March 2023: what is easiest and cheapest way to exchange STORJ tokens at ZKSync wallet

[donald.m.motsinger]

@Alexey

you need to click on More Chains below, in the mobile view it’s not in the list of tokens, but below this selector.
But right now it’s broken, I think they would fix it soon.

zkSync.Era seems to work now on Bitrefill, but STORJ is not listed under the available tokens.

Is it possible to cheaply swap STORJ on Era to ETH or USDT on Era?

[Ambifacient]

If you enter in the STORJ zkSync Era contract address 0xA0806DA7835a4E63dB2CE44A2b622eF8b73B5DB5 (verify this yourself), you’ll see it appear.

The current price is around 0.64 USD, so the conversion is quite bad because of the lack of liquidity.

[Roxor]

It sounds like SNOs who choose to receive the zkSync payout bonus… end up spending that bonus (or more) either getting back to L1… or in poor conversion rates on L2?

[donald.m.motsinger]

@Ambifacient

If you enter in the STORJ zkSync Era contract address 0xA0806DA7835a4E63dB2CE44A2b622eF8b73B5DB5 (verify this yourself), you’ll see it appear.

How would one verify that contract address?

@Roxor

It sounds like SNOs who choose to receive the zkSync payout bonus… end up spending that bonus (or more) either getting back to L1

If I look at Uniswap right now I would pay ~$10 just for swapping STORJ to ETH on L1.

[Ambifacient]

One way is to use the zkSync Era explorer and to check the contract address of the token that you received from the node payments.

Hopefully the upcoming Dencun upgrade will reduce the fees even more!

[Alexey]

You need to write its name fully

[ptC7H12]

I’m on the point that I have USDT on polygon and can see it at Bitrefill, but when I try to move it to bitrefill, it tells me, that I don’t have enough Matic. Do I always have to have Matic to pay the fees?

[daki82]

its the token for polygon, so i guess yes.

[donald.m.motsinger]

@ptC7H12

Do I always have to have Matic to pay the fees?

Get $1 worth of MATIC and it will last for ages. I got 1 Matic almost a year ago and still have 0.9 left after making 1 transaction a month.

[ptC7H12]

Okay thank you for you anders! As intelligent as I am I have exchanged all my Storj so I have to wait another month to get some matic

[daki82]

cange one or an half usdt to matic?

[ptC7H12]

On orbiter there is a 1.8USDT fee for sending back to zigzag. So fee is higher then the amount I need

[daki82]

thats likely in every case where small amounts are needed.

not a exchange on polygon to change usdt to matic? im not familiar with polygon, but i cant imagine there is none.

[ptC7H12]

That’s it, what ever you do on polygon you have to have some matic… When you don’t have matic you can’t even swap to one

[Ambifacient]

You can swap some tokens for MATIC without a gas fee: Polygon Bridge: Bridge Assets from Ethereum to Polygon zkEVM

I’ve also used this Polygon faucet when I was low, you can give it a try: purplefaucet.app

As always be careful with crypto apps.

[donald.m.motsinger]

@ptC7H12

That’s it, what ever you do on polygon you have to have some matic… When you don’t have matic you can’t even swap to one

I can’t remember fully how, but my records show that I swapped USDT on Polygon to Matic on Polygon last year.

[daki82]

Get 0.01 free MATIC by joining the Polygon Discord and requesting it from the faucet bot

The official Polygon faucet will direct you to Discord, so……

Join the Polygon Discord and after verifying navigate to the “support.” Underneath the “support” tab there are 10 or so different channels. One of those channels is called, “matic-faucet.”

Paste the message “faucet-send YourReceivingAddress” without the quotation marks. Within a couple minutes you will receive 0.01 MATIC.

This will not work if you have any MATIC in your wallet.

BEWARE of anyone who sends you a direct message, offering to help. Polygon support will NEVER DM you first, ever!

If you received a DM from someone claiming to be Polygon support or offering to help you, report them immediately to Discord.

Found this on the internet. Guess faucets are real, but beware of scams.
Edit: Source
https://www.reddit.com/r/0xPolygon/comments/16joajs/how_to_get_free_matic_use_a_faucet/

[donald.m.motsinger]

Did anybody have luck with depositing from zkSync Era to Bitrefill? When try to connect the wallet I get this error.

I also tried a new Firefox profile with only Metamask installed. I can connect my wallet at the login screen and chose a different email address. But when I try to deposit I get the same error.

Edit: SUCCESS! It worked with Chromium. “Lost” $1.20 overall for the transaction.

[arrogantrabbit]

FWIW, I’ve settled down to a new scheme.

1. Receive to coinbase (edit) on L1.
2. Convert to Usdc at pennies
3. Send to the bank, free.

Recently turning 90 storj to USD and sending to my bank cost me two clicks and 30 cents.

Until storj decides to pass the transaction fee to the operator I don’t see the point in wasting time with zk sync.

[Ambifacient]

Just so people are clear you are receiving payments via L1.

Liquidity is slowly improving on zkSync Era. It’s a chicken and egg problem.