Polygon Skyrockets 10% as Heimdall Upgrade Goes Live
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The Polygon Heimdall v2 upgrade has finally debuted on the mainnet, sparking a 10% price surge for POL. Heimdall v2 upgrade modernizes the Polygon PoS network for improved performance, security, and scalability. Polygon Foundation has announced that the long-awaited Heimdall upgrade has finally gone live on the mainnet. Following the announcement, Polygon’s native asset, POL, saw its price increase by over 10%. Polygon Gets a New Lift with Heimdall As revealed in an X post, the team launched the Heimdall v2 upgrade on the Polygon PoS mainnet, together with PIP-43, PIP-44, and PIP-62. The Polygon Foundation said the team is working full-time to ensure all providers upgrade to Heimdall. They also assured users that the chain is running smoothly and finalizing on the network. However, the Foundation said the Polygon Portal and Polygon staking app will remain under maintenance for a few more hours. The Heimdall v2 upgrade is a major hard fork of the Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) network. Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal described Heimdall v2 as the most technically complex hard fork since mainnet launch in 2020. The Heimdall v2 is at the core of the Polygon PoS ecosystem, bringing major upgrades to the network’s functionality. The upgrade modernizes the Heimdall consensus layer, which manages validators, block producer selection, and state synchronization between Ethereum and Polygon PoS. As noted in our earlier post, Heimdall v2 upgrade reduces finality from 90 seconds to approximately 5 seconds. This enables faster checkpoints and a smoother user experience. The upgrade also reduces Block times from approximately 5–6 seconds to about 2 seconds, boosting network throughput. The Polygon Foundation released the Heimdall v2 upgrade on the Amoy Testnet on June 24, 2025. The team leveraged the testnet to validate functionality and identify potential issues in a controlled environment. To ensure compatibility with the…
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