Polkadot five years after its 2021 record: DOT trades 98 percent lower

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. What is documented: the price history comes from Kraken's weekly candles, and the rules on staking and tax come from the Polkadot Forum, the Polkadot Wiki and the German Income Tax Act. Our own assessment follows further down in a separate paragraph and is labelled as such.