Giugliano Upgrade on Polygon: April 8 Faster Finality, Fee RPC, Testnet ~2s Gains

Polygon will activate the Giugliano upgrade on mainnet on April 8 at block 85,268,500 (around 2:00 PM UTC). The Polygon Giugliano upgrade is designed to speed up finality so transactions reach confirmed, non-reversible status faster. It enables earlier block signaling to shorten confirmation time and embeds fee-related parameters in block headers, while adding new RPC endpoints for fee data to improve wallet and developer visibility. On the Amoy testnet, Polygon reported about a 2-second reduction in finality. Ahead of activation, node operators must upgrade to Bor v2.7.0 or Erigon v3.5.0; otherwise nodes risk falling out of sync after the hard fork. The upgrade sits under Polygon’s “Gigagas” roadmap. Polygon targets ~1,000 TPS and ~5-second finality by July, ~5,000+ TPS by October (with Agglayer-focused cross-chain liquidity improvements), and up to 100,000 TPS with near-instant (1-second) finality as a longer-term goal. Trader takeaway: the Polygon Giugliano upgrade is a clear network-performance catalyst, but the immediate POL price impact may be muted unless improved finality and more transparent fees translate into measurable demand. The latest sentiment in the article remains weak, with POL around $0.091 and trading below the 200-day moving average, alongside low recent breadth and an extreme fear reading.