Can a Planeswalker be tapped?
If so, if it becomes tapped during the upkeep, thus from the start of the main phase, can its loyalty abilities still be activated?
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Like all permanents, it can become tapped. For instance, if you attack with Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker after using his first ability and he survives, the next turn you will have a tapped planeswalker.
110.5. A permanent’s status is its physical state. There are four status categories, each of which has two possible values: tapped/untapped, flipped/unflipped, face up/face down, and phased in/phased out. Each permanent always has one of these values for each of these categories.
In the previous scenario, Sarkhan will untap during your untap step. However, there are cards that require you to tap a permanent you control, like Gene Pollinator's ability, which can be activated during your upkeep, causing your planeswalker to be tapped during your main phase.
But that doesn't really matter for loyalty abilities; there is no rule preventing activating loyalty abilities on tapped planeswalkers. This is all what the rules say:
306.5d Each planeswalker has a number of loyalty abilities, which are activated abilities with loyalty symbols in their costs. Loyalty abilities follow special rules: A player may activate a loyalty ability of a permanent they control any time they have priority and the stack is empty during a main phase of their turn, but only if none of that permanent’s loyalty abilities have been activated that turn. See rule 606, “Loyalty Abilities.”
Rule 606 doesn't mention anything about being (un)tapped either.