Here are a few ways to acquire MATIC on Polygon in a few easy steps so you can be ready for all the trading, buying, and selling throughout the January FREE Drop!
MoonPay
Head to https://www.moonpay.com/buy.
Under currency, search for MATIC and make sure you select “MATIC - Polygon (Polygon)“. You can select the amount of MATIC you want directly or the equivalent amount in USD. Click Continue.
On the next screen, you can either paste your wallet address directly or allow Moonpay to connect to your Metamask wallet (recommended). Click Continue.
Enter your email. Click Continue, then enter the verification code.
From there, if you’re a first time Moonpay customer, you’ll need to enter some basic information so they can verify your identity. This should take 5 to 10 minutes and should only need to happen the first time.
After your identity is confirmed, enter your debit card info. Then click Buy.
Note that your bank may ask you to confirm the purchase as well. Follow those steps accordingly.
Note: MoonPay is not available to users in Louisiana, New York, or Texas.
SushiSwap
SushiSwap If you are more experienced and already have some WETH on the Polygon Network you can exchange part of it for Matic with SushiSwap. Note that this requires some Matic, around 0.10, to start with.
Go to the SushiSwap website. Click here.
Connect your wallet and make sure you have Polygon selected as your active network.
Select WETH on top and MATIC on bottom, be sure not to choose WMATIC.
Select an amount of MATIC to receive, the ETH amount will update based on the current conversion rates.
Click “Swap” and you will get a summary of the conversion rates and fees.
Click Confirm Swap and MetaMask will popup to confirm the transaction.
As the network is under heavy load currently this may take 10–15 minutes to complete, MetaMask will give you a notification when completed and you will see your MATIC total update accordingly.
Bridging ETH to Polygon
If you send ETH from exchange to MetaMask you will receive the funds on the Ethereum Network, you will need to bridge the funds to the Polygon Network for use during the Razz contest.
The fastest and cheapest way to do this is to use the Hyphen service.
The minimum amount to bridge is currently 0.02 ETH, and you will need an extra amount of ETH for the gas fee. As the cost varies with gas costs it will be cheaper to perform at night when gas prices are lower.
Go to the Hyphen website: Click here.
Connect your wallet and make sure Ethereum is selected as the active network in MetaMask
Select from Ethereum and to Polygon from the top
Input an amount to transfer and select `ETH` as the token
Click Transfer and MetaMask will popup to confirm the transaction, make note of the gas fee that is being charged in MetaMask
You will get a notification from MetaMask when the transaction completes which is the first half of the process, the second half will start after automatically to deposit WETH into your Polygon Wallet.
Due to the load on the network this may take an additional 10–20 minutes.
Note: By default MetaMask will not show WETH under Assets/Tokens. To add it to the list of assets go to the Wallet pane in MetaMask and click on Assets or Tokens and then on Import Tokens below that.
Use the following three values in order:
0x7ceb23fd6bc0add59e62ac25578270cff1b9f619
WETH
18
Once you click Import you will see WETH appear in the list and a balance will be reflected.