[Polygon(@0xPolygon) Surge in Real-World Demand for POS (feat. Sentient)] Recently, the demand for the Polygon POS network reached an all-time high (ATH), causing gas fees to rise. Let’s summarize the details. 1. What happened? Polygon PoS is currently experiencing a real surge in demand, resulting in fee burning and network usage reaching ATH. 2. Why did gas fees rise? This can be seen as a normal reaction due to the design of EIP-1559 rather than a technical issue. The blocks are designed to automatically increase the base fee if the target usage rate (50%) is consistently exceeded. 3. Polygon's response strategy - Immediate remedy: Increase gas limits to boost physical throughput. - Structural remedy: . Raise the 50% target of EIP-1559 itself. . Acknowledge high-demand conditions as the new normal rather than an abnormal situation. 4. Significant points here Polygon has chosen to scale the chain to accommodate the increasing demand. It is addressing not just simple TPS marketing but also fee stability and predictability. In summary, 👉 Polygon PoS has grown into a chain that users are actually using, 👉 and it has reached a phase where it is simultaneously expanding its economic model (EIP-1559) and infrastructure. Additionally, as Polygon evolves into a payment layer to accommodate demand, Sentient(@SentientAGI) could establish itself as a layer that infers meaningful actions occurring on top of it. I believe that 2026 will be the year when chains that accumulate inferable behavioral data, rather than just TPS, become important.