers are critical to maintaining integrity across any decentralized system. Infrastructure that governs value, coordination, and decision-making must operate with precision and reliability. Crypto Factor Labs emphasizes security audits, rigorous testing, and performance optimization to maintain a strong and dependable foundation.
This approach reflects a long-term mindset: trust is earned through stability, not visibility. Systems that are thoughtfully engineered are far more likely to endure and support meaningful economic activity over time.
- Implementation and deployment
Beyond research, Labs is responsible for implementing and deploying infrastructure across different environments. This includes enabling multi-chain functionality, improving interchain coordination, and ensuring systems perform as expected in live conditions.
Execution is what transforms design into reality. It closes the gap between concept and operation, allowing theoretical frameworks to become tools that builders and participants can rely on every day.
Why execution outweighs branding
Branding may draw attention, but infrastructure sustains ecosystems. Narratives can spark interest, yet only reliable systems maintain participation and encourage long-term growth. Projects that prioritize execution create environments grounded in trust, capable of withstanding market cycles and shifting trends.
By focusing on engineering discipline, continuous testing, and long-term development, Crypto Factor Labs demonstrates a commitment to substance over presentation. It recognizes that genuine progress in Web3 depends on systems that consistently perform, not on narratives that constantly change.
The outcome
Crypto Factor Labs ensures that the vision behind Crypto Factor is supported by real, working infrastructure. It provides the technical backbone that enables the ecosystem to evolve, scale, and operate with confidence.
In the long run, strong ecosystems are defined not by how they look, but by how they perform.





























