- Polygon reclaimed the quantity 10 spot after Solana briefly positioned there as its market cap surpassed $9 billion.
- MATIC may proceed within the inexperienced path regardless of the PoS hardfork.
Polygon [MATIC] displaced Solana [SOL] off the tenth place in the marketplace capitalization standings in line with data from CoinMarketCap. The ousting occurred regardless of SOL recording greater than two instances MATIC’s features within the final seven days.
Whereas MATIC’s worth rose 20.47%, SOL elevated by 45.49%. On the time of writing, Polygon’s market cap was over $9 billion, beating Solana’s $8.7 billion.
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The flip indicated that Polygon had outpaced the latter when it comes to circulation and worth motion was not sufficient to compete with that. Curiously, it was solely not too long ago, on 15 January that Solana reached the spot.
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Amid the place reclaim, Polygon might need additionally reiterated its dedication to improvement inside its ecosystem. In accordance with Santiment, its on-chain improvement exercise aligned with the aforementioned devotion. This was as a result of it had frequently risen for the reason that drop on 3 January.
At press time, it was up there at 13.48. The hike might, nonetheless, not be astonishing particularly because the Polygon Proof-of-Stake (PoS) hardfork was solely hours away.
Moreover, MATIC buyers have been beneficiaries of immense market profitability primarily based on the Market Worth to Realized Worth (MVRV) ratio pattern. The MVRV ratio helps to evaluate intervals of utmost buyers’ unrealized revenue and loss.
With the ratio at 24.44%, it signified that there was a big diploma of unrealized revenue in current instances. Moreover, the likelihood that buyers would distribute MATIC to lock features was excessive. Nevertheless, an extra enhance may drive MATIC towards an overvalued level.

Supply: Santiment
MATIC: Out to seize each likelihood
In the meantime, the Polygon crew was not solely involved about its exploits in surpassing Solana per market cap. On 6 January, Rohun Vora, who leads the DeGods and y00ts NFT assortment disclosed that his crew had obtained $3 million from Polygon.
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The person who’s popularly known as “FrankDeGods” identified that the grant was to foster the collections’ migration from Solana to the Polygon chain.
With each collections prepared to modify sides, it could possibly be attainable that Polygon stays forward of Solana. Regardless of the chance, will MATIC be capable of maintain the greens?
Indications from the Exponential Transferring Common (EMA) steered that MATIC solely had a slim likelihood of sustaining distinctive efficiency. This was as a result of the 50 EMA (orange) was in intense pursuit of the 20 EMA (blue) though the second remained above.
Nevertheless, the Directional Motion Index (DMI) revelation on the day by day chart confirmed that MATIC was in a major place to maintain the uptick even because the hardfork takes place.
At press time, the optimistic DMI (inexperienced) was excessive at 43.55. Backing it up was additionally the Common Directional Index (ADX) in yellow, which was 32.88.

Supply: TradingView