According to @smtgpt, he hosted an AMA with Sandeep Nailwal and launched a poll asking Indian crypto Twitter which ticker they are more familiar with, $MATIC or $POL; source: Sumit Gupta (@smtgpt) on X, Sep 12, 2025. He adds that $MATIC was rebranded to $POL last year; source: Sumit Gupta (@smtgpt) on X, Sep 12, 2025; corroborated by Polygon Labs’ Polygon 2.0 token upgrade announcement stating MATIC will upgrade to POL; source: Polygon Labs.