POL (ex-MATIC) (POL) News Today: Why POL Is Up – 04 October 2026

• Polygon launched Crypto Checkout in OMS on 30 September, letting merchants accept multi-chain payments and receive crypto or fiat payouts. • On 1 October, Monerium, Frax, and Capa launched an EURe/frxUSD pool on Uniswap v3 on Polygon for euro-dollar onchain FX. • Polygon reported over $3 trillion in cumulative stablecoin transfers since September 2020, with $933 billion in 2025 and $741 billion in 2026. • A 100 million POL burn completed in September from collected base fees, and testing exceeded 11 million verified payments per second. • OMS completed a SOC 2 Type 1 examination on 2 September, a compliance milestone for institutional and enterprise customers.