ADA

Positive-Match-9498

ADA Cardano and Polygon

PirateSKB

Hm why ADA?

Aerocryptic

ADA? Why would you bet on a dead coin with a ton of bag holders?

Necromancer1899

It doesn’t matter. Even without major developments, ADA will likely revisit around $1 once liquidity flows back into crypto. That’s an easy 3x from here. If you think crypto is dead, that’s fine. Let’s revisit this when BTC is back above $100k.

Necromancer1899

While it's difficult to predict for how long this accumulation phase will last, my goal is to accumulate a decent amount of BTC (at an average of $60-65k) and ADA (at an average of $.25-.30). Would expect at least 2x on BTC and 3-4x on ADA during the next bull run.

MtGloomy0420

Charles is like the guy that says fuck you to the establishment as he sits on a rock way high with his flag, like a beacon to those who can’t see the light. Cardano…$ADA…will have its moment. But good things often take the most time.

MtGloomy0420

$BTC, $SOL, $XRP one day, I really like $HBAR. $ADA as alternative to $BTC and $SOL. $LPT as outside project.

MakCapital

The ADA move feels different because the CEO of the Solana foundation has a dog named ADA? Need to stop cheaping out which AI model you use to post slop.

ExecutiveMK

I just love Cardano, ADA 😍

juanddd_wingman

Oh incredible, now I suppose I will have to sell all my BTC to get ADA, great deal, amazing !!

macetheface

My biggest holdings are in BTC and I think that's where everyone should be; I realized that very early on years ago. It's fine to also have some ETH and other shit coins but remember they're all shitcoins. ADA, SOL, XRP, whatever else you think is 'criminally undervalued' is still a shitcoin as far as the masses are concerned and will dump the 80-90% during bear.

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tldr; The SEC has introduced a new framework that allows for a faster approval process for spot ETFs, reducing the timeline from 240 days to 75 days. This change benefits Cardano, as CME's ADA futures launched on February 9, 2026, starting a six-month eligibility clock for spot ETFs. If the futures market remains active and meets regulatory requirements, the earliest approval date for a spot ADA ETF could be August 9, 2026. However, challenges remain, including classification risks and the need for issuers to complete registration and operational requirements. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Atmacrush

I'm DCA'ing on BTC, ETH, SOL, ADA, and lending USDC for now. More so on BTC and lending USDC.

rebellioninmypants

I hold 5 ADA for memories lmao

JarOfNightmares

I bought ADA and LINK on the same day two cycles ago. I made the huge mistake of selling LINK at $3 but I held the ADA an entire cycle. Hard for you to believe for some reason lmao

binary_quasar

Ah, yes...Cultdano folks are definitely known for being grounded and were never **absolutely convinced** that ADA would flip ETH by 2024.

biba8163

/u/Froezt > People are not ready for how hard ADA is gonna fly when it breaks the 1.15-1.20 resistance. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1h2zjuc/comment/lzpxiir/ > Ada might actually start flying VERY soon https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1bbp8h3/comment/kuewz9h/ > *I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings*♩ ♪ > *Bagholding is the hardest thing*♩ ♪ > *Well, the ADA ATHs will never return*♩♫ ♬ > *Many BTC halvenings may come and billions of CRO might unburn*♫ ♬

JarOfNightmares

I bought cardo way back in the first alt cycle around $0.08 and sold it for $2.11 or something during the second bull run. That sale, and the purchase of Solana at $20 the same cycle and its subsequent sale this cycle around $200 is what paid off my and my wife's first house. We have been extremely extremely lucky with timing the market. I still make fun of ADA cultists. It's never going to go back up and they just cannot admit it.

linknukem28

DOT and ADA was even worse

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tldr; Coinbase has expanded its crypto lending services, allowing users to use XRP, Dogecoin (DOGE), Cardano (ADA), and Litecoin (LTC) as collateral for loans in USD Coin (USDC). Powered by the Morpho DeFi protocol on Coinbase's Base network, eligible U.S. customers can borrow up to $100,000 in USDC. The platform uses wrapped tokens backed 1:1 by assets in secure custody. This move enhances liquidity access for investors without triggering taxable events, marking a milestone in the evolution of onchain credit markets. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

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tldr; Coinbase has expanded its onchain lending product to include XRP, Dogecoin (DOGE), Cardano (ADA), and Litecoin (LTC) as eligible collateral for loans in USD Coin (USDC). This move allows users to borrow up to $100,000 without selling their assets, enhancing liquidity options for retail and institutional investors. The service operates on Coinbase's Base network and uses wrapped tokens for security. Borrowers benefit from flexible repayment terms, with risk managed through a loan-to-value ratio. This marks a significant step in advancing onchain credit markets. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

BTCWallahFXEmpire

Strange they handpicked ADA and LTC, two of the most underperforming assets.

