Polygon Foundation Activates Giugliano Hardfork Upgrade for Faster Transaction Finality

The Polygon Foundation has announced the activation of the Giugliano hardfork upgrade on April 8, with the goal of enhancing transaction finality and improving fee transparency. This upgrade is part of the Gigagas roadmap, which aims to achieve 100,000 transactions per second.

According to the announcement, the Giugliano upgrade will enable faster finality by allowing producers to announce blocks earlier, reduce the waiting time for transactions to become irreversible, and improve the overall efficiency of the protocol. The upgrade also includes new RPC endpoints that will allow wallets and DApps to access fee-related data directly without additional estimation services.

The upgrade comes after a series of technical problems experienced in 2025, including a consensus issue that led to a finality delay of 15 minutes. To address these issues, the Polygon Foundation has implemented multiple upgrades, including Madhugiri and Lisovo, which have improved network throughput and smart contract robustness.

The current network capacity levels are around 2,600 TPS, but internal development networks have been able to surpass 5,000 TPS. It remains to be seen how the Giugliano upgrade will impact the network's scalability and ability to achieve its goals.