From Matic to POL — The Beginning of a New Era in the Polygon Ecosystem
The evolution story of @Polygon is one of the most inspiring tales in the blockchain world.
What started as a simple project under the name Matic Network to accelerate Ethereum transactions and reduce their cost has today become a Multi-Chain Ecosystem offering advanced scaling solutions, aiming to empower the billion upcoming users toward Web3.
At the heart of this transformation stands the transition from MATIC to POL — which is more than just a name change; it is a comprehensive economic and technical transformation.
🔹 For investors, this change represents a redesign of the value and return system.
🔹 For developers, it provides a more robust economic and technical infrastructure for large-scale application development.
But why was this change necessary?
MATIC was effective as a governance and staking token in the Polygon PoS network, but it remained tied to a single chain and a single function.
POL, on the other hand, comes to break this constraint. It is a highly productive token that can be used to secure multiple chains simultaneously. Validators who stake their tokens can contribute to the security of multiple networks and be rewarded from each one.
Thus, the ecosystem of @Polygon resembles a complete economy where incentives grow with the expansion of the network.
For investors, this means that the value of POL is no longer tied to just a single chain, but to the entire Polygon ecosystem.