POL is an exciting and highly anticipated upgrade, mainly because it further expands the utility of Polygon’s native token to reflect and power the vision of Polygon as an ever-growing network of aggregated blockchains.
POL is a hyperproductive token that can be used to provide valuable services to any chain in the Polygon network, including the AggLayer itself. It feels good to know that, as the community builds towards this exciting vision, the network has a future-proof native token that can secure it and support its growth.
In the long term, the current community consensus proposes that POL will support broader roles in the Polygon staking hub (to be released in 2025), including block generation, zero-knowledge proof generation, and participation in Data Availability Committees (DACs).
But even as the aggregated Polygon network emerges, POL will have immediate utility on the widely adopted Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) network that exists today: POL will be the native gas and staking token of Polygon PoS—and fundamental to Polygon network security.
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