Polygon
liveOne block every 1.5 s, shown at real speed.Polygon, a proof-of-stake chain with POL as its native coin, produces a block about every 1.5 seconds. This page draws each new block as a tile showing how full it is, the fees paid and the mix of transfers, swaps and contract calls, with the latest transactions beside it. Data is read live from public Polygon RPC nodes.
Liquid height = gas used / limit (dashed line = 50 % target) · rectangle area = fee paid · colour = tx type. Newest on the left. Click a tile to inspect it; its number plate opens the block page.
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How Polygon blocks work
How do Polygon blocks work?
Polygon PoS is its own proof-of-stake chain, not a rollup. Block producers chosen from the validator set make a block roughly every 1.5 seconds as measured here, though the often quoted figure is 2 seconds. Its Heimdall layer tracks validators and finality, and checkpoints are written to Ethereum.
How are Polygon fees calculated?
Polygon uses an EIP-1559 style base fee and priority tip, both paid in POL, the native coin. The base fee is burnt. Fees are usually a small fraction of a cent for a transfer, but they rise in busy periods like on any chain with a gas market.
When is a Polygon transaction final?
A transaction is in a block within seconds. Polygon adds fast finality, so validators confirm blocks in a few seconds instead of waiting for the Ethereum checkpoint. Reorganisations of already included blocks are rare but not impossible before that finality.
What do the tiles on this page mean?
Each tile is one block. The liquid height shows gas used against the gas limit, with the dashed line at the 50 percent target. The area of each rectangle is the fee that transaction paid and its colour is the type: transfer, swap or contract call.