Polkadot has quickly risen in the ranks of top projects because of the ability of the para chains to issue its tokens, kind of similar to Ethereum-based protocols.
This platform was getting hyped like chainlink in the past but I'm sure that after the hype already done and the price will be going down again slowly but surely. i have been seeing the same thing happened so many times with the major coins. That being said if this pump already organized by the whales to create big FOMO. They will dump it when it reaches the peak price.