Polygon has successfully launched the “Polygon Delhi Fork” as part of its plans to improve transaction speed while keeping gas prices low. 

Several industry players have lauded the hard fork as the perfect technical start of the year, but within the community, it was not short of controversy. Among crypto spaces, the move has been criticized as playing into the hands of a few centralized entities as opposed to what the network stands for.

The Polygon’s governance team, which described itself as a team that “supports the governance and decentralization of the Polygon product suite”, proposed the hard fork in December, which will require at least 67% of Polygon’s validators to implement. The rationale behind the move was also contested as a cross-section of the community opposed the move and criticized the management for not prioritizing more “important technical upgrades.”