ADA

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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piggleii

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.

pressresetnow

Buy ADA!! Just joking

DuckBeddit

Another HBAR bag holder 😂 They are the same as ADA bag holders.

Best-Jackfruit5593

I like HYPE, the only reason why I’m not investing in it is because I feel like it’s dropped hard like the others. Still hasn’t dropped to 50% from last high. What’s CANTON and QNT? What do you believe on them more than the likes of ADA, AVAX or LTC?

ra246

As a bag holder from 2021 to 2025, ADA?!?! Absolutely not.

dirkseyboy78

ETH AVAX ADA NEAR RENDER SOLANA ONDO SUI INJECTIVE Some of these I bought high and they are completely destroyed right now but long-term I have faith in all of them.

Skyobliwind

Would be nice if ADA would finally see some upwards action, but that's more hopium than probability...

biba8163

> Turns out cycle boys were right all along. You led noobs off a cliff > With these prices already, things are getting clearer for 2025: **(Nov 2024)** > - ETH to $5K looks very realistic now. > - **DOGE** should **easily get past $1** this time. > - **SOL to $400** is too conservative. > - **ADA** could match its **ATH**. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1goeu1f/daily_crypto_discussion_november_11_2024_gmt0/lwnpbmg/ > I started doing an inverse r/cryptocurrency about 3 months ago, when everyone was fudding any alts not called SOL. **(Nov 2024)** > So **I started loading up on alts**. I got just a few of the many that people here were shitting hard on: **ETH, ADA, ATOM, DOT.** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1gmwzf3/daily_crypto_discussion_november_9_2024_gmt0/lwbu2u2/?context=3 I was honestly expecting alt season not to kick off until summer 2025. **(January 2025 )** > But seeing how we've already had a really nice pre-alt season rally in 2024, **I think alt season could kick off early.** https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1hxr73a/daily_crypto_discussion_january_10_2025_gmt0/m6bhx9w/ > The fact that **Bitcoin maxis are pushing this narrative** so hard, and are becoming so confident **that alt coins are dead and won't rise, is a signal that I should probably start loading up on alts instead of waiting for a bigger dip.** **(February 2025)** > You can literally see in the chart that alt coins have always lagged behind. So it hasn't done anything much different so far. > In every bullmarket Bitcoin pumps first, and alt season comes later. It's nothing new. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1ik9pg4/daily_crypto_discussion_february_8_2025_gmt0/mboo654/

StopRunningBiatch

I am stacking ETH,XRP,SOL,ADA,LINK,XLM like crazyyy ! Pls sell moree I want more Fear in the Market...

Everest2017

This crash itself is not insane. Insane is that shitcoins (XRP, ADA, DOGE, Zcash, etc) still have valuations in tens of billions of USD. For example, XRP still has almost 80B (!) market cap. It is insane. Market still has to correct this.

Odd_Pen_1041

Lol, what? If you think BTC is vulnerable whats gonna happen with all the alts (except ADA 😎)?

biba8163

All the people who bought undervalued Alts in the 2022 bear market are rich now /s > Polkadot (DOT) is incredibly undervalued. (DOT $24) https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/rzx79w/polkadot_dot_is_incredibly_undervalued_tomorrow/ > Cardano's at its most undervalued price in almost 2 years, data shows (ADA $1.15) https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sp2rch/cardanos_at_its_most_undervalued_price_in_almost/ > MATIC is the most undervalued project considering it’s performance (MATIC/POL $1.15) https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/pyttnp/matic_is_the_most_undervalued_project_considering/

oopssomething

What about ADA? Also keeps on printing and doesnt do well during bull

Decentralization-God

ADA, NIGHT, PYTH, (LINK) Dont ask me why, you need to be able to see through the fog, to understand

Sea-Environment-5938

From a markets perspective, ADA’s underperformance isn’t that surprising. Liquidity, stablecoin depth, and active users tend to concentrate where capital efficiency is highest. ETH L2s, Solana, and Avalanche captured real USDC liquidity early, which matters a lot for trading, DeFi, and onboarding new users. Cardano’s ecosystem growth has been slower, and that shows up clearly in TVL, volumes, and dApp usage metrics. Tech philosophy aside, markets tend to reward traction first and research later.

graytleapforward

ADA never adopted USDC or USDT when it mattered. Unfortunately that ship has sailed.

oopssomething

ADA just broke $0.3 just like Nov '23 and we all know what happened next

FederalOrder2822

Hbar, AMP, ADA, ETH.

