Proven scalability on Ethereum

Polygon PoS is one of the most used protocols in the world. The network has tens of thousands of dApps, more than 3 million average daily transactions, $5 billion in secured assets, and some of the top brands building on it.

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The best scaling experience for devs and users

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Low cost

Allows projects to scale by processing more transactions
Average ~$0.015 cost per transaction powered by Polygon’s proof-of-stake architecture
Approximately ~10,000x lower costs per transaction than Ethereum

Community support

A highly active and engaged developer community
24/7 development support
Extensive developer documentation to make building easier

EVM compatible

Deploys easily from Ethereum for faster development
Compatible with Ethereum developer tools
Developers can scale faster and benefit from Ethereum network effects

Adopted by the biggest projects

Trusted by some of the biggest brands and studios in Web2 and Web3
Allows developers to easily onboard users with a large pool of users on the network
Carbon netural blockchain reduces project emissions

Ecosystem dApps

Decentralized and secure technology

Polygon’s scalable proof-of-stake (POS) architecture complements Ethereum’s decentralized security, ensuring you have the ability to create dApps that can appeal to the general public while maintaining the power of decentralization.

Polygon’s scalable proof-of-stake (POS) architecture

The most proven scaling solution in Web3

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Annual Network Emission

197.8M

Unique Addresses

2.25B

Transactions

10K+

dApps Scaling

~$0.015

Avg. Cost per txn

1M+

Deployed Smart Contracts

Resources

Devnet Explorer

Explore and search transactions, addresses, tokens, and prices on devnet.

Technical Documentation

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Staking Rewards

Stake your MATIC to become a validator or delegator on our network.

PoS Explorer

Explore and search transactions, addresses, tokens, and prices on mainnet.

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Safe Bridge

Safely bridge assets to the Polygon chain.

Add PoS Network

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