Polygon hit the impressive figure of 8 billion cumulative transactions with each one being settled within seconds and almost no cost involved this achievement definitely demonstrates how Polygon has become one of the top crypto transaction settlement layers besides being a fast confirmator of blockchain transactions in just a couple of seconds at a very cheap price (on average only 0.002 dollars), and with the latest throughput being even 5,000 payments per second.
Growth Accelerates Sharply
The fact is that the 0.46 billion increase from summer was very significant as it means usage growth is picking up speed. For example, Blockworks reported that Q2 2026 was the most busy with 743 million transactions taking place, an increase of 160% compared to the previous year.
Source: Polygon
Also, May 2026 was a record month for stablecoins both with volume – almost $80bn of stablecoin volume and 198 million stablecoin transactions, a blockchain all-time record. Currently the cumulative volume of stablecoin transfers is over $2.4 trillion with 99.99% level of reliability.
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Who is Behind the Growing User Volume?
Since the early days, this network has focused on payments. Recently, Visa has put this project into its pilot for settlement with a run rate of 7B annualized. Besides, Meta began paying its content creators using USDC through Polygon and Revolut recorded over 1.2B onchain activities.
Polygon’s Open Money Stack as a target for single-API global settlement. This company’s acquisitions of Coinme and Sequence were a strategic move to strengthen the company’s foothold in the crypto market.
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Significance of the milestone and What Happens Next
For investors institutions payment processors and developers a proof that it can handle Visa-like throughput at almost zero costs without congestion is really a milestone. As to decentralization, the platform has 102 validators which may raise questions compared with other major chains.
Source: Bombay Chamber
The next milestones include the launching of Open Money Stack, expansion of gas limit from 160 million units and assessing whether the usage generates a constant demand of POL, captures the stablecoin market and leads to institutional adoption in payments.
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