ADA

ozzzzzyyyyyy

I’m an ADA holder for 5 years - it’s the first time ever that I feel that ADA is completely wasted and on the way to becoming a shitcoin with no retail or institutional respect or consideration. My god! Any ADA holders that feel the same ?

theridingghost

All the dino coins like ADA, XRP, DOT. They all have basically no users and provide nothing of value in the new cycles

Nervous_Hurry_9920

I'm holding some cardano, just because the last time crypto was in politics ADA was being championed. I expect it to pop with the clarity act and speculate it will hit over $1 again. That said, I've been averaging down for a good while now and might just end up a bagholder.

hynreck7

Swap all my BTC to ADA, got it

WormCastings

I have cast the intestines of a newborn calf upon the ground during the Winter Solstice and came to the same result as this guy looking at scribbles on a chart. Sold yesterday. 🙏 for ADA Holders.

JarOfNightmares

Charles Hoskinson is a narcissistic incel who got rich off his project and took a job in the Trump admin because why the fuck wouldn't someone like him agree to work with Trump. Him criticizing Trump now is par for his character arc as the bull run never appears and the dumbest people on earth who bought ADA and voted Trump suddenly realize they've all been grifted

PatrickOBTC

I agree with you, though I think of him as a balf faced scam king, not a wolf. A short history: In the early Ethereum days he lied to his colleagues about his academic background, acting has if he dropped out of PhD studies, when he actually had not even completed an undergrad degree. His Ethereum colleagues more or less say he was a habitual liar and want nothing to do with him. This is all well documented in Laura Shin's book, The Ethereans. He broke away from Ethereum and helped to launch "Ethereum Classic" after The DAO Hack. IMHO "Eth Classic" was never anything more than an opportunist money grab grift. It was hugely pumped and dumped early on, it then for many years before it was attacked and suffered multiple block re-orgs. In 2017/18 Charles jumped on the hot ICO bandwagon with ADA. The project raised over $60M. The market cap soared well into the double digit billions. Founders got 57% of the coins released. Another 11% went to "further development" through IOHK. So buyers actually owned less than 40% of the tokens and a bulk of the wealth accrued to you know who. With some of that money, Hoskinson donated several millions to Cornell with the condition that they name the math building the money was raised for after him. This way he can casually drop to future would-be investors that Cornell named a math building after him of course leaving out that it was simply a financial exchange and nothing to do with any kind of academic achievements. I lost track of his dealings after this point, but he has been snaking his way into Trumps crypto push in congress as they like to lay with their own kind.

luckyknight216

Well, there goes ADA being taken out of the crypto reserve...if it's ever built.

jwz9904

i won't sell my ADA at a loss!

Educational_Speech58

That's ben going on for a long time Midnight I see privacy trylima broken native token is ADA

Huge_Strain_8714

I mean, XRP, MON, and ADA have great capabilities, real life applications but it's not moving their price?

invalid404

My guess is people with ADA are selling it to buy Midnight, since they're related (people with ADA got Midnight dropped to them with a year-long vest).

biba8163

> Retail interest never came back this cycle There was a post about Retail Sentiment in August 2024 and I thought it would really hard to bring retail back in the current state of the economy AND the fact that they all lost a ton of money on crypto and meme stocks during 2021-22. > Reddit Crypto and Bitcoin subs are detached from all reality. People are struggling due to the high cost of everything because of inflation only made higher by the high interest rate environment. We are in a much different environment that the 2017 bullrun and the 2021 bullrun. And despite what people here say, even big cuts in interest rates does not mean we are going back to near zero interest rates next year. Bitcoin is now a huge market that is harder to move going against economic headwinds -- if Bitcoin goes on a big bullrun next year, it'll be fucking impressive. > - 2017 Bullrun: Fed Funds rate in was between 1-1.5% > - 2021 Bullrun: Fed Funds rate was between 0.05-0.10% > - 2024: Fed Funds rate sits at 5.5% > - 2025: Fed Fund Futures is predicting 2 percentage rate cuts by next July leaving it 3.25% to 3.5% > - Credit Card delinquency rate at the hugest since 2011 > - Credit Card debt at record high of $1.3 trillion > - 1 in 3 people said they will have more credit card debt by the end of 2024 > - Average credit card interest rate is currently 22.76% > - Average family in 2024 must pay 38% of income on mortgage to purchase a house > - Low-income families would have to spend 77% on mortgage to purchase a house > I only have anecdotal evidence of of how much of the money comes from low income retail. But during the last bull run, it seemed like every regular Joe who had a smart phone was trying to make money on crypto and meme stocks like GME. > My girlfriend's mom who is a waitress got a note from someone who left her a tip saying invest in these two "XRP and DOGE" and she wanted me to put in money for her. Christmas in 2021 I am with my girlfriend's family who have NEVER invested in anything and they're talking about the best shitcoins. That stuff was all over TikTok. > My plumber went all in on GME, COIN, SQ, BTC, ADA. I saw him again in 2023 and he now says his only investment is his house. I really think this retail FOMO did have an effect on the market. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1essrtn/seeing_engagement_here_sentiment_is_lower_than_in/li8cj8m/

