Messari: Polkadot (DOT) Was the Asset of Choice for Institutional Investors In 2021

Over the last couple of years, several mainstream financial entities, such as banks, hedge funds, and others, have entered the crypto bandwagon via Bitcoin (BTC), while 2021 has seen an increasing number of these companies exploring the realm of digital assets using Polkadot (DOT).

In this regard, a report by blockchain analytics firm Messari revealed that 21 of the world’s 53 most prominent fund managers actively invested in Polkadot (DOT) last year, making it one of the most sought-after assets, followed by other DeFi/alt tokens such as Near Protocol (NEAR), Terra (LUNA).

Courtesy of Messari

One of the core reasons behind Polkadot’s growing dominance is the fact that the platform lays a high degree of importance on cross-chain interoperability, an aspect of crypto-tech that most experts believe will continue to define the future of the crypto ecosystem.

In terms of Polkadot’s native operational design, the project makes use of a unique concept referred to as Parachains, which allows it to support multiple layer-1 blockchains running in conjunction with its central chain.

The setup is able to mitigate many of the transactional congestions being faced by prominent projects such as Ethereum, whose gas fee rates have continued to remain quite steep at around $40 on average despite the platform undergoing a number of upgrades over the past year, especially Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 that was implement along with London hard fork back in August 2021.

Not only that, with the delay in the implementation of Ethereum 2.0, the ecosystem is only able to process around 30 transactions per second (TPS) in its current iteration, which is substantially lower than Polkadot’s current running capacity of 170 TPS.

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Tobi Loba

Tobi Loba is a passionate writer with a vast interest in the stock market. She joined the crypto ecosystem about three years ago and has written lots of ebooks and articles in relation to cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. Tobi Loba earned her degree at the University of Ibadan.