ADA

Omnishambles22

ADA sucks ass

steadyhandhide

Yeah but USD takes 100 years to lose 90% of its original value. ADA only takes a couple years.

L00seyG00s3y

Founding entities and Decentralised Governance are to be blamed!! Emurgo are basically useless. They gambled away the genesis ADA given to them. For being given the responsibility of commercial arm of Cardano. They have done F***k all so far to benefit this blockchain. Cherry on top is the recent SecondFi hack as they moved towards a closed source wallet and away from Yoroii wallet. Cardano Foundation honestly doesn't give a damn about global adoption that will increase user activity on the chain and price of ADA. They love chasing pointless gimmicks like bicycle tracking and durian fruit tracking. Why care when you can still collect a paycheck right? Charles Hoskinson is a cry baby throwing a tantrum to anyone who disagrees with him. Decentralised Governance is broken and does not work. Emurgo and Cardano Foundation hold a lot of the voting power via different Dreps. Random shi* is being funded because Dreps are saying "YES" to the wrong things during voting season. Nothing being funded translates back to global adoption.

Peach_Lover_101

My "all time" is break even only due to selling MANA at the top (80x, my only real successful crypto trade). Should have sold everything back then. round tripped the rest of the pile twice like a retard. though if you held about half of your stash in ETH and BTC you shouldn't look as bad as that. The Coinbase bag is mostly dinosaurs: BTC, ETH, LINK, XRP, XLM, ADA, HBAR. Got more adventurous plays on Kraken and Coinbase wallet which honestly, I'm afraid to even look at.

ElephantEarTag

Looks like too many alts and not enough Bitcoin. Kind of looks like ADAM and ADA. But what's one shit coin to another? The important thing is that they are not Bitcoin.

Buydipstothemoon

My ADA are where they began. Still feels bad.

MarioWilson122

Probably not the best place to come for investment advice, but since you're here anyway, it's worth considering a different approach. Even if you've lost confidence in Cardano long term, selling during a weak market isn't necessarily the best move. If the broader crypto market enters another bull run, there's a decent chance ADA still appreciates simply because liquidity tends to lift most major projects. If the goal is to reduce exposure, dollar-cost averaging out over time makes more sense than panic selling into a down market. Of course, there's no guarantee Cardano will recover the way people hope, but timing matters too. If you've already held through a large portion of the downturn, it may be more rational to wait for stronger market conditions before making a final decision rather than locking in losses during a period when sentiment across the market is still relatively weak.

jgarcya

All crypto is a gamble! I gave you the chart pattern... A descending wedge... It's TA. Or sell and harvest your 60,000$ loss over 20 years...or whatever you're allowed to do with losses now. I used to be excited for crypto projects... Ada was one... But now all crypto is is gambling... Even the best "projects" are all hype... And go towards zero... Look at algorand... It was a great concept... Getting hundreds of millions in funding... Yet it's .08 ... When it was a high of $3... Just like ADA. Altcoins are dead.... But the time to sell is year three of the cycle ....not year Four.

jgarcya

Look up descending wedge(falling wedge)... I'm going by memory here... First ada cycle peak $3... Current cycle peak you say $1.30 In a descending wedge you get lower highs... So next cycle 2027-2031..... The high will be less than $1.3... probably about $1.. So in my point ... Would you rather sell your ADA at today's price... Or at around $.80... I'd choose the latter.

jgarcya

The crypto market moves according to bitcoins four year cycle . In year four of the cycle BTC loses 70-80% from its all time high.... We are in year four. Around Jan 2027...the cycle restarts.. cycles are measured low to low... The first two years of the cycle are accumulation years, and year three is the peak. Now... Knowing this .. why would you sell in the year that it tanks... When three years from now crypto will be peaking again. Since all crypto indirectly follows BTC... It would be unwise to sell ADA now, bc next year it should climb back up... Will ada peak again at $3??? Maybe... But most likely not .. But I'm willing to say Ada will be higher in price in 2027-2030.... Than it is today... Long story short... Sell today get massive loses...sell during next cycle get some gains back. Or just sell and harvest the tax loss over decades.

