Polkadot outperformed the rest of the market during this newest bearish weather. With start of 2021, Polkadot increases the leaderboard in both market capitalization and conditions of wider retail and institutional interest. Launched in May 2020, Polkadot (DOT) has rapidly established itself as one of the most common next-generation blockchains.
A recent report by electronic asset management firm CoinShares says institutional investors show increasing interest in Proof of Stake (PoS) coins.
The report, titled Digital Asset Fund Flows, also notes that entire digital asset investment goods saw a net outflow of $97 million for the second week in a row. This represents 0.2% of the whole volume of flows entering the crypto industry.
CoinShares has linked the continuing outflow of funds to the expanding regulatory uncertainty surrounding cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin's ecological concerns. The report found that bitcoin holdings dropped $111 million in assets under management (AUM).
Ethereum's Dapps (decentralized software ) platform has not been spared, though it has lost a considerably smaller sum. According to CoinShares quotes, the next most valuable cryptocurrency obtained an outflow of $12.5 million.
Environmental issues around BTC and ETH excite interest in DOT
There might be a transition from well-established electronic assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum because of environmental concerns related to crypto mining into more energy-efficient protocols. This developing interest in PoS coins created Dubai-based crypto investment fund FD7 Ventures to exchange 75 percent of its bitcoin assets for ADA and DOT.
According to the Dubai Foundation, the strategy is to collect DOT, given its growing importance in the Defi world. FD7 Ventures says jobs like Bitcoin are already older due to their high valuation.
Amid this adoption, electronic investment company Osprey Fund established the Osprey Polkadot Trust to offer crypto vulnerability for high net worth investors seeking to buy DOT in April 2021. Bitcoin, the world's earliest virtual money, utilizes an evidence of work (PoW) consensus mechanism like Ethereum, and both are widely known because of their energy absorption protocol. Based on Cambridge University metrics, Bitcoin uses more energy to confirm transactions on the blockchain than many small European nations. Since that time, this disturbing data has seen proponents and critics of crypto calling for a more efficient verification protocol.
Parachain Launch Could Lead Polkadot To Boost Market Share
PoS protocols are well suited to tackle this energy problem because of their lower power consumption and faster verification period. Polkadot is one such protocol, and its blockchain structure is expected to allow a number of blockchains to transfer value without Trust.
Polkadot is also in the previous stage of its development process after creator Dr. Gavin Wood announced the launching of its core parachains structure on its Canary Kusama series.
DOT is also enjoying the rising adoption of crypto hedge funds. A recent report from the expert services company PwC states the Polkadot is among the most actively traded electronic assets of crypto hedge funds, with 28 percent of all funds involved in trading the crypto asset. For comparison: 92 percent of all funds trade in Bitcoin, 67 percent in Ethereum, 34 percent in Litecoin, 30 percent in Chainlink, and 27 percent in Aave.
Investors' positive attitude to the sustainability of protocols like Polkadot could result in more buyers entering the market in the coming days.