Swapping WMATIC for MATIC

Using the WMATIC Smart Contract

Ross Stephenson - 22/06/2021

 1. Connect to your Metamask and
make sure you are on the Matic
Mainnet.

2. You should have some WMATIC

in your wallet.

3. Instructions to set up Matic

Mainnet on Metamask: https://
docs.matic.network/docs/
develop/metamask/con g-
matic/
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4. Go to Coingecko and search for
WMATIC

5. Then go to the Explorers and

click on Polygonscan. This will
open a new page in
Polygonscan directly to the
WMATIC contract address.
 6. You should rst see a page in
Polygonscan that says Token
Wrapped Matic

7. Click on the Contract on the

right side and it will open up the
Contract Code page in
Polygonscan.
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8. Click the word Contract

9. Click Read Contract

10.Go to the #4 section that says

4. balanceOf
 11. In the Input address eld copy
and paste your Metamask
account address (make sure
you are on the Matic Mainnet)

12.Then click Query and it will give

a result of the amount of
WMATIC in your account after
the word uint256.

13.I have 2 WMATIC in my account

but it writes it as
200000000000000000 because
it writes it in Wei denomination.

14.Copy this number.

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 15.Scroll back up and click Write
Contract

16.Then click Connect to Web3

17.It will prompt you to connect to

Metamask

18.You must agree to the warning

noti cation given. Click OK if
you agree

19.Once it’s connected, it should

turn green and say “Connected”
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 20.Scroll down to #3 and it should
say 3 withdraw

21.Paste the answer you got from

the previous Query (i.e.
2000000000000000000)

22.Click Write

23.You will need to pay gas fees and

Con rm on your Metamask wallet

24.You should now see a new tab

that says View your transaction.
Click it to bring you to the
transaction page on Polygonscan
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 25.When you rst see the page, it
usually says “pending”. This is
normal. Give it a minute to
update.

26.Once updated it will show

Success and all the transaction
details will be listed.

27.As you can see it says Transfer

2 MATIC from the WMATIC
contract to your Metamask
wallet.
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 28.Open your Metamask wallet
and you should see the
WMATIC will be 0 and your
MATIC balance would have
increased accordingly.

(Previously this was 4.2012)

 Congratulations!
You have interacted with a
Smart Contract like a Boss!

Special thanks to Aaron from Lambda

for explaining this method