Rino-feroce

If you had the current value of your ada bag as cash available for investment, would you buy more cardano now or another coin? If you'd still pick ADA, then don't sell. If you'd pick another coin (or stock), then sell your ADA and deploy that cash.

tetsu2323

Cardano has always been rubbish. Just surprised so many believed Charles just because he was a founding member of ETH, for so many years. He rode on that and never had a proper plan. The whole ecosystem is a joke, like how Charles listed some universities as part of ADA's ecosystem back in 2021. "Peer reviewed" lmao ADA would probably pump every now and then but it's 0 long term.

liverpoolc5

ADA

baIIern

ADA... haven't heard that name in a long time

SeriousGains

Hopefully you took advantage of the exit pump on ADA.

AvailableTie6834

I swapped all my ADA for Bitcoin back in the day and never looked back.

AdOk1101

ADA is the only serious protocol.  ETH is still playing tech catch up to ADA.  BTC was first, thats its only reason why people buy it even though its the most obsolete tech.

AdOk1101

ADA

Skyobliwind

Well not even the few intersting use cases that exist are promoted enough. For example getting Cashback in ADA for you daily reatil purchases is quite cool for onboarding new ppl. But you have to manually search for that specifically, find some supported wallet and card and so on...

arveena

Doesnt matter if CRO or not this sub is completely useless for financial advice. They are gonna shit on your shitcoin but will praise nano and ADA in the same paragraph. Same for BTC price. If they tell you it will go up its probably gonna go down. I made a lot of passive income with CRO. But its obviously not a serious investment can it go up yes. Should you only invest what you are willing to loose also yes.

Frosty_Blueberry3418

Im banking this pump does us justice once more too but man be carful basing the previous highs on what will for sure happen in the next pump anymore. Many coins have hit massive highs and not returned ever. ADA is a prime example. This past pump it hit half as much as its once did previously.

MushrooGuy

Dave from ADA on X is hilarious to watch for the occasional meltdown as well

DrCrazyCurious

I've said this about a lot of other crypto techs too: **Hype damages more than it helps**. What we're seeing for the first time in many years is the actual value of many crypto projects. If the pandemic-era flood of cash and the tweet news cycle hype machine had never influenced the crypto world, we'd see all these coins like ADA and many others at the price of their actual usage, their actual adoption, and their actual fundamental value. Instead, we saw coin after coin pump like crazy because of hype from the influx of cash. Suddenly, 50%, 80%, heck maybe 90+% of the coin's price was due to hype and expectation. *(For many meme coins the price is 100% hype and 0% actual value.)* The underlying value didn't change. Only our expectations. *("TO THA MOOOOON!" etc. is behind us.)* Now that the price has come back down to represent the actual price that they're worth, the dust starts to settle and we see the reality: A bunch of developers chipping away at solving problems. It's not glamorous. It's not fast. It won't churn the hype machine. But it'll develop (pun intended) the price the underlying asset actually deserves. Maybe it'll stay at its current price forever. Maybe development will slow/stop and it'll fall further accordingly (not crash due to FUD but decline due to decreased value). Maybe new adoption and solutions will see the price trend upwards again. But I think we finally found the actual value of Cardano. Now the question is whether it'll go up or down from here. And no one knows that for sure.

buy_bitcoin_orwhatev

I was in the Cardano scene for years. It’s dead. There are MAYBE 3k total users of Cardano- not counting buying/holding ADA.

LivingShine83

ADA? …… 😬

MinimalGravitas

> Hedera is the new Cardano * Fake hype built around misleading announcements - Check; * Presenting out-of-context stats to trick low information retail investors - Check; * Low single digit TPS - Check. You might be onto something! The only real difference is that ADA is still trading above it's launch price, whereas HBAR is down so much that it's even below the price paid by pre-launch SAFT 3 investors!

unknowngloomth

And it is still extremely down from its ATHs. Guess people don't care what ADA been building?

cyger

Problem is it has no usage. Solana has already built all those things and is eating Eths lunch. ADA is not part of the conversation anymore.