biba8163

I am the Shitcoin Boogey Man... > You had a once in a lifetime opportunity of a 3-year head start to front run big dick institutional funds and maybe even sovereign funds but instead you chose to chase after shitcoins. As a result there are probably a ton of people who have been in crypto for years don't even have a whole Bitcoin or cannot afford one now but could easily have acquired one over the past three years. What's worse, as Bitcoin's value appreciates more and more, some of you don't even realize what is happening and are still chasing some shitcoins. At least acquire some Bitcoin for god's sake. There's no reason we can't all make it. https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kk8n2g/daily_discussion_december_26_2020_gmt0/gh3kmjt/ ...trying to wake you up from your shitcoin fever dream > A $32 ADA w/ $1T mkt cap isn't unrealistic in 10 years if we assume that Bitcoin will keep rising in that time and by then will itself most assuredly be sitting well over a trillion. https://np.reddit.com/r/cardano/comments/l4huaz/comment/gkr0c1c/ > Yeah I'm in the process of switching most of my BTC/ETH over to ADA as well. I'm of the mindset that the Cardano network is going to make Ethereum obsolete https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/kx4t9t/comment/gj8t08b/ Of losses and opportunity costs Date | ADA/BTC Ratio ---|--- 12/21/2017 | ████████████████████ 0.000030 12/21/2018 | ███████ 0.000010 12/21/2019 | ███ 0.000005 12/21/2020 | ████ 0.000007 12/21/2021 | █████████████████ 0.000026 12/21/2022 | ██████████ 0.000015 12/21/2023 | ██████████ 0.000015 12/21/2024 | ██████ 0.000009 12/21/2025 | ███ 0.000004

biba8163

> Best way to twist people all out of shape on this sub is to post anything positive about Cardano Cuckdano really twists me out of shape making me laugh at how people are still cheerleading this shitcoin. *ADA is down -65% from 2018...* https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20180105/ Remember in 2018, *"Avengers: Infinity Wars"* came out and Cardano had a *"partnership"* with the Ethiopian government and *"Cardano's partnership with Wakana"* became a meme. Of course after the resounding success in Ethiopia, Cardano moved on to Georgia, Mongolia, etc. > Ethiopian Gov’t Signs Agreement With Cardano To Introduce Blockchain In Agritech **(2018)** https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethiopian-govt-signs-agreement-with-cardano-to-introduce-blockchain-in-agritech > IOHK announces partnership with Georgian government and universities **(2019)** https://www.iog.io/news/iohk-announces-partnership-with-georgian-government-and-universities > IOHK signed an MoU with Mongolian Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency Association and Mongolian Fintech Association. **(2019)** https://x.com/Cardano/status/1127157129591312385 Meanwhile, the Scammer Charles Hoskinson who cosplayed as a Phd in Mathematics dropout became a billionaire and used money from gullible fools to: - own a 11-000 acre ranch - destroy American institutions, international reputation and democracy to support people like RFK and Trump - recover alien remains from the ocean floor - invest in genetically engineered bioluminescent plants that produce organic lighting! > **"Charles Hoskinson, Jack of All Trades:" Aliens, Cattle, and Plant Genetic Engineering** https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2171707 > **Wyoming Blockchain Billionaire Has Big Political Plans, To Launch PAC** https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/01/30/wyoming-blockchain-billionaire-has-big-political-plans-to-launch-pac/

fuck-bitch_shit

so not to the community but to the people that buy the most ADA tokens. big difference

