# All that work for Polygon Matic

By [Imdny](https://paragraph.com/@imdny) · 2022-11-04

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Ok so i needed some Matic on one of my MetaMask account to transfer a NFT on Polygon chain. Probably there was an easier way (like using the [polygon bridge](https://wallet-beta.polygon.technology/polygon/bridge/deposit) directly) but those gas fees ⛽️ are insane.

I found this video explaining how to save some gas fees etc by using another chain (i used [BNB Smart Chain](https://bscscan.com/)).

[![]({{DOMAIN}}/editor/youtube/play.png)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7rWuSe353s)

It was very helpful but i also found i had some BNB in another wallet to i could skip some steps in the video and only follow the second half of it.

This is what i did:

1.  I sent BNB from Binance to MetaMask (add BNB Smart Chain to MetaMask)
    
2.  Ok, so i now had BNB on BNB Smart Chain sent over to my MetaMask account, great! To get it over to Polygon i first needed to swap my BNB to USDC which i did over at [Pancake swap](https://pancakeswap.finance/). So now i have USDC on BNB Smart Chain, sweet.
    
3.  Then i went over to [Connext (old xpollinate)](https://bridge.connext.network/) to move my USDC on BNB Smart Chain over to Polygon Mainnet (fig. 1).
    
4.  So now i have USDC on Polygon Mainnet, Awesome! Almost there right? Well i went to Polygon bridge to swap my USDC for some Matic but when trying to sign the transaction it turned out you needed some Matic to swap to Matic (Whoooaaaat 🤯).  
    Turns out [i wasn’t the only one confused about this](https://www.reddit.com/r/0xPolygon/comments/qow5gh/i_have_usdc_on_matic_network_but_dont_have_enough/).
    

After using their [Swap for Gas feature](https://wallet-beta.polygon.technology/polygon/gas-swap) i could finally swap my USDC to Matic and send my Polygon NFT to my other wallet

This only costed my a couple of $$$ instead of more than $55 if i' would have bridged over from Ethereum to Polygon 💸.

![fig. 1 - Bridging USDC from BNB Smart Chain over to Polygon Mainnet.](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f6f923d0e639c4240bdc37b8fb82f119e6eae8fbf0bbfedcc342c695b087053e.png)

fig. 1 - Bridging USDC from BNB Smart Chain over to Polygon Mainnet.

I hope i can update or create another post about this with way easier step sometime in the future 😆

> Alright. Laters on the menjay.

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*Originally published on [Imdny](https://paragraph.com/@imdny/all-that-work-for-polygon-matic)*