MATIC Price

MATIC price eyes 200% gains on Polygon adoption by Instagram, JPMorgan

Polygon’s list of high-profile partners is getting longer, with Disney, Starbucks and Robinhood already boarding its blockchain.

Polygon (MATIC) emerged as the best-performing asset among the top-ranking cryptocurrencies on Nov. 3 as the market’s attention turned to the latest Instagram and JPMorgan announcements.

Polygon in high-profile partnerships

Notably, Meta, the parent company of Instagram, named Polygon as its initial partner for its upcoming nonfungible token (NFT) tools that allow users to mint, showcase and sell their digital collectibles on and off the social media platform.

Meanwhile, banking giant JPMorgan used Polygon to conduct its first live trade (worth about $71,000) on a public blockchain, marking a concrete step toward integrating cryptocurrencies into traditional financial frameworks.

MATIC, a utility and staking token within the Polygon blockchain ecosystem, rose over 13% to $0.985 after the announcements, accompanied by an uptick in daily trading volume.

*MATIC/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingView*

MATIC’s upside move came as a part of a broader recovery rally across the crypto sector that started in mid-June. MATIC’s price has rebounded by more than 200%, a trend that will likely sustain in the coming months.

MATIC’s price nears cup-and-handle breakout

The first cue for MATIC’s bullish continuation comes from a classic technical setup.

On the daily chart, MATIC has painted a cup-and-handle setup, which comprises a U-shaped recovery followed by a downward drifting channel. The token is now eyeing a decisive breakout above the pattern’s neckline range (the red bar in the chart below) to reach $2.89, its primary upside target.

*MATIC/USD daily price chart featuring cup-and-handle pattern. Source: TradingView*

As a rule of technical analysis, a cup-and-handle pattern’s target is measured after adding the distance between the cup’s bottom and neckline to the potential breakout point. As a result, MATIC is now eyeing a 200% price rally by the end of Q1 2023.

Fundamentally, MATIC’s demand could keep growing, given Polygon’s growing NFT projects launched by mainstream companies.

For instance, Polygon’s list of prominent NFT partners includes names such as Disney, Robinhood and Starbucks. Furthermore, Polygon had a strong Q3, wherein its number of active wallets reached a record high of 6 million, primarily driven by the launch of Reddit’s NFT marketplace on its blockchain.

*Polygon NFTs had the strongest Q3 performance in 2022. Source: Messari*

On the other hand, macro risks continue to threaten the ongoing crypto market recovery, which may hurt Polygon despite its growing partnerships with big-name brands. That being said, a strong pullback from the cup-and-handle pattern neckline range could invalidate the bullish setup altogether.

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Is MATIC price about to double? Polygon’s Reddit hype pushes exchange balance to 9-month lows

MATIC price could sustain bullish momentum on cues from a mix of optimistic fundamental and technical indicators.

A sharp rebound in the Polygon (MATIC) market in the last four months has increased its price by 200% when measured from its June 2022 bottom of $0.31. And now, the token is showing signs of undergoing another major market rally.

MATIC exchange balance hits nine-month low

Notably, the MATIC supply held by all crypto exchanges fell to 802.15 million on Oct. 26, its lowest level since January 2022. The plunge came as a part of a broader downtrend that has witnessed over 600 million MATIC leaving exchanges in the last four months, data on Santiment shows.

*MATIC balance on exchanges versus price. Source: Santiment*

A declining crypto balance across exchanges is perceived as bullish by the market since traders typically withdraw their funds from trading platforms when they want to hold the tokens long-term.

The MATIC chart above shows a similar albeit erratic negative correlation between its price and supply on exchanges. As a result, a period of decline in MATIC reserves at exchanges has historically coincided with an uptrend in price and vice versa.

Therefore, the latest plunge in MATIC supply across exchanges hints at more upside for the token in the coming weeks.

Reddit using Polygon to mint collectible NFT avatars

More cues for a potential MATIC price rally come from the news of Polygon’s adoption by mainstream fintech companies.

Notably, Nubank, a Brazilian neobank bank backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, picked Polygon to build its native Web3 ecosystem. Since the Oct. 20 announcement, MATIC’s price has rallied by nearly 12% and was trading for $0.95 as of Oct. 26.

Furthermore, the massive MATIC outflow from exchanges coincides with the soaring trading and sales volume of Reddit nonfungible token (NFT) avatars. These digital collectibles are minted as NFTs on the Polygon blockchain.

*Reddit NFTs sales volumes. Source: Dune Analytics*

From a technical perspective, MATIC has broken out of a bullish continuation pattern, dubbed a bull flag, whose profit target sits almost double the token’s current valuation, as shown below.

*MATIC/USD three-day price chart. Source: TradingView*

MATIC also shows similar strength against Bitcoin (BTC), according to a technical setup shared by Kaleo, an independent market analyst.

“The predominate structure is a HTF [higher timeframe] flag dating back to May of ’21 that looks ready for another leg higher,” the analyst wrote while citing the chart below.

*MATIC/BTC daily price chart. Source: TradingView*

“I’m expecting a small retrace before breaking out / continuing higher,” he added.

The MATIC/BTC setup could propel the pair to 0.000065 BTC by early 2023 versus the current price of 0.0000458 BTC, a 30% price rally.

Warren Buffett-backed neobank picks Polygon for Web3 token — MATIC price eyes 100% rally

MATIC has painted a bull flag setup with a profit target sitting nearly 100% higher than its current price.

The price of Polygon’s MATIC (MATIC) coin could double by the end of 2022 or early 2023 due to a mix of extremely bullish fundamental and technical indicators.

Polygon wins high-profile clients

MATIC rose by nearly 6.5% four days after Nubank, a Brazilian fintech company backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and Softbank, confirmed that it selected Polygon’s “Supernets technology” for its blockchain and digital token, dubbed Nucoin.

“Nubank plans to airdrop the digital token to its customers in the first half of 2023,” the official announcement read, adding:

“These tokens will serve as the basis for its customers loyalty rewards program and will have benefits such as discounts and other advantages.”

#Polygon is taking @Nubank from #Web2 ➡️ #Web3!

In a strategic partnership with Polygon, Nubank is launching its own chain using #PolygonSupernets & thus its digital token Nucoin #onPolygon

This move will open the gateway for 70 mn+ Nubank users to the #Web3 space pic.twitter.com/Fu06Vi7IpV

— Polygon – MATIC (@0xPolygon) October 19, 2022

As a result of the rally, MATIC was changing hands for $0.90 on Oct. 24, its highest level in three weeks.

Polygon Supernets is an enterprise-level solution that removes the complexity of blockchain development for companies looking to build their native chains. Interestingly, before Nubank, gaming company GameSwift employed the product to launch its custom blockchain.

The growing demand for Polygon products may bring a similar boom for its native token, MATIC, which serves as a utility and staking asset within the Polygon blockchain ecosystem.

MATIC eyes bull flag breakout

The Nubank news surfaces as MATIC paints what appears to be a bullish continuation pattern on its lower-timeframe chart.

Dubbed a “bull flag,” the pattern emerges when the price consolidates inside a parallel, descending channel after a strong move upward. As a rule, it resolves after the price breaks out of the range to the upside and rises by as much as the previous uptrend’s height.

*MATIC/USD 3-day chart featuring bull flag breakout setup. Source: TradingView*

Therefore, MATIC’s breakout above the flag’s upper trendline could have it test $1.85 as its primary upside target. In other words, it could see a 100% price rally by the end of 2022 or at the beginning of 2023.

Conversely, a pullback from the flag’s upper trendline could lead MATIC toward the lower trendline near $0.67.