CriticalCobraz

**Summary**: In 2025, Cardano officially entered the Voltaire era, achieving full on-chain decentralization through the Plomin hard fork. This technical milestone shifted control of the protocol and its $1.7 billion treasury directly to the community, governed by a ratified constitution and a system of Delegated Representatives (DReps). With ADA holders now driving all funding and development decisions via transparent voting tools, the network is pivoting its 2026 strategy toward scalability—specifically through the Ouroboros Leios upgrade—to bolster throughput and prepare for widespread enterprise adoption.

enlighteningFart

Difficult choice. Nano, XRP, FTM would all be great choices. I'd say ADA, because you have to be an absolute gullable muppet to fall for Charles bullshit. Insufferable fucking twat/scammer

baIIern

The year of ADA is 2021 and ever will be

biba8163

> I think that 2026 will be the year of ADA and Cardano. ADA is down -65% from 8 years ago.... https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20171231/ ...while the Scammer Charles Hoskinson who cosplayed as a Phd in Mathematics dropout became a billionaire and used money from gullible fools to: - own a 11-000 acre ranch - destroy American institutions, international reputation and democracy to support people like RFK and Trump - recover alien remains from the ocean floor - invest in genetically engineered bioluminescent plants that produce organic lighting! > **"Charles Hoskinson, Jack of All Trades:" Aliens, Cattle, and Plant Genetic Engineering** https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2171707 > **Wyoming Blockchain Billionaire Has Big Political Plans, To Launch PAC** https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/01/30/wyoming-blockchain-billionaire-has-big-political-plans-to-launch-pac/

cascading_disruption

Just one token on Cardano called $NIGHT flips entire daily vol. of SOL or XRP. I think that 2026 will be the year of ADA and Cardano.

F-machine

He wants ADA to start pumping

ShittingOutPosts

I mean, I profited off of ADA, but I also won’t deny it’s a scam.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Bitcoin and Ethereum surged during Friday's Asian trading, crossing critical technical levels due to macroeconomic factors. The Bank of Japan's interest rate hike, absorbed without market distress, and lower-than-expected U.S. inflation boosted risk appetite. Bitcoin rose above $87,000, Ethereum followed suit, and altcoins like ADA, SOL, and XRP saw gains. Improved global risk sentiment and easing selling pressure among long-term Bitcoin holders set the stage for potential year-end crypto volatility amid high leverage and reduced liquidity. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Richar_16

Bad. Next Good cycle I’m Selling XRP and ADA. Horrible coins

Mr_Tommy777

DCA’d XRP, ADA & BTC. Traded for some meme coins & NFT’s. Total degen behavior. Lost some, got rugged and hit a couple big winners. But the smart move was selling.

Psychological-Win339

I’m mad about the whole diversifying thing. I deversified into Ondo, GRT, Render and ADA and none of those performed great.. granted I bought those after selling sui at a 4x profit.. but every since I made the move they’ve dropped an insane amount. First coin I looked into was Hbar and it looked insanely good to me. I wanted to go all in but didn’t cause everyone said to diversify. Now I don’t really like the diversifying idea. Even AI is saying that everything but Hbar is medium to high risk.

VicoxLegal

Hi! Good question about these classic altcoins from the previous cycle. In 2025, most are still in the top 30 by market cap and maintain active development, although they haven't recovered their 2021 all-time highs: ADA (Cardano): Charles Hoskinson continues to push upgrades (like zk and partner chains), but the hype has died down and it hasn't delivered on all the promises made back then. Solid in research, but slow in mass adoption. VET (VeChain): They just launched the Hayabusa upgrade (new staking and tokenomics), focused on a real supply chain with enterprise partnerships. It's not exploding in price, but it's advancing in practical utility. LINK (Chainlink): It remains the king of oracles, with CCIP growing and a lot of TVS in DeFi/RWA. Strong partnerships (Coinbase, etc.), probably the most "alive" on the list. LTC (Litecoin): Classic for fast/cheap payments, with ETF filings and some index inclusion. Stable, but without major recent innovations. DOT (Polkadot): Upgrades like Polkadot 2.0 and JAM are on the way for better interoperability, but low price and tough competition at layer-0. Ultimately, they have matured more as infrastructure than as "moonshots," and their future depends on real adoption rather than hype.

coffeesip12

ADA 🫡

Odd_Pen_1041

Honestly me, personally, i dont know should i sell or hodl like i did for the past 3 years. Im big on ADA, i've got a feeling that when altcoins bleed ADA bleeds the most. QE still not close, liquidity not coming anytime soon. We will see.

