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Polygon's POL token surges after Binance listing, marking end of MATIC migration

The BlockThe Block2024/09/12 16:00
By:The Block

Quick Take Polygon’s POL token spiked higher by more than 15% Friday morning. Polygon announced in July that the MATIC token would upgrade to POL on Sept. 4.

Amid a relatively stable day for the overall cryptocurrency market, Polygon MATIC +9.63% 's POL token spiked higher by more than 15% Friday morning. The move appears to be related to POL being listed on Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, and marks the unofficial end of the MATIC migration.

In July, Polygon announced the MATIC token would upgrade to POL on Sept. 4 after a year of community-led discussions.

This change makes POL as the new ticker symbol for the native gas and staking token on the Polygon PoS chain. Polygon PoS is an EVM-compatible, proof-of-stake sidechain for Ethereum.

"The transition to POL is a crucial component of the project's development into a ZK chain and its integration with AggLayer, which aims to consolidate liquidity and state across multiple chains," wrote The Block's Vishal Chawla. "POL will maintain MATIC’s existing tokenomics and a supply of 10 billion tokens."

The initial exchange ratio from MATIC to POL was established at 1:1, with emissions gradually increasing by 2% over the next 10 years. MATIC holders on the PoS chain were automatically upgraded to POL without any action required. However, MATIC holders on Ethereum, Polygon zkEVM, or centralized exchanges must actively migrate their tokens to POL using a migration contract.

POL was trading higher by 12.7% to $0.42 with a $3 billion market cap, according to The Block's POL price page . Meanwhile, the GMCI 30 , which represents a selection of the top 30 cryptocurrencies, was higher by 1.5%.


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