The Polygon Foundation announced the Giugliano hard fork launch on the mainnet for April 8, 2026. The upgrade will occur at block 85,268,500, approximately at 14:00 UTC.
The main goal of the hard fork is to accelerate transaction finality. Testing on the Amoy testnet showed processing time improves by approximately 2 seconds.
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Additionally, EIP-1559 fee parameters will be embedded directly into block headers. This simplifies development and application work. The upgrade also adds new RPC methods for retrieving fee data.
Node operators must update their Bor client to version 2.7.0 or Erigon to version 3.5.0 before the hard fork activates. Regular users and developers do not need to take any action.
Part of the Gigagas Roadmap
Giugliano is the next stage of Polygon’s broader scaling plan called Gigagas. The goal is to achieve throughput of 100,000 transactions per second.
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Previous upgrades included Madhugiri (December 2025) and Heimdall v2 (July 2025). The Giugliano hard fork focuses on the block execution layer, early block announcement, and improved fee transparency.
Launch Context
The upgrade follows a challenging 2025 for Polygon. The network experienced several finality failures and a one-hour outage due to validator issues. Since then, the team has consistently released upgrades to improve stability and performance.
Polygon currently processes approximately 2,600 TPS. Internal devnet figures exceed 5,000 TPS.
What’s With the Project’s Token
At the time of publication on April 7, 2026, POL▲$0.0754 trades at $0.09008. The token has fallen nearly 4% over the past 24 hours. It ranks 70th among the most capitalized altcoins.
Over the past year, the cryptocurrency has lost 44% of its value. In a shorter timeframe, it also remains in negative territory, down 5% over the past month.
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