Polygon Activates Madhugiri Hardfork, Lifting Throughput 33% and Enabling ~1-Second Consensus

Overview

• The Madhugiri hardfork is live on Polygon PoS at block 80,084,800, with no action required from users and routine updates for node operators.
• The release integrates Ethereum’s Fusaka EIPs—EIP-7823, EIP-7825, and EIP-7883—to cap costly operations and tighten transaction gas limits for stronger EVM resilience.
• Polygon reports roughly one‑third higher throughput and faster finality, targeting lower latency for swaps, gaming, and high‑frequency DeFi activity.
• A new transaction type supports Ethereum↔Polygon bridge interactions, while PIP-74 makes StateSync inclusion canonical to accelerate cross-chain state updates and cut edge‑case failures.
• Consensus changes enable future block-time adjustments without another hardfork, and Polygon positions the upgrade to support stablecoins and real‑world asset tokenization.