Polygon (MATIC) Market Cap Jumps 30%

After three weeks, Polygon (MATIC) is back in CoinMarketCap‘s top 20 ranking of crypto assets, claiming the nineteenth spot ahead of NEAR Protocol and Litecoin.

After a stellar run in Q1 2024, MATIC, the native token of the Polygon PoS blockchain, entered a downturn that saw it drop out of CoinMarketCap’s top 20 ranking of crypto assets by market cap in the week starting July 28 — a list the asset has featured in for most of its life since its face-melting run in 2021.

But in a recent development, MATIC has once again regained its place in the top 20 rankings amid a recent parabolic run. Will MATIC be able to hold on this time?

Polygon (MATIC) Market Cap Jumps 30%

After three weeks, Polygon (MATIC) is back in CoinMarketCap’s top 20 ranking of crypto assets, claiming the 19th spot ahead of NEAR Protocol and Litecoin.

The move comes as MATIC’s market cap has surged by a staggering 30% over the past seven days from about $4 billion to over $5.2 billion per CoinMarketCap data at the time of writing. In comparison, NEAR Protocol and Litecoin boast market caps of about $5.1 billion and $4.8 billion, respectively.

The market cap jump corresponds with an over 30% jump in the price of MATIC from about $0.4 to $0.53 at the time of writing, amid what appeared to be a select altcoin relief rally earlier in the week.

The rally saw MATIC, along with assets like Tron (TRX), Cardano (ADA), and Avalanche (AVAX), post gains while market leaders like Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL) posted losses.

Amid the rally, MATIC has broken out of a multi-month downtrend marked by several analysts, with many tipping the asset to run to at least the $1 price point in the short term.

While the reason for the recent parabolic run is unclear, it comes as Polygon’s (MATIC) Ethereum scaling vision continues to gather increasing momentum.

MoveVM To Join the Polygon (MATIC) Ecosystem

Over the past year, Polygon (MATIC) has outlined a grand plan to infinitely scale Ethereum by horizontally connecting as many chains as possible on top of the Layer 1 chain irrespective of their tech stack, consensus mechanism, or virtual machine.

At the end of July 2024, Polygon’s vision got a big boost as Movement Labs disclosed that it had chosen the AggLayer, the interoperability solution at the heart of Polygon’s aggregated chain architecture, to unify liquidity across MoveVM Layer 2 chains, becoming the first altVM to do so. For context, MoveVM was initially developed by Meta’s (formerly Facebook) cryptocurrency arm Libra and has been adopted by new generation Layer 1 chains like Aptos and Sui.

Beyond this recent stride, Polygon is also inching closer to the highly anticipated MATIC to POL upgrade, set for September 4.

Polygon has tipped POL as a “hyperproductive token” that will allow holders to earn multiple rewards across connected blockchains.

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Why This Matters

Polygon’s (MATIC) recent resurgence suggests that there’s still a significant level of interest in the asset from investors, despite its woeful price showing this year.

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