As most of us come from a feeless ecosystem (Hive), when we can't have that, we go for the next best thing: low fees. Right?
That's how BSC appeared as a reaction to Ethereum's exaggerated fees. That's how Polygon (Matic) came to being, to show CZ they can do it with 10 times lower fees. Otherwise, all three are Ethereum Virtual Machines, more or less centralized.
I went out to explore BSC when CubFinance came out. When Polygon started to become popular, I moved some test funds there as well.
I tried out various apps on Polygon, but ended up on Adamant for the passive experience.
And passive it was. I hardly gave it a look from time to time. Recently, I wanted to see how things were going on Adamant.
Surprise! Two of the four pools I was in were no longer incentivized on the base platforms. So I was earning nothing on them, for who knows how long. Not a passive thing after all, it's at least somewhat hands on.
Luckily we are talking about minimal amounts, that's why I could afford to let them unattended for a long time.
Ok then. I needed to get them out of there.
Another surprise! Congestion is a nightmare these days on Polygon, and most likely the low fees and probably lots of bots have a big part in that.
I tried to get out of the LPs on Adamant for a long time, and eventually succeeded after using a 50 gas fee.
But then another thing. QuickSwap didn't see my LPs that were on that app. I even tried "importing" them. Nothing worked.
QuickSwap couldn't even list its own pools. And I waited, trust me, a long time for that.
So their interface was useless. That was discouraging, since QuickSwap is one of the biggest apps on Polygon.
Metamask had issues importing the balances on Polygon at some point.
What finally worked was... Zapper.
That's an aggregator app. I used it to see the LPs I tried to get out of, because I couldn't see it any other way.
Looking around, I found out that I could remove liquidity from any of the pools I was in and Zapper found (Cub Finance is not on Zapper yet, btw). And that's how I did it. Removed liquidity from QuickSwap using Zapper... That's not pretty at all. Even if the process on Zapper is very simple.
Now I'm sitting with the tokens in Metamask (still on Polygon), wondering what to do next... Wait for PolyCub with these test funds, risking that Polygon may become unusable by then? Move to another platform that handles congestion better?