Zhytaleks

90% down sounds scary but that’s basically most 2021 alts. ADA feels more like “boring and slow” than dead to me. If dev activity dries up and nobody builds on it, that’s when I’d worry. Right now it just feels out of hype rotation.

Decentralization-God

Regarding traction and growing interest, I would say following. First is the success of mainnet launch, smooth, fully operational status etc. DUST token use. It is reported that some “starting dapps” should be part of this, but I dont think it was explicitly marketed. Anyway these need to be present on testnet already, not sure what it is though. Charles Hoskinson also said he would like to see top 15 Cardano dApps to get funding and showcase Midnight benefits where applicable. Here I need to admit, I am no active user of dApps as of now, I think the real stuff is to come. Not sure if DEXes are good example like MinSwap. I would look for a new privacy requiring thing, so that it did not exist in 2025 yet :) I like the demos InputOutput and Midnight do, as they use games as a tool. For example the Doom challenge for showcasing Hydra performance and scalability or now MidnightCity - a game of AI agents conducting transactions with privacy options with each other. Also the market indicators will be good to watch. Price, volume - it was even 5bn after the launch, today is less than 10m 🤔😄 I suggest those recent Japan Tour videos on YT and Ch. Hoskinson presentations as he is the guy to go. Maybe you saw them already. For the competitors I think “privacy” is sort of new buzzword and it not always means the same thing. There was ZCash/ZEC ressurrection recently, but have doubts this is anywhere close, and some devs left the team. Chainlink reported some “privacy” features recently but it is oracle, also saw some Solana stuff. https://medium.com/@0x_mikee/the-future-of-privacy-on-solana-why-2026-changes-everything-and-how-lumenless-leads-the-way-3ba2c2c66c06 Midnight is special as it was built as privacy go-to system for all other L1 chains (Btc, Eth, Sol, ADA, …) - so quite ambitious stuff. Anyway they worked on it for many years like 7 or so, many older era scientists were asked and joined the team. Also Charles said, he managed to bring together people from several other L1 chains and Midnight presents the best pieces/lessons learnt from all those projects. This collaboration effort is unprecedented itself, for such competitive and adversary industry 😁

Pineapple-Juice-4

Still holding and staked for Yield but I consider my ADA investment lost, hope I am wrong and there is a turn around.

RespectFront1321

People/BTCers like to pull that chart up all the time. But it doesn’t change the fact in the last year or so it has moved from #30 to #10, above ADA. Is up 70% over 1Y while BTC is down -28% . No other of the (dozens?) BTC forks can be found in the top 100 but yet BCH is #10. BCH has a dynamic block size algorithm, smart contract capabilities and on-chain tokens while still having the same core functionality as BTC. In May this year there will be another VM upgrade. So yeah very likely and not just because of hopium but quality upgrades and independently funded development. By comparison BTC’s future is bleak, Lightning failed all it did was promote custodial wallets, TapRoot didn’t solve anything. There’s an ETF and Saylor keeps buying, yet it keeps going down? Digital gold narrative also failed, down 50% in ~6 months doesn’t inspire confidence.

ElderWarriorPriest

Google developers using ADA and compare that to SOL and ETH. Draw your conclusions.

No-Contribution9918

"Advanced" is subjective, but still, I don't see how it *is* advanced. Compared to alternative chains, Cardano (just to name a few): \- Is slower (both in terms of blocktime and finality) \- Is more expensive (e.g. a swap on Cardano is \~30 cents; other chains' swaps are much cheaper) \- Does not support programmable tokens \- Needs batchers to make AMM DEXes possible \- Needs to bundle the native coin (ADA) with tokens when sending them; on other chains, tokens can be sent by themselves

Doritos707

So 300 doubles your position? If u bought a coin at 1000 why not at 300? Im not an ADA guy just taking out of logic

azdcaz

It’s a good measure of how overvalued and underused ADA is

azdcaz

ADA is valued at $16 million market cap per daily transaction lol. For comparison Solana is at $400 market cap per daily transaction.

