Polygon PoS Annual Report 2026 — Fees & Network Activity

Year-long report tracking Polygon PoS fee collection, transactions, gas utilization, and average user cost through 2026. Data sourced directly from on-chain Polygon block data via POLTRACK ingestion. Last updated 2026-08-17.

Monthly fee summary

• Jan 2026: 184,366,263 transactions, 29.58M POL collected, $3.82M USD, average base fee 571 gwei, average priority fee 82 gwei, gas utilization 60.9%, average user cost $0.0208 per transaction. Base fees dominated at 87% of total fees; average user cost was $0.0208 per transaction.
• Feb 2026: 221,350,546 transactions, 47.97M POL collected, $4.94M USD, average base fee 477 gwei, average priority fee 335 gwei, gas utilization 65.0%, average user cost $0.0223 per transaction. The year's highest fee month: 48.0M POL and $4.9M, with utilization holding at 65%.
• Mar 2026: 305,625,498 transactions, 29.44M POL collected, $2.86M USD, average base fee 116 gwei, average priority fee 228 gwei, gas utilization 59.4%, average user cost $0.0094 per transaction. Activity reached 9.9M tx/day while average user cost fell to $0.0094; priority fees made up 66%.
• Apr 2026: 284,875,800 transactions, 22.42M POL collected, $2.03M USD, average base fee 100 gwei, average priority fee 197 gwei, gas utilization 48.3%, average user cost $0.0071 per transaction. Average user cost reached the YTD low of $0.0071 as total fees fell to 22.4M POL.
• May 2026: 244,001,117 transactions, 35.88M POL collected, $3.38M USD, average base fee 236 gwei, average priority fee 246 gwei, gas utilization 35.5%, average user cost $0.0138 per transaction. Fees rebounded to 35.9M POL as the base share returned to 51%; utilization eased to 35.5%.
• Jun 2026: 214,614,885 transactions, 35.35M POL collected, $2.74M USD, average base fee 251 gwei, average priority fee 214 gwei, gas utilization 30.1%, average user cost $0.0128 per transaction. Fees held near May at 35.3M POL while activity slowed to 7.2M tx/day and 30.1% utilization.
• Jul 2026: 197,794,992 transactions, 34.20M POL collected, $2.64M USD, average base fee 249 gwei, average priority fee 224 gwei, gas utilization 25.2%, average user cost $0.0133 per transaction. Fees remained stable at 34.2M POL while activity eased to 6.4M tx/day and 25.2% utilization.

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