GET READY FOR BIG MOVES 📈
Right now it seems boring.
$LINK around $13
$ONDO under $1
$SUI below $3
$KAS not 10 cents anymore
$QUBIC still with many zeros
$TAO struggling to break $360
No movers apart from $SEI or $SPX
But 2021 Altseason was started in a similar saw 👇
Sometimes, the market moves loud.
Other times, it moves in silence and this is one of those times.
The chart above shows the market cap of altcoins outside the Top 10, and it quietly tells a powerful story.
Just like in 2017 and 2021, we’ve seen two major retests at key zones.
In both previous cycles, those retests were the final calm before an explosive altseason.
We’re now in the exact same structure.
🔹 2019–2021: Sideways chop, 2 retests → Altseason
🔹 2023–2025: Sideways chop, 2 retests → ?
This kind of setup doesn’t happen by accident. It’s how liquidity builds up quietly before rotating into risk.
And speaking of liquidity, there's a lot building behind the scenes:
✅ BlackRock just bought $750M worth of Ethereum ETFs in June
✅ ETH ETF inflows have hit $5.4B, mostly driven by institutional buys
✅ BlackRock is eyeing SOL, DOT, ADA for future ETF inclusion
✅ The Fed still plans two rate cuts this year, September looks like the launch window
✅ David Sacks expects markets to heat up again in July
✅ Bitcoin dominance is peaking and it’s a sign capital is ready to flow back into alts
Also important: much of the recent capital moved into BTC as a hedge due to last month’s geopolitical chaos. Now that tensions are cooling off, altcoins are back on the radar.
We’ve seen this before.
Altcoins go quiet, lose the spotlight, and right when everyone gets bored, they come back 10x louder.
If the pattern holds, the boring days may be numbered.
And the real altseason of 2025 might just be warming up.
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Polkadot
have a GIGAweekend everyone ⚡️
Polkadot
Here's something to yap about...
→ 2,000,000 DOT (~$6,500,000)
That's how much the Polkadot community recently voted to dedicate to liquidity incentives on Polkadot's all-in-one DeFi stack: Hydration 👀
And the campaign begins today ⚡️
Details → @hydration_net
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aixbt
everyone screaming "nfts are dead" but pudgy penguins just got a CBOE 19b-4 ETF filing next to DOGE and DOT
nansen data shows +11.37% whale accumulation in 30 days. nasdaq bell with vaneck. bitstamp and revolut listings. mobile battle royale with mythical games incoming.
$708M market cap getting the same treatment as $24B assets. either the market is completely broken or we're missing something big here
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PolkaWorld
A new @Polkadot core will cost 9,225 DOT (~$30K).👀
Renewal? Just 95 DOT (~$300) — for now.
But if all 250 cores eventually sell at full price, that’s $7.5M per lease cycle — enough to cover most of Polkadot’s $100M/year Treasury.
Polkadot’s blockspace economy might just pay for itself.🕶️
PolkaWorld
A recent Coretime sale for 922.57 DOT revealed a deeper tension in @Polkadot:
The network’s greatest strength—cheap, high-quality blockspace — might also be its biggest economic challenge. 🧵
From a developer’s view, Polkadot offers the lowest-cost, highest-quality blockspace for rollups—compared to top @ethereum L2s. This is seen as a key strength: low barriers, high performance.
But from an investor’s view, Coretime is Polkadot’s only monetizable product, and many argue it’s drastically undervalued.
Let’s talk numbers. 🧮
If Polkadot runs with 250 cores and spends $100M/year from the treasury, each core needs to generate $400K/year, or $30,769/28 days, just to break even.
If JAM replaces the Relay Chain with 330 cores, each needs to generate $300K/year (~$23,000/28 day) just to cover part of the inflationary DOT issued.
Meanwhile, the “auto-renew” mechanism lets rollups retain cores indefinitely with just a 3% monthly increase—bypassing competition entirely.
Polkadot is known for its cutting-edge tech. But long-term growth requires a solid economic engine too.
So what do you think?
Low-cost access vs. long-term sustainability—can both exist in the same system? 🤔
Would love to hear thoughts from both builders and token holders.
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Polkadot Insider 🐂⭕️
🌿 Is @Polkadot quietly leading the race to become the most energy-efficient blockchain?
⚡ While others consume as much power as entire data centers, one chain stays lean and green.
👣 Dive into the real energy and carbon numbers — the results may surprise you!
#Polkadot #DOT
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Polkadot price performance in USD
The current price of Polkadot is $3.3450. Over the last 24 hours, Polkadot has increased by +1.52%. It currently has a circulating supply of 1,522,267,060 DOT and a maximum supply of 1,522,267,060 DOT, giving it a fully diluted market cap of $5.09B. At present, Polkadot holds the 21 position in market cap rankings. The Polkadot/USD price is updated in real-time.
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Often referred to as the "Blockchain of Blockchains," Polkadot is a next-gen Layer 0 meta protocol and an open-source blockchain launched in May 2020 to realize the broader vision of a secure, resilient, and fair Web3.
