Polkadot: Should I buy it? Is DOT worth it? A detailed study and Price Prediction out to 2025

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0:00 Intro
0:30 IA Token Valuation Process
What It Does
How it Plays
Industries That It Can Disrupt
Ranking
Growth
Value Props/
Messaging
Tech & Developers
Ecosystem
Longevity
Price Prediction

2:00 Gavin Wood - former co-founder of Ethereum and ETH CTO
Vision was for a heterogeneous multi-chain framework
Focus is to support decentralization of the web ‘Web 3.0’ - Web 1.0 Commerce 2.0 Social
First test was “canary” Kusama network that is independent of Polkadot but runs on early, unaudited versions of Dot

3:00 Background & What it Does
End game is to enable Web 3.0
A fully disintermediated and decentralized internet!
Enables separate blockchains to communicate with one another
All chains can run at the same time securely and in a scalable manner

4:00 Background & What it Does
It is an integration methodology and can handle events across multiple blockchains eg a Smart K on ETH triggered by an Oracle (Chainlink) triggers a payment on BTC network and demands to be paid in Litecoin.

4:30 Polkadot Example

5:30 How it Plays
Sharded multi-chain network
Sharded architecture breaks up the network into individual shards
Coordinated by a central Relay Chain that processes data and transactions on several chains in parallel, known as Parachains
You earn 3 ways:

6:30 Polkadot focuses on enterprise and business-to-business financial applications that require bank-level security and stability + other apps

7:00 Scorecard Ranking

8:00 Growth Opportunities

PROBLEM STATEMENT: Blockchains function as separate islands of data with little way of leveraging the information the other networks possess.

9:00 Polkadot tackles key issue of blockchain interoperability
Able to communicate information from private blockchains to public networks and vice versa
Introduces a new era in scalability, interoperability, and security

11:00 Value Propositions

12:00 Technology and Developer Community
Over 2,600 developers sit in the Substrate Technical channel, nearly tripling from less than 1,000 at the beginning of the year

13:00 Ecosystem
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This is a quick overview of Polkadot Ecosystem! Key partners across all key areas of Oracles, DeFi, SmartK’s, Privacy, Scaling, Wallets, Gaming and more.

Polkadot’s founder, Gavin Wood, first introduced the cryptocurrency via a whitepaper in 2016
At the end of 2020, Polkadot began trading
With such a short history, Polkadot doesn’t have a track record for comparison, making it a riskier investment for potential buyers
Longevity and Track Record

13:30 Let’s look at supply:
No maximum supply
Inflationary (unlike BTC)
Just over 1 billion in issuance

14:00 Price Prediction