Polkadot

Polkadot

DOT #51
B 56% L1 Protocol Watch

Project Safety Score: 56%

Updated 3 minutes ago
PolkadotDOT
Market Cap$1615291255
24hr Volume$86094155
24hr Change-0.9%
Price$0.9563050019826992
Coverage: 5 buckets · 100% resolved
Concerns raised - see Red Flags below
Scoring rubric: L1 / Protocol Coin - scored on network security, adoption, dev health, economic design, governance
Track
Record
87 AA
100% · medium
Developer
Health
0 F
100% · medium
Network
Security
70 BBB
100% · medium
Social
Behavioral
65 BB
80% · low
Adoption
& Liquidity
56 B
100% · high

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DOT Polkadot Details
Type
L1
HQ
Switzerland
Team
Unknown
Smart Contract PlatformPolkadot EcosystemBNB Chain EcosystemArbitrum EcosystemEthereum EcosystemOptimism EcosystemBase EcosystemProof of Stake (PoS)

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

Cryptocurrency carries risk. Every project listed on this site, regardless of its score, operates in a volatile and largely unregulated market. Tokens can lose most or all of their value. A high score reflects lower structural risk based on the data we can measure. It does not mean a project is safe, that the price will hold, or that losses are unlikely. Always research independently and never commit money you cannot afford to lose.

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.

  • Gavin Wood - Founder
    Prior: Ethereum
    Polkadot whitepaper PDF lists Gavin Wood as the founder and gives an author contact email.
View whitepaper ↗ (2016)
Quality: high
  • bridge exploit (Hyperbridge Ethereum-side gateway) causing minting of bridged DOT 2026-04-13 · $237000
    An 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.
  • No recent code commits
  • Cross-chain/bridge attack surface in Polkadot ecosystem including incidents involving Ethereum-side wrapped or bridged DOT representations.

Price Chart - Polkadot

Contract Security

ethereum · 0x8d010bf9c26881788b4e6bf5fd1bdc358c8f90b8
Open source
Not honeypot
Non-mintable
Ownership locked
Non-pausable
No blacklist
Visible owner
Fixed slippage
Source: GoPlus Security

On-Chain Facts

Deploy Date
Nov 06, 2024
ethereum
Deployer
0xdb6d474a7e6…
Total Holders
3575
Top 10 Hold
100.0%
Top 50: 100.0%
Top Holders
  • 0x00000000000000000… 100.00%
  • 0x000000000004444c5… 0.00%
  • 0x9ab6164976514f117… 0.00%
  • 0xe66512eb6b255aefe… 0.00%
  • 0x4d05c61afddf801b3… 0.00%
  • 0x401d72d63b5a9b106… 0.00%
  • 0x6875e933a31a93bb0… 0.00%
  • 0xd348a2c8fabe95b87… 0.00%
  • 0x3898da42588d50590… 0.00%
  • 0xd4fc5b6bb81f6044b… 0.00%
Source: ethplorer · Etherscan
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Market Stats

All-Time High$54.98
All-Time Low$0.8929
Circulating1689504536
Total Supply1689504536

Community Sentiment

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