Polygon is one of the leading contenders for an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution. According to data from Flipside Crypto, the low-cost capabilities of the Polygon network came under attack after a well-designed arbitrage bot managed to turn 14 Ether into 218.5 Ether in less than four months. The attack began in early May and in June, transactions on the Polygon network went as high as 8 million per day