AInception

It's silly to argue something so basic and that uses a 40 year old programming language is advanced in the modern tech space. Advanced compared to Bitcoin, maybe, which is still arguable since at least Bitcoin solved some hard tech problems. Cardano still has no resolution to congestion. In 2026. It just has never had any. Griefing DeFi would become so profitable under the current fee scheme if there was only any DeFi or activity to grief. Congestion is nearly every blockchain's core problem-area they dedicate most their time solving, it's what makes or breaks them and sets each one apart. Except Cardano never had to figure congestion out because UTXO (a choice for sure) prohibits 99% of use cases and applications from making any sense, so it's a moot problem. Intentionally handicapping yourself from having on-chain utility in the several ways I mentioned and claiming you're advanced is laughable. It can't even run a proper DEX... I can't think of any simpler or better use case for a blockchain than that. What argument is there Cardano is "advanced"? All I see is Charles making a long series BAD already provably dead end design choices, doubling down until things literally break, then copying R&D off something else until things /just/ work at the bare minimum to claim it works. Spaghetti isn't advanced. Charles would have done better if his ego wasn't so inflated and he scrapped ADA the first year researchers were telling him he's wrong, and then starting over from scratch. But instead we have whatever this is. $2M daily DEX volume and most of that is going off-chain.

Independent_Term5790

At least some of them have some user activity to speak of, ADA does nothing. I have never met someone who ones ADA and has used the blockchain for anything besides trading tokens.

Jumpy_Read9229

ADA 🗑️

Slow-Cycle9522

would only be worried about ADA, just stop looking at the price every day and keep going with ur life eventually one month it's gonna blow up X3 or x10 for no reason that's when you get out eventually, when it feels really painful it's a good spot to DCA eth and BTC because they are majors and won't go to zero. remember eth 2030 cycle target is 16k in theory...

mobiledanceteam

It's still rare to find businesses willing to accept crypto but I have bought all sorts of things online with crypto over the years, BTC or ADA mainly.

hollowedpage

Totally feel you, I’ve mostly been holding ADA too and I still jump on Stake sometimes just to mess around a bit. Not saying it’s gonna magically moon or anything, but ADA lowkey feels like it’s got more staying power than a lot of the overhyped coins. Def one to keep an eye on.

SacredOvacado

For sure, I get you, it’s easy to get lost with all the coins out there. I mostly just dabble with BTC and ETH, sometimes throw a little at ADA or other smaller stuff. I’ve mostly been using Stake for quick crypto bets here and there. Works well enough, but those ones seem more likely to last than a bunch of the hyped up projects.

Natural_Berry_8007

Sorry to hear you have this experience. You may want to consider if selling ADA and LINK and reinvesting in ETH could be a good idea. There’s a good chance they won’t recover even when ETH and BTC recover. I also wouldn’t add more to loosing positions, but I just never DCA, I would wait for trend reversal if I want to add more. And I’d also rather diversify to some other asset class. Looking forward, you need to learn using Stop Loss and basics of technical analysis to become better at managing your investments.

SomewhereBusiness503

Yeah, I agree. I was FOMOing into other coins in the hope that they would jump more, and that did happen in 2017 and 2021, but this cycle, only BTC was the king (mostly because of institutional and countries adoption). Although I still believe that coins like SOL, POL, ADA, would do a 3x if they reach their previous ATHs.

devCheckingIn

Is Dan Gambardello still hopelessly optimistic on ADA?

olduvai_man

ADA hodlers have to be down bad seeing the founder giving talks in a McDonald's uniform.

gaz822

Most projects are down massively, don't forget the crypto market is the most heavily manipulated financial market out there, and the fact Cardano has been as resilient over the last 8 years or so would indicate its far from dead.. So if i was I'd hold on to what you have instead of panic selling and wait for the next Altcoin bullrun when ever that is, VET is another one in the same boat as ADA, good fundamentals and real world use case but is suffering due to market manipulation and being overlooked

Happy_Being_1203

Looks like there is now less people interested to ADA

Distinct-Thanks-6477

I understand that most projects are struggling but ADA seems to not have any momentum anymore. I don't it ever dominating discussions again. I would rather focus on projects that are still building in the AI and DePIN world. TAO, RENDER, ICP, AIOZ. Just to name a few.

b0lita

XRP set a new all-time high though, and it will probably do so again next cycle. There's always some news that moves the price for that one. Meanwhile, I'm here holding my ADA and DOT bags

MountainGrape6816

I pulled the plug on my ADA back in December to take a tax write off. Haven't heard a peep about it for years.

