Polygon Payments System Processes Over 11 Million Updates Per Second
Polygon has successfully tested its new agent payment system, processing over 11 million verified payment updates per second across 25 hubs. The benchmark used a software that pays for inference, data, API calls, and other services as they are consumed, instead of sending every individual payment through an onchain transaction.
The system combines high frequency offchain payment updates with batched settlement on Polygon, allowing an agent to make repeated small payments while working through a task. Each update was confirmed by the payment engine in 20 microseconds, excluding network latency between the user and the hub.
Polygon said its hubs partition payers and do not need to coordinate with each other while payments are being processed. Capacity can therefore be added by running more hubs. Based on the 25 hub test, the company estimates that a larger fleet could process more than 100 million payment updates per second.