A-Stock-A-Day

Cycle survivors (dinos that stick around like ADA/XRP): * **ETH** — L2 king, ETFs, DeFi backbone. Immortal. * **SOL** — Speed + memes + adoption, too big to fade. * **XRP** — Banks/utility + reg wins, eternal zombie. * **ADA** — Research vibe + upgrades, slow but survives bears. * **LINK** — Oracles needed forever, no competition kills it. * **BNB** — Binance empire fuel, burns + utility = longevity. Most memes/new L1s ghost, but these have real ecosystems/moats. 90% alts die anyway, stick to top 20.

WorthDazzling1861

got scared bc i thought he was gonna be naming shit like SOL, LINK, ADA, etc, but no its jus this bullshit

Previous_Valuable873

Honestly, I think the more institutions tout it will get to 200+ the more I am betting the other way. 95% of my bags are XMR and the XMRBTC is looking lovely since more than a year, while everything bleeds, did 3x just in a year with it, so I would not mind the 30k btc as then people would realize an actual coin that BTC wanted to be (but could not, due to being completely transparent and slow as fu\*k), if BTC drops that much, all the shitcoins next to it will evaporate also. ADA, ETH, everything.

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Noracleio

The future of these "old-guard" coins like ADA, VET, LINK, LTC, and DOT is determined by whether their continued development and real-world utility can outweigh the market's current hype cycle, which often favors newer narratives. Projects like LINK and DOT are showing strong fundamentals with major infrastructure upgrades (CCIP and Polkadot 2.0/JAM Protocol) and aggressive institutional focus (LINK's RWA data streams, DOT's supply cap), positioning them to remain highly relevant in the Web3 ecosystem despite price volatility.

PrettyPleaseYo

Sol was just one cycle later than Eth and ADA.

Odd_Pen_1041

Im a littlw biased when it comes to ADA but its a really good hodl for the futuee.

Odd_Pen_1041

ADA

Phylaras

LTC has an ETF. LiNK is one of the most critical infrastructure pieces in crypto. The others aren't needed for much. ADA is part of an ETF too.

chain_thinker7

Coins like ADA and VET had strong narratives early, but the market rewards **real utility and adoption**. Some will evolve, some won’t, same as old tech in any industry. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s momentum and protocols that add *yield + utility* (like Money Protocol and Intrinsic) are gaining traction because they solve real problems rather than just promise them.

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Escapement_Watch

no point to sell now at bear market prices. If it bleeds slowly who cares. How much lower can it go? 10-25%? that's nothing in crypto. You are basically selling the bottom here. Selling your coins for free. I have no idea what grt is. Ondo is only used for governance (not needed to settle rwa's on the chain) but should still rebound one day due to big names being tied in with it. Hbar may have a future in 4-5 years but with 40billion tokens out the price action will be slow and steady. remember bitcoin has 21 million cap. so 50billion is just crazy number to ever increase in price. ADA has 4 crucial problems (no stable coins - slow real throughput - no CHAINLINK integration - low devs) but they are working on them... it may have a future i dunno i'd probably get out of it. if you are not down too much on ada and hbar you can rotate your loses. since bitcoin is down as well... if it is down roughly the same % as you are down in those then you can rotate with very little losses or even at break even. Because at least with btc you know it will come back one day.

Psychological-Win339

Yea that’s where I’m at. Screwed up holding alts long term. I don’t claim to be an expert in this space and listened to people claiming to be experts. Now I’m at the point where I decide if I cut my losses with the GRT, Ondos and Renders.. potentially even ADA or hold and hope. I have no concerns holding Hbar long term. It’s the only one that hasn’t disappointed me yet.

