The team of Polygon has released a fresh network upgrade this week, dubbed ‘Madhugiri’. The intent behind this update is to increase the efficiency of this Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain. The upgrade went live on Polygon on December 9 – after its mainnet hit the block number of 80084800
The Polygon Foundation has claimed that the Madhugiri upgrade will increase the network throughput by 33 percent while also making the network more stable. Additionally, the update has brought the consensus time to one second – which means that Polygon nodes will now be able to add new blocks of transactions within one second.
“Polygon can now process ~1400 transactions per second (TPS) throughput, moving towards a 5K TPS goal unlocked in an earlier upgrade—and all without disrupting reliability,” the blockchain brand said in its official statement announcing the development.
Polygon has highlighted that now that Madhugiri has deployed, Polygon has now been made capable of supporting Ethereum’s Fusaka EIP (Ethereum Improvement Proposal).
According to official data, Polygon currently has a network of 103 network validators with 3.32 billion POL tokens, that at the current price point $0.125, amounts to $409 million. With Madhugiri, Polygon developers were looking to make the network easier for validators to work with.
Stepping into 2026, Polygon is looking to rope-in more institutional integrations that could make the blockchain a key player in catering to the global demand for borderless financial infrastructure.
Polygon has hit an all-time high in payments volume with $1 billion in November, including an all-time one-day high of $5.54 million, it said in its announcement.