robeewankenobee

Eth made it to 4580 bucks not long ago ... quite a different story compared to ADA or Link (to name a few more serious projects)

ThujoneX

I love ADA. I unfortunately had to sell due to collapsing real life circumstances, but I'm very grateful for this buying opportunity we currently have. Trying to build my stack back up before we go back to $2+

maxwellrog

ADA is a failed project. Nobody builds on cardano

watch-nerd

ADA is a ghost chain

sam2400

Just look at any coin or stock over the last few months. Almost everything is down. Crypto usually follows Bitcoin, and the charts move very similarly. That is just how the market works. Right now looks more like accumulation time than panic time. Cardano’s daily transactions have been strong, with reports of around 920,000 per day in parts of 2025. That shows real usage, not just speculation. Wallet numbers and staking participation are also solid, with millions of wallets and over a million stakers. That is a committed community. What this means is simple. Higher transactions and growing active addresses show people are actually using the network, not just holding ADA. That kind of steady activity is important for long term stability.

JohnnyThePianist3005

Haha claaaasic bear post. And other comments like „fundamentals haven’t improved” are just a prove that people are not even interested in checking (if google is too much try ChatGPT ✌️) HOW MUCH in Cardano was improved since 2023. I think I’ll just wait to Bitcoins cycle bottom on October 2026 and have no choice to go f’in allin on ADA. Then in 2029 you will FOMO buy my bags. Thanks in advance

Simple-Link-3249

ADA down 90% from the peak is brutal. Low usage and slow delivery are real problems. The decentralization story sounds nice but it doesn't move the needle. This feels like a project that had its moment. At $0.35 it's either a dead cat bounce or a genuine opportunity, but the fundamentals haven't improved.

jasomniax

That was what I thought in 2022 as well. But seeing as in the recent BTC bull market ADA didn't go up that much. Also the TVL fell from $700M in 2025 to $200M as of now. Regarding the eUTXO tech, that is something I was also worried about, but I thought people would figure it out eventually(Iirc the language was Haskell or something). I guess it's that inconvenient, that devs prefer working on eth newtwork or other ones.

jamesid-2010

i bought it and rode it down. i eventually made back my investment, but damn it felt so promising just to do fucking nothing. .35 is cheap on it in terms of cycle, but bag holding ADA is a dead man’s wish

Commercial-Base-4774

ooh are the ADA coins dead? do I need to dig them out of where I'm hiding them at Nika Finance? but in my opinion, no because almost all the coins have fallen by 80-90% now, so I'll just wait for them to rise again

Schrezberatina

Is there any hope my bags of LINK, AVAX, SUI, ADA, TON, ASTER?

Aerocryptic

>HBAR, ADA, maybe XRP All of these are dead material

dragonballsteve85

Predictions for the bottom? I hold literally nothing. Looking for a good entry point for BTC and a handful of ALTS (ETH, HBAR, ADA, maybe XRP)

kingjoeg

ADA has no use case and hasn’t proven itself at all in the last 4 years and now it has to survive another 4 through the next cycle. It’s a dead coin. It’s surprising it can go this many years without having any use and still exist.

Days_End

I mean ADA has been a shitcoin for years promise the moon and never deliver.

Working-Network-1876

ADA is the new NEO or IOTA, remanent of previous cycles. The graveyards of ALT are growing by the minutes, sad I still have a bag of DOT and ALGO, both have zero chances hitting a new ATH.

therealslapper

I hope ada dies just so these repeat questions will stop. I would be happier if we got repeat questions of "OMG HOLY JESSSUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY WHY DID ADA DIE?"

jhflores516

Yes ADA is a failed project. I would get out while I can if I were you.

MadOrange64

My ADA hasn't recovered since 2021. It needs a miracle to get back to ath, stay away from it.

Django_McFly

> Should I buy Pepe or XRP? Or, is there a better option than these two? Would anyone recommend SUI, SOL, or ADA? this can't be real...

BlackRibbon69

Whole crypto market is ruled by insiders and marketmakers, you'll never beat them, fundamentals work but not really well, just check XRP and ADA, it's real worth is x1000 less.

