MATIC, The Star of the 2021 Bull Market, Lags Other Layer-2 Tokens Ahead of Dencun Upgrade
The upgrade is particularly favorable for layer-2 scaling solutions like Arbitrum, Optimism, and Polygon zkEVM that use the rollup technology. Rollups bundle transactions together, process them off-chain and then submit the data to the Ethereum main chain for verification. The main chain, however, often faces congestion, which raises the cost of submitting data to the main chain.