POL (ex-MATIC) POL

What POL actually is on-chain

POL (ex-MATIC) is an ERC-20 deployed on Ethereum, at contract address 0x455e53cbb86018ac2b8092fdcd39d8444affc3f6. That address, not the ticker POL, is what uniquely identifies this asset: anyone can deploy a second token calling itself POL, but the contract is unforgeable. Verify it against etherscan.io before sending funds or approving a spend.

Because it lives on Ethereum, POL is held in any EVM-compatible wallet, transfers are paid for in ETH rather than in POL itself, and secondary liquidity sits in Uniswap-style AMM pools. Two consequences follow for anyone setting alerts: you need ETH in the same wallet to move the token at all, and a quoted price taken from a pool is a pool price — it includes slippage that an order-book quote would not.

Another asset tracked on this site also uses the ticker POL: Proof Of Liquidity (Tron). The asset on this page is specifically the Ethereum deployment at 0x455e…c3f6. These are unrelated tokens with separate contracts, separate supply and separate price histories — a price alert set on one of them says nothing about the others, and a ticker search is not enough to tell them apart.

For POL the project publishes a whitepaper, a public source repository and an active account as @0xPolygon. Both a written specification and readable code exist, which is a materially higher bar than most assets in this size range clear. None of it is a quality judgement about the asset; it is simply what can be independently checked before the chart is worth looking at.

Where POL sits in the market

At #68, POL (ex-MATIC) sits in the bottom of the large-cap band, adjacent to the mid-cap cut-off. Down here the large-cap label is doing less work than it appears to. POL is one revision away from the mid-cap band, and the practical consequences of crossing that line — index eligibility, market-maker commitments, how much size the book absorbs — change well before the ranking does.

CryptoPingAi is currently streaming 6 live POL order books (Binance, Gate.io, MEXC, HTX, Upbit, Bithumb). That is coverage in line with a #68 ranking: enough books to cross-check a quote, few enough that one of them can dominate price formation for hours at a time. One of them is a Korean won market, so the Kimchi-premium spread between the KRW and USDT quote is visible on this page.

POL against its all-time high

POL trades 93.1% below its $1.29 record (on 2024-03-13), which puts a 14.5x recovery between spot and that level. A drawdown of this size is usually a structural break rather than a correction — the market that set the high and the market trading today are not the same market. Using that print as a price objective is not a conservative assumption, it is a very aggressive one. That high was set 3 years ago, recently enough that it still anchors how most current holders frame the asset.

POL across its historical range

The recorded range runs 15.8x, from $0.0815 to $1.29 — wide by the standards of traditional assets, moderate for this one's class.

POL trades within 9.3% of the all-time low of $0.0815 set on 2026-04-12. Below that mark the chart is blank — no prior trading means no support level to cite, no volume shelf and no cluster of cost basis to lean on. That low is recent, so this is an active downtrend rather than an old floor holding: each fresh low retires the previous one as a reference.

POL supply structure

There is no fixed maximum supply for POL. Total supply stands at 10.64 billion POL and essentially all of it — 100.0% — is circulating. With no locked treasury to unlock, dilution comes from protocol issuance over time rather than from a cliff on a vesting calendar, which tends to produce slow supply drift instead of discrete unlock shocks. A float measured in the tens of billions also means the unit price is small in absolute terms, so percentage moves matter and round-number levels sit at decimal places most people do not watch — an alert set on a whole-cent boundary will behave very differently here than on a three-figure asset.

What kind of asset POL is

POL (ex-MATIC) is a layer-2 or scaling asset, which means its economics are downstream of a base chain. Fee revenue depends on how much activity migrates to it, and the competitive set is crowded — several rollups compete for the same transactions with near-identical technical claims. Sequencer decentralisation and the fee split with the settlement layer are the structural questions.

CoinGecko files POL under 5 categories, including Polygon Ecosystem, Ethereum Ecosystem, Layer 2 (L2), Zero Knowledge (ZK). CoinGecko also records deployments on Polygon (531 tracked tokens), Ethereum (3,072 tracked tokens), so on-chain liquidity is split across several networks and the cheapest venue depends on which deployment you are trading.

How to set a POL (ex-MATIC) alert that is worth receiving

POL (ex-MATIC) is the ERC-20 at 0x455e…c3f6 on Ethereum — quoted on 6 venues we stream — high dated 2024-03-13 — rank #68. On this profile the condition that carries signal is thresholds anchored to the recent range rather than to the all-time high.

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