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Polygon Acquires Coinme, Sequence For Stablecoin Supremacy

Polygon is becoming the stablecoin payments platform by acquiring two companies to scale its US stablecoin payments infrastructure and coverage.

Ron Kotli

13 Jan 2026

Polygon is targeting to become the ultimate stablecoin payment platform.

Polygon is targeting to become the ultimate stablecoin payment platform (Steve Johnson/Unsplash).

Today Polygon has revealed it is acquiring not one but two companies.

Polygon has agreed to acquire Coinme and Sequence. What was once an unclear road ahead for the Polygon team, including previous rebrands of a crypto-native vision as well as the underlying (MATIC, now POLY) token, is no more. The adoption of its network is certain.

Polygon Stablecoin Settlement And Increased Capacity For Crosschain Transfers

The purple chain is now specialising on delivering for users and businesses on stablecoin payments and the tokenisation of real world assets. In 2026, the polygon network for stablecoin settlement alone has just north of a $3B stablecoin market cap according to DeFiLlama.

As highlighted in the company's blog, this means easier state-to-state entry in regards to money transmitter licenses (48 states via Coinme's licenses), as well as a comprehensive stack for secure wallet infrastructure and management of crosschain fund flows.

From an M&A standpoint, the path for buying rather than building for absolutely everything in the space needed to succeed both on the feature side and the regulatory front - as already shown by others in 2025. With this, Polygon is too going after the entire crypto/stablecoins-as-a-service market.

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https://polygon.technology/blog/polygon-labs-to-acquire-coinme-and-sequence-to-offer-regulated-stablecoin-payments-in-the-u-s

https://x.com/0xPolygon/status/2011076802031292888?s=20

https://defillama.com/stablecoins/polygon