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The Ethereum scaling blockchain, Polygon, has revealed plans to initiate a hard fork on Jan. 17, 2023. According to the team, the network upgrade will \u201creduce the severity of gas spikes\u201d and \u201caddress chain reorganizations (reorgs) in an effort to reduce time to finality.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Polygon Team Outlines Network Upgrades to Improve User Experience<\/h2>\n

On Jan. 12, 2023, the Polygon team told<\/a> the community to \u201cget ready for the hard fork\u201d as developers have plans to upgrade the chain on Jan. 17, 2023. \u201cThe proposed hard fork for the Polygon PoS chain will make key upgrades to the network on Jan. 17,\u201d the team tweeted. \u201cThis is good news for developers and users and will make for better user experience (UX). You will not need to do anything differently,\u201d the developers insisted. Polygon (MATIC) developers have been discussing<\/a> the upgrade since Dec. 2022.<\/p>\n

The V0.3.1 Hard Fork<\/a> aims to reduce gas spikes and address blockchain reorganizations (reorgs). A reorg is an occurrence in which a new chain\u2019s branch emerges and supersedes the previously accepted blockchain branch. Reorganizations can cause previously confirmed transactions to be invalidated and replaced with new ones. In order to alleviate the reorg problem, Polygon plans to decrease the network\u2019s sprint length from 64 to 16 blocks. \u201cDoing so will decrease the depth of reorgs,\u201d Polygon developers declare.<\/p>\n

In order to reduce gas spikes, Polygon aims to change the \u201cbasefeechangedenominator\u201d from the current value of 8 to 16. \u201cThis will help smooth out the increase\/decrease rate in basefee for when the gas exceeds or falls below the target gas limits in a block,\u201d according to the Polygon team\u2019s blog post about the subject.<\/p>\n

Polygon\u2019s native token, MATIC<\/a>, has recently entered the top ten standings in terms of crypto assets ranked by market capitalization. MATIC is up 23.4% over the last week against the U.S. dollar. However, Polygon\u2019s current $0.987 per unit value is down 66.2% since the digital asset\u2019s all-time high of $2.92 per unit on Dec. 27, 2021.<\/p>\n

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What do you think about the proposed upgrade to the Polygon network? Will these changes improve your overall experience as a user or developer on the platform? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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