Polkadot (DOT) Crypto Price & Market Cap

How has Polkadot moved against Bitcoin?

Polkadot is -79.5% over one year, -38.2% over 90 days and -8.4% over 30 days. Annualised 30-day volatility is 50%. Its deepest fall from a high inside the last 90 days is 45%. It trades below its 200-day average, which is falling.

All three lines rebased to 100 at the first week each has data. Bitcoin is the opportunity-cost benchmark for crypto risk; the theme line is its equal-weight index of current rated members.

What do Polkadot's returns and risk look like?

Does Polkadot generate fees or revenue?

No protocol fee, revenue, TVL, user, DEX-volume or transaction series is published for Polkadot, so this page shows none rather than inventing one. That is the normal case in crypto: fewer than one coin in seven has any of it.

What does the evidence say about Polkadot?

Polkadot scores 42.3 out of 100 inside Layer 1, ranked 39 of 64 rated coins on 50% evidence. The four displayed point contributions add exactly to the total; missing evidence pulls only the affected factor toward neutral and lowers its stated coverage. It ranks research attention within one theme, never portfolio action, and it is not comparable across themes.

This weakens if: The read weakens if 90-day RS versus BTC falls below zero with two weekly closes below the 200-DMA, or native activity contracts for two complete calendar quarters.

No valuation section exists on this page, for any coin. There is no company-style P/E or PEG for a token, and historical market capitalisation is not held at all — only a dated current snapshot — so no ten-year valuation band can be built honestly. Where a protocol publishes fees or revenue, the yield against that dated snapshot is shown above instead.

How does Polkadot compare with other Layer 1 coins?

Polkadot is one of 78 Layer 1 coins here, 64 of which carry enough evidence to be rated and ranked. Polkadot ranks 39 of those 64 on 50% evidence. The table below is the theme's own scorecard, in its own order, with this coin marked.

The Layer 1 scorecard in its own order, with this coin marked. Scores are within-theme and are not comparable with coins in another theme. See the full Layer 1 page.

What can make this page misleading?

This page names 5 ways its own evidence about Polkadot can mislead, all listed below. The largest is that crypto network activity is not company earnings: protocol revenue does not automatically accrue to token holders. Price runs through 2026-07-31; market capitalisation is a separate snapshot dated 2026-07-04.

Crypto analysis FAQs

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