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Polkadot is both a token and a decentralized protocol that can be purchased and traded on exchanges like Coinbase, Binance, ByBit and Kucoin Exchange. Acala was the first DeFi project to win the PolkADot parachain auction with a community contribution of Poladot’s DOT token worth over $1.27 billion. PolkADOT is intended to allow unconnected blockchains to securely communicate with one another, allowing currency or data to move freely between, for example, the Ethereum and Bitcoin blockchains. PolkadOT is built to be fast and scalable, thanks to the usage of many parallel blockchains (or “parachains”)