Prahasaurus

>Thanks in advance, from a teacher looking to help out my retirement. I hope you don't teach your students to rush into long-term investments based on Reddit comments. If you are seriously considering Pepe, ADA and XRP, it's clear you have no clue about crypto, and are just gambling. Stop looking for advice about crypto here on Reddit. It's like asking Reddit for legal or marriage advice. Start using crypto and see what is actually happening. You'll soon learn there are really only 3 ecosystems with actual activity: BTC, ETH, and SOL. BTC has limited activity but is the most well known. It has failed to provide much utility and now is rebranding as "digital gold." ETH has by far the most utility, over 60% of all stablecoins, the vast majority of tokenized real world assets, the most advanced DeFi, and will likely form the foundation of future asset tokenization. But few know this because they watch Tik Tok and don't actually use blockchains. SOL is very popular with memes, is not as decentralized as Ethereum but has captured the low end market. It's token is highly inflationary but could improve over time. My advice: 40% BTC, 40% ETH, 20% SOL. But you should take 2-3 months and research yourself before investing anything.

And2Makes5

BTC and ETH are low risk. Run from PEPE and ADA.

GreenStretch

Just finished my third cycle. Really nothing other than bitcoin is worth it. Two of the biggest coins, ETH and SOL didn't get very far past their 2021 highs this cycle. ADA didn't come close to matching its $3 peak last cycle. New coins for the next cycle might make money, as SUI did this cycle. After we're deeper into the bear, buying older coins at really historically depressed prices and selling them in the next cycle might be profitable, but the chance of any of them being long term holds like BTC is not great. Coingecko top 100 coins since their all time high. [https://www.coingecko.com/en/highlights/all-time-high-crypto](https://www.coingecko.com/en/highlights/all-time-high-crypto) If you haven't looked at past 10 ten lists to see lots of forgotten coins check this out. [https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/)

noviwu97

There was euphoria all over 2024. It's just that for some reason, it avoided all the coins that are commonly held by CC redditors like ETH, ADA, ALGO, LRC, NANO, MATIC, DOT

Stray14

It’s vapourware anyone with a brain and that isn’t one of his paid shills knows this. ADA is a gross scam cult.

graytleapforward

The deathblow to ADA was not onboarding USDC or Tether. I mean where were the users going to come from?.

graytleapforward

Hoskinson cares as much about ADA as Charlie Lee does about Bitcoin Cash

RoaringDragonSword

Let me guess, you have ADA.

Western_Cap_485

Well you have to believe in the project somewhat but never marry a token. I’d say XRP is a good buy ADA has its place and Eth is a way better bet than Bitcoin. I believe it’s going to 50k.

RevengeRabbit00

ADA fanboys would never do that..

No-Contribution9918

Yeah, at least SOL was able to reach a new ATH this past cycle. ADA didn't even reach half of its previous ATH.

GeorgeOrrange

it's sad that people waste their energy hating or otherwise spending time and energy thinking about ADA, but here we inexplicably are

RamoneBolivarSanchez

Are we forgetting he was able to allocate as much ADA as he wanted to himself?

CitizenOfPlanet

Here comes the quarterly ADA hate train 🚂

Available-Evening-18

I would not say that these 3 particular examples have " failed". XRP hit a new ATH in the last 12 months, ADA is still in the top 15 and Chainlink is still important as an oracle. Examples that I believe better support your point, which I completely agree with, are Polkadot and Cosmos Hub. They seemed to have great use cases and great technology but high inflation, poor real world demand and poor marketing worked against them.

Impressive_Pilot8415

the best thing about holding ADA these last >4 years as I will soon sell (for a loss) to prevent me paying any tax this financial year.. I've made great gains but ADA has been the worst ALT! My ADA losses 100% offset my tax bill :) (I will never look at ADA again ever ! :)

R50cent

The africa stuff was a long, long time ago. Probably about a decade. Very early use case project, and it fell right apart because they wanted people to be able to spend like 3-5 ADA and the gas fees were almost 1 ADA alone. It just didn't work.

watch-nerd

That's still a lot more than ADA has.

AlternativeTiger4302

ADA and LTC are vapor. Vapor can pump tho fyi. ETC did last cycle. You should buy TAO.

jhflores516

Cardano was all hype and no substance. I had high hopes for ADA too.

Trick_Candidate_2797

If you like your list fine, but I would take ADA out forsure. Maybe check out STX, ONDO, and PEPE (for the memes)

DBFargie

I still have my bags. 3 of 10 are underwater 50%+. SOL, ETH, and HBAR are my only profitable alts, and just barely at this point. Waited too long for the alt season that never really came. With that being said, I will not liquidate them. Many, like the three mentioned, along with my positions in LINK, ONDO, and even ADA I still believe will do well… eventually. I’ll only grab BTC from here until the market picks back up and hopefully I can break even or even sell those for profit at some point.

xdustx

It's good for the industry. If it would have been just a walk in the park, then Cardano project would have been weaker. Strong competition is good. For me though, personally, I would lose some money but the industry would be stronger and I would not be so sorry for those lost $$$ invested in ADA as I'm not all in. Winners and losers if you just take the financial part. Wide adoption is still ahead of us for any crypto project - that would be the real win, even if the value will stay low.

