What’s Polygon?

Polygon is a “layer two” or “sidechain” scaling solution that runs alongside the Ethereum blockchain — allowing for speedy transactions and low fees. MATIC is the network's native cryptocurrency, which is used for fees, staking, and more.

What’s Block?

A block timestamp is a time of block generation. The time is specified in milliseconds that have passed since the beginning of the Unix epoch . When the node receives a new block from the blockchain network, it verifies that the timestamp value of the block does not outpace the UTC time by more than 100 milliseconds.

What do we want?

We will analyze blocks of polygon chain to check time cycle and transactions of them and compare them to a layer1 (Flow) and layer2 (Arbitrum) to define differences.i checked all of wanted factors between this three.

Methodology

I’ve used blocks and transactions table of three noted databases and visualized them on charts and numbers so we have a clear vision.lets check

achieved data below

It should mentioned that i used new polygon . core database which includes fewer blocks than old database

Average time between blocks :

I’ve analyzed this in two forms on polygon . Daily average and total average :

Now lets look at maximum and minimum timestamp between two times on 3 noticed chains

in this particular query i preferred using old polygon database to get a better vision in comparing

In the next step i calculated the average transactions on a block for 3 chains

in addition of average i obtained minimum and maximum transactions on a block

Conclusion

in section 1 we can see the time between block is between 2 and 3 seconds most of time on polygon . the average is 2.25 too

minimum time between blocks for all chains is 1s but we can see a huge maximum time for polygon.it can tell us about a bug or shut down in polygons network . although as i noted above i used old database of polygon in this part and it may be for a long time ago.

average transactions on a block rank 1 is for polygon by far . i think its not odd cause of the age and popularity of this network compare to flow and arbitrum as a layer 1 and a layer 2 chains.