Polygon schedules network upgrade to support growing demand for stablecoins

Polygon developers plan to increase transaction capacity by 33% in the coming months to tap into increased demand for stablecoin ￰0￱ is one of the legacy L2 chains to see a significant surge in 2025 ￰1￱ developers have announced plans to increase the network transaction capacity by 33% in the last quarter of ￰2￱ is a legacy network that has carried multiple Web3 apps games and DeFi ￰3￱ on a recent proposal Polygon will allow more transactions in each block

boosting overall ￰4￱ protocol change will affect all validators and will not require additional coordination or ￰5￱ increased block size may lead to challenges with block propagation as reflected in the ￰6￱ is not a new occurrence with Polygon which recently had an outage as Cryptopolitan ￰7￱ tapped growing activity during the 2025 bull market Polygon noted increased gas usage in 2025

reflecting its central role in prediction markets and general stablecoin ￰8￱ activity picked up in 2025 leading to the proposal for increasing the gas limit allowing more transactions in each block. |