R50cent

I dunno, I think i understand Cardano pretty well. A big issue of theirs was how they tried to build use cases, often behind others doing similar projects and often in worse ways. Cardano has tokenization! Nobody cared. NFT's? Nope. How about just the coin itself for the use case? Nope. They tried making it a ubiquitous cross border currency in Africa, only to find out that the gas fees destroyed the notions of a low cost coin being used for every day purchases when people were having to shell out a rather large percentage for fees compared to what they had just spent... so that shit failed. Then later on we see Cardano's head Charles Hoskinson rubbing up against the leg of the Trump administration in the hopes that they might put some ADA into the governments coffers in an effort to give it more legitimacy. Trump did what Trump does, and fucked the guy over by not actually accruing any ADA, but by holding on to a small amount the government had already seized... but not before a good solid speculative pump that good old Charles used to make himself lots and lots of money. I remember people laughing at me when I got out around 85 cents at the time. Cardano had a fun idea with Ouroboros, this notion that fees would circle back into wallets through staking, but it seems to not be enough to keep people investing, not when staking their coin through things like Daedalus won't even beat inflation. Then you have the unmitigated failure that Sundaeswap was, with the token to date having lost 99.4 percent of it's overall value. Cardano was/is... in many ways... a worse version of coins like Algorand, which beat it in speed, transaction cost and scalability, but even Algorand didn't win out, and that's what I usually point to when people are confused about the crypto space, because if solid tech in regards to the 'trilemma' is what people were really looking for, they'd have found it in Algorand... but it turns out none of this is about any of that. Cardano survives because it's old, and well known in the space, and because there are still scores of people out there, extolling it's virtues, holding their bags, and waiting.

whodamans

I really haven't paid attention to Crypto in 5+ years... When i did, pay attention, ADA/Cardano was the clear winner on all the technical aspects and i invested. Its never done me any better or worse than anything else. The fact its not in the top 3 at this point just shows nothing really matters, public sentiment, backdoor manipulation, and just straight poopoo magic drives this scene more than any fundamentals and technology.

BouncingDeadCats

As much as I hate Cardano, I consider it still in top 10. What are these garbage OCTA, YZY and WBT ranked ahead of ADA?

Prahasaurus

It's crazy that Cardano was ever in the top 10. It's a useless chain, ADA is basically a meme token for people too proud to buy FARTCOIN on Solana, and too stupid to operate within DeFi on Ethereum.

lambdasintheoutfield

SOL is a shitcoin. People who say it’s a solid choice are only saying it because they overweight the marketing vs the actual core fundamentals. They can’t actually articulate WHY it’s a strong tech choice because they either don’t understand how blockchain works OR they are unaware of significantly superior alternatives. ADA’s tech compared to ALGO and XTZ is also garbage. The way crypto markets work have shifted to almost pure speculation to being based on their interactions with the broader TradFi market. Yes there is obviously still speculation, but the rules of the game have changed and are evolving. Too many people fell victim to the induction bias of the 4 year BTC cycle when we didn’t have such widespread institutional adoption. People who knew better planned accordingly. The same people waited for “altcoin season” for complimentary reasons. Also, price predictions need to be taken with a MASSIVE grain of salt. In order to make good token selections, there needs to be a genuine understanding of how crypto has shifted. Then, we need to understand there are a lot of choices in each crypto subsector (ex. DeFi) and how much of that market share the coins have, and then intelligently speculate on future price. “Do your own research is true”, but useless as most people are looking at crypto through an outdated and/or myopic lens so the “research” and the conclusions aren’t based on sound principles.

apkatt

ADA has been in and out of top 10 since its launch in 2017, MC ranking is one of the most meaningless metrics anyway. If you want to FUD Cardano why not mentioned that it failed to hit a new ATH in this cycle – which is true for the vast majority of cryptos. This post is beyond stupid.

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I'm Charles Hoskinson. And Trump is bad because he doesn't do things that will pump ADA. If I were Trump, I would do such and such so that ADA would pump. And I would do this and that and ADA would pump. But Trump doesn't do those things. That's why ADA doesn't pump.