Polygon launches Giugliano to speed up network and improve stability

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Polygon launches Giugliano

The upgrade that aims to speed up settlement

The core element of the hard fork is the PIP-84 proposal. It brings back the early block announcements mechanism through the updated PIP-66 and changes the way part of the data is transmitted within the network. The Polygon team described the effect as follows: “This upgrade: enables faster finality by letting producers announce blocks earlier, adds fee parameters directly in block headers, and introduces new RPC support for fee data.”

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Put simply, the network is expected to confirm transactions faster, while services working with Polygon infrastructure will gain easier access to fee data. For users, this should mean smoother application performance; for developers and infrastructure providers, fewer delays and fewer unnecessary technical operations.

Why Polygon is returning to the finality issue

The renewed focus on finality did not come out of nowhere. In 2025, Polygon faced several difficult episodes at once. In the fall, the team released a separate hard fork after a bug caused transaction confirmation times to stretch to 10 to 15 minutes at times. Earlier, in July, Heimdall V2 suffered an outage of about an hour after one of the validators dropped out. Although the Bor layer continued producing blocks, the incident sent a warning to the market: even a large and long-running network remains vulnerable at critical moments.

Giugliano is now meant to solve a more practical task: speed up finality and make the network more stable for those building applications on it. According to Polygon documentation, after the move to Heimdall v2, deterministic finality on the PoS network takes about 2 to 5 seconds. Tests on the Amoy network, as reported by industry publications, showed an additional reduction of about two seconds.

What this means for the market

Giugliano is part of the broader Gigagas plan, under which Polygon aims to raise network throughput to 100,000 transactions per second and strengthen its position in segments where speed and predictable settlement matter most. These include payments, stablecoin transfers, and infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets. Among the companies Polygon has linked to this direction are Stripe, Hamilton Lane, Apollo, and BlackRock.

That is why this hard fork matters not only for the Polygon team. If the upgrade goes through without new technical issues, the network will improve its standing in the competition for projects that need not just cheap transactions, but fast and clearly timed settlement. For DeFi, payment services, and RWA platforms, this is no longer a secondary detail but one of the criteria for choosing a blockchain.

Earlier, Polygon also outlined another objective: to support the token price through a new fee distribution model that links the network economy to its actual usage.

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