The Polygon Foundation confirmed that a hard fork intended to resolve a finality issue “has been successfully completed” on Wednesday.
“Checkpoints are going through and consensus finalization has been fully restored on Polygon PoS,” the team behind the major Ethereum Layer 2 network said on X, adding that transactions and state sync are “processing normally.”
“We will continue to monitor the network closely to ensure everything continues to remain stable. Thank you for your patience!” the team added.
According to the announcement, the transaction finality issue was resolved after rolling out a fork for v2.2.11-beta2 for Bor, Polygon’s block production layer, and v0.3.1 for Heimdall, the proof-of-stake network’s consensus and validation coordination layer.
The hard fork, initiated to resolve the disruption in Polygon’s PoS network where a bug in the node software caused delays in local fast finality, was officially implemented at 3 p.m. UTC, Polygon Labs said. “We will continue to monitor the network to ensure all issues all resolved. Thank you for your patience,” it added.
Polygon refers to its “local fast finality,” i.e., a measure of deterministic state on the L2 network itself, as “milestones.” While checkpoint finality on the Ethereum mainnet remained active, these milestones were lagging by 10–15 minutes, impacting validator synchronization and slowing down transaction confirmations.
It is unclear what caused Wednesday’s network issues. The Block reported earlier that the chain was continuing to process transactions and produce blocks.
Finality refers to the point at which a transaction is considered irreversible after validators reach consensus regarding the L2’s state. Blocks can keep arriving every few seconds, but until finality is reached, there is a small risk of reorganization or rollback.
Polygon revealed an updated Heimdall v2 earlier this year, aimed at improving stability and validator coordination and clearing old technical debt from 2018-2019. Weeks after that upgrade, which was called its “most technically complex” hard fork since 2020, the network suffered an hour-long disruption in finality.
POL, Polygon’s native token, dipped as low as 4% amid the finality delay, though it has since rebounded, according to The Block’s price page.
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