An attractive chain for corporate partnerships to fuel its ever-growing chain. With Meta, Starbucks, Mastercard, Reddit, and even Doritos jumped in on its blockchain without an official partnership to host one of its own NFT collections.
Along came Polygon: The blockchain doing serious business with big names including Starbucks and Mastercard (Feb 25, 2023)
And even though it is built on the same blockchain as Ethereum, Polygon is comparably centralized than its parent chain, which led to an outage on February 22nd, 2023.
Polygon Block Explorer Crashes, Befuddles Users (Feb 22, 2023)