Red_Pill_Blues1

I personally think it’s silly to hold altcoins. They’ve been trending down for years now. Every high is lower and lower. I don’t trade but I make significant investments in the bear market and dca when I’m comfortable and believe we are near the low. I take my money out when I’m happy enough with my return. Things will go down and they will go back up. Sure, some alts won’t come back but you’d have to be into some really obscure shit for it to be delisted. Plenty of ghost coins out there (imo what ADA is right now) that still make exchanges a butt ton of cash so they won’t go anywhere. I used to say stay in the top 50 and you’re fine but that number goes down every year. Now I’d hesitate to play outside the top 25.

ginnipix

Good time to DCA. Maybe consider $ADA and skate it. Also $RYO. I hope yougrow ur bags exponentially.

robertorgg

How to learn more about a SUI and ADA ? I don’t believe in DOGE but I’d like to learn more about those 2. Is there sb who doesn’t videos on YouTube you can suggest ? Or any website I can look into ? Thank you.

gonats24

exactly this. the narrative doesn't match reality at all. SOL XRP SEI ADA all up huge from their cycle lows. people writing these articles either don't do basic research or they're just farming clicks with fear. either way it's lazy and misleading for anyone actually trying to learn

MinimalGravitas

This is just a spam account posting the lowest tier of crypto 'news' slop articles as a way to make their account seem legit for their real purpose, which is spamming referral links. And when I say 'lowest tier' I really do mean it. The articles 'author' pumps out half a dozen 'articles' each day, each one just alternating day to day a bullish or bearish claim on one of the handful of coins they vomit out nonsense about. * This article is bullish: *Cardano (ADA) TD Buy Signal...*; * 17 hours earlier: *Cardano (ADA) Faces Short-Term Dip...*; * A day before that: *Explosive Cardano Breakout...*; * A day earlier: *Cardano Faces 5% Loss...*; * And before that: *Cardano Blast: 10% Bullish Breakout*; ... You can see the pattern. All this type of article exists for is to generate ad clicks, there is zero meaningful content and absolutely nothing that will help anyone in any of it. Spamming this type of thing here actively makes the ecosystem worse, by directing views and therefor ad revenue, and so encouraging the bullshit to continue.

bestjaegerpilot

bruh... stablecoins mean blockchains, blockchains mean alt coins that power those blockchains (ex: ETH, TRON, ADA, etc) also AI tokens---some peeps use those to raise funding

jawni

The only thing comparable to Solana in terms of success is Ethereum and Base, and it's not even close. LTC/Nano/ADA have never had even 1% of the adoption or usage that Solana has had. In the case of Nano and LTC, they don't even have smart contracts. Even in the case of Cardano, it has smart contracts, but has had maybe 5% of the development activity as Solana has had. Nano processed 20,000 transactions yesterday. Cardano processed 740,000 transactions over the last week, that averages to roughly 105,000 per day. Litecoin did 186,000 transactions yesterday. That's 311,000 transactions between 3 networks over a single day. Solana alone processes that many in just 5 minutes... (this is the part where people make excuses to hand wave away the txn count, but that just leads us to look at metrics like revenue that paint an even clearer picture of Solana's dominance) >Name one thing that isn't performance related that Solana can do what Ethereum can't do. Everything a network can do would be performance related. What are you even trying to ask? >In a few years nobody will care for your Solana NFTs or your Solana DEX. Yeah and people were wrong when they said this *exact same thing* in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and they were clearly wrong. Maybe it's different this time, despite the fact that it looks even less unlikely with the progress being made. >It's not on the same level as Bitcoin or Ethereum. People thinking it is are delusional. The industry pretty unanimously considers Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana to be the 3 majors now. Absolutely no one outside of this subreddit considers Nano, Litecoin, or Cardano to be comparable to Solana. Let's check back in 2 years. And just out of curiousity, where do you do your research or get your info from on crypto that makes you think Solana is comparable with those coins? It's not something I've ever heard outside of reddit. RemindMe! 2 years

Designer-Shake-7690

Crypto is not a utility or value backed market. It is an always will be an attention market. Too little eyes on ADA as theres different things this cycle that attract more volume

GamerRevizor

Cardano didn’t vanish it just lost attention because development moves slowly, the dApp ecosystem is still small, and it lacks the kind of hype-driven moments that push other chains forward. Technically it’s solid, but the market now rewards fast iteration and aggressive ecosystem growth, where Solana and Ethereum outperform. ADA still has a future, but likely as a steady, conservative project rather than a hype comeback story. Unless ecosystem activity picks up and development accelerates, there aren’t many catalysts for a big return.

noviwu97

Can't wait for ADA cultist to do mental gymnastic by saying all those points are bullish.

Illustrious_Way3898

It’s doing around 1 TPS. No real apps, barely any stablecoins - Cardano is basically a ghost chain right now. I still hold and stake some ADA, but activity is almost nonexistent.

