Polkadot
DOT #41Project Safety Score: 57%
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Polkadot is a platform designed to enable interoperability between diverse blockchains, facilitating the transfer of messages and values without the need for trust. It operates as a scalable, heterogeneous multi-chain technology, allowing various chains to share features and security while remaining flexible in their structure.
The platform is characterized by its use of parachains, which can also include non-blockchain systems if certain criteria are met. Many parachains utilize the Polkadot Runtime Environment SDK, including Substrate from Parity Technologies. Polkadot supports a governance model that ensures collaborative management among its network participants.
Risk Report
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Track record score 86 out of 100. Polkadot has been live for about 6.0 years, with a regulatory-clean status of 100 based on 0 regulatory action(s). Incident history is also relatively strong, scoring 80 despite 1 historical incident on record, and this combination supports a solid long-term safety profile.
Developer health score 0 out of 100. The public development signals provided are all at zero, including 0 GitHub stars, 0 forks, 0 commits in the last 4 weeks, and 0 PR contributors. There is also a "norecentcommits" flag, which aligns with the absence of recent activity in the data snapshot.
Network security score 71 out of 100. Economic security is the weaker component at 50, with market cap around $2,288,554,385. Other items are more supportive: chain age is 84 at about 6.0 years old, incident history is 75 with 1 historical incidents on record, and supply structure appears well-defined with a hard cap scoring 100. Circulating supply is fully accounted for at 100%, reducing supply-structure ambiguity.
Social and behavioral risk score 70 out of 100. Social audience data shows Telegram at 22,608, while Twitter (linked) and Reddit (linked) have limited audience metrics in the snapshot. Sentiment is mostly positive at 79% up versus 21% down, and risk signals are clean on allegations and bad press, with 0 allegations, 0 bad press, 0 regulatory, and 1 incidents reflected in the agent risk signals.
Adoption and liquidity score 60 out of 100. Trading activity is moderate, with 24h volume of about $194,636,460, and liquidity is somewhat supported by 60 CEX listings with 28 marked green-trust. Market cap tier is low at 12, which suggests adoption and depth may be less consistent relative to very large caps, even though the overall listing and volume picture is active.
Inherent crypto risk: Even with a middling safety score, Polkadot remains exposed to common protocol and market risks, including the impact of historical incidents, economic-security sensitivity to market conditions, and the possibility that development activity (as reflected in recent public signals) may affect future stability or ecosystem momentum.
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Gavin Wood - FounderPrior: EthereumPolkadot whitepaper PDF lists Gavin Wood as the founder and gives an author contact email.
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bridge exploit (Hyperbridge Ethereum-side gateway) causing minting of bridged DOT 2026-04-13 · $237000An exploit targeting Hyperbridge’s Ethereum gateway contract allegedly allowed minting of 1 billion DOT on Ethereum, while Polkadot stated native DOT on the Polkadot ecosystem was not affected. ↗
- ✓Polkadot has ongoing technical publications and an official whitepaper hosted on assets.polkadot.network.
- ✓Polkadot governance and staking are core protocol mechanisms tied to DOT, rather than a purely off-chain token program.
- ✗Token supply can be minted by the owner
- ✗No hard cap on total token supply
- ✗A single wallet holds over 10% of supply
- ✗Top 10 wallets hold more than 50% of supply
- ✗Cross-chain/bridge attack surface in Polkadot ecosystem including incidents involving Ethereum-side wrapped or bridged DOT representations.
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