思想实验: 我一次又一次听到 Polygon 交易社区的人说: MATIC 是一个更强、更熟悉的代码(ticker)——它有历史、有认知度,也牢牢留在人们心中。 所以我想问一个坦诚的问题: 我们是否应该要求交易所把代号改回 MATIC? 我目前的立场一直是: 这样折腾太多了。我们已经迁移到 POL,那就保持一致——现在已经有足够多人知道 POL,尤其是在加密推特(CT)上。 但我不断听到的反驳是: “菲律宾开的杂货店老板、迪拜的 Uber 司机,他们知道的是 MATIC……现在完全不知道它去哪了。”而且,项目不应该依据 CT 的意见做决定——CT 只代表整个加密交易人口的不到 5%。 我是真心想听听更广泛社区的想法,因为这个反馈一直在不断出现。当然,不能保证交易所会同意把代号改回去——但谁知道呢,也许对他们来说只是个小更新。 Thought Experiment: Time and again, I keep hearing from folks in the Polygon trading community that MATIC was a far stronger and more familiar ticker — it had history, recognition, and stuck in people’s minds. So here’s an honest question: should we ask exchanges to revert just the ticker back to MATIC? My stance so far has been: it’s too much churn. We migrated to POL, let’s stick to it — enough people know it now, specially on CT. But the counter-argument I keep getting is: “the guy in the Philippines running a sari-sari store, or an Uber driver in Dubai, knew MATIC… and now he has no idea where it went.” And that, projects shouldn’t be making decisions based on what CT thinks — it represents <5% of total crypto trading population. I’m genuinely curious what the broader community thinks, because this feedback keeps coming up. No guarantees that exchanges would even agree to a revert — but who knows, it might be a trivial update on their end.

Sandeep | CEO, Polygon FoundationCEO, Polygon Foundation; Co-founder of Polygon; Founder of CryptoRelief

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思想实验:

我一次又一次听到 Polygon 交易社区的人说:

MATIC 是一个更强、更熟悉的代码(ticker)——它有历史、有认知度,也牢牢留在人们心中。

所以我想问一个坦诚的问题:

我们是否应该要求交易所把代号改回 MATIC?

我目前的立场一直是:

这样折腾太多了。我们已经迁移到 POL,那就保持一致——现在已经有足够多人知道 POL,尤其是在加密推特(CT)上。

但我不断听到的反驳是:

“菲律宾开的杂货店老板、迪拜的 Uber 司机,他们知道的是 MATIC……现在完全不知道它去哪了。”而且,项目不应该依据 CT 的意见做决定——CT 只代表整个加密交易人口的不到 5%。

我是真心想听听更广泛社区的想法,因为这个反馈一直在不断出现。当然,不能保证交易所会同意把代号改回去——但谁知道呢,也许对他们来说只是个小更新。

Thought Experiment:

Time and again, I keep hearing from folks in the Polygon trading community that MATIC was a far stronger and more familiar ticker — it had history, recognition, and stuck in people’s minds.

So here’s an honest question: should we ask exchanges to revert just the ticker back to MATIC?

My stance so far has been: it’s too much churn. We migrated to POL, let’s stick to it — enough people know it now, specially on CT.

But the counter-argument I keep getting is: “the guy in the Philippines running a sari-sari store, or an Uber driver in Dubai, knew MATIC… and now he has no idea where it went.” And that, projects shouldn’t be making decisions based on what CT thinks — it represents <5% of total crypto trading population.

I’m genuinely curious what the broader community thinks, because this feedback keeps coming up. No guarantees that exchanges would even agree to a revert — but who knows, it might be a trivial update on their end.

Polygon

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