In the past year, Polygon (MATIC) has focused on growing their list of high-profile partners which includes luminaries like Disney, Starbucks and Robinhood. The recent announcements of partnerships with both Instagram and JPMorgan have speculators pushing the token price up nearly 200%.

In addition to partnerships, blockchain adoption through network usage is important to analyze. Blockchain adoption can be analyzed by looking into daily active users of the blockchain, protocols using the technology, number of transactions and total locked value.

Total value locked (TVL) is one cryptocurrency indicator used to assess the market’s sentiment towards a particular blockchain. TVL on Polygon requires utilizing the MATIC blockchain and locking funds in the various DeFi platforms available across the network.

Rising TVL is a sign of growth, or new liquidity entering the ecosystem but it does not necessarily mean that the network and associated assets are “turning bullish.”

While the top 3 protocols, Ethereum (ETH), Binance Coin (BNB) and Tron (TRX) all have a TVL over $5 billion, MATIC, Avalanche (AVAX) and Arbitrum are the only others with over $1 billion in TVL.

According to data from Token Terminal, Polygon and Fantom (FTM) are the only blockchains to post positive TVL numbers in both 1 day and 7 day metrics.

Protocols are essentially decentralized applications (dApps) built using smart contracts on top of public blockchains. The recently announced partnerships have be tested but have not yet fully launched.

Even if the new partnerships do not fully materialize, the network is already a top contender for developers to build their smart contracts.

Polygon is a newcomer when compared to Ethereum. So although Ethereum has more