Novel-Common-3547

Talking about future, we have to take into account a possibility of crypto space being more and more (if not fully) integrated into current financial systems. With that in mind, big financial institutions would probably go with ISO compliant cryptos. Those are mainly XRP, ADA, XLM, MIOTA, ALGO, HBAR, XDC and QNT. Will BTC be around? Well, probably yes. Being the biggest now, being considered a store of value “like gold”, it will probably be with us for many many many years. Big players like ETH and SOL have big and great communities behind them. But, I am honestly not sure if that is enough, if cryptos become integrated. I think they would, if not being ISO compliant, lose its value. Interesting, tho very speculative, is Worldcoin. Sam Altman being one of the creators and Peter Thiel being one of the primary financial backers, who knows what can happen.

Beginning_Pop_4637

Without a doubt, Yes, It’s a good time….. Market leaders only, Bitcoin, Etherium, HBAR, AAVE, ADA, Solana, XLM.   Those are some great ones, there are others.   

Tramp876

Are you a Crypto Hulk viewer or member? I have most of these and I watch the podcast. I also have ADA, Veechain and SHIBA that are all down considerably. I am holding as well. Good Luck!!

Hitachi22

ADA is back from the dead. 

Sebanimation

Good to see some green on ADA, it‘s been a while!

Andrewshwap

I think it’s life or death for ADA and other alt counts. Can I see it surviving? I can if they complete their timelines. If AI bubble is real, I can see it completely decimating

Leynnox

Everything is green, I mean, even ADA is up 11% today lol

CryptoAnarchyst

I think you’ll have 2 chains left, maybe 3 and all of them will have to natively interact with BTC and each other. ADA is trying but it’s too late for it. And you’ll probably have banks take over most of the trading, or existing traditional exchanges. The model we have right now is unsustainable

ADHD-Developer

Not ADA

AsbestosDude

ADA "died the last two cycles" Its more like dormant

Efficient_Ice_1001

The question isn't who is selling, the question is who is buying when crypto returns look like this and a safe boring boomer S&P 500 index is returning 164% from early 2018 and 65% from late 2021? LTC is -18 from December 2013 XRP is -55% from December 2017 ADA is -80% from December 2017 ZEC is -45% from January 2018 XMR is -20% from January 2018 ETH is -18% from January 2018 when accounting for inflation LINK is -60% from 2020 SOL is -70% from 2021 price BNB is -20% from 2021 price Even BTC is -13% from 2021 high

Mirved

Ya just like ADA, NEO, TRON, HBAR etc. And they all end up the same.

Latter_Present1900

Yes. Come the next bull market there will be dozen or so new projects diluting the market, jostling for a Top 10 spot. ADA will never regain that position.

MotanulScotishFold

Look back, in October 2023. Is ADA dead? The same question was then

Orson_G

ADA looks sound on paper, unfortunately not translating into solid adoption

unknowngloomth

Not only ADA.. pretty much everything else is dead at the moment. Except hyperliquid

0fWhomIAmChief

ADA has always been trash

kingjoeg

It is dead. There's been no technical progress and no good projects, just errors exploited and Charles Hoskinson quiting Twitter/ X. I wouldn't touch ADA with a 10 foot pole. It will slowly go down the top 100, and eventually fall out of it over the next 5-10 years.

Prize_Chapter_5113

I can relate. I put about $20k into ADA because I believed in the long-term thesis. Years later, it’s been one of my worst-performing investments. It’s a reminder that a good story doesn’t always translate into good returns.

Educational_Cable405

The staking percentage is doing a lot of unearned work whenever ADA comes up. People wave the big staked number around like it's a supply sink, but Cardano staking has no lockup and no slashing, your coins sit in your own wallet the whole time and you can sell mid epoch and still collect the rewards. So it props up the price exactly zero on the way down, that whole 'staked' supply is fully liquid the second anyone wants out.

