Polkadot
(dot)Price: $4.14
Polkadot market performance chart for the last seven(7) days.
Market Statistics
Market cap$5,838,639,768
Mkt cap rank: 20
Total volume$106,530,881
24h high$4.140000
24h Low$4.030000
Price Performance
Last 1 hour0.5262%
Last 24 hours2.1481%
Last 7 days-1.6378%
Last 30 days-13.9810%
Last 1 year-3.9721%
About Polkadot
Polkadot is a platform that allows diverse blockchains to transfer messages, including value, in a trust-free fashion; sharing their unique features while pooling their security. In brief, Polkadot is a scalable heterogeneous multi-chain technology.
Polkadot is heterogeneous because it is entirely flexible and makes no assumption about the nature or structure of the chains in the network. Even non-blockchain systems or data structures can become parachains if they fulfill a set of criteria.
Polkadot may be considered equivalent to a set of independent chains (e.g. a set containing Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Namecoin and Bitcoin) except with important additions: pooled security and trust-free interchain transactability.
Many of the native parachains of Polkadot will be written using a Polkadot Runtime Environment SDK (e.g. Parity Technologies' Substrate).