MakCapital

When everything on earth becomes a token you can't expect every asset and asset type to rise at once. The tokens capturing and distributing value from users will rise based on their ability to monetize activity. It's that simple. There will be an infinite number of tokens. Learn how to value them. Just as you would when buying any asset on Robinhood. BTC is the only publicly managed currency that gets to long term rise without earnings. XRP, ADA, and every other token that has 0 activity to monetize will always long term trend to 0 BTC. That only changes if activity changes. Don't let meme pumps of larger caps convince you this isn't true. There are only 3 alt chains with serious activity. Of these only one is already correctly monetizing that activity. If that activity remains constant or grows, that's the only alt L1 you can say the price of the token at some point in the future will be higher than it is today. If you aren't aware what holds the majority of activity and or rev, spend more time in the space before looking for entries on any L1.

Extra_Ad8616

I hold some ADA not my largest bag though

rechtim

ADA baggie?

yell0w8

what do we want? to give actually good investing advice. ADA is not one of them recently

watch-nerd

And despite this, the market cap remains stuck behind even ghost chain ADA.

watch-nerd

AKA: ADA ghost chain floats another vapor use case.

tizalozer

Time to short ADA

noviwu97

All the ADA cultists are hyping this shit. Since the airdrop will be linear based on ADA holdings, I bet it's $ value won't be more than 1%. Can't wait for a good laugh on this shitshow.

DoctorMario1000

I’ve been in a coma since 2021, ADA and LINK to the moon am I right ??! /s

gervleth

CRO (FML) and DOT again… fk my life. Stuck holding and waiting. Oh… don’t bother with those two..! ADA is the way it seems?

Zealousideal-Shoe527

Oh no, is ADA dead again?

elidevious

I still made some money on ADA this cycle. But won’t be buying again.

GreedVault

Seems like the physical business activity of his businesses is roughly matching ADA’s on-chain activity.

ThreeTonChonker

ADA was shilled so hard here at one point. Next up is definitely XRP. One day people will understand it’s BTC or bust.

noviwu97

Don't worry, as long as ADA cultists exist, he won't run out of money to start a new tradfi business.

evandollardon

I've got like 40% BTC 20% ETH and 40% NEXO, SOL, ADA

Leading_Wafer9552

100% agreed. Tax obligations in the US makes using crypto impractical. Practically every single move requires a loss/gain tax calculation and report. The people who tell you "moving crypto from one wallet you own to another wallet you own is not a taxable event" are wrong. The network fee of crypto you spend (hence dispose of) to send the other amount of crypto from your first wallet to your second wallet causes a taxable event. The IRS is very clear on this, spending/selling/trading/or otherwise disposing of crypto creates a taxable event. Many people have misinterpreted question 38 of the IRS crypto FAQ statement about moving crypto from one wallet to another.  Question 38 is only referring to the crypto you retain ownership of going from 1 wallet to another, but not referring to the crypto you're actually spending to move it. The network fee you're spending to move the crypto is a taxable event that must be calculated and reported to the IRS as a loss/gain. For example, if you send 1 bitcoin from your 1st wallet to your 2nd wallet, that "1 bitcoin" amount itself wouldn't be a taxable event because you still retain ownership of it, but paying that small 0.00000250 BTC network fee to send it is a taxable event because you are exchanging 0.00000250 BTC for the service of the transaction, in which you would need to calculate and report a loss/gain to the IRS for that 0.00000250 BTC amount. Most people rely on the automated crypto tax software, but even the software can't be 100% accurate all the time. Most automated tax software relies on simplistic accounting methods like FIFO/LIFO/HIFO...etc. If you commingle your funds from different purchases into the same wallets/accounts and intentionally sell/spend specific amounts from different purchase periods, then the tax software could not accurately account for which funds you are actually selling/spending. The other problem with the software is that it requires you to connect all accounts/wallets. Some exchanges are no longer accessible to do this. No software has ever accurately accounted for and calculated transactions for me. Staking rewards like ADA creates a headache because of the high frequency and miniscule payments. DeFi I don't even bother with No one is going to want to adopt crypto with these tedious tax obligations in place. I'm definitely fed up.

