What is Polygon (MATIC)?

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As one of the most popular chains, Ethereum has been a prosperous ecosystem, providing different money-making opportunities like tokens, De-Fi, Dao, Dapps, Game-Fi, Move-to-Earn, NFT…

Thanks to Ethereum, so much money has been made. However, the expensive gas fee on Ethereum has stopped people from participating in the Blockchain development.

Also, the Ethereum network was considered too slow. It can only handle 30 transactions per second. Do we have an alternative? A cheaper and faster Blockchain network? A better solution is Polygon.

What Is Polygon And Its Crypto, MATIC?

Polygon is a scaling solution that runs alongside the Ethereum Blockchain, which is called “layer 2” or “sidechain”. Compared to the Ethereum network, Polygon allows faster transactions and lower fees.

MATIC is Polygon’s native cryptocurrency, like the relationship between ETH and Ethereum, which is used for paying the gas fees, staking, and governance.

What Is The Problem Faced By Ethereum? How Does Polygon Improve It?

Ethereum is facing the following three challenges:

1. Low transaction speed: Only 30 transactions available per second

1. High gas fee: As there’s only 30 transactions available per second, if you want to be quick, you have to pay a higher gas fee.

1. Limited Usages: For developers, there are limited options to develop a Dapp.

Polygon allows Dapps on the Ethereum network to solve the problems mentioned above. Polygon is a POS (Proof of stake) chain with a wider variety of scaling solutions.

It acts like an additional pathway for the Dapps on the Ethereum network with a higher speed of calculation. Then send the data back to the main chain to finish verification.

This scaling solution allows developers to have faster ways to develop innovative applications.

What Can MATIC Do?

There are three major usages of Polygon:

1. Paying the gas fee: Similar to ETH, MATIC is used to settle the gas fee that supports the operation of the Polygon network.

1. Governance: The MATIC holders are able to participate in the governance of Polygon.

1. Staking: If you want to earn an extra income, you can do staking. But please beware of the risk.

How Can I Buy MATIC?

"Polygon has successfully enhanced the Ethereum ecosystem, the second largest Blockchain network, by increasing the transaction speed and lowering gas fees. It makes Ethereum become more sustainable.

If you consider Polycon a potential Blockchain project, you can start to find out more about its native token MATIC.

According to CoinMarketMap, MATIC tokens are released on a monthly basis. MATIC currently has a circulating supply of 4,877,830,774 MATIC tokens and a max supply of 10,000,000,000 MATIC tokens.

The remaining MATIC tokens are distributed as follows:

• Team tokens: 16 percent of the total supply.

• Advisors tokens: 4 percent of the total supply.

• Network Operations tokens: 12 percent of the total supply.

• Foundation tokens: 21.86 percent of the total supply.

• Ecosystem tokens: 23.33 percent of the total supply.

According to the release schedule, all the tokens will be released by December 2022.

The simplest way to buy MATIC is through cryptocurrency exchanges. You can establish an account with an exchange like Bitget, and then fund the account with fiat by credit card, Apple pay and Google pay.

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