One_Design5834

ADA

djmc0211

Back in 2021 I listened to all the hype and dropped 50k into ADA. Biggest waste of money...

AccomplishedMany9277

ADA is a useful case study in the gap between technical credibility and market execution. Cardano had genuine academic rigor behind it — peer-reviewed research, formal verification, Haskell — but shipped features years behind schedule while competitors moved faster with less rigorous but working code. The market punished the timeline gap more than the technology quality. The lesson isn't that rigor is bad, it's that in crypto, shipping late is its own kind of failure regardless of why. Projects that move slower than the narrative cycle lose mindshare permanently even if the tech eventually delivers.

Mysterious-Unit-5330

might be the worst and most useless ai slop post of all time and no im not a ADA holder

MidgarDreaming

I think the guy who lost all his money and is spamming his tears around ADA is the mad one tbh

warriorlynx

Once the gov wanted nothing to do with ADA early last year it was the beginning of the end, and the end came with Charles video a few weeks ago lol

celmate

I bought ADA at like 25c and sold around two dollars. Could have made more, could have made a whole lot less. Holding crypto through bear markets has always been dumb af, especially for alts. Like 99% of the people who bang on about these "cycles" never fucking profit from them. I haven't invested in any crypto since then because the global economy has been fucked and any pumps have been so meager. I yolo into crypto when the stupid money is pouring in and everything is number go up lol, until I see one of those hyper bear markets again I'm just not that interested.

Longjumping-Bonus723

Well. Been studying this for 5 years. I saw so much hive mind I already know what they will say but I prefer listening to what FedEx for example is doing not what a small boy in reddit that is holding a ADA bag is claiming

Longjumping-Bonus723

I said this 4 years ago and I still say it: ADA is a 1st. generation Blockchain. Its very old and ineffiecient. The technological aspects (finality time, security, scalability, fees etc.) are terrible. It was only that worthy because it was around during the big altcoin season. Its like a CD-ROM. Forget about it. We already have 4th generation DAG-DLT infrastructure (Hedera for example) that is way more advanced... fact.

Leading_Wafer9552

Your low effort braindead AI post can get a low effort AI response: ***"ADA is dead money" because it's down from its all-time high? Welcome to crypto.*** ***Most altcoins are still down 80–95% from their 2021 peaks. Many didn't even come close to reclaiming their previous highs this cycle. That's not an ADA-specific phenomenon—it's the reality of the broader altcoin market.*** ***You write as if ADA uniquely failed, but where's the comparison? If you're going to call it one of the worst long-term investments, show how it stacks up against the rest of the alt market instead of pretending it's the only chart that looks ugly.*** ***And pointing to a bear market chart like it's some devastating revelation isn't analysis. During bear markets, almost everything looks terrible. That's literally what bear markets do.*** ***The claim that ADA is uniquely "dead money" falls apart the moment you zoom out and look at the rest of the altcoin market. If there was no broad alt season for most projects, singling out ADA is more narrative than evidence.*** See, now we can just have AI respond to AI and none of us have to think for ourselves or converse with each other, but we'll pretend like we are for fake meaningless internet points called "karma"

giodude556

Everything went to shit. Not just ADA...

Boniouk84

Posting about dead coins in the bear bottom of the largest recent history risk off runs is just pointless. Vent somewhere else. No crying in the casino. In fact, i’ll go buy some ADA now. It’ll be fine.

Kaiisim

About 5 years ago I bought $200 of ADA and $200 of Nvidia. Nvidia is like 2000% profit. Ada is like 100... The more I have read since then, the more I realise these were all proofs of concept. Blockchain is 100% the technology we will use in the future instead of banks. But it's likely to be proprietary coins created by governments or banks :(

Chill_Knight

ADA always felt like it was a couple consistent falls away from completely capsizing.