biba8163

> **Would you rather hold 1 BTC or 10 ETH and why? (From 2018)** > - 10 ETH. ETH is more usable than BTC. I'm not a fan of BTC after the "store of value" ridiculousness. > - ETH definitely. BTC only holds the value it does because of exchanges, and some sites which don't offer alternatives (very few nowadays), the digital gold argument is stupid > - **ETH it's cheaper so more potential profit.** > - **If you think BTC is more likely to reach 40,000 than ETH reaching 2,600 you're lying to yourself** > - 10 ETH. It is faster, cheaper and supports DAP's. It will also eventually switch off mining which I feel will be a step forward for crypto. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/83olas/would_you_rather_hold_1_btc_or_10_eth_and_why/ > **Hypothetical: 1 BTC or 20 ETH? (From 2021)** > - **20 eth is worth 74k or so 1 btc is worth 50k or so.** > - 20 ETH. The **potential for growth is higher for ETH**, in my opinion. > - I don’t see how 20 ETH wouldn’t be the better option. > - I see BTC bouncing down off 59k like a lost tennis ball. ETH will hit 5k no problem very soon > - Easy, **20 ETH** for me. One pays you for holding it and is **growing a hell of a lot faster.** > - 32000 **ADA** (currently worth $9K) > - 350k **VET** (currently worth $3K) > - 43215 **Matic** (currently worth $5K) https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/nd6yvs/hypothetical_1_btc_or_20_eth/ **Alt Coin Mirage of Outperformance** Alts can outperform BTC: - When they are tiny/small marketcaps and are gaining prominence - When they dump to kingdom come and are lucky enough to recover Rookie Mistake: - Thinking Alts are cheap and will have more growth - Thinking that Alt that outperformed when it was a small cap will continue to outperform - Thinking your Alt is going to recover Veteran Mistake: - Losing sight of the Alt/BTC ratio and believing your Alt is doing well because it pumps more than BTC after dumping to kingdom come but bleeds to death against BTC long term - Thinking tech and partnerships matter for price appreciation when the only thing that matters is BTC going on a bullrun with every Alt depending on BTC profits for appreciation

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GrailThe

After a lot of research, (I will be pummeled here because its unpopular) I believe Hedera is destined to be one of the winners, for a variety of reasons. It is not a blockchain, it uses a DAG hashgraph architecture that avoids many of the problems of blockchains (congestion, variable gas fees, front running, high energy use) . It has security (ABFT), proven velocity(10K TPS), speed (<3 sec finality), fixed, low cost (.0001 / transaction), proven scale (71B completed transactions (no including voting as SOL claims), very low energy usage (\~0.000017 kWh per transaction), it is EVM compatible to connect with ETH DeFi, ISO 20022 certified for financial use cases including RWA tokenization, a governing council of 39 global enterprises including Google, Boeing, Dell, Mondelez, LG, IBM, etc.). Hedera has never really played the press release pump game of other cryptos and it is not well known or liked in the retail crypto gambling space. Its current market cap is a tiny fraction of SOL or ADA. In my opinion, it's the "AMZN" of the crypto world in 10 years.

jawni

>ADA Community is not on Reddit. Well I don't know who else would be commenting in /r/cardano if not the ADA community, especially since this thread is making it pretty obvious that any people with negative opinions are being banned. >It's somewhere between X and GitHub. lol thanks for the laugh. Relatively speaking the Cardano community on X is large compared to here, but that's only because X in general has a much larger crypto community then reddit. Relative to other altcoins, Cardano is easily one of the biggest alt communities here, or at least it's been that way from 2017 to recently. I've noticed it drop off a bit in the last year or so, but it's pretty obvious that there is a pro-Cardano bias in this sub compared to other alts. It's the only altcoin that ever has posts about minor protocol upgrades or really just any largely inconsequential shit that still gets upvoted. Any other alt coin, even with major news, will rarely get upvoted and rarely have positive comments. If you're ranking the bias of altcoins from positive to negative in this sub it goes: ETH, then ADA, then a big gap, then ALGO/DOT, then ICP/HBAR, and then you have a massive gap and it's SOL being mostly hated, then another massive gap and it's the purely hated projects like BSC, XRP, TRX, etc.

NoAverage9216

Something about ADA, every time I buy it it pumps hard and every time I have to sell it everything goes down

donjoe0

Gotta stay on top of the narratives game and jump ship the second you smell fear from your existing alts. Got wrecked myself by ADA, DOT, ATOM, RENDER, TIA, IMS and INJ in 2024, I wanna say I've "learned my lesson" but I'm prolly gonna make the same mistake again. Now I'm seeing freshness in Canton (somewhat) and in the new stablecoin settlement layers hoping for institutional adoption, i.e. Tether's STABLE (already launched) and Circle's ARC (no mainnet yet, hope I can catch an explosive move when it launches) and Stripe's TEMPO (also no mainnet yet, same hope, watching for news like a hawk).

