As Polygon transitions from MATIC to POL and a third co-founder steps down within a short period of time, the question is, will the token price go up anytime soon? New DeFi AI project Unilabs raises over $1 million in just a few weeks. Is this a sign of things to come for their token UNIL?
As Founder Resigns, Polygon Price Predictions are Bleak
Mihailo Bjelic is the third Polygon co-founder to resign, following Kanani and Arjun. While Bjelic insists that he has full support for the current team, he also mentioned that different visions were the reason for his departure. Either way, it’s not a good look for Indian-founded Matic – now rebranded as Polygon.
But how will this affect the price of MATIC?
MATIC, aka POL, is currently trading at $0.24. Binance’s Polygon price prediction is that it will stay more or less the same until the end of the year, while CoinStats’ Polygon price prediction suggests a maximum price of $0.4718, with an average around $0.2949.
Coingape is more pessimistic and predicts that the Polygon price will be lower than its current price by December 2025, sitting at $0.22.
Pessimistic Polygon price predictions make sense when considering the charts.
Investor Considerations for Unilabs and Polygon
Polygon was once one of the trailblazers of DeFi. In the DeFi summer of 2020 and into 2021, Polygon was perhaps the fastest and cheapest chain around, in terms of gas fees. And by 2022, the POL price (then MATIC) reached highs of $3.
The tech attracted Degens and other DeFi investors to the chain. However, like many projects before it, as the chain got congested, its speed slowed, and it became increasingly unreliable. Some suggest that the team’s lean token allocation was a bad move, in hindsight, since it limited the number of developers they could employ.
Meanwhile, newer chains were built, which were also cheap and more reliable. Polygon has tried to keep up by building a Layer 2 zkEVM solution, but the fees are much higher than those of other Layer 2s, leaving Polygon with no real advantages over the competition.
Unilabs, on the other hand, is about to begin its ascent, or so the team hopes. Unilabs is naming itself the ‘World’s First AI-backed Asset Manager’ with $30 million of assets under management. Their advanced AI has already chosen the composition of four trend-based funds, including a mining fund, and an AI and LLM fund.
And their AI can do more, evaluating and reviewing memecoins for investment, and discovering DeFi tokens that have been overlooked. The AI doesn’t just look at technical factors, though that is a part, but rather considers the potential of the ideas behind protocols, community engagement, developer reputation, and more.
As Unilabs is in presale, this could be the start of a rise similar to Polygon back in 2017.
Unilabs Price Potential
As Unilabs is so new, a prediction is not yet possible. But we can measure risk and potential. A presale coin always comes with inherent risks; the project is as yet (mostly) untested, and not all presale projects make it big.
On the other hand, a more established project, such as Polygon, is likely to have many holders who got it at $1 and above, and so even if the coin were to go back to $1, it would probably crash down again under selling pressure.
Unilabs, therefore, as a presale coin, can only go up while the presale is ongoing. And as it’s in the second stage, it has a lot of room to grow. The real test will come when the project goes live, and the market will determine the price. If the AI is capable of doing what it describes in the whitepaper, then it’s likely going to go up, especially as the token UNIL has a lot of utility.
More about Unilabs
Many investors would love to use AI to help them cut through the noise of all the news and predictions in crypto. But so far, there isn’t a clear way to do so. Unilabs is aiming to make the benefits of AI tools available to DeFi investors. They have already raised $1 million and are managing $30 million of assets, which is a good sign.
Info About Unilabs:
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Source: https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2025/05/polygon-price-prediction-can-matic-recover-to-1-or-will-unilabs-lead-june-gains