Polygon’s Gigagas Roadmap to 100k TPS: Move Your Money Faster Across the Globe

tl;dr: Polygon is aiming to go gigagas (100k TPS), massively scaling to bring speed to onchain global financial transactions. Powered by POL.

• By July: Increase to 1,000 TPS, reduce transaction finality to ~5 sec, gas fee stabilization, and more. 
  
  • Overnight, Polygon becomes one of crypto’s highest throughput chains
  • Upgrade is live on testnet
• By End of 2025: Scale to 5000+ TPS by October, Agglayer integration for seamless cross-chain liquidity, one second blocktimes, and no re-orgs, which mean instant finality. 
  
  • 5k TPS achieved in a devnet environment
• Into 2026 and beyond: Gigagas upgrade for 100k TPS, deep institutional integrations, and an expanded role as the premier chain for payments and RWAs
• Strong institutional adoption: including Stripe, Reliance Jio, Hamilton Lane, Apollo, BlackRock, and more
  
  • Polygon is #1 in USDC addresses, and is #3 in daily active USDT addresses. 
  • But Polygon needs scale to meet demand
• POL powers Polygon: POL stakers do the work to secure the network and get airdrops via the Agglayer Breakout Program. Will remain the gas token. 
• Breakout apps on Polygon: Polymarket, the official predictions market for X, benefit from the gigagas upgrade, with high throughput and instant finality

Money moves faster when no one’s in your way. 

Polygon is going gigagas, bringing instant finality, frictionless transactions, and institutional adoption to payments and real-world assets (RWAs). 

The goal? Become the universal layer for global payments and RWA transactions with an ambitious gigagas roadmap. 

No intermediaries, just efficiency. Better user experience without reorgs and no gas spikes. Buy tokenized assets, pay for groceries, do whatever. It’s your money, on Polygon. 

The first milestone arrives early July, with an upgrade that brings Polygon to 1000 TPS and 5s finality. Not theory, fact. 

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

Why payments and RWAs? Real-world value, onchain

Polygon is focusing on real use cases and demand: Move real money and real assets, onchain.

The first pillar of Polygon’s roadmap is payments. 

Stablecoins have exploded as the onchain conduit for commerce—and Polygon is an emerging leader. Supply has grown quarter-over-quarter and reached $2.5 billion in stables, with native integrations by leaders in stablecoin such as Circle, Tether, Agora, and others. Polymarket, built on Polygon with a recent integration by X, has processed over $14B in USDC volume for predictions, with 106M total trades made on Polygon. Polygon also leads in P2P transactions, with $3.7B in volume in April 2025, an 85% increase over the prior six months. Institutional players and fintech startups like Stripe, Nexo, Reliance Jio, BlindPay, and more have built TradFi infrastructure on blockchain rails, leading to strong stablecoin velocity and turning Polygon into the top chain for USDC senders, with 2.3M active wallets as of April 2025.

The second pillar is RWAs.  

Institutions are tokenizing assets on Polygon, from equities to collectibles. Moving value onchain cuts out fee-grabbing middlemen while increasing capital efficiency, bridging traditional finance and Web3. Polygon is the premier platform for analog assets to find better 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 range from tokenized collectibles, like Pokémon card NFTs on Courtyard.io, to regulated credit funds, like Apollo Asset Management’s ACRED, launched 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 near-instant finality times and low 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 turns Polygon overnight into a 1000+ TPS chain with predictable, low-cost gas fees and finality at a fraction of the time. This upgrade supercharges Polygon’s existing network for payments and asset tokenization. It’s coming by July, and the focus is on scale: 

• Scale throughput by 50%: Achieve over 1,000 TPS while keeping transaction fees extremely low (<$0.001 in POL) and imposing no additional validator requirements, enabling seamless high-frequency stablecoin transactions. See PIP-60.
• Reduce finality time by 90% to ~5s: Dramatically reduce finality from 60-90 seconds down to approximately five seconds, ensuring near-instant confirmations that are critical for financial applications.
• Smooth gas price volatility: Adjust base gas fee settings to significantly reduce fee fluctuations, enhancing predictability for users. See PIP-58.
• Modernize core infrastructure: Upgrade execution (Bor) and consensus (Heimdall) clients to align with Ethereum's latest innovations, including smart account features (EIP-7702) and improved security and user experience.‍
• Increase decentralization: Decentralize control of additional network smart contracts to the Protocol Council. See PIP-68.

Medium-term (end of 2025): 5000+ TPS, Agglayer connection

The second half of the year will bring intense technical focus on accelerating performance, hardening reliability, and connecting Polygon to Agglayer, an interoperable multichain settlement layer powered by POL. In the medium-term, this upgrade accelerates core improvements: more capacity, seamless interoperability, and better stability for users and builders who want real-world applications. 

None of this is theoretical. 

The target is 10K TPS, the upper-bound of TPS for this upgrade, with 5k being the immediate reality that has already been achieved in a devnet environment. Here are the milestones:

• 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. 
  
  • VEBIoP is jargon for “efficiency.” By implementing stateless block validation and a single elected producer per span, this new architecture upgrades how blocks are produced and substantially accelerates Polygon’s capacity. 
• 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.
• Agglayer integration: Connect to Agglayer for cross-chain interop, unlocking deeper liquidity and asset mobility across a multiverse of chain ecosystems. 
  
  • POL staking powers core Agglayer features.

By the end of the year, Polygon becomes the premier network where crypto meets traditional money, at scale.

Long-term (2026 and beyond): Gigagas with 100k TPS and beyond

In the long run, Polygon’s roadmap is to be the anchor of seamless, unified global payments and RWAs. Think nation-wide retail payment networks, stock exchanges settling trades onchain, or millions of AI agents or IoT devices streaming micropayments continuously, across every Agglayer-connected chain. 

An aggregated Polygon carries capacity for everything. Here’s how:

• Gigagas to 100k TPS and beyond: Push the boundaries of blockchain scalability, matching and exceeding the speed and reliability expectations of global financial infrastructure.
• Grow the number of validators: More validators on the network mean more decentralization and more security
• Maintain relentless focus on stability: Rapid confirmations, instant finality, and maximum uptime to solidify Polygon as the go-to network for real-time global payments and RWA transactions.
• Enhance Agglayer interop: Double-down on Agglayer vision, ensuring Polygon serves every connected chain.

In the future, the distinction between “Polygon” and other chains may fade. Users simply interact with Polygon-enabled apps, while behind the scenes, Agglayer ensures transactions and assets flow freely across an aggregated network. 

Long-term milestones bring Polygon’s new strategic identity fully into focus. It will have transformed into a global network for payments and RWAs. Every milestone—near, mid, and far—is a step closer to that reality. 

Polygon’s roadmap is an arc, one that starts with solving today’s pain points, and ends with Polygon powering an open, borderless economy, used by millions every day.

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