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Launched in 2020, Polkadot (DOT) is the 12th largest cryptocurrency in the world. It is an open-source blockchain that provides interconnectivity and interoperability between blockchains. The technology enables cross-chain transfers of data or assets between different blockchains. In a blogpost published last week, the Polkadot team put out its updates regarding its Roadmap Roundup. It informed the community about the Asynchronous Backing that is aimed at achieving three things – Decrease the parachain block time to 6 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 in the first attempt.
Here’s AMBCrypto’s Price Prediction for Polkadot [DOT] for 2023-24
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 that was reflected in some upward movement in its price. A few days back, its performance was rather resurgent. But with the Merge, Ethereum has emerged as a serious competitor of Polkadot as an alternative PoS blockchain and…
