If you are new to the world of Web3.0 but are interested to learn more about the Polygon blockchain, today we are discussing the top Decentralized Applications or dApps on the blockchain network.

A Decentralized App is a distributed open-source software application that operates on peer-to-peer blockchain networks instead of a single computer. Recently, the $MATIC team announced that there are currently over 53,000 dApps have been deployed on Polygon.

So, let’s dig dive into the best dApps on Polygon!

Planet IX

Planet IX is building the world’s largest NFT-based strategy game operating on the Polygon Network. The game requires players to install a Web3 wallet to trade and store the game’s native utility token IX tokens ($IXT) and additional NFT assets. 

The goal of the game is to restore a fallen planet to its former green-blue glory. Planet IX consists of 1.6 billion PIX, all being individual NFTs that players can collect. Moving forward, agents can form Territories, develop new technology, raid other players, and gain ownership of in-game corporations. 

Planet IX emphasizes that everything users collect has true ownership. Built with over 1.6 billion ERC 721 assets-based hexagonal land parcels called PIX that players trade, store and develop into Territories to enhance value, while the ERC-20 IX Token ($IXT) used for all in-game transactions, interactions with in-game corporations, developing PIX, and as rewards for AOCs, holds everything together.

The total value of assets in Planet IX’s smart contracts stands at $33.5 million with 69,340 unique wallets interacting every day.

Parcel

Parcel is a go-to shop for on-chain DAO financial operations, that allows DAO operators to make one-off and bulk payouts. Industry leaders including IndexCoop, BanklessDAO, and OlympusDAO are using the platform to streamline their payrolls.

The dApp uses the Gnosis Safe multi-sig wallet and infrastructure to take care of payouts such as token price risk, transaction fees, contributor preference of payment, etc. There are four major payment methods, which are, Quick Payout for one-off payments, Mass Payout for multiple teams, CSV Payout for a large number of payouts, airdrops and grants with variable amounts, and Due Payouts for recurring payments.

Arc8

Arc8 by GAMEE is a gaming platform built on Polygon, enabling a gamified launchpad for partners to release their token rewards, branded games, or even sponsored exclusive content for NFT holders, to the players. This virtual play-to-earn mobile game arcade currently connects 40 million global games to brands and crypto projects.

Powered by GAMEE, a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, Arc8 offers $GMEE as the native in-game currency. The coin can be used to access rewards in tournaments, daily in-game tasks, and 1v1 matches.

Arc8’s total value on Polygon is currently $21.97 million, with a drop of 3.44% in unique wallet interactions, which at the time of publishing, stand at 8,840.

PlotX

PlotX is a crypto-based fantasy trivia game where users make predictions on crypto prices and sporting event outcomes and win rewards on an hourly basis. This Poolygon-based dApp enables a fun and engaging way for traders to make use of their skills and challenge themselves or their peers.

In 2022, PlotX received $5 million from Hashed, Polygon Studios, Animoca Brands, Alpha Wave Global, and more in a grant led by Polygon to expand its play-to-earn ecosystem and launch a staking program. The blockchain reported that the funds came after the GameFi ecosystem grew by 144% month-over-month.

KIWI Wallet

KIWI Wallet is a Polygon-based digital wallet that enables fast, free, and private off-chain and on-chain micropayments for users. KIWI PoW Token is a community project and one of the first mineable ERC20/918 tokens. With no pre-mine or ICO, the dApp claims to have intrinsic value, fair distribution, and no corporate agenda.

Moreover, used in cryptocurrency payments, NFT trading, engagement rewards, and community development, KIWI is 100% compatible with all Ethereum-based services and dApps. It can also serve as a good project for a beginner miner since KIWI can be solo-mined using CPU or GPU using surplus capacity and otherwise wasted energy.

QuickSwap

QuickSwap is a layer-2 Decentralized Exchange and Automated Market Maker, built on the Polygon blockchain. With almost $250 million of assets in TVL, QuickSwap is the second-largest DEX on the Polygon network.

QuickSwap allows features including swapping, liquidity, yield farming, and more with the chance to earn additional rewards in the form of the platform’s native token $QUICK for adding liquidity to the exchange.

The platform’s total value on the Polygon blockchain amounts to $90.94 million with 4,570 unique wallet interactions, at the time of publishing. 

Sunflower Land

Sunflower Land is an open-source Web3 RPG Farming Simulator where players focus on farming crops, gathering resources, cooking food, raising animals, crafting items, evolving bumpkin, and expanding their land to build their farming empire.

