{"id":94356,"date":"2026-02-17T11:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=94356"},"modified":"2026-02-17T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:45:16","slug":"polygon-surpasses-ethereum-in-daily-transaction-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/polygon-surpasses-ethereum-in-daily-transaction-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Polygon Surpasses Ethereum in Daily Transaction Fees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, daily transaction fees on <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-polygon-matic\">Polygon<\/a> have exceeded those of Ethereum, according to data from Token Terminal. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@0xPolygon<\/a> flipped <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ethereum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ethereum<\/a> in daily transaction fees.<\/p>\n<p>Daily transaction fees on Polygon surpassed $300k yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>A chart to follow \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D3DUCwdwn4\">pic.twitter.com\/D3DUCwdwn4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Token Terminal \ud83d\udcca (@tokenterminal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tokenterminal\/status\/2023497470991642658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>On February 14, the network collected $407,100 in transaction fees, while its competitor garnered $211,700. The following day, the figures were $303,923 and $285,480, respectively. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Driver<\/h2>\n<p>Matthias Seidl, co-founder of the analytics platform growthepie, highlighted that the surge in activity on Polygon is entirely driven by the prediction platform <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-polymarket\">Polymarket<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More fees were paid on Polygon PoS than on Ethereum Mainnet \ud83e\udd2f<\/p>\n<p>This is fully driven by Polymarket <br \/>-> see screenshots of app breakdown by fees paid <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EU5zDofxiO\">https:\/\/t.co\/EU5zDofxiO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/toqo346VEs\">pic.twitter.com\/toqo346VEs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 matze | growthepie \ud83e\udd67 (@web3_data) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/web3_data\/status\/2023448545747984677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to him, the platform has generated over $1 million in fees for the blockchain over the past seven days. In comparison, the second-largest application in the ecosystem, Origin World, generated about $130,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Polygon team also highlighted the spike in activity on Polymarket. Developers <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/0xPolygon\/status\/2022816520737305025\">noted<\/a> that more than $15 million in bets were placed on a single Oscar-related market. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cPolymarket is becoming cultural infrastructure. And Polygon is the network underpinning all of this,\u201d they added. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">USDC Popularity<\/h2>\n<p>Some experts have also noted the increased use of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-stablecoins\">stablecoins<\/a> on Polygon, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-the-usdc-stablecoin\">USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last week in stablecoins on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xPolygon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@0xPolygon<\/a> was madness:<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Polygon reached a new weekly high of 28M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@USDC<\/a> transactions, surpassing Solana\u2019s 22M to become the most active USDC chain across the ecosystem (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlliumLabs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlliumLabs<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 USDC transfers also hit a weekly record 103M, giving\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lUZ8vohyzx\">pic.twitter.com\/lUZ8vohyzx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter (\ud83d\udcd6, \u270d\ufe0f, \ud83d\udd11) (@petertherock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petertherock\/status\/2023304145646620693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The network set a new weekly high with 28 million transactions in Circle&#8217;s stablecoin, surpassing Solana in this metric. The number of asset transfers also reached a record 103 million. <\/p>\n<p>Another significant factor was the use of the x402 protocol. Polygon recorded the highest weekly volume of organic micropayments at $1.2 million. <\/p>\n<p>The network also leads in x402 activity with 358,000 transactions over seven days.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December, the Polygon team <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/polygon-activates-madhugiri-hardfork\">deployed<\/a> the Madhugiri update. The upgrade aims to increase the blockchain&#8217;s throughput by 33% and reduce block consensus time to one second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily transaction fees on Polygon have exceeded those of Ethereum for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Polygon's daily transaction fees surpass Ethereum's for the first time.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,1264,1148,910],"class_list":["post-94356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-polygon-matic","tag-polymarket","tag-usdc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"218","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Polygon's daily transaction fees surpass Ethereum's for the first time.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94356","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=94356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94358,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94356\/revisions\/94358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}