SomewhereBusiness503

BTC is the obvious one with ETFs and strong institutional support, so it’s likely to survive long-term. ETH is another big contender thanks to its smart contract ecosystem and growing adoption, especially with staking and layer-2 scaling. Other coins with real utility could stick around too, like BNB (used in Binance ecosystem), SOL (for fast smart contracts), and maybe ADA or AVAX if their networks keep growing. The general rule is: projects with strong developer ecosystems, real use cases, and network effects have the best shot. Everything else might fizzle when the next bear market hits.

553l8008

Just to be clear.... unrealized gains in the form of an airdrop or staking rewards ARE taxable. The exception may be the above where you don't intend to own them and consider them spam. But if you stake ETH or ADA etc... you owe taxes on those rewards the for the cost basis when they were received. And then additional taxes when you actually sell them

cascading_disruption

ADA boy.

ecowaves

ADA - proof of stake yields 1% energy use as Bitcoin for the same security and allows for staking resulting in 70ish% of the holders to hold while the community actively works to make Cardano functional for the people of the world. Its what crypto was meant to be all along. Power to the people!

layersofme72

i mean yeah if you're only looking at memecoins. but projects like SEI ADA AVAX are building real infrastructure. most people just gamble instead of researching what they buy

uthillygooth

ADA DeFi only did 3.1 million in 24 hr volume.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Cardano plans to allocate $30 million to enhance its network's liquidity by onboarding tier-one stablecoins, custody providers, cross-chain bridges, pricing oracles, and institutional analytics. This initiative, supported by key organizations like Input Output, EMURGO, and the Cardano Foundation, aims to address the network's limited DeFi base and infrastructure gaps. The goal is to mobilize passive ADA holders into active liquidity and attract market makers, positioning Cardano for significant growth in 2026. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

Huge_Strain_8714

I do research on altcoins beforepurchasing. Soon as I buy, it plummets...ADA, XRP, and recently MON....even DOGE, which, just for the heck of it

noviwu97

ADA cultists will do mental gymnastic saying that TVL doesn't matter

Material_Exercise_10

70 mil of ADA is gonna be distributed to 5 entities for them to do what they have promised long time ago, and should have finished those work by now. Ada is gonna drop slowly

AutoModerator

Post is by: El_mundito and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1pb96y0/why_is_ada_still_stuck_below_1_what_are_we_missing/ I'm not trying to shill or throw a tantrum, but I genuinely want to understand the market's complete reluctance to value this thing higher. It feels like every quarter, they deliver a massive piece of core tech—Vasil, scaling upgrades, Hydra is always coming—and the price just shrugs and stays where it is. Meanwhile, I see coins with zero real use case or half-baked tech going on 5x runs for no reason other than hype. Yes, I know, 36 billion coins in circulation. The market cap has to be enormous to hit a high price. But it feels like this fact alone is being used as a permanent excuse. Is the entire market just psychologically incapable of valuing a token that requires a $36 billion market cap just to hit a single dollar? It's like we're constantly fighting against a massive headwind that no other top-10 coin has. The Ouroboros protocol and the peer-reviewed code are why many of us invested. But damn, it's slow. While they are perfecting the security, the competition (Solana, Avalanche, etc.) runs ten laps, creates a massive ecosystem, and sucks up all the liquidity But I need someone to give me an honest, non-shilly answer about what tangible, major event needs to happen for the market to wake up and say, "Okay, $ADA deserves to be a multi-dollar asset." *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Used_Statistician_61

Be sure to check this out too. Feel free to cross post I cannot. [HBAR, XRP, and ADA named as Collateral Assets to Stop Corrupt Bankers During Insolvency by Daniel Davenport Enterprises, LLC DBA WEB 3 VETS DBA MAKING AMERICA GREATER author of HBAR Pro Dollar Asset Gold Paper](https://www.reddit.com/r/XRPUnite/s/BLK3gtQ1Wm)

coldfisherman

I had very high hopes, even modified a ton of corporate software to replace ACH transactions with ETH/ADA/SOL but then..... out came a bunch of blatant scams with Trump coin and melania coin and whatever. I couldn't even say crypto at a meeting without getting some major negative judgement. Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of coding into the trash. It's infuratiting to see so many points where crypto could save a fortune and make everything so much easier, yet a single politician can turn it into garbage - even with all the corporate heads all trumpie, they believe it's just a scam to make money (and They are literally OK with it for that purpose!) ugh. Now.... I don't know. I sold a bunch and bought some rental properties this year I still have some that I couldn't bear to part with, but honestly, I think the ALT coins and this endless scamming from politicians. Will never end

