Polygon Hits 5,000 TPS, Still Far From Visa-Level Throughput

Polygon's ambitious Gigagas roadmap aims to scale its proof-of-stake (PoS) chain to 100,000 transactions per second (TPS) by 2026. The project has made significant progress so far, reaching a peak capacity of around 5,000 TPS in mid-2026, which is roughly 5 percent of the target.

The roadmap consists of three stages: Reach 1,000 TPS with roughly 5-second finality, scale past 5,000 TPS with fast block times and no chain reorganizations, and push beyond 100,000 TPS while keeping fees under a cent. Polygon has raised its block gas limit in a series of steps, each live on mainnet, to reach the current peak capacity.

The network's day-to-day load typically runs far below its peak ceiling, with double-digit to low-hundreds of TPS. This is normal for any network that provisions headroom for demand spikes rather than running blocks full all the time.