To swap POL to SOL, connect an EVM wallet with POL on Polygon, choose SOL on Solana as “to”, paste your Solana address and confirm one transaction on Polygon. On November 11, 2026, $1,000 of POL quoted 11.999479 SOL in about 34 seconds, before the 0.7% service fee. You get native SOL, so the new Solana wallet can pay its own fees right away.
Key Takeaways
- Route type: cross-chain in one step; NEAR Intents was cheapest at all three amounts.
- Time: about 34 seconds; Relay quoted about 1 second for 0.09% fewer SOL.
- Cost: about 0.37% in route fees and about $0.002 of POL gas, before the 0.7% service fee.
- Main catch: SOL goes to a Solana address (base58, no 0x). Your Polygon address does not exist on Solana.
What Is POL?
POL is the native coin of Polygon PoS (chain ID 137): it pays gas and secures the network through staking. It also exists as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum; this page starts from POL on Polygon. LI.FI priced POL at about $0.088 on our check. Gas details: Polygon gas fees.
What Is SOL?
SOL is the native coin of Solana. It pays the base fee of 5,000 lamports (0.000005 SOL) per signature and the refundable rent deposit of about 0.002 SOL for each new token account, so a Solana wallet with no SOL cannot do anything. Solana addresses are base58 strings without 0x. More: Solana fees.
MATIC Is Now POL: What It Means for This Swap
Searches for “MATIC to SOL” and “POL to SOL” are the same swap. According to Polygon, since September 4, 2024 every transaction on Polygon PoS has used POL as the native gas token, and holders of MATIC on Polygon PoS did not have to do anything: the upgrade was automatic. Some wallets kept showing “MATIC” until the RPC settings were updated, so a “MATIC” balance on Polygon is POL. By September 2025, Polygon reported that 99% of MATIC had migrated (polygon.technology).
Old MATIC on Ethereum is a separate ERC-20 token. Polygon offers a 1:1 migration to POL in the Polygon Portal, but for this swap you do not have to migrate first: on our check, $1,000 of old MATIC on Ethereum quoted 11.938503 SOL through Mayan Swift, with about $0.12 of gas paid in ETH.
How the POL to SOL Swap Works
Polygon and Solana use different address formats and do not share liquidity, so the route is cross-chain. You sign one transaction on Polygon; the provider takes the POL there and pays native SOL from its own liquidity on Solana. With NEAR Intents, your POL goes to a deposit and a solver delivers SOL. With Relay and Mayan Swift, the POL is first swapped on a Polygon DEX inside the same transaction. Nothing has to be signed on Solana. Background: what is an intent-based bridge.
Quotes by Amount (POL on Polygon to SOL, November 11, 2026)
| You send | You receive | Route fees | Route | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $100 of POL | 1.199455 SOL | $0.37 | NEAR Intents | about 34 s |
| $1,000 of POL | 11.999479 SOL | $3.70 | NEAR Intents | about 34 s |
| $10,000 of POL | 119.971882 SOL | $36.99 | NEAR Intents | about 34 s |
SOL per dollar was flat from $100 to $10,000 (0.011995-0.011999 SOL per $1), so splitting a larger amount does not help. POL gas was a fraction of a cent. Quotes are LI.FI routes before the 0.7% Step Exchange service fee; they change every minute.
Fastest vs Cheapest Route ($1,000 of POL)
| Route | You receive | Time | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEAR Intents | 11.963534 SOL | about 34 s | cheapest |
| Relay | 11.953220 SOL | about 1 s | 0.09% less |
| Mayan Swift | 11.918007 SOL | about 3 s | 0.38% less |
| CCTPv2 + Mayan | 11.917484 SOL | about 35 s | 0.38% less |
| CCTP + Mayan | 11.908070 SOL | about 6 min | 0.46% less |
A later request the same day, so the amounts are a little lower than in the table above. The gap between the cheapest and the fastest route was about 1 cent per $10, so speed costs almost nothing here; the slow CCTP route had no advantage at all.
Which Network Your POL Is On
| You hold | SOL per 10,000 tokens | Cheapest route | Gas paid in | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| POL on Polygon | 10.515 SOL | NEAR Intents | POL, about $0.002 | about 34 s |
| MATIC (old) on Ethereum | 10.435 SOL | Mayan Swift | ETH, about $0.12 | about 3 s |
| POL on Ethereum | 10.413 SOL | Mayan Swift | ETH, about $0.15 | about 3 s |
From Ethereum you get about 0.8-1.0% fewer SOL per token and need ETH for gas. If your POL is already on Polygon, swap from there; moving it to Ethereum first only adds cost.
Direct Swap vs POL to USDC, Then SOL
A two-step path (POL to USDC on Solana, then USDC to SOL on Solana) worked out to about 11.9657 SOL for $1,000 on our check, only 0.02% more than the direct route, for a second transaction that needs SOL for gas you do not have yet in a new wallet. The direct swap is the better choice. If you want mostly stablecoins on Solana, see USDC to SOL and take a small part as SOL for fees.
Swap a Coin or Bridge Assets?
This page swaps the coin POL into the coin SOL. If you want to move other assets between the two networks, such as USDC or USDT from Polygon, use the Polygon to Solana bridge; the way back is the Solana to Polygon bridge, where you will need a little POL for gas on arrival.
Step by Step
- Copy your Solana address from the Solana account in your wallet.
- Connect your EVM wallet on Polygon with POL (it may still be labelled MATIC).
- From: POL on Polygon. To: SOL on Solana. Paste the Solana address.
- Compare routes by SOL received and time; leave some POL for gas.
- Confirm on Polygon; SOL arrives at the Solana address in about half a minute.
Mistakes to Avoid
- Pasting your 0x address: SOL can only go to a Solana address. Check the first and last characters after pasting.
- Reading the dollar value instead of the SOL amount: on our check the dollar value LI.FI attached to the quote used a reference SOL price and showed about $979-982 for $1,000 sent, while the route fees were about $3.70. Compare routes by SOL received.
- Starting from the wrong network: POL or old MATIC on Ethereum also works, but costs ETH gas and returned about 1% fewer SOL per token. Check where your coins are.
- Swapping all your POL: keep a little on Polygon if you will move other tokens there later.
From POL to other coins: POL to ETH, POL to USDT. SOL from Ethereum: ETH to SOL.