MATIC and POL

The community-driven upgrade comes at a critical time, and every aspect of the network is changing. Polygon is becoming an aggregate network via AggLayer, unifying liquidity and state across a network of chains. AggLayer solves the problem of blockchain fragmentation by allowing sovereign chains to securely share liquidity, users, and state.

If the Agg concept, currently in the Polygon Improvement Proposal (Pre-PIP) discussions, is approved by the community, it will allow Polygon PoS to connect to AggLayer and evolve into a ZK chain, thereby integrating POL into the broader aggregate network.

Overall, the migration to POL not only upgraded the token for the Polygon PoS network, but also allows future upgrade phases to expand the utility of the native token to support more aggregate blockchains.