Polygon PoS Network Faces 10-15 Minute Transaction Delays Due to Node Bug

The Polygon PoS Network is experiencing a network finality delay caused by a node bug impacting Bor and Erigon nodes, with transactions taking 10–15 minutes to completion, according to an official incident report from the Polygon Foundation. UPDATE: Temporary Delay in Finality While the chain continues to run and blocks and checkpoints are produced, there is currently a 10-15 minute delay in finality due to a milestone ￰0￱ have identified a fix, and it is being rolled out to all validators and service… — Polygon Foundation (@0xPolygonFdn) September 10, 2025 The disruption, which started early Wednesday, has affected several Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services and caused applications built on the network to experience accessibility ￰1￱ Polygon team has confirmed that the bug is hindering node advancement for specific ￰2￱ PoS Network Bug Forces Third-party Protocols to Suspend All Polygon Transactions Nevertheless, restarting affected nodes has successfully resolved the problem for some participants.

“We observe that restarting nodes has resolved the issues for numerous validators and RPC providers,” Polygon stated. Currently, Polygon’s block explorer Polygonscan indicates that the network’s most recent block was generated over 6 hours ago.) has reacted negatively to the downtime incident, currently trading at $0.2669 with a $2.8 billion market ￰3￱ has declined 3.42% today, extending its year-to-date drop to 30.3%. Data from DeFiLlama similarly shows that Polygon has lost most of its Total Value Locked (TVL) from the 2021 bull run.) September 10, 2025 However, Linea has already restored block production following a temporary outage affecting its mainnet sequencer that caused a 67-minute ￰4￱ Linea has not revealed the root cause of the outage, it announced that it identified the issue and deployed a fix, according to the network’s status page.

A Polymarket trader also expressed frustration regarding the transaction finality bug affecting ￰5￱ noted that while the Polygon PoS network has minimal users, it shouldn’t be experiencing critical issues like this when it hosts the largest prediction market in the crypto ￰6￱ is a decentralized platform that happens to be one of the premier products built on Polygon, enabling users to wager on global event outcomes, spanning science to sports, and culture to ￰7￱ latest Polygon network incident follows a period of recent network ￰8￱ July, Polygon implemented a Heimdall upgrade designed to improve stability and validator ￰9￱ to Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal, the upgrade dubbed Heimdall v2 was intended to reduce transaction finality to just five seconds while addressing longstanding technical debt from Polygon’s early development period (2018-2019).

Product Announcement ~5 Second Finality + Modernized Core Infra on Polygon PoS Polygon PoS engineers have completed deployment of Heimdall v2 to mainnet, upgrading the consensus layer, decreasing large reorgs, and bringing transaction finality to ~5 seconds (down from 1-2… ￰10￱ — Sandeep | CEO, Polygon Foundation (※,※) (@sandeepnailwal) July 11, 2025 Polygon’s network, however experienced a separate, hour-long disruption weeks after the complex hard ￰11￱ Heimdall development follows Polygon’s Bhilai hardfork on July 1, 2025, which significantly increased throughput to 1,000 transactions per second (TPS) and integrated Ethereum’s Pectra EIPs for enhanced account abstraction.