Polygon has successfully activated its Madhugiri hardfork, a major protocol upgrade that boosts the network’s throughput by roughly 33% and lays the groundwork for easier future performance enhancements.
According to Polygon, the Madhugiri hardfork introduces adjustable blocktimes, faster consensus, and several other improvements that enhance finality speed and network uptime. By enabling blocktime tuning without requiring future hardforks, the upgrade makes subsequent throughput increases much simpler for developers and validators.
With the Madhugiri upgrade, the Polygon PoS chain can now process approximately 1,400 transactions per second (TPS) while continuing toward its longer-term goal of 5,000 TPS — a milestone anticipated in prior upgrades. The change also enhances reliability for enterprise use cases and mission-critical applications without disrupting existing workflows.
The upgrade includes support for several EIPs originally packaged with Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade, such as EIP-7823, EIP-7825, and EIP-7883. These proposals improve consensus consistency, stabilize gas behavior, and reduce certain computation risks, collectively strengthening core security and performance.
Polygon’s move reflects an ongoing focus on scalability, predictability, and institutional readiness. By decoupling future speed improvements from disruptive hardforks and empowering faster block production, the Madhugiri hardfork positions the network to support high-throughput use cases like payments, real-world asset tokenization, and stablecoin settlement with greater efficiency.
