How can i migrate to POL?

Created by Charanraj Shetty, Modified on Thu, 29 Aug at 2:07 PM by Charanraj Shetty

Steps to migrate to POL:

MATIC tokens on Ethereum:

If your MATIC tokens are on Ethereum, you can use Polygon Portal’s migration interface to migrate your MATIC tokens to POL. The process is as follows:

Navigate to Polygon Portal’s migration interface: https://portal.polygon.technology/pol-upgrade
Switch to Ethereum network in your wallet and connect to the Portal UI.
Approve the migration action by granting the upgrade contract permission to access your MATIC tokens.
Perform the migration action to receive POL in your wallet.

MATIC tokens on Polygon PoS:

If your MATIC tokens are stored in your wallet on the Polygon PoS chain, you won’t need to manually migrate them — they’ll be automatically converted to POL at a 1:1 ratio.

However, you’ll need to update the native token symbol in your wallet’s network settings. If the token symbol isn’t updated, the wallet may continue to display MATIC as the token name instead of POL.

Here’s how to do this in MetaMask.

Within your browser, open your MetaMask wallet in the expanded mode by selecting on the Expand view option from the options menu in the top-right corner.
Select the options menu again from the wallet’s expanded view, and then select Settings from the drop-down list.
Select the Networks tab from left sidebar to bring up the network settings. Switch to Polygon Mainnet if you’re currently on another network. The list of configuration options on the right shows the Currency symbol which is currently set to MATIC.
Change the Currency symbol to POL, and select Save at the bottom. You can ignore the warning in yellow in this case.

The process to change the token symbol may vary depending on the wallet you’re using. Please refer to the docs specific to your wallet and follow the outlined steps accordingly.

MATIC tokens on Polygon zkEVM¶

If your MATIC tokens are on the zkEVM chain, use Polygon Portal to bridge your tokens to Ethereum, and then follow the steps described in the MATIC tokens on Ethereum section.