Polkadot [DOT] saw a good performance on the price charts toward the end of the previous week. These gains continued over the weekend but the bears began to impose themselves on Monday, 2 October. Polkadot’s NFT ecosystem saw a decline in key metrics over the past week but this factor didn’t have a negative short-term impact on the token. However, developments over the past 24 hours saw bears succeed in taking the upper hand. In the early hours of 2 October, Polkadot climbed to $4.31 but began to decline. Bitcoin’s [BTC] dip from $28.5k to $27.9k, as of press time, also played a part in swaying the DOT market sentiment.