Polygon Price USD

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About Polygon

Polygon is a Layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum that provides faster transactions and significantly lower gas fees. The network supports over 53,000 decentralized applications and has processed billions of transactions since its 2020 launch.

MATIC to POL Upgrade

The migration from MATIC to POL was completed on September 4, 2024, as part of Polygon 2.0. POL serves as the native gas and staking token for the expanded Polygon ecosystem, including the new AggLayer cross-chain infrastructure.

PRICE

The live Polygon price in USD reflects the current trading value of the POL token (formerly MATIC) across all major cryptocurrency exchanges. As of March 2026, Polygon trades at approximately $0.096 USD with a fully diluted market capitalization of over $1 billion.

Polygon was founded in 2017 by Jaynti Kanani, Sandeep Nailwal, and Anurag Arjun. Originally known as the MATIC Network, it rebranded to Polygon in 2021 and has since become one of the most widely used Ethereum scaling solutions in the world.

The Polygon network supports a diverse ecosystem of decentralized applications including Uniswap, Aave, OpenSea, and thousands of other dApps. The network can process up to 65,536 transactions per block, compared to Ethereum's 30-50 transactions per block.

The MATIC to POL token migration completed on September 4, 2024, marking the beginning of the Polygon 2.0 era. Both tokens trade simultaneously, and the price data on MaticLiveChart reflects the most current USD rate for both assets.

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