The play-and-own crypto game claims that the items users harvest, gather or craft is assets 100% owned by them and identifiable on the Polygon Blockchain. Moreover, everyone is allowed to visit Sunflower Land’s source code on Github, Fork it, and continue to build upon it, with the overseeing quality and consistency of the game.

Sunflower Land’s total value of assets stands at $2,930 on Polygon with 3,920 unique wallet and smart contract interactions.

EarnTube

EarnTube is a Polygon-based character-leveling gaming application that integrates with YouTube to bring web3 to online viewers and monetize their attention. EarnTube, inbuilt Game-Fi, and Social-Fi elements transform the web2 viewing experience into a productive engagement.

Users can furthermore enrich each other’s viewing experience and earn rewards through collective intelligence and by completing certain tasks alongside watching the videos.

Pegaxy

Pegaxy is a racing game with futuristic mythological styling built on the Polygon blockchain, where players will participate in PvP format races to win rewards in the platform’s native utility token, VIS (Vigorus).

With a total of 1 billion tokens in supply, PGX (Pegaxy Stone) forms Pegaxy’s governance token. It is built on the Polygon (MATIC) Chain and is an ERC-20 token type. According to the dApps’s whitepaper, the game’s long-term economic approach helps teams to build large guilds, and scholarship programs and even provides solo players the opportunity to earn in-game tokens through daily racing.

The Dustland

Last but not least, The Dustland is the tenth most popular dApp on the Polygon network. It claims to be the world’s first move-to-earn audio fitness blockchain game. The storyline evolves around surviving in a post-apocalyptic future with limited resources.

To collect rewards, players are required to physically work out and complete missions. Additionally, the rewards are in the form of NFTs and DOSE tokens which is Dustland’s utility token and the backbone for the OliveX (BVI) gamified fitness ecosystem. DOSE, which stands for Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphin, is an ERC-20 Fungible Token for purchase, utility, and action on the platform.

Dfyn

DFyn is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Polygon network that enables trustless, secure, and fast trading of assets. It allows users to trade various assets in a decentralized manner, meaning that users retain full control of their funds and private keys without relying on a centralized authority.

This multi-chain decentralized exchange with decentralized liquidity is the first of its kind in the world. The goal of Dfyn is to create a strong, high-performance cross-chain network that includes a decentralized exchange, cutting-edge gasless transactions on L2, a large pool of liquidity, and a sophisticated market-making toolbox.

Solo Top

Solo.top is the leading liquidity provider for decentralized protocols. On the platform, users’ single assets will be distributed across various yield farming pools in order to reward liquidity providers. The smart contracts and algorithms developed by Solo developers will effectively hedge temporary loss. Users won’t be subject to the principal loss as a result.

The purpose of Solo Top is to increase accessibility, ease of use, and profitability of staking. In addition, by spreading profits when on-chain liquidity is low, the newly created AI enables users to profit from their staked assets with virtually no drawdown risk.

ApeSwap

ApeSwap is a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) built by apes, for apes. It allows users to trade various assets, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs), in a decentralized manner. The DEX operates on a liquidity pool model, where users can provide liquidity to the platform in exchange for rewards, and trade with low fees and fast transactions.

ApeSwap also features an integrated yield farming platform, where users can earn additional rewards by staking and providing liquidity to specific pools. The platform aims to provide a simple and accessible user experience, while also offering a wide range of assets and opportunities for yield generation.

By supplying liquidity to ApeSwap’s pools, users can earn the local currency, $BANANA, as well as a variety of other tokens! Users can also bet with their BANANA to increase their earnings.

Gainstrade

Gains Network is building gTrade, a decentralized leveraged trading platform that is powerful, effective, and easy to use.

Due to its specially created synthetic architecture, gTrade is more capital efficient than any other platform currently in use. It also offers low trading costs, a wide range of leverages and pairs, including up to 150x on cryptos, 1000x on forex, 100x on stocks, and 35x on indices, as well as low trading fees.

Gainstrade offers the simplest way to trade stocks and other assets with leverage. Users can use the platform from any location by only creating an account.

Mai Finance

 Mai Finance is QiDao Protocol’s dashboard, enabling users to connect to the protocol through a website. Users can borrow stablecoins from Mai Finance without having to sell their cryptocurrency assets, allowing them to keep their cryptocurrency while still having access to its market value. 

Users can grow their exposure, make an unlimited number of transactions, and borrow MAI at no interest with no risk of temporary loss. In order to give consumers more information and utility, the platform has a number of relationships with wallet providers (Ledger & Authereum), exchanges (Uniswap), and fee aggregators (Autofee).