Ubique008

If its not Bitcoin there will always be something better next cycle I was an ADA maxxi 2017 and 2021. But now I realize, eventually, all BTC maxxis are right All the so called "bluechips" from 2017 that made all time highs in 2021 are now rekt

Dedsnotdead

Really think you are reaching when you say Solana is the Apple of Crypto. I’d agree with your post about ADA though.

NoAverage9216

“This is what bagholders still don’t want to hear: surviving is not the same as performing.” I will bet all my ADA and my balls that Chatgpt wrote that

KeyPerformance2810

Ada is capped though, so why are you fudding? Lets stick to truth, theres enough shit to throw at ADA without having to make shit up.

Baka_Jaba

Sold my ADA bags to ALGO back then. Everyone's bagholding.

kingjoeg

ADA is dead and will just slowly drop further down the top 100 over time

Tim-Rocket

Who would want the global financial system running on bitcoin? Not bitcoiners, that's for sure. If you're curious, "smart contract" platforms (such as ETH, BNB, SOL, TRX, ADA, etc...) could (And are starting to) handle that.

hazi1008

i have never felt so had. fucking ADA to 100 dollars in EXODUS and i don’t have enough to pay the ‘fees’ to move it. evil genius fuckers all.

Pauliuss

Avax,, LTC, SOL, LINK, DOT, ADA and ATOm

coindigest

The part that doesn't add up: SecondFi says the $18.5M (129M ADA) was an "emergency rescue measure" routed to a third-party custodian, but Hoskinson is now relaying that Emurgo claims they don't even know who the white hat is. You can't both have deliberately triggered a rescue AND not know who's holding the funds. One of those is wrong, and that's exactly why people are uneasy and some are calling for an investigation. Worth remembering what actually broke: this wasn't a smart contract bug or the Cardano base layer, it was a flaw in SecondFi's (formerly Yoroi) wallet-generation software. Think of a locksmith whose key-cutting machine was quietly stamping out duplicate keys, every wallet made through it is suspect no matter how carefully you stored your seed. That's why "just move your funds" is messier than it sounds, and why the early official advice was to NOT restore that seed into a fresh wallet. For anyone actually affected: SlowMist (Cos) puts the real exposure north of $20M across \~178 wallets, and scammers are already impersonating SecondFi "support" with fake recovery tools. Stick to official SecondFi channels only and never paste your seed into any "recovery" anything. That second wave is what cleans people out after a hack like this.

Timely-Fig2030

All the main blockchains be good picks: SUI, ICP, Algo, VET, XLM, ETH, ADA, etc. Opened yesterday a post on CryptoCurrencies about it: 4.3k views, 0 likes These idiots still think blockchains are dead and want to gamble memecoins. Little do they know, that there are no memecoins without blockchains. The space has become so dumb and uneuphoric that now might be the best time to enter goat blockchains. Btw, fuck memecoins!

CALINXD94

my 40k$ ADA now worth 8k$

Mr_Stimmers

Yeah, the majority of that I’m only holding for tax loss harvesting. I have faith the ETH, SOL, and LINK will recover, and hopefully the ADA (looking very doubtful at the moment). The rest are dead to me.

SeriousGains

ADA, VET, ICP, SUI have already been flushed.

TripTryad

End of an era, I vividly remember getting into ADA and BNB token late 2017. Became the base of what I built. Were my biggest winners. ADA was 2 cents and BNB had just crashed to like .80 cents shortly after Binance launched and put the other exchanges to shame. Good times.

SeriousGains

Every coin loved by this sub has failed (ADA, LINK, LTC, DOT). Why should ETH be any different?

graytleapforward

ADA biggest issue was never onboarding a meaningful stable coin. They killed liquidity.

verified_canadian

IBIT will eventually come back, just keep holding. ADA you're probably fucked.

mrjune2040

Your title is about BTC but your examples are fucking ADA and POL lol. Not the same thing.

