Help, I can't Claim my SHROOM in Wonder Game?
Learn from my mistakes :-) and become SHROOMTASTIC!
So . . . .
I needed to purchase some Matic the other day to claim my SHROOM from Wonder Game. I wound up being in a situation. I purchased Matic on the Ethereum blockchain and not the Polygon blockchain.
I didn’t realize Matic could exist on both. If you have Matic on Ethereum, you can’t use the Quickswap DEX to convert Matic to SHROOM. You have to use the Polygon bridge to move those funds over. If I chose the correct blockchain, I could have avoided all of these extra steps and saved some money in gas fees.
Let me show you how to do it in case you make my same mistake or you simply want to move ETH or USDC from the Ethereum blockchain to the Polygon blockchain to make the conversion.
I will walk you through what I did. I went on Crypto.com and purchased Matic.
The mistake I made that I didn’t realize is that I didn’t switch to the correct network. I left it on ERC20 instead of choosing Polygon and that was the root of all my problems. Had I chosen Polygon, I would have easily been able to claim my SHROOM. The MATIC would have show up in my Polygon wallet instantly. Here is how I fixed the situation or how you can bring ERC20 coins such as ETH, USDC, or MATIC over to Polygon.
Introducing the Polygon Bridge
Navigate to the following link:
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Next, connect to the Ethereum Network via MetaMask.
Next, Select Bridge on the left hand-side of the Screen.
Choose the ERC20 coin you want to move to the Polygon Blockchain. In this example, I want to move ETH I purchased on the ERC20 network.
You could have chosen USDC or MATIC if you owned some as well to bridge over as shown below:
As you can see, I do not have any ETH on the Polygon blockchain. My goal is to send some ETH from Ethereum blockchain to Polygon blockchain. Once complete, I can convert to MATIC to pay gas fees to claim SHROOM or any coin I want on the Polygon blockchain.
Note: This is just an example. I am using a very small amount to show you how to do this. You will want to use a larger amount to save on gas fees.
Click Transfer. It will take about 22-30 minutes to move your funds as shown below:
Click Continue and your Transfer will begin.
You can also close this window and review the transaction real-time.
A success notification appears when complete.
If you look at MetaMask on the Polygon Mainnet, you now have some ETH.
Let’s now convert that ETH to SHROOM. Open QuickSwap and connect your wallet. I could have swapped the ETH to MATIC as well. Whatever I want to do once the funds have bridged over.
Note: Make sure you choose the Polygon Mainnet. Click Swap and choose the coins. In this example ETH | SHRM.
Click Approve ETH.
Click Swap.
Once complete, you now have converted ETH to SHRM or I could have done ETH to MATIC.
Happy Swapping!
Make sure that when you want to widraw funds you'll take the same route back. I got my funds stuck on Bitvavo who doesn't support a wrapped token on a native chain other the ETH mainnet. Be very careful swapping things!