Decentral Games

Users can play and earn money using Decentral Games in the metaverse. Players can start playing free poker whenever they want by borrowing one of their Marios! Earn enough DG tokens, the game’s native token, and the unit of account holders’ wagers, and risk it all at a table.

Their flagship game is ICE Poker, a Metaverse poker game where players can earn $ICE rewards and digital collectibles by:

• Winning tournaments.
• Completing daily challenges.
• Competing against other players on a daily leaderboard.
• Managing an ICE Poker team for a reward split.

IDEX

IDEX is the most popular ERC-20 token exchange globally. It is the ideal platform to manage a cryptocurrency portfolio because it has a high-performance decentralized exchange and dependable API. The hybrid exchange design of IDEX is what makes it so user-friendly.

As the first hybrid liquidity DEX, IDEX combines automated market-making with a high-performance order book and matching engine (AMM). With the performance and functionality of a conventional order book and the security and liquidity of an AMM, the platform combines the best of centralized and decentralized exchanges. With the help of genuine limit and stop-loss orders, traders on IDEX may effortlessly supply liquidity, obtain the best spreads, and prevent failed transactions.

Algebra

Leveraging adaptive fees, Algebra is a ground-breaking AMM and concentrated liquidity system for decentralized exchanges. It transforms the DeFi industry as we know it by giving projects access to more innovative, user-friendly DeFi solutions and by using the most effective technology.

Via its adaptive pricing curve that modifies fees according to trading volume and volatility, Algebra enables users to automatically trade tokens on several exchange pools. With the help of our intelligent routing tool, splitting orders across several pools while taking gas costs into account is simple.

Tetu

Tetu is the first high-yield, end-to-end curated capital asset management system in the world, and it is protected by blockchain’s trustless security, automated markets, and multiparty computation.

It is a Web3 asset management protocol developed on Polygon that uses automated yield farming techniques to give investors a risk-free way to get a high and consistent return on their investments. Through xTETU, Tetu’s creative solutions offer automated yield aggregation and distribution.

Sorbet Finance

Sorbet Finance is a web3 frontend that gathers the most crucial DeFi protocols. With only one tab, users may engage with Uniswap, PancakeSwap, and many other goods. Sorbet stands out from other items in the market thanks to its high UI/UX emphasis. Users can easily join yield farming pools, choose their preferred risk profile, and trade DEX tokens.

VESQ

VESQ is a reserve currency that may be staked or bonded to increase wealth and is backed by assets. The currency product within the VESQ ecosystem is called vUSD, and it has been designed to work as a price-stable reserve currency. By making it available to users worldwide, it enables cross-border transactions, peer-to-peer value transfers, savings, and other financial operations.

Ethlas

Ethlas is a metaverse where users play fun games to win prizes. The unique metaverse of Ethlas rewards players for their time and effort. With the help of the time and expertise of its users, Ethlas creates and manages vast ecosystems of rare digital goods.

Ethlas’ goal is to use gaming to introduce the next billion users to web3. The team thinks that everyone, not just techies, should have access to blockchain technology. To make it simple for the mass market to join the blockchain revolution, it aims to streamline the onboarding process.

CREAM Finance

CREAM Finance is a decentralized lending protocol for people and protocols to access financial services. The protocol is non-custodial, transparent, and permissionless,  currently operational on Fantom, Binance Smart Chain, and Ethereum.

C.R.E.A.M. Finance’s smart contract money markets lie emphasis on longtail assets to boost capital efficiency for all assets in crypto markets. U users can lend any supported it on its markets and then use the money they get as security to borrow another supported product.

Galaxy

Galxe is the world’s leading Web3 credential data network.  A collaborative credential infrastructure that enables businesses and developers to interact with communities and create reliable Web3 products.

It is developing the necessary infrastructure to support a network for sharing and exchanging credentials. Galxe assists Web3 developers in utilizing credential data to create better communities and solutions. At the same time, data curators support our credential data network and profit from the use of the data.

Benji Bananas

The physics-based mobile game, Benji Bananas was released in 2013 as a simple and approachable arcade game to appeal to a wide audience. Over 50 million downloads have occurred since its inception, across the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

The PRIMATE Token makes use of Benji Bananas, a popular smartphone game with 70,000 daily active users at the time of writing. The PRIMATE Token initiative aims to introduce thousands of new users every month to the cryptoverse by bridging the Benji Bananas player base with the potential of Web3.