Polygon is going gigagas (100k TPS), massively scaling to bring speed to onchain global financial transactions.

Powered by POL. Money moves faster when no one's in your way. Polygon is going gigagas, bringing instant finality

Polygon is aiming for 100,000 TPS with 5-second finality in a new, deeper integration with an interoperable multichain settlement layer called Agglayer, to be powered by the POL token.

The goal is to bring speed and efficiency to onchain global financial transactions in a network that can handle trillions of dollars in assets and payments, with no intermediaries, better user experience with no reorgs or gas spikes, and the ability to buy tokenized assets, pay for groceries, and do whatever else is needed for the next billion users.

The first milestone will be reached in early July with an upgrade that brings 1000 TPS and 5s finality to Polygon. This is not a theory, but rather a fact that has been achieved in a devnet environment.

The token upgrade to POL was the first step. A gigas-sized Polygon running on POL is the next, with this roadmap bringing the technology and ecosystem into alignment with a future where blockchain underpins everyday transactions, an AI economy, and trillions in assets.

The focus is on real-world value, onchain.

The first pillar is stablecoins and P2P transactions.

Stablecoins have exploded as the onchain conduit for commerce, with Polygon emerging as a leader in this domain. Stablecoin supply has grown quarter-over-quarter to $2.5 billion in March 2025, with native integrations by leading stablecoin projects such as Circle, Tether, Agora, and others.

Furthermore, Polymarket, a platform built on Polygon and recently integrated by X, has facilitated over $14B in USDC volume for predictions, with 106M total trades executed on Polygon.

Institutions and fintech startups like Stripe, Nexo, Reliance Jio, BlindPay, and more have built TradFi infrastructure on blockchain rails, leading to strong stablecoin velocity and making Polygon the top chain for USDC senders, with 2.3M active wallets as of April 2025.

This makes Polygon the preferred network for fast, cheap, and reliable digital payments.

Crypto needs to feel invisible for the next billion users, and that’s exactly what’s happening.

Our April stablecoin numbers say it all:

$134B transfer volume (+33% mo/mo)

$2B supply (+8%)

68x velocity …and it’s only the beginning

The second pillar is RWA assets.

Institutions are now tokenizing assets on Polygon, ranging from equities to collectibles. Moving value onchain eliminates fee-grabbing middlemen while increasing capital efficiency, ultimately bridging traditional finance and Web3.

Polygon is the optimal platform for analog assets to achieve greater efficiency as tokenized RWAs.

In Q1 2025, Polygon ranked #5 among all blockchains by RWA value (and fourth when Apollo’s assets are counted), with over $271 million in RWAs onchain. These vary from tokenized collectibles, like Pokémon card NFTs on Courtyard.io, to regulated credit funds, such as Apollo Asset Management’s ACRED, launched in collaboration with Securitize and Gauntlet.

Major players like BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Hamilton Lane, among others, have deployed real tokenized assets and money market funds on Polygon that are more than mere test cases. They’re tapping into a stable network that can handle high-value financial products with nearly-instant finality times and minimal transaction fees.

But to gracefully handle trillions in RWAs and payments, Polygon is continuing to go bigger.

Roadmap milestones: Short, medium, and long term

The roadmap below lays out how the network will evolve in the short, medium, and long term to support the payments-and-RWA vision.

Short-Term (by July 2025): 1000 TPS

The Bhilai Upgrade transforms Polygon into a 1000+ TPS chain with predictable, low-cost gas fees and finality at a fraction of the time. This upgrade will massively supercharge Polygon’s existing network for payments and asset tokenization. It’s coming by July, and the focus is on scale:

• 1000 TPS at 5-second finality (in a devnet environment)

• Predictable gas at $0.01-$0.05 per transaction

• Minimum 300K transactions per block

The heating up of the blockchain space in 2024 has brought about a new era in which the demand for blockchain-based use cases is rapidly increasing

The token upgrade to POL was the first step. A gigas-sized Polygon running on POL is the next, with this roadmap bringing the technology and ecosystem into alignment with a future where blockchain underpins everyday transactions, an AI economy, and trillions in assets.