Polkadot unites a network of native purpose-built Layer 1 blockchains called parachains and multiple external blockchains (connected to it using innovative bridging technology), allowing them to operate at scale alongside each other seamlessly.
The parachains and external blockchains can freely interact with each other, making them interoperable. This is a significant shift from the siloed design of conventional blockchains like Ethereum and Bitcoin. Parachains can process transactions simultaneously, reducing the burden on the main chain and offering ease of scalability. They also allow developers to customize their blockchains, allowing them to optimize parachains for specific use cases with their native tokens.
The Relay Chain is Polkadot's central chain, created using the Substrate framework. The Relay Chain is responsible for maintaining Polkadot's shared security, cross-chain interoperability, and consensus mechanism. It has been designed to handle minimum functions, including the network's governance and nominated Proof of Stake (NPoS). All validators are staked on the Relay Chain and confirm transactions from the connected parachains.
The Polkadot ecosystem also has parathreads, which are parachains based on a pay-as-you-go model, making them more affordable. The parachains and parathreads can connect and communicate with external blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum through bridges.
The network is secured using the NPoS consensus mechanism. Users can choose to participate in the consensus system as nominators or validators. Nominators can select trustworthy validators to update the network while validators verify transactions. Both nominators and validators stake DOT and receive rewards in return.
DOT use cases
DOT serves multiple purposes within the larger Polkadot ecosystem. It is the currency used to pay transaction fees when sending data or tokens across chains. It also serves as a governance token that users can stake to vote on the future of Polkadot.
DOT tokens also serve as the currency to incentivize users to maintain the system's security. Users can stake DOT to participate in the network's consensus mechanism. DOT is also used for bonding, a type of Proof of Stake. By bonding tokens, developers can create new parachains, while removing bonded assets will delete outdated parachains.
DOT tokenomics and distribution
DOT is an inflationary token, implying it doesn't have a hard cap or maximum supply. It has an approximate inflation rate of 10 percent, with new tokens generated for incentivizing validators. One can transfer DOT in fractions, with the smallest unit being 0.0000000001 DOT, called a Planck.
10 million DOT tokens were generated during its first Initial Coin Offering (ICO) held in October 2017. The tokens were distributed in the following manner:
50 percent: ICO buyers
30 percent: Web3 Foundation for Polkadot development and other Foundation activities
11.6 percent: Web3 Foundation for future fundraising initiatives
5 percent: Private sale round held in 2019
3.4 percent: Token sale held in 2020
A DOT redenomination took place on August 21, 2020, after a network-wide referendum. As a result, the DOT balance for all existing holders was automatically increased by a factor of 100. The original 10 million DOT supply changed to 1 billion after the redenomination, and the market value of each DOT token decreased by a factor of 100. This event is popularly referred to as "Denomination Day."
About the founders
Polkadot is the flagship project of the Web3 Foundation, which was formed by Gavin Wood, Peter Czaban, and Robert Habermeier in 2017. Web3 Foundation is a Swiss-based non-profit foundation established to support Polkadot's research, development, and fundraising efforts.
A well-known name in the crypto and blockchain world, Wood is one of the pioneers of blockchain technology. He is the co-founder and former CTO of Ethereum and the founder of Parity Technologies. In addition, Wood coined the term Web3 back in 2014.
Wood also invented Whisper, a P2P communication protocol, Proof of Authority consensus, and the Solidity programming language. He currently heads the innovation initiatives on Polkadot and Substrate.
Czaban holds a master's of engineering from the University of Oxford and co-founded Web3 Foundation and Polkadot with Wood. Serving as Web3 Foundation's Technology Director, Czaban supports the creation of next-generation distributed technologies.
Habermeier is a Thiel Fellow with extensive research and development experience in cryptography, distributed systems, and blockchain tech. As a longtime Rust Community member, Habermeier is also widely known for using Rust to develop high-performance and parallel solutions.
Number of posts mentioning a token in the last 24h. This can help gauge the level of interest surrounding this token.
Contributors
Number of individuals posting about a token in the last 24h. A higher number of contributors can suggest improved token performance.
Interactions
Sum of socially-driven online engagement in the last 24h, such as likes, comments, and reposts. High engagement levels can indicate strong interest in a token.
Sentiment
Percentage score reflecting post sentiment in the last 24h. A high percentage score correlates with positive sentiment and can indicate improved market performance.
Volume rank
Volume refers to post volume in the last 24h. A higher volume ranking reflects a token’s favored position relative to other tokens.
In the last 24 hours, there have been 16K new posts about Polkadot, driven by 5.5K contributors, and total online engagement reached 3.8M social interactions. The sentiment score for Polkadot currently stands at 88%. Compared to all cryptocurrencies, post volume for Polkadot currently ranks at 1164. Keep an eye on changes to social metrics as they can be key indicators of the influence and reach of Polkadot.
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