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. Also, like Ethereum, ADA has an open-source format, meaning anybody can develop this currency further. As of March 25, 2025, one ADA token was worth 0.75 U.S. dollars.

The dominance of Cardano increased more than four-fold in 2021, although figures in November 2021 were lower than at the end of August. Within the crypto world, this so-called "dominance" ratio is one of the oldest and most investigated metrics available. It measures the coin's market cap relative to the overall crypto market - for instance, it shows how strong Bitcoin is compared to all the other cryptocurrencies that are not BTC, called "altcoins". In the case of Cardano, the dominance somewhat reveals the coin's growing popularity as an alternative to Ethereum, it being a popular blockchain for Decentralized Finance (DeFi) applications.

The market cap of Cardano (ADA) nearly doubled in nine 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.

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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.

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Historical price and volatility data for US Dollar in Cardano across different time periods.

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.

Historical price and volatility data for Cardano in US Dollar across different time periods.

Historical price and volatility data for US Dollar in Cardano across different time periods.

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What are aggregate trades? If multiple trades are filled at the same millisecond, from the same order and at the same price, these trades are stored in one single aggregate trade.

What do the columns mean? id Each trade on the exchange server has an unique id. This id is directly fetched from the exchange server to guarantee gapless and consistent data.

time Timestamp in milliseconds when the trade happened on the exchange server asa provided by the exchange. Check https://currentmillis.com/ to find out how to translate this timestamp into a human readable format.

price Price per base currency in the given quote currency (here: USDT).

amount Quantity that was traded, given in base currency.

sell Can be True or False. If "True", then a price taker placed a market sell order to take an existing buy offer.

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Cardano network fees paid to miners whenever a payment transaction is initiated on the blockchain stayed roughly the same for months - although the coin value did change. These transaction fees - commonly denoted as gas - changed especially since the summer 2021, when the price of the ADA coin was changing. This coincided with the growing importance of Decentralized Finance or DeFi, and more blockchains being used for the development of new financial applications.

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Analysis of ‘Cardano Data’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://www.kaggle.com/varpit94/cardano-data on 13 November 2021.

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What is Cardano?

Cardano is a public blockchain platform. It is open-source and decentralized, with consensus achieved using proof of stake. It can facilitate peer-to-peer transactions with its internal cryptocurrency, Ada. Cardano was founded in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson. The development of the project is overseen and supervised by the Cardano Foundation based in Zug, Switzerland. It is also the largest cryptocurrency to use a proof-of-stake blockchain, which is seen as a greener alternative to proof-of-work protocols.

Data Description

This dataset provides the history of daily prices of Cardano. The data starts from 01-Oct-2017. All the column descriptions are provided. Currency is USD.

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