Polygon
POLLive. Code changed: today. Machine-drafted, not yet checked by a person.
Polygon describes itself as the main blockchain for moving money around the world quickly and at large scale. Of the 14 things it promised, it delivered 0, 6 are past due and not yet checked, 8 are still open (8 with no date); nothing dated is coming up. It trades at $0.096, #72 of all coins by size, 93% below its highest ever price.
This week in the news: new software release, upgrade or launch live.
A real job, real backing. Delivered 0 of 14, 6 past due, not yet checked. Nothing dated ahead. #3 of 35 payment solutions. Nothing to be careful of on the record.
Is it real?
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3 of 4
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: payments
- ✓Real backingBacking: trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken; worth $1.03B
- –Something aheadA dated step, deliveries on record, or demand showing up in the news.
- ✓Room to growRoom: worth $1.03B, 85 times smaller than XRP, the biggest coin within reach doing the same thing (Payment Solutions)
Listed on 10 big exchanges
- Origin13 March 2024about about 2 yearsFrom IN (CoinGecko)polygon.technology, GitHub, Whitepaper
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersCode changed today
- BackingNo named investorListed on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Bitstamp
- Standing on the record0 of 140 confirmed by outside news, 6 past due, not yet checked46 headlines last month, 1 about government664,469 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Payment Solutions ($71.65M). To match the leader, XRP ($87.28B), its price would need to rise 8385%, to about $8.14.
Still to check
- 14 dated promises, none delivered yet
- No named investor among its tags
- Years younger than the group's leader
What to do Nothing dated is ahead and nothing has been delivered on record. There is no event to wait for yet, which is itself the answer.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
0 of 14
promises delivered, by the project's own pages
0 of those confirmed by an outside news report
Promises by the year they were due
delivered open past due
delivered open past due, not yet checked today. Click a point to open that promise.
- Past dueJuly 2025Polygon will raise its network speed to more than 1,000 transactions per second while keeping fees under $0.001, without requiring extra validators.411 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 11 September 2026.
- Past dueJuly 2025Polygon will cut the time it takes for a transaction to become final from 60-90 seconds down to about five seconds.411 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 11 September 2026.
- Past dueJuly 2025Polygon will change its gas fee settings so that transaction fees swing around less.411 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 11 September 2026.
- Past dueJuly 2025Polygon will upgrade its Bor and Heimdall software to match Ethereum's latest features, including smart account support.411 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 11 September 2026.
- Past dueJuly 2025Polygon will hand control of more of its network smart contracts to the Protocol Council.411 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 11 September 2026.
- Past dueOctober 2025Polygon will raise transaction speed to more than 5,000 per second by changing how validators produce blocks.319 days overdue, not yet checkedProof No article or release reports it shipping. Checked 11 September 2026.
Details
“By End of 2025: Scale to 5000+ TPS by October ... Increase TPS to 5000+: Changes to validator block production expands capacity. Securely and efficiently handle mass adoption of payments and RWAs without sacrificing decentralization. See PIP-64, which introduces a Validator-Elected Block Producer (VEBloP) model.”
- Openno datePolygon will stop chain reorganizations by having validators elect one block producer at a time, so transactions are confirmed instantly.
Details
“Eliminate chain reorganizations with single block finality: Because validators elect a single block producer for an indefinite span, the network can guarantee instant transaction confirmations, removing major risks critical to financial and institutional use cases.”
- Openno datePolygon will connect its chain to Agglayer so assets and liquidity can move across other blockchains.
- Openno datePolygon will push its network's transaction speed to 100,000 transactions per second and beyond.
- Openno datePolygon will increase the number of validators securing its network.
- Openno datePolygon will keep working on fast confirmations, instant finality, and maximum uptime.
- Openno datePolygon will further develop Agglayer so it serves every blockchain connected to it.
- Openno datePolygon will build enterprise payment infrastructure for stablecoins and tokenized deposits.
- Openno datePolygon will build a hub to manage all payments-related identity verification (KYC) in one place.
What is next, and when?
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Nothing dated
The project has not put a date on anything still open. That is a fact worth knowing.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
Payments
18 coins we checked say they are for payments, worth $1.64T together. #4 of 18 by worth.
Payment Solutions: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
POL (ex-MATIC)$1.03Bthis coin−0.3%no max0 of 14 delivered
XRP$87.28B84.8× bigger, +$86.25B+0.0%, gap +0.363% out2 of 3 delivered
Stellar$6.68B6.5× bigger, +$5.65B+3.8%, gap +4.1no max0 of 20 delivered
Quant$921.15M1.1× smaller, −$107.45M−1.0%, gap −0.7100% outnone dated
Dash$680.68M1.5× smaller, −$347.92M−2.1%, gap −1.868% out1 of 9 delivered
Bitcoin SV$335.17M3.1× smaller, −$693.42M−2.7%, gap −2.496% out0 of 1 delivered
Gnosis$300.72M3.4× smaller, −$727.87M−2.4%, gap −2.188% outnone dated
Decred$292.12M3.5× smaller, −$736.47M−0.1%, gap +0.284% outnone dated
Payment Solutions: this coin next to XRP, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Polygon says
- Polygon describes itself as the main blockchain for moving money around the world quickly and at large scale.
- XRP says
- XRP Ledger is a public blockchain for creating, sending, and trading digital assets, built with a focus on meeting compliance rules.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
Polygon describes itself as the main blockchain for moving money around the world quickly and at large scale.
Problem it says it solves: payments. 41 coins we have checked say the same; together they are worth $1,745,498,830,279.
Where it trades: Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Bitstamp, Binance
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
Nothing printed today
None of the six tests fails. A missed promise counts only on a record a person has checked.
