Polkadot skyrockets nearly 30% to $10 billion market cap: What’s behind the r...
The price of DOT, the native cryptocurrency of Polkadot, surged 24% on the day to achieve a $10 billion valuation. Polkadot (DOT), the second-largest smart contract protocol in the cryptocurrency market by valuation behind Ethereum, is up nearly 30% in the last 24 hours. Polkadot's market capitalization has also surpassed $10 billion, solidifying its position as the fifth-biggest crypto asset.There are several major reasons behind DOT’s strong uptrend: strong technical market structure, anticipation of scalable blockchain networks, and the craze around DeFi.DOT/USDT daily price candle....
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DOT is on fire today as it surges up the market cap charts to fourth spot. There have been some big movers as the crypto market rally resumes and Polkadot’s DOT token is among them.According to figures from leading analytics portal Coingecko, DOT has flipped Ripple’s XRP in terms of market capitalization following a massive gain of 26% over the past 24 hours. This makes it the new fourth largest cryptocurrency by market cap.The Polkadot token has surged from an intraday low of just below $11 to top out at an all-time high of $14.80 before retreating slightly to $14.45 at the time of....
While Cardano and Polkadot are extending their staking dominance, Tezos has plummeted from the top ten by staked capitalization. The stakes have been upped for Cardano and Polkadot, with the two networks continuing to dominate the staked capitalization rankings.According to data from StakingRewards, Cardano is currently the top blockchain in terms of staked value, with roughly $26.4 billion worth of ADA allocated to securing the network. With Cardano’s entire capitalization tagging $36.6 billion, 73% of circulating ADA are being staked.StakingRewards estimates Cardano stakers are earning....
Polkadot’s native cryptocurrency DOT was among the biggest gainers in the last 24 hours even as other top altcoin projects reported losses. The DOT/USD exchange rate rose about 9 percent, hitting $4.93 as its intraday high during the European trading session Tuesday. The rally emerged out of nowhere, with no concrete fundamentals backing it as […]
The upcoming Polkadot DeFi hub raised nearly $1.3 billion from approximately 25,000 contributors in its token ICO. On Thursday morning, Acala, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol operating on the Polkadot (DOT) network, announced it had won the first-ever Polkadot parachain auction. Acala raised a total of 32.5 million DOT, worth roughly $1.28 billion, from 24,934 contributors via an initial coin offering (ICO) structured as a crowdloan. As the proceeds are classified as 'crypto debt,' Acala would eventually need to pay back the DOT it had solicited from investors. Users' DOT are....
In a recent Realvision interview, the developer Gavin Wood explains how Polkadot reimagines the innovation ecosystem from the ground up. Wood also discusses how the Polkadot protocol is both similar but also different than Ethereum, the second-largest crypto asset by market valuation. Polkadot: A Bet Against Maximalism Innovation involves the pioneering and actualization of a creative new way of doing something. For famed blockchain programmer Gavin Wood, Polkadot is the platform that unlocks the potential of swifter blockchain innovation. By building a platform of platforms, or 0-layer....