The Polygon development team said their proof-of Stake network experienced a temporary outage, causing finality to be delayed by about 10–15 minutes, although the chain continued to produce Block and checkpoints.
The Polygon Foundation announced on X that the cause has been identified and a patch is being deployed to all validators and service providers. They will update the situation as the issue is resolved, and advise users to monitor the network status page for live updates.
In blockchain , finality is the point at which a transaction becomes irreversible, after the L2 state has been checkpointed and accepted by the consensus mechanism. Block are still created every few seconds, but until finality is reached, there is still the risk of a “rollback” or chain reorganization. This can slow down exchanges and DeFi applications, which often wait for finality to confirm deposits or complete transactions.
Polygon is an Ethereum extension network that uses a PoS mechanism to process transactions faster and cheaper, then periodically sends checkpoints to Ethereum to ensure safety. This ecosystem is widely used by many exchanges, DeFi applications, games and platforms such as Polymarket.
The incident occurred on September 10, after Polygon had undergone infrastructure upgrades, including the Heimdall v2 update, which improved stability and reduced finality time to five seconds. The network had previously experienced an hour-long outage after a complex Hard Fork .
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