Polygon Executes Critical Hard Fork to Eliminate 15-Minute Transaction Finality Delays
Polygon's network just underwent a surgical upgrade—slashing those pesky 15-minute finality delays that had traders sweating more than a BTC maxi at a Fed meeting.
The Fix Is In
Network validators pushed through a hard fork that patched a consensus bug bogging down transaction confirmations. No more watching pending tx's like it's 2017 all over again.
Back to Business
With finality times restored to seconds rather than quarters of an hour, Polygon's back to competing with legacy rails—proving once again that crypto moves faster than your average bank's wire department.
Because nothing says 'financial revolution' like waiting longer for a confirmation than it takes Wall Street to blow up another hedge fund.
Polygon hard fork fixes bug
To address the problem, developers prepared two critical updates, including Bor v2.2.11-beta2, covering the block production layer, and Heimdall v0.3.1, which required a hard fork to restore consensus and state synchronization. The fork was executed on Sept. 10 at 3 p.m. UTC, bringing milestones and checkpointing back to normal operation.
Following the upgrade, Polygon confirmed that consensus finalization was fully operational, with the team monitoring the network closely to ensure stability. The native token of the ecosystem, POL, experienced a 4% decline during the disruption but quickly rebounded.
Continuous development amid ecosystem growth
This is the second major technical issue Polygon has encountered in 2025. When a validator exit compelled RPC node resynchronization in July, the Heimdall component momentarily stopped finality.
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal has since reiterated that network upgrades remain central to the project’s push toward what he describes as “GigaGas throughput,” targeting long-term scalability comparable to global payment systems.
Polygon has cemented its place in Web3 infrastructure despite recent setbacks. The network facilitates billions of foreign exchange transactions and is a leader in stablecoin and real-world asset adoption. The blockchain also hosts the recently uploaded GDP data from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
