Polygon will direct 27.3 million POL in accumulated network fees toward stakers, funding an estimated 7.7% annualized gross staking reward rate for two months starting Oct. 1. The boost pays out fees already earmarked for stakers but never distributed, and the reward setting reverts to its roughly 3% baseline on Dec. 1.
Polygon says it will use 27.3 million POL in accumulated network fees to fund an estimated 7.7% annualized gross staking reward rate during a two-month window starting Oct. 1. The PIP-92 proposal sets the baseline near 3% and schedules a return to that baseline on Dec. 1.
The increase releases fees already earmarked for stakers but not yet paid, rather than issuing new POL. According to The Defiant, Polygon calls 7.7% an "estimated annualized gross network reward rate" — not a 7.7% payout over two months, since individual returns still depend on validator commissions and participation.
Unpaid fees enter existing rewards
PIP-85 earmarked half of post-commission priority fees for stakers as part of an April fee-sharing push. But PIP-92 says the separate claim contracts meant to distribute those fees never launched because of legal and compliance considerations, leaving five monthly allocations unpaid.
Under the new plan, the fees will bridge from Polygon PoS to Ethereum and transfer to StakeManager, the network's existing staking contract. Governance will raise the checkpoint reward setting from about 25,213 POL to 64,500 POL, delivering the extra funds through the normal staking-reward system. The base emissions schedule stays unchanged.
Eligibility follows stake present during the window, not who was staked when the fees accrued. Validators still receive their usual commissions and proposer bonuses, and stake behind a validator that misses a checkpoint earns nothing for that checkpoint.
A scheduled reset, not automatic expiry
The proposal schedules governance transactions for midnight UTC on Oct. 1 and Dec. 1 to raise and then restore the reward setting. Actual start and end times depend on execution, since the setting does not revert simply because Dec. 1 arrives.
Polygon Labs is scheduled to reconcile payouts in December. Any excess over the fee allocation gets reimbursed from later staker-fee allocations, while unused POL carries into another distribution round or the forthcoming PIP-93 automated mechanism.
Source: The Defiant
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