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Polygon PoS Wallet Tracker & Dashboard

Polygon PoS wallets, trending pools and network health on one board. Paste a 0x address and Cashboard reads it through Blockscout, without asking for a signature.

What is Polygon PoS?

Polygon PoS is an EVM-compatible chain with its own proof-of-stake validators, which regularly checkpoint its state to Ethereum. Polygon Labs develops it, and gas has been paid in POL since the MATIC migration on September 4, 2024. Payments, stablecoin transfers and Polymarket drive much of its traffic.

A block lands about every 2 seconds, and a milestone mechanism makes blocks final in 2 to 5 seconds. Polygon puts the average transaction cost at about $0.002, paid in POL. Every so often a checkpoint of the chain state is written to Ethereum. That is all the Ethereum link means here: Polygon PoS is not a rollup.

Up to 105 validators can be active at once, each with at least 10,000 POL staked. Every validator runs two pieces of software, Heimdall for consensus and Bor for execution.

Polymarket is the big one. Its trades settle on Polygon, and the team has talked about moving to its own chain. Until that happens, prediction market volume shows up here. Spot swaps run through QuickSwap and Uniswap, and Aave is the main lending market.

Type	EVM
Chain ID	137
Native asset	POL
Explorer	polygon.blockscout.com
Watch-only portfolio	Supported
Trending pools	Supported
Chain status	Block height, block age, fees, RPC latency
Public RPC used	polygon.drpc.org

What do traders watch on Polygon PoS?

Polymarket volume. It settles on Polygon today, and a move to its own chain would pull that activity off Polygon.
Stablecoin transfers and payment volume.
Block production and finality. When Polygon stalls, Polymarket users notice first.

Why is Polygon PoS on an Ethereum L2 scoreboard?

Because growthepie tracks it, even though it is a sidechain rather than a rollup. L2BEAT lists its stage as not applicable, so its row shows growthepie's Sidechain label where most chains carry a stage, but L2BEAT still reports the value it secures. Transactions, active addresses, fees and median cost are growthepie data under CC BY 4.0, so Polygon PoS lines up against Base or Arbitrum One on the same day's numbers.

WidgetL2 scoreboardEthereum L2s ranked by transactions, users, fees, profit, rent paid to Ethereum or cost from growthepie, with L2BEAT stages and value secured. Open it free.

Which apps run on Polygon PoS?

On Polygon PoS you will find Polymarket, Aave, Uniswap and QuickSwap. In Cashboard Desktop any of them can sit on the board as a web app, logged in separately from your browser.

Where can you read more about Polygon PoS?

Frequently asked questions

What is the gas token on Polygon?

POL. It replaced MATIC as the gas and staking token in September 2024, and MATIC holders could migrate one to one.

Is Polygon PoS a layer 2?

Not in the rollup sense. Polygon PoS has its own validators and consensus and only checkpoints its state to Ethereum, so its security comes mostly from its own validator set.

What is the Polygon PoS chain ID?

137, or 0x89 in the hex form some wallets and explorers print. Gas on Polygon PoS is paid in POL.

How do I watch Polygon PoS wallets without connecting them?

Add a Portfolio widget, set it to watch-only, pick Polygon PoS and paste the public address. Balances come from a Blockscout indexer. Nothing is signed, and share links drop the address.

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Last reviewed October 25, 2026. Market data in Cashboard comes from the providers named on each widget and may be delayed. Nothing here is financial advice.