Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal stated that in response to strong community requests, the team is advancing the proposal for Polygon staking and tokenomics reform, and shared some preview content. The Polygon PoS plan will introduce a native staking mechanism similar to L1, running in parallel with Ethereum staking; the priority fees generated from each transaction will be allocated to POL stakers, a mechanism that was previously approved in PIP-85. It is expected that the POL staking yield will nearly double, with the additional revenue primarily coming from actual network fees rather than token inflation.

Staking POL will yield more rewards to incentivize more people to stake POL, including gas fee discounts, and promote the use of liquid staking tokens sPOL in DeFi. Nailwal also mentioned that Polygon’s revenue has grown tenfold this year, achieving 5000 TPS, reducing block time by 25%, and is working to reduce block time to under 1 second. Polygon Labs will be responsible for the related code development and will submit it for community forum approval.