POL Token
MATIC was replaced by POL at a 1:1 ratio in late 2025. POL is designed to work across multiple Polygon chains — paying gas, staking, and voting on any chain in the Polygon ecosystem.
Multi-chain tokenZK Technology
Polygon zkEVM — the zero-knowledge proof version of the Ethereum Virtual Machine — is now live. ZK proofs allow Polygon chains to verify transactions on Ethereum without submitting every transaction to mainnet.
ZK-EVM liveAggLayer
The Aggregation Layer connects multiple Polygon chains so that assets (including NFTs and tokens) can move between them without traditional bridging. Think of it as a unified liquidity and messaging layer across Polygon chains.
Cross-chain nativeGigagas Roadmap
Polygon's long-term target is 100,000 TPS (transactions per second) through its Gigagas roadmap. Current Polygon PoS handles roughly 65 TPS. The Gigagas roadmap is a multi-year target, not yet achieved.
100,000 TPS target
What Polygon 2.0 Means for NFT Creators
For NFT creators and collectors operating on Polygon PoS — the main chain where most NFTs live — the immediate practical impact of Polygon 2.0 is modest. Gas fees remain low. Wallets work the same way. Marketplaces updated to show POL instead of MATIC. The experience of minting, buying, and selling an NFT on Polygon PoS in 2026 is not dramatically different from 2024.
The longer-term impact is about liquidity and reach. The AggLayer, once more chains adopt it, should allow an NFT minted on Polygon PoS to be listed and traded on a Polygon zkEVM gaming chain or any other AggLayer-connected chain without bridging friction. For the NFT market, that means collections don't have to choose which Polygon chain to launch on — the AggLayer can in theory make them visible and tradeable across all of them.
The ZK technology also has authentication implications. Zero-knowledge proofs can verify ownership and transaction history without revealing underlying private data. For high-value NFTs and RWA tokens, ZK-backed provenance chains may become a standard for authentication in the same way that chain-of-custody records work for physical assets. That's speculative for now, but the infrastructure to support it is being built into Polygon 2.0.
For SCR specifically: Strategic Crypto Reserve's NFT collections are on Polygon PoS — the chain unaffected by the 2.0 upgrade in terms of day-to-day operation. The MATIC-to-POL migration ran automatically. If you hold SCR NFTs or tokens, nothing about your holdings changed. See the POL token guide for migration details, and the $SCR token page for how the SCR utility token works within the ecosystem.