POLTRACK

How to Use POL Value

The POL Value product shows how activity on Polygon Chain reaches the POL token through transaction fees, burn, protocol emissions, validator and staker rewards, treasury funding, and changes in Total Supply.

Use it when you want a compact economic view of where POL comes from, where it goes, and which flows may contribute to long-term value capture. It describes observable network and token mechanics; it does not predict the market price of POL.

What The Product Shows

Start with the opening Holding POL, Staking POL, and POL Price cards. The first two connect observed supply changes and staking rewards to a holder's economic share; the price card gives separate market context.

Then use Network Fees and Protocol Emissions to identify the funding sources, POL Value Capture to compare their destinations, and POL Supply to inspect issuance and burn over time. These measurements describe different economic effects; adding them together does not produce a holder's investment return.

Holding And Staking POL

Both opening cards use 30D annualized values and simple annualization without assumed reinvestment. The observation cutoff is shared with POL Staking.

Holding POL measures the change in a fixed token balance’s economic share: opening accrual-adjusted Total Supply divided by closing Total Supply, minus one.

Staking rewards uses the observed change in StakeManager’s rewardPerStake at confirmed UTC closing blocks, annualized over the actual elapsed seconds. It is after the separate proposer bonus and before validator commission. It matches the 30D APR on POL Staking. Funding the staking pool is not itself an earned reward; fee-funded rewards enter this benchmark only when the reward index increases.

Staking POL combines that reward rate with the supply effect over the same 30-day calendar period, then annualizes the combined economic-share change without compounding. Missing closing observations are shown as unavailable, rather than replaced with an emission-based estimate.

Network Fees

The Network Fees section follows POL paid for transactions and network usage. It separates:

  • Base fees accrued toward burn, measured from fee generation. This amount contributes to POLTRACK's accrual-based Burn Adjustment; it is not a claim that the tokens have already reached the collector or been irreversibly destroyed. Routing, rebates, and collector settlement are tracked separately;
  • Priority fees, which fund block producers, validators, and stakers under the applicable distribution rules. The Stakers category records confirmed fee-source POL transfers into StakeManager on their transfer dates. These transfers count as allocation to staking; later claims and restakes are not counted again.

Recipient transfers can distribute fees collected before the selected window. Their sum therefore need not equal Priority Fees generated in that window.

The period selector lets you compare the same flows across available time windows without changing their accounting meaning.

Protocol Emissions

Protocol Emissions tracks newly issued POL and separates the two main destinations:

  • staking emissions paid to validators and stakers for chain security;
  • treasury emissions allocated to the Polygon Community Treasury.

Emissions are a funding source, while validator commission only determines how staking rewards are divided between validator operators and stakers.

POL Value Capture

The value-capture chart presents cumulative POL and USD-equivalent outcomes by category. The Burn Adjustment reduces Total Supply; validator and staker rewards fund security participants; treasury funding supports ecosystem activity. These categories are shown together for comparison but are not treated as economically identical.

Polygon Chain Security contains Block Producers, Validators, Stakers, and Staking Pool. Stakers shows fee allocation to StakeManager; Staking Pool shows gross protocol emissions. The Stakers series increases on each confirmed transfer date. Allocation to staking is separate from earned rewards and does not by itself increase the staking return displayed at the top of the page.

POL Supply

The live POL Supply card has three summaries:

  • Total Supply: Ethereum on-chain POL supply after the tracked Burn Adjustment. Staked POL and Treasury holdings are already included in gross supply.
  • 30D Supply Change: issuance less net Base Fees accrued toward burn over the same calendar window. This avoids treating a delayed routing settlement as newly generated burn.
  • Supply Composition: Ethereum and Polygon Chain allocation, with active stake and unmigrated MATIC identified within the Ethereum side. These components are not extra supplies to add to Total Supply.

Use Full history for the historical supply curve and its 2033 scenario, or 2026 detail for the current year's changes. Initial Supply, Minted Since Launch, Burn Adjustment and the scenario endpoint explain the chart's components.

The scenario starts from the latest observed on-chain supply, compounds at an assumed 2% annual gross issuance rate using elapsed UTC days divided by 365, and subtracts the current Burn Adjustment plus projected net Base Fee accrual at the trailing 90-calendar-day average. Its October 2033 endpoint is a modeling horizon, not an enforced emission stop or maximum supply. The burn pace is recalculated as new observations arrive; the result is a constant-current-pace scenario, not a forecast of activity or price.

For gross, adjusted and liquid supply definitions, read POL Tokenomics and supply methodology.

Data And Limitations

POL Value uses the same canonical POLTRACK dataset as Polygon Chain. Source timing can differ across fee collection, burn execution, emission accounting, market data, and validator distributions, so the newest period may update as source events settle.

For formulas, source hierarchy, and exclusions, read Methodology & Data Sources. For the underlying concepts, see POL Tokenomics, POL Burn, Polygon Chain Fees, and Validators & Staking.