I made my first prediction on Polymarket today and the entire narrative of it hiding crypto and being A++ UX is just not at all true. It took me about 40m to get USDC on Polygon and then POL so I could send it. I eventually just gave up and a friend sent me $20 in POL.

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MATIC is now called POL. They upgraded it and I believe it requires the user to do something to migrate to it.

What did they actually "upgrade" about it?

It’s official. The MATIC to POL upgrade is now live, after a year of community-led discussions and consensus 💜

What happens now? Starting today, every transaction on Polygon PoS uses the hyperproductive token as the native gas and staking token.

https://t.co/j6vlMTh9ZX https://t.co/hx9l7GS4zv

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* sponsored by Supercast, 25,000 $ANON at a time
* higher rank in Tae Kwon Do than Vladimir Putin
* hobbies include finding new lows of dad jokes

I wish Polygon would clearly answer the question of, "Why couldn't you do any of this with MATIC?" Even the "motivation" sections of the PIPs I clicked into talk about the power of POL, but never why POL is needed in place of MATIC.

https://x.com/0xpolygon/status/1831377459499167783?s=46