Polygon Tokenomics

The Polygon Tokenomics product tracks POL supply, burn, fees, staking, inflation, value flow, and token-level market context from public sources. It also includes a built-in Polygon Tokenomics Simulator for activity, price, and inflation sensitivity analysis.

Use this guide to understand what each dashboard section is for.

What If Simulation

Select What if? Run a scenario below the product introduction to enter simulation mode. The simulator starts at 1× current activity, the current POL price, and 2% annual inflation. It then recalculates fees, burn, emission-funded staking yield, 30-day Total Supply Change, and the projected Total Supply path.

Simulation mode is visually separated from live data and always displays a persistent status bar. It is a deterministic sensitivity tool, not a forecast. Read the complete Polygon Tokenomics Simulator guide for formulas, fixed assumptions, ranges, and limitations.

Rails

Rails is the top-level summary of the current economic state. It is designed for quick scanning:

  • supply and burn context;
  • Total Supply Change;
  • fees and activity;
  • staking share;
  • current as-of date.

Use Rails when you need a fast answer before drilling into a specific chart.

Fees

The Fees section separates base fees and priority fees. This matters because base fees and priority fees have different economic paths.

  • Base fees connect to burn mechanics.
  • Priority fees connect to validator and staker distribution policy.

For fee concepts, read Polygon Chain Fees.

Value Flow

Value Flow shows where protocol value moves:

  • fees to burn;
  • POL minted over the latest 30 days, split between staking and treasury;
  • priority-fee value to validators and stakers;
  • temporary or policy-specific allocations where applicable.

This section is useful for understanding whether value is flowing mainly to burn, treasury, validators, stakers, or other policy buckets.

The Treasury card keeps POL-denominated reserves and sPOL reserves separate. Its current balance perimeter includes tracked Ethereum and Polygon addresses, WPOL, and the Treasury's pro-rata underlying assets in a Charm vault. The sPOL line includes direct sPOL and the vault's attributed sPOL, valued through the official sPOL controller. These reserve snapshots have a broader perimeter than the legacy Ethereum inflow/outflow series; they are not a reconciled statement of all Treasury flows. Addresses, asset inclusions, cutoffs, and API scope metadata are documented in Methodology.

Supply

The Supply section separates three questions: current Total Supply, Total Supply Change over the latest 30 days, and the staked share of Total Supply. The 30-day change compares mint and Base Fees accrued toward burn over the same calendar window, avoiding distortion from batched routing-wallet settlements. Its full-history chart continues the active 2% annual protocol inflation curve through October 2033 and subtracts future Base Fee accrual using the trailing 90-calendar-day average. The burn pace is recalculated daily and is presented as a constant-current-pace scenario, not a prediction of future network activity.

The live Supply graph starts from the latest observed on-chain supply and compounds it at 2% per year through October 25, 2033, using elapsed UTC calendar days divided by 365. It subtracts the current Burn Adjustment and projected net Base Fee accrual. The historical 12,336,136,524.75 POL contract-curve calculation remains a reference, not a fixed live endpoint.

For definitions, read POL Tokenomics.

POL Token

The POL Token section gives market-facing context such as price, market cap, token facts, and derived ratios. Its sPOL card reports Ethereum total supply, separate positive-balance holder counts for Ethereum and Polygon Chain, the on-chain POL redemption rate, the observed return over the available approximately 30-day window, and its compounded annualized equivalent (APY). The API retains a simple annualized APR from the same redemption-rate change and exact elapsed window; the UI converts that return to APY as documented in Methodology. APY extrapolates the observed window and is not a realized one-year return or forecast. The holder counts are not added or deduplicated across chains and should not be interpreted as unique people. The sPOL return is distinct from the separate emission-funded network staking APR before validator commission. As of September 10, 2026, PIP-85 staker fee sharing is inactive in POLTRACK: it is not modeled, displayed, or included in staking APR, charts, or scenario allocations. The documentation retains its specification for reference. POLTRACK does not publish price predictions or trading advice.

Snapshots

POLTRACK publishes public snapshots where available:

Reuse is covered by the Data License.

Common Questions

Is this a price dashboard?

No. The dashboard includes price context, but the product is focused on observable POL economics, not price forecasts.

Why do some metrics use rolling windows?

Rolling windows reduce noise from batch settlement effects and daily volatility.

Where are formulas documented?

Use Methodology & Data Sources.

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