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Currently the 12th largest cryptocurrency, Polkadot (DOT) is trading at $6.5, showing a drop of 11% over the past seven days. Its market capitalization stands at $7,042,122,312.
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Following FTX’s demise, the price of DOT was around $6 and it has caught up with the previous level in the past few weeks.
In a blog post published on 26 September, 2022, the Polkadot team provided updates on their Roadmap Roundup.
The post described the Asynchronous Backing which aims to accomplish three things: reduce the duration of parachain blocks to six seconds, increase the amount of block space available to each block by a factor of 5-10, and allow parachain blocks to be reused when they don’t make it onto the relay chain on the first try.
The transactions per second (TPS) capacity of the network is also expected to increase in aggregate to 100,000-1,000,000, thanks to the update.
Prior to its launch, the Polkadot project had raised over $144.3 million through the Web3 Foundation in an ICO itself in October 2017. DOT was trading at $6.30 in August 2020 and kept oscillating between $4 and $5 throughout the rest of 2020.
The crypto bloom of 2021 proved to be wondrous for Polkadot too. Throughout the year, it remained bullish and reached its ATH of $55 in November. Similarly, the crypto crash witnessed in the second quarter of 2022 impacted its performance adversely. By mid-July, it was trading at just a little above $6.
A proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain, Polkadot recently upgraded to the v9270 version, which was
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