Polkadot [DOT] out-competes Solana and Cardano in these metrics

• Polkadot out-competed main cryptocurrencies by way of ecosystem and growth exercise.
• Nonetheless, DOT flew underneath the radar as social mentions and engagements declined.

A tweet on 8 December revealed that Polkadot out-competed different networks by way of ecosystem enlargement and growth exercise. This development, nevertheless, didn’t translate to the social entrance as engagements and sentiment for Polkadot declined.

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Polkadot ranked second after Ethereum by way of sub-ecosystems and growth exercise. Apparently, it ranked above different distinguished cryptocurrencies akin to Cosmos, Solana, and Cardano. 

So @Polkadot is 2nd solely to @ethereum by way of sub-ecosystems, repos, and weekly commits by builders (in keeping with @Artemis__xyz), however is maybe least mentioned amongst the foremost smart-contract protocols: ideas on the explanations for this? https://t.co/KYcleosH60 pic.twitter.com/yLTwGL1QoJ

— Chris Burniske (@cburniske) December 8, 2022

Competing within the massive leagues

One indicator of this development was the rise in XCM transfers on the community.

In accordance with Polkadot Insider, there have been over 500k transactions made on the Moonbeam Parachain. Different parachains, akin to ParallelFI and AcalaNetwork, witnessed development as effectively.

Let’s check out the utilization community state of prime #Polkadot chains ranked by XCM transfers over the previous 7D

The highest 3 most-used parachains are:
🥇 @MoonbeamNetwork
🥈 @ParallelFi
🥉 @AcalaNetwork

For additional particulars, let’s take a look at our graphic under 👇#DOT $DOT pic.twitter.com/fCEHOyY3BW

— Polkadot Insider (@PolkadotInsider) December 9, 2022

Polkadot underneath the radar

Regardless of the expansion of those parachains on Polkadot, there was not a lot exercise for the community on the social entrance. In accordance with LunarCrush. Polkadot’s social engagements and social mentions fell massively during the last week.

On the time of writing, its social mentions had declined by 26.1% and its social engagements dwindled by 9.9%.

The sentiment in the direction of Polkadot remained detrimental all through the month aside from a spike in the direction of the top of November. 

Supply: Santiment

This declining sentiment might be a purpose why Polkadot’s costs and NFTs on varied chains didn’t see much growth.

Even so, regardless of the declining sentiment and costs, stakers continued to point out assist for the cryptocurrency. From the picture under, it may be noticed that there was a large surge within the variety of stakers that appeared after 4 November.

Up to now 30 days, the variety of stakers on the community grew by 9.54%. The entire variety of stakers current on the community was 24.2k, in keeping with staking rewards.

Supply: Staking Rewards

Evidently, the crypto group has been listening to Polkadot’s rising ecosystem. That stated, at the time of writing, DOT was buying and selling at $5.41. Its value rose by 2.32% within the final 24 hours.