Hassan Maishera
On Thursday, the Polygon Foundation announced in a blog post that the Ahmedabad upgrade has gone live on the Polygon PoS mainnet. This upgrade brings improved developer and user experience.
The upgrade changes the token symbol on Polygon PoS from MATIC to POL and WMATIC to WPOL. It also enables developers to build more complex contract deployments and logic with increased code size, from 24KB to 32 KB. It saves stuck bridge transactions by allowing a replay of failed state syncs, improving the observability of the network’s plasma bridge.
Increasing the max code size from 24KB to 32KB allows dApp devs to deploy more complex contracts without resorting to alternative (and less direct) development patterns.
The PIP-36 upgrade addresses a gas pricing issue that followed Ethereum’s Berlin hardfork, which caused certain POL (formerly MATIC) transactions to be locked in the plasma bridge. PIP-36 patches the bug and makes it possible to replay failed state syncs, improving the overall observability of the network’s plasma bridge.
Polygon (previously Matic Network) is the first well-structured, easy-to-use platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development. Its core component is Polygon SDK, a modular, flexible framework that supports building multiple types of applications. POL is up 4% in the last 24 hours and trades at $0.4285.
