Swiss cryptocurrency Cardano (ADA) witnessed a price surge of nearly 100 percent in seven days in early February 2021, amid high interest from investors. One reason for this interest is the digital coin's close relation to Ethereum (ETH), as mathematician Charles Hoskinson co-founded both virtual currencies. Moreover, like Ethereum, ADA has an open-source format, meaning anybody can develop this currency further. As of October 15, 2025, one ADA token was worth 0.7 U.S. dollars.

The market cap of Cardano (ADA) nearly doubled in **** days in February 2021, amidst a growing buying activity from investors during this time. Cardano stood out due to its close relation to Ethereum, as well as a detailed transaction history in its ledger - potentially making this digital coin more secure than others. Compared to both the Bitcoin market capitalization, as well as the Ethereum market cap, Cardano was not as popular.

By November 2021, over 33 billion Cardano tokens were issued and in active circulation - getting closer to the coin's maximum supply. Similar to Bitcoin but unlike Ethereum, the ADA token has a fixed supply limit with only 45 billion cryptocurrencies being able to ever exist in the coin's lifetime. Whilst this does not necessarily mean the Cardano price will go up, a limited supply could help to fuel demand whilst the tokens are still generally available.

This dataset contains the predicted prices of the asset Cardano over the next 16 years. This data is calculated initially using a default 5 percent annual growth rate, and after page load, it features a sliding scale component where the user can then further adjust the growth rate to their own positive or negative projections. The maximum positive adjustable growth rate is 100 percent, and the minimum adjustable growth rate is -100 percent.

The price of Cardano was especially volatile in May 2021 and peaked again in August 2021, although figures declined by more than half since then. The third-generation cryptocurrency gained heavily during those two months due to increasing popularity of NFTs - Cardano is an alternative to Ethereum, the most-used blockchain for NFTs and Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Measured in a metric called volatility, the percentage shown here reflects how much the price of Cardano in U.S. dollars changed historically over a preceding 10-day window. Changes can be either up or down, with a higher volatility reflecting that an asset is more risky, as price movements are less easy to predict and can swing in any direction.

This dataset contains the predicted prices of the asset Wrapped Cardano over the next 16 years. This data is calculated initially using a default 5 percent annual growth rate, and after page load, it features a sliding scale component where the user can then further adjust the growth rate to their own positive or negative projections. The maximum positive adjustable growth rate is 100 percent, and the minimum adjustable growth rate is -100 percent.

Cardano market sentiment became increasingly bullish in 2021, as is shown in the development of the cryptocurrency's NVT ratio. The Network Value to Transactions or NVT ratio is somewhat comparable to a P/E ratio, in that it compares the number of transactions of a particular coin on a set day against that coin's market cap. A low NVT ratio means that that transaction volume of a cryptocurrency is growing faster than the coin's market cap - meaning investor sentiment is bullish, or optimistic - whereas a high ratio refers to a network that has a relatively high network value but low network activity - meaning sentiment is bearish, or negative.

This dataset contains the predicted prices of the asset Cardano on base over the next 16 years. This data is calculated initially using a default 5 percent annual growth rate, and after page load, it features a sliding scale component where the user can then further adjust the growth rate to their own positive or negative projections. The maximum positive adjustable growth rate is 100 percent, and the minimum adjustable growth rate is -100 percent.

The most popular Cardano trade in June 2024 involved the Cardano/Tether pair on HTX, making up over 11 percent of total 24h trade volume. Trades involving Cardano and Tether were also frequent on other exchanges, such as Binance, Lbank, and Poloniex. Among the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, Cardano was traded relatively frequently on Binance.

This dataset contains the predicted prices of the asset Binance-Peg Cardano over the next 16 years. This data is calculated initially using a default 5 percent annual growth rate, and after page load, it features a sliding scale component where the user can then further adjust the growth rate to their own positive or negative projections. The maximum positive adjustable growth rate is 100 percent, and the minimum adjustable growth rate is -100 percent.

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Cardano trading volume reached a peak on February 27, 2021, after weeks of build-up towards the integration of the Mary hard fork on the crypto's mainnet. Mary was a network update - which was in beta since early February 2021 but was rolled out on March 1, 2021 - that gave the Cardano blockchain smart contract functionality like Ethereum has. Simply put, the upgrade turned Cardano and its native ADA coin into a direct competitor to Ethereum - which made the platforms for those who were looking for an alternative to the Ether coin.

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Cardano's Sharpe ratio in January 2022 was below that of the S&P500, reaching a value that was considered to be below average. This particular ratio gives investors an idea on how their investments perform in the long run, and is calculated by substracting risk-free rate from the expected return of a particular asset. The higher the Sharpe ratio, the more the extra risk is actually paying off - as returns are above-average. In the case of Cardano, the ratio mostly hit between values below one after October 2021 which are considered to be "bad" - although before that the return on investment was significantly higher. A value of zero means the asset in consideration is risk-free, which may be both good - as you are not losing out on money - or bad - as the extra risk taken may not be worth the effort.

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The staking values of both Solana and Cardano made up around 70 percent of their circulating supply, a percentage significantly higher than for Ethereum. This difference stems from how the cryptocurrencies are created. Ethereum 1.0, similar to Bitcoin, relies on a mechanism called "Proof-of-Work" or PoW, and is similar to mining: Lots of processing power is used to verify transactions on the blockchain and those who do all that verification work — the "miners" — get rewarded with a predetermined amount of crypto. As this process became more energy-consuming and too complicated for individuals to perform — alongside the rapid growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols that demanded even more verifications — another mechanism appeared: "Proof-of-Stake" or POS. Here, people — or "validators" — commit — or "stake" — their own cryptocurrency in an automated system — often a wallet, where people will simply hold their crypto — which at certain times will randomly pick a person who gets to validate a batch of blockchain transactions. Same as before, validation leads to new cryptocurrency as a reward — essentially acting as interest after initial investment. As the amount of crypto needed can be considerable, there are also so-called "staking pools" where groups of people gather the coins needed for — or "delegate" to — an external validator, and still get the rewards. Cardano and Solana only use proof of stake, whereas the relatively new Ethereum 2.0 is also relying on it.