Polygon plans to deploy Heimdall 2.0 upgrade this week, which may be the most complex hard fork to date

By: odaily.com|2025/07/09 21:36:55

Odaily News Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal announced that a new consensus layer called Heimdall 2.0 will be deployed on Thursday. He said that this upgrade will strengthen the backbone of the Polygon Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain and shorten the finality of the blockchain to about five seconds, but the complexity is extremely high, which may be the most complex hard fork of the network to date. (Cointelegraph)

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