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What is POL (ex-MATIC)?

POL

Polygon is a network of chains connected to Ethereum, including its proof-of-stake chain.

The tokenPOL pays gas fees on Polygon's proof-of-stake chain and is staked by its validators.

Supply and what is still to come

How many coins exist, how many can, who holds the part not yet circulating and what the schedule releases.

Circulating supply
10.65 billion POL
Total supply
10.75 billion POLin existence, locked or not
Maximum supply
None fixedno fixed maximum
Issued or unlocked
99.9%outside the project's own wallets, of the tokens not burned
Held in the project's disclosed wallets
0.1%7.301 million POL
Burned
100.0 million POLsent to addresses that can never spend

A year in the market

Measured on the daily closes of our own US dollar price index.

Return, past year
−51.3%daily closes
Volatility, past year
70%annualised, daily log returns
Deepest fall from a peak, past year
−62.5%daily closes
Below its all-time high
−93.1%high of $1.27 on 13 Mar 2024
Correlation with bitcoin
0.55daily returns, past year; 1 is lockstep
Beta to bitcoin
0.88its usual move for a 1% move in bitcoin

Points to check

What our data shows that a holder should know. Each point is a measurement, not a rating.

  1. Price swings

    Its daily moves were 1.6x as large as bitcoin's over the past year (volatility 70% against 44%).

  2. Distance from the high

    It trades 93% below its all-time high daily close of $1.27 (13 Mar 2024).

Questions

What is POL (ex-MATIC)?

Polygon is a network of chains connected to Ethereum, including its proof-of-stake chain.

What is POL used for?

POL pays gas fees on Polygon's proof-of-stake chain and is staked by its validators.

Is POL (ex-MATIC)'s supply capped?

No fixed maximum (no fixed maximum); the total supply today is 10.75 billion POL.

Where is POL (ex-MATIC) traded?

On 9 of the 11 exchanges we read: 7 list spot pairs against the dollar or a dollar stablecoin and 9 list perpetual futures. The token finder lists every pair.

Supply from our own nodes or the project’s published figures, prices from our own indexes, listings from the exchanges’ own instrument lists. Last update 9 Nov 2026, 01:00 UTC.