MATIC

Polygon-Mainnet

Mumbai ⛽

MATIC token is the native token of Polygon. This is similar to Ether in Ethereum. To interact with Polygon network, MATIC tokens are required to pay as gas fees.

• On the Polygon chain, the Matic tokens works as native token. This means that a user can pay gas with MATIC as well as send MATIC to other accounts same way as they use ETH to pay gas fees on Ethereum and send ETH to others.
• This is an example script to send MATIC tokens from one account to another on the Polygon chain.

Getting the Matic token is really easy. You can deposit MATIC token from Goerli to Mumbai using the plasma or PoS contracts deployed on Goerli.

Ways to get matic token for Mumbai :

• FAUCET: https://faucet.polygon.technology

  • Select MATIC Token
  • And network Goerli or Mumbai
  • Enter your account address and confirm

• If you want to interact Goerli ↔ Mumbai,

  • You can use Maticjs : https://maticnetwork.github.io/matic.js/
  • Or Use our new Polygon Web Wallet �: https://wallet-dev.polygon.technology/

Mumbai-Testnet

Polygon Network ⛽

MATIC token is the native token of Polygon. This is similar to Ether in Ethereum. To interact with Polygon, MATIC tokens are required to pay as gas fees.

• On the Polygon chain, the Matic tokens works as native token. This means that a user can pay gas with MATIC as well as send MATIC to other accounts same way as they use ETH to pay gas fees on Ethereum and send ETH to others.
• This is an example script to send MATIC tokens from one account to another on the Polygon chain.

Getting the Matic token is really easy. You can deposit MATIC token from Goerli to Mumbai using the plasma or PoS contracts deployed on Goerli.

• Step 1: Get MATIC Token:

  • On Ethereum, the matic ERC20 token can be purchased from the following places

    1. Decentralized Exchanges (DEX)
    • DFYN
    • SushiSwap
    • Uniswap
    • Bancor
    2. Direct Deposits/Withdrawals to Polygon
    • AscendEX
    • MXC
    • OKEx
    • OKCoin
    • Transak
    • Binance
    • Crypto.com
    • KuCoin
    • Gate.io
    • MAX
    • MaiCoin

    3. Other Exchanges
    - [Coinbase](https://www.coinbase.com/)
    - [Huobi](https://www.huobi.com/)
    - [FTX](https://ftx.com/)
    - [Digifinex](https://www.digifinex.com/)
    - [Kraken](https://www.kraken.com/)
    - [CEX.io](https://cex.io/)
    - [Probit](https://www.probit.com/)
    - [HitBTC](https://hitbtc.com/)

• Step 2: Deposit MATIC Token:

  • You can deposit token using our wallet web,
    • (Recommended) Use new Polygon Web Wallet: https://wallet.polygon.technology/
    • You can use Maticjs: https://maticnetwork.github.io/matic.js/

  🎉Voila, you can start interacting with Polygon now 🎉