Polymarket team member claims L2 is on the way

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Platform Downtime and Response

The Polymarket platform recently experienced downtime in response to issues that Polygon, the blockchain it operates on, was facing. While no official statements have been made, a Discord post by a team member addressing the downtime claimed that the platform will now focus on creating its own L2 to prevent future disruptions.

Issues Resolved

According to posts on X, the issues that caused the crash have been resolved, with both the site and related functions restored. When Polygon was experiencing downtime, users who tried to log in were greeted with the message “Polymarket is down… Oops…we didn’t forecast this,” with instructions to reload the page.

According to Downdetector, there was a sharp spike in problem reports, with 86% of users flagging website issues, 11% reporting login troubles, and 3% noting “website test not starting.”

The outage was linked to a major Cloudflare disruption affecting routing and content delivery across multiple regions. Such outages usually impact large swaths of the internet, given the company’s role in DNS, CDN, and edge-network infrastructure.

L2 Development as Priority

To prevent this from happening again, the team has been working on improvements to ensure constant platform stability. Some community members have been told that after the repeated network issues, Polymarket has decided to treat the development of its own L2 as a current priority. A team member named Mustafa made this claim in official Discord channels to reassure users, calling it the “#1” priority and claiming it would happen very soon.

A custom L2 would guarantee total control over infrastructure, reducing the risks of similar downtime. The speculation about creating an L2 has also been happening among community members for quite some time and ties in to discussions about the POLY token and an airdrop.

Polygon PoS Network Issues

The technical issue Polygon’s PoS network faced this week saw some of its nodes affected, causing only a few delays for users. Polymarket appears to have suffered the most, given that the platform has been the dominant driver of activity on the network.

According to The Polygon Foundation, the team quickly found the bug and released a patch that allowed functionality to return fully. Validators are currently syncing, and the network is gradually building to achieve the required quorum. There have been partial disruptions in RPC services, although the flow of transactions has not been interrupted.

The disruption primarily affected Bor, Polygon’s block-producing and transaction execution layer. Multiple nodes stalled, impacting RPC availability across several providers. The team noted that the block producer remained operational and blocks continued being produced, “meaning the chain itself remains live.”

This incident is not isolated. There were earlier RPC-related slowdowns such as on December 12, when Polygon noted that some transactions appeared stuck or missing. On December 13, they implemented a fix and started monitoring results.

A similar episode occurred in September when certain Bor and Erigon nodes delayed block finality by several minutes. Fixes by the Polygon team have since been introduced among all validators and service providers.