Select what genuinely interests you. Your picks feed directly into our editorial planning. On November 4, 2021, Polkadot peaked at $55.00 on the Kraken exchange. Five years later, at midday on Wednesday, DOT trades there at $0.96, or €0.85. That is 98.3 percent below the record. Anyone who put €1,000 into DOT back then and never sold now holds a little over €17 on paper.