I know what MATIC is, but what TF is wMATIC?

QuickSwap Official

1 min readJan 11, 2022

Matic and its wrapped ERC-20 representation.

To put it simply, wMATIC is “wrapped MATIC”, but before we get into that, let’s begin by introducing some core concepts:

First, there’s the MATIC token

Though it was originally built on the Ethereum blockchain, MATIC is the native currency of the Polygon Network.

Second, there are alt tokens

When a dApp (or decentralized application) is built on Polygon, Ethereum, or numerous EVM-compatible blockchains, the dApp usually implements its own form of token. For example, think of 99Starz STZ token, or QuickSwap’s QUICK token.

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I know what MATIC is, but what TF is wMATIC?

To put it simply, wMATIC is “wrapped MATIC”, but before we get into that, let’s begin by introducing some core concepts:

First, there’s the MATIC token

Second, there are alt tokens

Written by QuickSwap Official