{"id":25204,"date":"2025-07-09T15:58:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/polygons-token-rises-8-ahead-of-major-heimdall-v2-upgrade\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T12:58:18","slug":"polygons-token-rises-8-ahead-of-major-heimdall-v2-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/polygons-token-rises-8-ahead-of-major-heimdall-v2-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygon&#8217;s Token Rises 8% Ahead of Major Heimdall v2 Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency POL of the Polygon project has surged by over 8% as preparations are underway for the Heimdall v2 upgrade, scheduled for July 10.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Shipping fever for Polygon.<\/p>\n<p>faster finality incoming ? upgrade inbound <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xTR2cXQZZS\">https:\/\/t.co\/xTR2cXQZZS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Polygon (@0xPolygon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon\/status\/1942635185738244248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The upgrade is touted as the &#8220;most technically complex hard fork since the launch of Polygon PoS in 2020.&#8221; Heimdall v2 aims to eliminate outdated solutions from 2018-2019, reducing finalization to approximately five seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Developers previously <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.polygon.technology\/t\/heimdall-v2-migration\/21017\">clarified<\/a> that implementing the upgrade on the mainnet will take about 30 minutes &#8220;excluding potential failures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>\u201cMost validators have already upgraded. If you haven&#8217;t done so yet, test in advance, alert others, and report your issues,\u201d noted Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time of writing, POL is trading around $0.2. The coin&#8217;s market capitalization exceeds $1.8 billion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/\">CoinGecko<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In June, project co-founder Sandeep Nailwal <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polygon-co-founder-takes-sole-leadership-of-the-project\">took full control<\/a> of the Polygon Foundation and introduced changes to the project&#8217;s strategic priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, the Polygon zkEVM team <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polygon-zkevm-team-launches-independent-startup-zisk\">spun off<\/a> into an independent startup, ZisK.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2024, the largest liquid staking protocol, Lido, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/lido-to-cease-support-for-polygon\">ceased<\/a> support for Polygon PoS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency POL of the Polygon project has surged by over 8% as preparations are underway for the Heimdall v2 upgrade, scheduled for July 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1264,1134],"class_list":["post-25204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-polygon-matic","tag-technical-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"40","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}