POL (ex-MATIC) POL
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CM Profile: POL (ex-MATIC)
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about POL, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on 2 exchange order books lost between 0.42% and 0.54%, on 8 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
- Not established
- What an on-chain sale would return on Ethereum. It trades mostly off-chain there, so we do not measure it on-chain.
- One of its chains is not among the 3 we read.
- Whether it can be held without a company. We have no sourced answer yet.
- 4 other questions about what it can do have no written answer. Some may not apply to it.
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold POL. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 9 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell POL
Selling $100,000 of POL into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken POL/USD | 0.42% | $99,582 | 2026-10-08 |
| Coinbase POL/USD | 0.54% | $99,463 | 2026-10-08 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps POL on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What POL (ex-MATIC) is
POL is the native token of Polygon, a set of Ethereum scaling networks built by a team originally founded in India in 2017 as Matic Network. It replaced the earlier MATIC token in a migration completed in 2024, at a one-to-one rate.
The best-known network, Polygon PoS, processes transactions on its own validator set and periodically commits checkpoints to Ethereum. Fees are a tiny fraction of Ethereum's, which is why it became a default home for consumer applications, games and large-brand experiments that could not have afforded to run on Ethereum directly.
The distinction the marketing tends to blur is worth stating plainly. A sidechain with its own validators is not a rollup: its security comes from those validators, not from Ethereum, and a failure among them is not something Ethereum would prevent. Polygon has since built zero-knowledge systems with stronger guarantees, but the chain most people actually use has historically been the former. The roadmap and the branding have both been revised repeatedly, and the token migration itself left a long tail of holders confused about which asset they owned.
What POL (ex-MATIC) can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.42% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 8 October 2026
POL can be staked by delegating it to a validator, with no minimum. The staking itself takes place on Ethereum. Taking it back out takes 80 checkpoints of about half an hour each, a little under two days, and longer when Ethereum is congested.
Source: Polygon docs: delegate tokens · checked 2 October 2026
POL replaced MATIC as the native token of Polygon. It pays the fees on Polygon Chain, so it is what running a program there costs. Each app is its own code with its own flaws.
Source: Polygon docs: POL · checked 2 October 2026
POL started at 10 billion, matching MATIC one for one. About 2% more is created each year, and Polygon's governance can change that rate, up to a ceiling written into the token's contract.
Source: Polygon docs: POL · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
Where POL lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
Always verify a contract address against the project's own site before sending anything. Addresses are shown as published by CoinGecko, not as an endorsement — and identical-looking tokens on other chains are the most common way people lose money here.
Price change
POL (ex-MATIC) data synced 2m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell POL.