Polygon primed for arduous fork aimed toward lowering fuel payment spikes: New particulars revealed

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Ethereum layer-2 scaling resolution Polygon will bear a tough fork on Jan. 17 with a view to deal with fuel spikes and chain reorganizations points that has affected consumer expertise on the Polygon proof-of-stake (POS) chain. 

Polygon formally confirmed the arduous fork occasion in Jan. 12 a weblog submit, which got here after weeks of preliminary dialogue on Polygon Enchancment Proposal (PIP) discussion board web page in late December.

A Polygon spokesperson additionally supplied Cointelegraph with further particulars of the arduous fork on Jan. 14:

“The arduous fork is coded for the Block >= 38,189,056. No centralized, single actor goes to provoke it. Validators of the community should replace their nodes previous to the indicated block, and they’re already doing so.”

87% of the 15 voters of the Polygon Governance Staff voted in favor of accelerating the BaseFeeChangeDenominator perform from 8 to 16 to scale back fuel payment spikes and to lower the SprintLength perform from 64 blocks to 16 with a view to repair the chain reorganization drawback.

In addressing the fuel spike situation, the Polygon Staff defined that as a result of the bottom payment value typically “experiences exponential spikes” when on-chain exercise will increase quickly, by growing the denominator from 8 to 16, they consider “the expansion curve will be flattened” and thus “clean extreme fluctuations” in fuel costs.

Current fuel value spikes on the Polygon POS chain (blue) in contrast with Polygon’s data-driven expectations submit arduous fork (crimson). Supply. Polygon.

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As for the chain reorganization drawback, Polygon defined that by reducing dash size, transaction finality will enhance, permitting a single block producer so as to add blocks constantly at a frequency of 32 seconds versus the present time of 128 seconds.

“The change is not going to have an effect on the overall time or variety of blocks a validator produces, so there can be no change in rewards total,” they added.

Chain reorganization happens when a block is deleted from the blockchain to make room for the brand new, longer chain to make sure that all node operators have the identical copy of the ledger.

Nonetheless, the reorganization should proceed as effectively as doable because it will increase the danger of a 51% assault.

The Polygon Staff additionally confirmed that MATIC token holders and delegators is not going to must take motion and that purposes is not going to be affected through the arduous fork.

The worth of Polygon’s token, MATIC is at the moment $0.977, up 13.6% since Polygon introduced the information on Jan. 12.