Polkadot: a 3.8σ rise on 21 August 2026
Recorded 7 October 2026On 21 August 2026 Polkadot rose 10.52% close to close, 3.8 times its typical daily move of 2.77% over the 20 sessions before it: larger than every one of the 56 sessions on record before it. 31 other instruments of the 147 measured that day moved 2σ or more.
The day
Daily closes, as recorded the night after
- Move
- +10.52%
- Size
- +3.8σ
- Typical day before it
- 2.77%
- Close
- 0.938705
- Previous close, 20 August 2026
- 0.849381
- Since, to 23 October 2026
- +18.16%
Polkadot, the 30 sessions to 21 August 2026
Daily closes; the last point is the quake
Show values
| Point | DOT |
|---|---|
| 22 Jul 2026 | 0.834 |
| 23 Jul 2026 | 0.815 |
| 24 Jul 2026 | 0.808 |
| 25 Jul 2026 | 0.814 |
| 26 Jul 2026 | 0.826 |
| 27 Jul 2026 | 0.757 |
| 28 Jul 2026 | 0.761 |
| 29 Jul 2026 | 0.763 |
| 30 Jul 2026 | 0.768 |
| 31 Jul 2026 | 0.758 |
| 1 Aug 2026 | 0.781 |
| 2 Aug 2026 | 0.798 |
| 3 Aug 2026 | 0.823 |
| 4 Aug 2026 | 0.856 |
| 5 Aug 2026 | 0.842 |
| 6 Aug 2026 | 0.820 |
| 7 Aug 2026 | 0.818 |
| 8 Aug 2026 | 0.814 |
| 9 Aug 2026 | 0.798 |
| 10 Aug 2026 | 0.805 |
| 11 Aug 2026 | 0.790 |
| 12 Aug 2026 | 0.773 |
| 13 Aug 2026 | 0.772 |
| 14 Aug 2026 | 0.764 |
| 15 Aug 2026 | 0.759 |
| 16 Aug 2026 | 0.758 |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 0.761 |
| 18 Aug 2026 | 0.751 |
| 19 Aug 2026 | 0.789 |
| 20 Aug 2026 | 0.849 |
| 21 Aug 2026 | 0.939 |
The same day
Other quakes on 21 August 2026
| Instrument | Move | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin Cash BCH | +28.90% | +16.0σ |
| Aave AAVE | +23.45% | +8.6σ |
| Ethereum Classic ETC | +19.55% | +7.8σ |
| Litecoin LTC | +11.08% | +6.9σ |
| Dogecoin DOGE | +13.93% | +5.5σ |
| Immutable IMX | +12.93% | +5.2σ |
| Aptos APT | +12.66% | +4.8σ |
| Hedera HBAR | +8.59% | +4.7σ |
| Cardano ADA | +15.15% | +4.4σ |
| Robinhood HOOD | +13.70% | +4.2σ |
| NEAR Protocol NEAR | +11.24% | +4.2σ |
| Chainlink LINK | +12.26% | +4.0σ |
| Stellar XLM | +11.24% | +3.7σ |
| TRON TRX | +1.76% | +3.6σ |
| VeChain VET | +10.83% | +3.6σ |
| Bitcoin BTC | +7.26% | +3.5σ |
| XRP XRP | +14.61% | +3.5σ |
| Aluminium ALUM | +4.76% | +3.4σ |
| Algorand ALGO | +10.69% | +3.1σ |
| Rough Rice RICE | +3.93% | +3.1σ |
| BNB BNB | +4.90% | +3.0σ |
Polkadot's other quakes
On record, newest first
- 9 October 2026: +13.52%, +3.2σ
- 8 September 2026: +17.47%, +4.0σ
- 20 August 2026: +7.65%, +3.5σ
- 27 July 2026: −8.31%, −3.6σ
How it is measured
The move is the close-to-close return; its size is that return divided by the standard deviation of Polkadot's previous 20 daily returns. A quake is 3σ or more. This record was made the night after the day finished trading and has not been changed since. The live chart is on Polkadot's page; the last few months of every market's daily moves are on the volatility terrain, and every quake on record is in the quake archive.