Mediocre-Exchange-86

ADA, XRP, ETH, MOG, and of course BTC. But regardless everything is down right now so its a perfect time to buy. Most people are trying to cost average right now becausethey bought in at a higherprice than it is currently. If you just stepped in right now and bought a few thousand from a couple different coins like the ones I mentioned you would be in a great position.

s-i-c-m

ADA

Ok_Golf_6467

Took stacking ADA from 2022 to 2024 (sold in Dec) to make my first big profit, about ~250%

newjerseymax

Yup! I got lucky as I sold my ADA above $1 and my XRP above $3… but I held them for a long time to get there.

HBAR-P19-Inventor

Here is his paper. They also have a candidate in Illinois who signed the Hedera Pact as well, coordinated through Hedera Law & Lobby. The public version focuses exclusively on HBAR: 🔗 https://www.sec.gov/about/crypto-task-force/written-submission/ctf-written-gold-paper-making-america-greater-09-05-2025 The private briefing edition I reviewed at the campaign event includes additional analysis on XRP and ADA, which does not appear in the publicly released document.

HBAR-P19-Inventor

Here is her paper. The public version focuses exclusively on HBAR: 🔗 https://www.sec.gov/about/crypto-task-force/written-submission/ctf-written-gold-paper-making-america-greater-09-05-2025 The private briefing version I reviewed at the campaign event also includes analysis of XRP and ADA, which are not shown in the public release.

wintomato

It depends on your risk appetite. I don’t think Bitcoin will grow faster than XRP or ADA — they tend to follow a similar growth pattern. However, every market downturn brings new opportunities. New tokens enter the market with interesting features and strong potential. You can consider allocating a portion of your portfolio to these emerging projects.

matt7882

totally agree, buy ADA but first wait for the absolute bottom.

PMmeuroneweirdtrick

How is the time in the market working out for ADA, ETH, any altcoin holders?

Patlelion1970

I did the same, when I was so down few days ago I just put 40k in everything Solana Jupiter ADA 1inch fet Shiba dogecoin XRP Sui Pengdu Render Hivemapper Pepe Icp I hope to get 100k probably even sooner that I thought

ADHD-Developer

Invest in all 3 and consider adding ETH and ADA to ur portfolio, WAIT FOR THE ABSOLUTE BOTTOM (200 week ema on Btc) to enter

AsideWild6996

For alts, I check on the status of the project and what is it abou Went for COPI and RYO. For established ones, I went for SOL. BNB. ADA

uthillygooth

I wonder what the venn diagram of the coin bureau faithful and ADA holders are Because Coin Bureau relentlessly shilled ADA on Twitter when I followed him.

BarrKk-SKA

Hi, while I also recommend to invest in BTC, ETH, ADA regularly, my best choice would be WeFi (future of Banking Defi - credit card already operational).They planned a constant growth, and you can even make better long term investment mining the WeFi token at low price (just buying ITO). We are potentially at the end of this cycle for BTC, and the strategy of WeFi makes it very resilient even during this type of phase. If you have questions, happy to help. https://preview.redd.it/uitpis5asd3g1.jpeg?width=2622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51248d14dee3343a422bc31f54eb48ff83093a56

ShadowBannedAugustus

This just reminded me I have a bag of ADA staked somewhere in a wallet since about time when there was an ADA based exchange similar to ice cream of something created. I guess that bag is not worth much anymore, is it :D?

fivebillionproud

I find the timing of this story weird. Maybe it's a coincidence, but just days prior to this, all of the attention was on Cardano's stable coins depegging, which reignited discussion and fingerpointing over the fact that Emergo and Cardano Foundation still haven't gotten USDC or USDT on Cardano. Charles said in a tweet that he's not responsible for getting a stablecoin on Cardano, and says it's the Foundations job. Then this exploit happens and all entities supposedly come together for the chain and its holders, which I guess eased concerns that they're incapable of working together. Hooray. Maybe \*\*this\*\* \*\*time\*\* they're serious on getting things done? No need to talk about stablecoins, guys! Look what Cardano just did! Just ignore that ADA is way lower than 2017/2018 peak! The whole thing is weird to me.