Polygon announces that the Giugliano hard fork will be activated on April 8, aiming to improve transaction confirmation speed and fee transparency, and support high-throughput payments and tokenized assets. The upgrade will embed fee parameters into the block header and roll out new RPC endpoints to optimize the developer experience. In addition, this upgrade is a major improvement for Polygon after experiencing multiple issues; despite market expectations, the POL token is still down by nearly 5%.

The Polygon community has proposed an initiative aimed at balancing income disparities among validators of different scales through fixed reward averaging. This mechanism will reduce large validator revenues by approximately 11%, ensuring that medium and small validators achieve break-even, thereby enhancing network decentralization.

Polygon has recently experienced a rebound of approximately 4%, driven by attention from a new fee allocation proposal. If passed, it would benefit 33,000 delegators and enhance network security. Meanwhile, DeFi project Katana will launch token distribution on March 18, promoting community participation. The market is anticipating changes in POL demand.

Vitalik Buterin pointed out that DAOs and their voting mechanisms have been neglected in recent years due to the transition from a stable era to a chaotic era. He suggests that democratic tools should focus on consensus discovery, making the voices of decentralized groups more influential through methods like anonymous voting, and emphasizes the importance of immediate action.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Polygon's official X account announced that February's POL burn amount reached a record high, with a total of 28.2 million POL burned. Earlier reports indicate that February's trading volume for Polymarket, the most important application in the Polygon ecosystem and a prediction market, also hit a historic high.

On February 25, news, Polygon's price has fallen sharply by over 50% from its January 2026 high, reaching an annual low of $0.088 on February 11. The overall market correction and multiple support levels being broken for Bitcoin are closely related. Currently, POL is consolidating in the $0.100 to $0.115 range. According to DeFiLlama data, the total supply of stablecoins on the Polygon network has surged from $2.4 billion in early February to $3.26 billion, while the weekly revenue of DeFi applications on the network has increased by nearly 70%. The rise in activity and liquidity not only indicates an improvement in network health but may also attract more institutional capital into the market.