Cryptocurrencies
Stablecoins explained: three mechanisms, and how each has failed
How fully reserved, over-collateralised and algorithmic stablecoins each hold their peg — and what has actually happened when each came under stress.
Live market data for Matic Network, refreshed every five minutes. This page reports what the MATIC price has done — not what it will do. Nothing here is advice.
Matic Network
MATIC #52
$0.3748 0.00% 24h
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MATIC has no Binance USDT pair, so there is no price series to draw. Rather than substitute a different market at different prices, this space stays empty.
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How easily it trades, and how big it is relative to the rest
of market cap traded in 24h
by market capitalisation
Why turnover matters more than it looks
Under 1% of this coin changes hands in a day. Thin markets are where a sell order moves the price against you, and where the quoted price and the price you actually get diverge most. It is also the condition every "the price only goes up" scheme depends on.
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How many exist, and how many can
MATIC has no fixed maximum supply. 2.18B MATIC are currently in circulation, and more can be issued under the project's own rules. That is not automatically bad, but it does mean scarcity here is a policy choice rather than a guarantee.
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MATIC ↔ USD
Uses the price above. An exchange will quote something different once spread, fees and withdrawal costs are applied — the gap is usually wider than people expect.
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Context the numbers do not give you
No explainer yet
Coinculb has not published a guide to Matic Network. We would rather leave this blank than auto-generate a description of an asset nobody here has researched. The market data above is real; treat the absence of analysis as exactly that.
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