Buydipstothemoon

ADA Community is not on Reddit. It's somewhere between X and GitHub.

jawni

I would care if I was an ADA holder, as it's a bad look for the community.

Wadafak19

ADA is light years away from its 2021 ATH. It’s a fact. Everything else is speculation. That’s why I’m out.

ADHD-Developer

I see no other road for ADA than total failure unfortunately.. just like polkadot, both are great projects. Problem is real world doesn’t care because its not bringing any benefit to capitalists. They are committed to centralizing ETH and BTC through accumulation the biggest size they can.. whats next ? If you control 10 - 20 % of an asset its already over

No-Contribution9918

You're not wrong, but it is also unsurprising. Mob mentality is a Reddit-wise. Cardano already has bridged USDC, and it did nothing for them. ADA and DOGE where the only two coins in the top ten to not reach a ATH in terms of price or market cap.

Anxious_Noise_8805

Hype is going to flip ADA soon

Full-Sound-6269

Ada went from 0.25 to 1.26 in 2024. Sure, it's not 10x like Solana had, but still it's not that dead. I think next run, if it happens, ADA will be way less active because it didn't do as good as people expected it to do. At the same time, when btc drops to sub 40k ADA will be near 10 cents, possibly a good opportunity.

kingjoeg

You're not allowed to talk about other cryptocurriences on specific crypto subreddits. One reason for this is because if it was allowed people would come to the ADA subreddit and spam it with mentions of their coin.

AlternativeTiger4302

There's usually three "buckets" fire alt drops from tippity top to bottom: The best: only drop ~75-85% The middle of the pack: drop 90-93% Extreme scenarios: drop 97%+ (and some recover to set new highs next cycle like ADA did from 17/18 cycle to 21/22 cycle). I highly doubt BTC goes that low though. That's the *obvious* spot on a chart. Last cycle everyone thought $10k-$12k and it ended up being $~15.5k. This bear everyone will think mid-30's and it'll end up being 45-50k watch.

XRP_SPARTAN

Yep ADA 2021 it is 💀

Independent_Term5790

Most of these coins like ADA that do absolutely nothing are still worth billions. There is so so much more pain coming in the future

TimeForGrass

'to win the market you must hold majorly btc' That's been a bit true over the past couple years but in general it's not. I bought ADA last bull run and some associated smaller cap coins and did pretty well, 5-6x return. 

nafnaf0

Yes, sadly I think this what caused most of pump up. I had around 20k ADA and sold it all at around a 15% loss in December 2024, when it had one last little rally. It is not a asset for speculation. You can stake and make decent rewards, but the rewards got much smaller. Basically it just long term generally goes down in value.

GreenStretch

Top 10 doesn't mean very much in crypto. It changes a lot. Peak this cycle [https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20251005/](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20251005/) Peak 2021 cycle [https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20211114/](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20211114/) Peak 2017-8 cycle [https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20180114/](https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20180114/) So which coins, excluding stablecoins, are in all three BTC, ETH, XRP, ADA BTC is the only one with a big increase in fiat price. ETH was slightly above its 2021 peak in this cycles ATH. XRP was also up, but was way down in 2021 with the SEC case. ADA didn't match its 2021 peak. SOL and BNB were in the last two cycles, but SOL didn't get anywhere close to the optimistic predictions expecting it to match ETH's growth between 2017 and 2021. BNB did well. DOGE and TRON were sort of odd shots with DOGE roaring in 2021 and TRON reaching its ATH this cycle. The other thing is its possible to buy former top 10 coins when they're massively depressed in the bear market and hope to take profits, even if they don't reach previous ATHs.

watch-nerd

You're drinking the kool aid. Big Ethereum L2s like Arbitrum have way more usage than ADA.

whisperedstate

Incredibly low chance with BTC or ETH. There's like a very slim possibility that ETH goes to 10k, and even slimmer possibility that BTC goes to 250k, and that's still not even close to 10x. So now you need to go down the list. Very unlikely any of the top 10 does a 10x (like SOL going from 60B to 600B, very unlikely). You're essentially looking for a 10B mcap to turn into 100B mcap, or 1B into 10B. The only 10B coin in the top 15 is ADA, but that is dogshit and basically 0% chance it does 10x. So the next choice is Canton CC. This is a network created by banks, and they'll be using it as a private network. But it also has a public facing side. Many won't distintuish between priate Canton and public Canton, so once toknenization gets into full swing later this year, CC is going to find itself as an new L1 with a hot narrative behind it. So that's where my money would go if you forced me to invest 300k looking to hit 3M in 2 years.