--- title: "STEPN Switzerland · Polygon realm" description: "Polygon is STEPN OG's third realm, alongside Solana and BNB. It replaced the Ethereum realm in August 2025. Its game token, pGST, cannot leave the realm; GMT, on the other hand, is shared by all three realms. The rules of the game are the same everywhere: only the economy is different." url: https://www.stepn.tech/en/polygon/ language: en site: stepn.tech (STEPN Switzerland) --- [stepn.tech](https://www.stepn.tech/en/) / polygon P Country · P国 # THE POLYGON REALM Polygon is STEPN OG's third realm, alongside Solana and BNB. It replaced the Ethereum realm in August 2025. Its game token, pGST, cannot leave the realm; GMT, on the other hand, is shared by all three realms. The rules of the game are the same everywhere: only the economy is different. DISCLAIMER The Polygon realm is the riskiest of the three: its market is small, prices can fall quickly, and sometimes you cannot find a buyer. You can lose some or all of the money you spend. Nothing on this page is investment advice; check for yourself before you buy. Sources: articles by [@PolyGST](https://x.com/PolyGST) on X (February–March 2026); the whitepaper's [Realm page](https://whitepaper.stepn.com/game-module/realm.md); the [realms page on stepn.jp](https://stepn.jp/og/realm/). ## WHAT CHANGES, IN NUMBERS As of 31 January 2026, according to @PolyGST. | | POLYGON (pGST) | SOLANA (sGST) | | --- | --- | --- | | Tokens in circulation | ≈ 29 million | ≈ 4.4 billion (≈ 153 times more) | | Token holders | 995 | 783'141 | | Common sneakers for sale | 225 | 9'100 | | Share of tokens held in Spending accounts | 22.4% | — | ### WHAT IT MEANS - The realm produces little pGST: around 165'000 to 185'000 a day in total in February 2026. A rise in demand therefore pushes the price up quickly. - The realm inherited the safeguards introduced on Solana in 2022, including Minting Scrolls, so sneaker production there is limited. - No centralised exchange lists pGST: it is traded on DOOAR, STEPN's decentralised exchange. [pGST contract on Polygonscan](https://polygonscan.com/token/0xC289A1684A04faAf926204235588F5fc1D5e458e). - The market is small: prices rise and fall quickly, and sometimes there is no buyer at all. The stepn.jp website rates this realm “high risk, high return” and recommends Solana to beginners. ## BURNED VS MINTED The pGST destroyed (burned) and created (minted) each day, calculated from the contract's on-chain transactions. Burn bars point down, mint bars point up, and a line tracks the cumulative balance. 68'540'278 pGST BURNED 72'217'795 pGST MINTED +3'677'517 NET BALANCE +8'172 NET PER DAY BURNED VS MINTED | | pGST BURNED | pGST MINTED | NET BALANCE | CUMULATIVE BALANCE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | August 2025 | 2'087'750 | 2'907'796 | +820'046 | +820'046 | | September 2025 | 2'458'638 | 2'810'055 | +351'417 | +1'171'463 | | October 2025 | 2'425'673 | 2'855'612 | +429'939 | +1'601'402 | | November 2025 | 1'968'875 | 2'861'245 | +892'371 | +2'493'772 | | December 2025 | 2'266'139 | 2'930'059 | +663'919 | +3'157'692 | | January 2026 | 3'686'922 | 3'814'139 | +127'217 | +3'284'909 | | February 2026 | 4'974'669 | 4'677'584 | −297'085 | +2'987'824 | | March 2026 | 4'887'427 | 5'890'597 | +1'003'169 | +3'990'993 | | April 2026 | 4'331'173 | 5'674'290 | +1'343'117 | +5'334'110 | | May 2026 | 5'514'297 | 5'932'152 | +417'855 | +5'751'965 | | June 2026 | 4'709'787 | 5'565'334 | +855'547 | +6'607'512 | | July 2026 | 6'225'941 | 5'708'340 | −517'601 | +6'089'911 | | August 2026 | 8'874'909 | 6'823'191 | −2'051'718 | +4'038'193 | | September 2026 | 8'402'699 | 7'557'596 | −845'103 | +3'193'090 | | October 2026 | 5'725'379 | 6'209'805 | +484'427 | +3'677'517 | ## WHO PLAYS IN P COUNTRY Mostly Japanese players and a handful of Europeans, several of them Swiss. More than 85% of the @PolyGST account's audience is over 35. @PolyGST published the list of known players in [its article of 22 February 2026](https://x.com/PolyGST/status/2025527746655375614). THE ACCOUNT ### [@PolyGST](https://x.com/PolyGST) A community account created on 28 December 2025 by a Swiss player to revive the Polygon realm. Independent of FSL, with no