Can a Mere Upgrade Redeem POL’s Soul, or Is Crypto Just a Comedy of Errors?

It is said—often by those who stand to benefit—that Heimdall v2 shall come down upon us like a bolt from Zeus’s reluctant hand. July 10, 2025, is the date, scrawled perhaps in the margins of fate itself. This, supposedly, is the most grandiloquent upgrade to Polygon PoS since its drab inception. Imagine this, dear reader: the consensus mechanism, ripped from the embrace of ancient Tendermint and Cosmos-SDK v0.37, will cozy up to the rakish CometBFT and Cosmos-SDK v0.50.