Backieotamy

No, not at all. But my answer to his question is factually correct. The only thing I am starting to lean into is that bear/bull four year cycles are starting to get shorter and some alts are decoupling from BTC. I have been accumulating ETH, SOL, XRP, hbar, DOGE (dont judge me), and ADA which I finally sold because it is not following that pattern at all and every low and every high for the last 8 years have only declined so I removed it. The only given is BTC and even thats still questionable on its ability to not start a global financial meltdown at this point in investment capital. Some ath still haven't reached the 2021 levels which that bear run took a lot of wind out of the crypto sails and has continued to keep a lot of $$ out of it however that retail investor drop is finally being replaced with commercial capital and a lot of it. But there is no guarantee other than rich people will get richer regardless of market performance, a lot of us normal folks will lose a lot of money on get rich quick ideals, corrupt/mismanaged crypto firms, scam tokens, or cashing out at the bottom of a bear because they dont have the stomach for it (and I don't blame them other than shouldn't have got in to begin with) and then some retail investors will make money. The only thing I am assuming is that the market will recover but tbh, DJT is a wild card and everything he touches turns to shit.

unknowngloomth

ADA is just like the 95% of alts. A bunch of hopium.

BananaBully

ADA

ozera202

ADA lol what a POS coin

ChestChance6126

What’s striking is that ADA built one of the biggest and most loyal communities in crypto, and staying relevant for that long was no small feat. but eventually the market shifted, people started caring more about real world usage than future promises, and that’s where many newer chains managed to pull ahead.

Hearasongofuranus

I remember a couple of years ago my poor as fuck cousin living in a two room apartment with a wife and two children telling me he bought ADA with everything he has when it was 2usd. My jaw hit the floor and I told him to sell it all tonight. He laughed. I don't think he's laughing now. 

ubermensch1001

Yeah, man, ADA is insanely cheap right now. Most of these people probably bought at ridiculous price levels and are way underwater or sold at a big loss. One poster on here talked about buying at $1 in 2024 with 20k, so it would make sense for him to feel this way lol.

sapiensane

Yep. I did with everything else but for some reason just hung on to ADA.

hoya_doing

ADA needs to disappear to the bottom 1000.

vinkulafu

Darn, I chose crypto at the wrong time, as usual. Down on both ADA and IBIT.

hamson2024

I heard Charles has been shorting ADA 

Full-Sound-6269

Considering ADA devs also leaving bit by bit - it is indeed finished, almost 10 years old chain with nothing to show.

FlyKnown4829

100000 ADA must be something like $20 or so.

ubermensch1001

That was for people who were using a yoroi as a hot wallet instead of just connecting a cold wallet to stake there instead. I was reading some posts on the sub reddit and there were people with actually sizeable positions in ada that got drained doing this, talking 100k+ ADA. Kind of insane to think about.

BeYourself__

Damn, I'm out of crypto world for about a year and I remember ADA already sinking by then but had no idea it gone worse Wont complain tho, I made good money in ADA between 2022-2024

Animated_effigy

Im interested in coins that are getting full on regulatory backing by the US right now as everyone goes full adoption. Any of these coins now have full regulatory backing: BTC, Eth, Sol, XRP, ADA, Avax, Link, Dot, Hbar, XLM, Lotecoin, Doge, Shiba Inu, Tezos, BTC Cash, and Aptos

Spare-Dingo-531

ADA doesn't have the developer count, market cap, mainstream attention or stablecoin volume that Ethereum or Solana have. Honestly, I think ADA is very interesting, but I don't have faith that it will last compared to Ethereum or Solana because those aforementioned advantages tend to compound over time.

SeriousGains

Anyone tempted to scoop the dip on ADA?

anymonero

> Bitcoin and the vast majority of altcoins dropped more than 50% of their price We're not quite at the bottom yet, but this is true right now. Though it's fair to say that ADA and DOT *should have* already recovered back when Solana did, but I don't remember considering them as dead as I did Solana at $8.