contact or agreement with the FSL team. Its motto on X, in three points: - 1 pGST, the first memecoin you create by walking on Polygon. - 2 Do risky things that the STEPN team can no longer do. - 3 Turn discouragement into a market cap of 10 million dollars: a goal, not a promise. ## THE IDEA: FROM A YIELD GAME TO A COOPERATIVE GAME Today, newcomers' money ends up with longer-standing, better-equipped players, as in a game where one player's gain is another's loss. @PolyGST proposes playing like the owners of small businesses in the same country, drawing on game theory: in the prisoner's dilemma, everyone does better by cooperating. Two voluntary rules, until pGST reaches a market cap of 10 million dollars: 1. RULE 1 Keep 100% of the pGST you produce in your Spending account, without selling or moving it. 2. RULE 2 Take profits only by selling gems, scrolls and sneakers. Small accounts (under 200 pGST a day) are exempt. Once the market-cap target is reached, a P Country DAO would decide what share of their production each player may withdraw every month (25% is an example, not a decision). This is a proposal: nobody has to follow it, and nothing is guaranteed. ## CONTESTS THAT BURN Contests give level 1 gems a use and burn pGST. They are also a low-cost way for players to build up their gear. 1. JAN → JUN 2026 8 CONTESTS About 35'000 level 1 Resilience gems destroyed. 2. 29 MAR → 10 MAY 2026 FINAL CONTEST More than 100'000 GMT in prizes. Final results on 10 June, with corrections and compensation. 3. 9 AUG → 4 OCT 2026 COMMUNITY CONTEST 288'300 pGST burned. [Results](https://www.stepn.tech/en/contest/event2/) ## ROADMAP Status as of 22 February 2026, the day it was published. 1. STEP 1 ✓ Put P Country on the map and revive the community. 2. STEP 2 ✓ Limit sneaker production, make scrolls attractive and present the idea of a DAO. 3. STEP 3 ✓ Restart burns and launch gem contests. 4. STEP 4 ✓ Propose concrete cooperation between veterans. 5. STEP 5 Attract new players and capital. 6. STEP 6 Communication plan, DAO and rewards plan. ## READ THE ARTICLES Articles by @PolyGST on X, in Japanese. Plain links only: no content from X is loaded on this page. - [2 FEBRUARY 2026 “P Country is the future of STEPN” Why Polygon: a token 153 times rarer, few sneakers for sale and safeguards inherited from 2022. @PolyGST's starting point.](https://x.com/PolyGST/status/2018193086514442593) - [8 FEBRUARY 2026 The price of pGST, according to @PolyGST The reasons why @PolyGST thinks the price could rise. This is an opinion, not a forecast: the price can also fall.](https://x.com/PolyGST/status/2020434429269729555) - [15 FEBRUARY 2026 STEPN NFT prices on Polygon A look back at 2022, when an entry-level sneaker was worth more than 2'000 dollars before prices fell sharply, and at the current situation on Polygon.](https://x.com/PolyGST/status/2022978127916347629) - [22 FEBRUARY 2026 · KEY ARTICLE “Are we playing STEPN OG the right way?” The shift to a cooperative game, the two voluntary rules, the idea of a DAO and the roadmap.](https://x.com/PolyGST/status/2025527746655375614) - [1 MARCH 2026 An opportunity in P Country? The follow-up to the 22 February article, written for players who invest in STEPN. A personal opinion, not financial advice.](https://x.com/PolyGST/status/2028060282459709483) ## DISCLAIMER The Polygon realm is the riskiest of the three: its market is small, prices can fall quickly, and sometimes you cannot find a buyer. You can lose some or all of the money you spend. Nothing on this page is investment advice; check for yourself before you buy. [START IN P COUNTRY](https://www.stepn.tech/en/rules/#start) [JOIN THE MEETUP](https://www.meetup.com/stepn-tech/) --- stepn.tech is an independent community with no official connection to Find Satoshi Lab. STEPN is a trademark of Find Satoshi Lab. Nothing on this site constitutes financial advice. [Français](https://www.stepn.tech/polygon/index.md) · [Deutsch](https://www.stepn.tech/de/polygon/index.md) · [Español](https://www.stepn.tech/es/polygon/index.md) · [Русский](https://www.stepn.tech/ru/polygon/index.md) · [日本語](https://www.stepn.tech/ja/polygon/index.md) · [中文](https://www.stepn.tech/zh/polygon/index.md)