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Payment Solutions: this coin next to the group's largest, XRP.
| POL (ex-MATIC) | XRP | |
|---|---|---|
| Years trading | 3 years | 12 years |
| Major exchanges | 10 | 10 |
| Named backers | 0 | 3 |
| Headlines, last month | 46 | 459 |
| Promises delivered | 0 of 14 | 2 of 3 |
It is 1.2% the size of XRP. On the facts above it is behind on years trading, named backers, headlines, last month, promises delivered. For that gap to close, the record would need deliveries showing up in its record. Nothing here says it will; the site does not predict.
The tests: nothing to hold it for, more missed than delivered, priced ahead of its record, half the supply still to come, rivals ship while it does not, a big release of coins soon.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $1.29 on 13 March 2024. Today is 7% of that.
100%
of all POL that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 10.71B coins.
Nothing is held back. Every coin is already out.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
Its pages do not say what holding it gets you
That is worth knowing before buying. A coin nobody needs is priced on hope.
- Nothing the project's own pages spell out.
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- 10.71Bin circulation of 10.71B total. No hard maximum is set, so more can be created.
- of its all-time high of $1.29 on 13 March 2024. That is −92.5% from the top.
- #72by market cap, $1,028,596,842.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
- $809.26M is locked in apps built on it right now
- Users paid $2.23M in fees to use it in the last 30 days, $2.23M of that kept by the network
From DefiLlama, refreshed nightly. Fees are what people paid to use the thing; value locked is what they trust it to hold. Facts, not a score.
What the news says
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Headlines per day, last 30 days
46 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- Price9
- Upgrade8
- Stablecoin5
- Banks2
- Unlock2
- Hack1
- Treasury1
- Lawsuit1
- Polygon Starts Swapping MATIC for POL: A New Era for Layer-2 Crypto
- Polygon Starts Swapping MATIC for POL: A New Era for Layer-2 Crypto
- Polygon [POL] faces a $1.29M FalconX deposit – Can $0.08934 hold?
- Polygon (POL) Drops 4% Amid Broad Altcoin Pullback
- PayPal launches stablecoin platform with $100M volumeUpcoming
- AstralBeam Launches on Casper, Links RWAs on Robinhood Chain, Base, Ethereum and Polygon, toward T-REX InteroperabilityUpcoming
- Nepal Opens Legal Crypto Relief Route Through US Banking System
- Polygon (POL) Sees 3.55% Dip Amid Broad Crypto Pullback
- Polygon CEO Triggers Crypto Community With Vacation Take and Schools Critics
- Ripple, Solana, Polygon rally behind Nepal flood victims
- Ripple, Solana, Polygon rally behind Nepal flood victims
- Polygon co-founder rallies crypto behind Nepal with disaster relief fund
- Polygon launches crypto donation platform for N...Upcoming
- Polygon co-founder launches stablecoin donations for Nepal disaster relief with $100K pledgeUpcoming
- Polygon co-founder launches Nepal crypto relief driveUpcoming
- Polygon Launches Crypto Donation Route Into Nepal Disaster Relief FundUpcoming
- ClickFix Campaign Compromises 31 Orgs, Abuses Polygon Blockchain
- Polygon plunges 9%, losses key support: Can POL still hold $0.09?
- Mercuryo Drives Stablecoin Onboarding for Polygon Users
- Stablecoin Onboarding Polygon Sees Major Shift with Mercuryo
- Polygon Crypto Secures Bor and Heimdall Clients Before Disclosure
- Render (RENDER) Volatility: Polygon Incident, Unlock LoomsUpcoming
- Polygon PoS Austin and Kyoto Forks Explained
- Crypto: Polygon reveals the vulnerabilities fixed by Austin and Kyoto
- Polygon Drops 9% Amid Technical Weakness and Disclosures
- Walmart-Backed OnePay Adds Solana, Arbitrum and More to Crypto Platform
- Polygon (POL) Drops 4% on Security Disclosures and Social Media
- The Official Pokémon Account Was Hacked to Pull a Memecoin Scam
- How Polygon's Coinme Acquisition Is Poised to Accelerate the Next Generation of Fintech Super Apps
- Polygon Price Forecast: POL Extends Rally as Network Growth Steadies
- Polygon jumps 31% on rising network activity bu...
- Polygon Price: MATIC Price Index and Live Chart
- GTA 6 Leaks Could Be Part of a Big Crypto Scheme
- Polygon Surges 26.33% Amid Broad Crypto Rally and Technical Breakout
- Polygon Buys Coinme and Sequence in $250M Push into US Stablecoin Payments
- Polygon Rises 3% Amid Broad Crypto Rally, No Specific Catalyst
- Bitcoin Recovers as Polygon, Zcash Extend New Breakouts
- Crypto Market Overview: Bitcoin Rebounds While Polygon, Zcash Lead Gains
- Polygon (POL) Surges 4.51% on Technical Breakout, Volume Spike
- Upbit Halts Polygon-Network Deposits and Withdrawals for POL Hard ForkUpcoming
46 headlines in the last month.
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
Polygon describes itself as the main blockchain for moving money around the world quickly and at large scale.
“The go-to blockchain for global payments, where trillions in assets move instantly, at scale.”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-12
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
0 of 14 promises delivered. 6 past due with no delivery recorded, not yet checked by a person. 8 open.
Others in payments networks: Nockchain 20 of 30, Beldex 10 of 48, eCash 8 of 10, ADI 7 of 15, and 18 more.Others in interoperability networks: Internet Computer 20 of 23, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance 7 of 43, Algorand 2 of 7, Zilliqa 2 of 26, and 9 more.
Last code change on the main repository (0xPolygon/bor): today, on 15 September 2026.
None of the project's captured pages has changed since capture began on 10 September 2026.
Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.