Polygon’s Giugliano Hardfork Signals a Stability Push After a Rough 2025
Polygon's Giugliano hardfork aims to improve transaction finality and fee transparency to boost network stability.Summary
The Polygon Foundation has announced the Giugliano hardfork, scheduled to activate on the mainnet on April 8 at block 85,268,500. This upgrade is designed to achieve faster transaction finality—with testnet results showing a two-second improvement—and enhanced fee transparency by embedding EIP-1559-style parameters directly into block headers. It also introduces new RPC endpoints to allow for more efficient gas pricing queries.
This technical advancement follows a period of network instability in 2025, which included consensus bugs that caused significant finality delays. The Giugliano upgrade is part of a broader series of updates, including the Madhugiri and Lisovo hardforks, aimed at strengthening network reliability and throughput. These efforts align with Polygon's "Gigagas" roadmap, which envisions a high-performance network capable of handling 100,000 TPS for global payments and real-world asset settlement.
(Source：BeInCrypto)