Below are the most frequently asked questions about Polygon block time, with answers drawn from official documentation, blockchain explorers, and on-chain data.
What is the current Polygon block time?
The Polygon PoS chain maintains an average block time of 2 to 2.3 seconds. You can verify the current live figure on PolygonScan's block time chart or Token Terminal's Polygon metrics page.
How long does a Polygon transaction take to confirm?
Most Polygon transactions achieve practical finality within approximately 5 seconds, encompassing the time to be included in a block plus one to two additional confirmations for high-value transfers.
Block time is the amount of time it takes for a new block to be added to a blockchain network — the interval at which new blocks are created and added to the existing chain.
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Is Polygon faster than Ethereum?
Yes. Ethereum mainnet produces blocks approximately every 12 seconds, making Polygon roughly 6 times faster in block production. Polygon also achieves finality faster in practice for most use cases.
What is Polygon's TPS?
Polygon's real-time TPS typically ranges from 68 to over 109 transactions per second in current conditions. Peak TPS has been observed above 600 during high-load events.
Has Polygon's block time ever changed?
The target has remained ~2 seconds since launch. In February 2022, there was a proposal to increase it to 5 seconds for stability reasons, but the network resolved the underlying issues without changing the block interval target.
How does Polygon achieve such fast block times?
Through its Bor consensus layer, which uses a rotating set of validators in assigned "sprints" to produce blocks predictably, combined with the Heimdall layer for Ethereum checkpointing. The modified PoS mechanism achieves consensus on every block rather than requiring multiple confirmations.
What smart contract languages does Polygon support?
Polygon supports Solidity and Vyper, the same languages as Ethereum, making it straightforward for Ethereum developers to deploy on Polygon without rewriting their contracts.
