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$1.22B

10.62B

Price Performance

All Time High

The POL all time high price was $1.29. It reached this all time high on 13 Mar 2024, which was about 3 years ago. Based on its current market price of $0.12, POL is -90.99%% away from its all time high.

All time high price

$1.29

All time high date

13 Mar 2024

Days since

926 days

% change since

-90.99%

Price History

24H1W1M1Y

High $0.25

Low $0.07

$0.12

Current price

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Polygon’s launch of its native liquid staking token, sPOL, on April 14, 2026 unlocked 3.6 billion staked POL and introduced shared priority-fee rewards, greatly enhancing staking liquidity and yield opportunities for POL holders (Polygon Blog).

Visa expanded its global stablecoin settlement pilot to include Polygon in April 2026, helping drive the program to a $7 billion annualized run rate and demonstrating Polygon’s viability as a high-volume, low-cost payments rail (CoinDesk).

The Giugliano mainnet upgrade activated on April 8, 2026 reduced block finality times by approximately two seconds and added on-chain fee parameters in block headers, further improving throughput and user experience for payments and real-world asset applications (The Block).

sPOL’s Terms of Use disclose that validators may be slashed for misbehavior, and since sPOL delegates across multiple validators, slashing events directly reduce the POL backing each sPOL token, potentially leaving holders with less POL than they originally staked (Polygon).

Independent research identifies three distinct risk surfaces in liquid restaking—including slashing, depegs from withdrawal delays, and withdrawal-queue griefing—that can cascade across economic and technical layers, threatening the stability and value of restaked POL positions (Zealynx).

The April 2026 Giugliano hardfork required node operators to upgrade Bor to v2.7.0 or Erigon to v3.5.0 before activation; failure to do so risks chain divergence and full node resynchronization, creating operational friction and potential network instability (The Block).

Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 2 Sept 2026.

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Polygon is a scaling ecosystem for Ethereum that makes transactions faster and cheaper while staying compatible with it. POL is the network's native token (the successor to MATIC), and its "restaking" design lets a single stake help secure many Polygon chains at once. POL is used to pay transaction fees, stake to secure the network as a validator, and participate in governance.

Symbol: POL
Category: Cryptocurrencies

Website: polygon.technology
Whitepaper: polygon.technology/papers/pol-micar-whitepaper

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Crypto market data is sourced from Kraken. Metrics data is provided by CoinGecko.

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$1.22B

10.62B

Price Performance

All Time High

All time high price

$1.29

All time high date

13 Mar 2024

Days since

926 days

% change since

-90.99%

Price History

24H1W1M1Y

High $0.25

Low $0.07

$0.12

Current price

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Data summarised monthly by Lightyear AI. Last updated on 2 Sept 2026.

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Symbol: POL
Category: Cryptocurrencies

Website: polygon.technology
Whitepaper: polygon.technology/papers/pol-micar-whitepaper

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Solana Foundation Hires Binance's Former CMO and a Polygon Payments Veteran for Its Institutional Push

Polygon payment channels hit 11 million updates per second across 25 hubs

Solana Expands Leadership with Former Binance and Polygon Executives Amid Upgrade Plans

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