# Polygon acquires Coinme and Sequence to build US regulated stablecoin payment infrastructure

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Polygon Weekly Overview - January 16, 2026

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- **Series / network:** Polygon
- **Published:** 2026-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
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Welcome back to the Polygon Weekly Overview, the best place for the Polygon community to get up to speed on the chain’s latest updates, metrics, releases, insights, ecosystem developments and more. All in one place. 

# _By The Numbers_

-   [Polygon daily active addresses](https://www.token-relations.com/dashboard?utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=bd4e9bed46da6454b27026d3e2acdc372029dc4f): 523.87K (+14.03%)
    
-   [Polygon daily txns](https://www.token-relations.com/dashboard?utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=805c01ca9574924092b6d4a2bc1d26c8154dd92b): 6.03M (+3.96%)
    
-   [Polygon Total Volume Locked (TVL)](https://www.token-relations.com/dashboard?utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=b618c83b229efab43ad1708b0cf78ef44be0b5c8): $1.16B (+7.59%)
    
-   [Daily DEX Trading Volume](https://www.token-relations.com/dashboard?utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=7c8bc88af2bb990e8d39d6dee300ac8082ae9279): $204.74M
    
-   [Daily Transfer Volume](https://www.token-relations.com/dashboard?utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=43a767f0116d512e9ec7c2b63976f42b8a48017b):
    
    -   USDT: $213.6M (-1.83%)
        
    -   USDC: $771.2M (+13.93%)
        
    -   DAI: $116.4M (+37.59%) 
        
-   [NFT weekly sales volume](https://www.cryptoslam.io/blockchains/polygon?headerPeriod=7d&tab=Collection+Rankings&timeFrame=week&period=7d&utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=b21589b28aa374852327aa8ae2b856e58fd20d92): $868.43M (-11.27%)
    
-   [Top 3 NFT collections by sales volume](https://www.cryptoslam.io/blockchains/polygon?headerPeriod=7d&tab=Collection+Rankings&timeFrame=week&period=7d&utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=8b78e9c148daed95469299d9beb36e68cfeb5804): 
    
    -   PerkVault Collection: $111.08K (-15.45%)
        
    -   ValensPay Pass: $94.94K (+23.37%)
        
    -   Voxies: $73.65K (-14.04%)
        

_The percentages and metrics are based on a 7-day timeframe, unless noted otherwise._

# _Polygon Spotlight_

🟪 **What happened:** Polygon Labs has agreed to acquire Coinme and Sequence, combining licensed U.S. money transmission infrastructure with cross-chain wallet technology. The deals bring together fiat on-ramps, off-ramps, and payment orchestration tools as part of the Open Money Stack framework for stablecoin payments.

🟪 Why does it matter: The acquisitions further Polygon’s goal to become a U.S.-regulated payments platform. A platform that lets people buy crypto as cash, Coinme possesses money transmission licenses in 48 U.S. states, while Sequence provides smart wallet infrastructure as well as a routing engine.

Coinme has a retail network of 50,000 locations. The company says it has more than a million users, and has so far moved $1 billion. Following regulatory approval of the deal, Coinme will function as a Polygon Labs subsidiary.

Sequence provides smart wallet infrastructure and Trails, a routing engine that handles chain-switching and transaction fees in the background. Since launching Trails two months ago, the platform has processed 10 million transactions.

The acquisitions would enable Polygon to offer fiat conversion, licensed custody services, cross-chain routing, and settlement flows through one integration point.

Beyond infrastructure, the move establishes Polygon Labs as a payments business with over $100 million in annual revenue from transaction flows. Coinme and Sequence together have handled $1 billion offchain and $2 trillion onchain, giving Polygon access to revenue streams from existing customer bases.

🟪 **The big picture:** Through these acquisitions, Polygon is is building towards operating as a payments business by competing on infrastructure economics, not just network effects.

By consolidating fiat conversion, custody, cross-chain routing, and compliant settlement under U.S. money transmission licenses across 48 states, the Open Money Stack diminishes the complexity of assembling fragmented stablecoin services across multiple vendors.

 

## **Chart Of The Week**

Polygon hit its 11th consecutive week of growth for micropayments with 67.7M last week.

![](https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/31bc2d79-a2d1-478a-a27a-3ebcbda7586c/image.png?t=1768573187)

## Into the Agglayer

-   Read how [Ethereum-aligned infrastructure](https://token-relations-nl.web.app/https://x.com/Agglayer/status/2009637940528284023?s=20&utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=d55d980aacfaba04e1d5d954ebeda0df35cdfdd7) reduces long-term operational costs with CDK Enterprise
    
-   QuickSwap [Join](https://token-relations-nl.web.app/https://x.com/0xPolygon/status/2011231478282146157?s=20&utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=c7c6a636569707dc033d8d09135764dedcdfb346) Polygon’s webinar on Coinme and stablecoin payments within the Open Money Stack on January 16 at 12PM ET
    
-   Tune into the Polygon [X Space](https://x.com/0xPolygon/status/2011120728024682913?s=20&utm_source=www.token-relations.xyz&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=polygon-acquires-coinme-and-sequence-to-build-us-regulated-stablecoin-payment-infrastructure&_bhlid=09810682417690a1e795739a5ace004ca8e72462) on the Coinme and Sequence acquisition
    

 

 

# _Until next week!_

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