• exceeded growth expectations during Q1 2022.
• Polkadot’s parachains played a major role during this time period.
• The 2023 year is full of big ideas.

Polkadot exceeded all expectations when it announced itself as a Nominated Prove-of-Stake (NPoS), blockchain network. It was designed to support multiple interconnected Layer-1 Chains known as Parachains.

In December 2021, the first parachain was created. Polkadot already has 13 parachains launched by Polkadot, totalling 127.8 Million DOT. This is 11% supply.

Today, the price of DOT is around $15.08, with an estimated market capital of nearly $16,7 billion and a 24-hour trading volume of $475.816,941. According to Coingecko, it also reached its highest price in November 2021 when it traded at $54,9

During Q1 2022, Polkadot’s valuation change was followed with changes in other ecosystems. LUNA gained the most at +18% while FTM experienced the greatest drop of -38% and Polkadot saw the third-largest drop at -19%.

The number addresses with DOT increased in every Q1 and 2021 as polkadot continued to make significant progress. However, the decline that began at the end 2021 has had a significant impact on it.

Each chain is designed to use Parity Technologies’ blockchain development framework Substrate, allowing developers to select specific components that suit their application-specific chain.

Polkadot was the umbrella term for all parachains connected to a single platform called the Relay Chain. This base platform doesn’t support any application functionality, but rather houses all validators, is responsible for the security, governance, and connection of parachains.

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