Cardano
ADA Rank #9Live price · multi-source dashboard ·
Cardano (ADA) is trading at $0.2444. 24-hour change +0.62%; market cap $8.75B; circulating supply 35,800,453,490 ADA. Data as of 2026-09-30 03:45 UTC.
Cardano — key facts
- Price
- $0.2444
- 24h change
- +0.62%
- Market cap
- $8.75B
- Market rank
- #9
- 24h volume
- $376.69M
- Circ. supply
- 35,800,453,490 ADA
- From all-time high
- -92.1%
- Last updated
How is the market moving today?
Live editorial snapshot — numbers update on every refresh
Today's state: Cardano is trading at $0.244400 with a $8.7 billion market capitalization (rank #14). The price moved +0.62% over the past 24 hours and is -11.45% over 7 days; the 30-day move stands at +0.00% and the 90-day at +57.31%.
Position vs cycle: A drawdown of more than 70% from the last cycle high puts the asset firmly in deep-bear territory, where recoveries have historically required a fresh demand catalyst rather than mere mean-reversion.
Volatility and structure: 30-day realized volatility of 76.1% annualized is high for an asset this size. Our composite multi-horizon Price Strength reads Neutral (47/100), with the timeframes pulling in different directions and no clean directional read.
How does it score on momentum, value and risk?
Derived metrics composed from multi-horizon data
Composite of 24h/7d/30d/90d/1y returns weighted toward longer horizons.
24h volume / market cap = 4.977%.
Annualized std-dev of daily log returns.
% of all-time high currently held.
Multiple over 52-week low. Log scale.
Across the grid, Cardano has gained 0.62% in the past 24 hours; the 7-day reading is 11.45% lower and the 30-day stands 0.00% higher. Across the past year it shows losses of 67.21%, with a mixed multi-horizon profile and no clear directional bias.
The asset currently trades 92.1% below its all-time high, deep in the post-peak drawdown regime where statistical mean-reversion historically matters less than narrative and liquidity flow. 30-day realized volatility sits at 76% annualized — high territory for a crypto asset of this size.
Cardano currently shows deep order books and broad exchange coverage. 24-hour trading volume represents 4.977% of market capitalization — our liquidity-health composite scores this as Deep (90/100). That sits comfortably within the normal top-100 band and is consistent with orderly price discovery.
The 90-day Pearson correlation of ADA's daily returns versus Bitcoin's is +0.76 — a strong positive relationship. At this level Cardano behaves largely as a leveraged expression of Bitcoin: BTC sets the direction and ADA tends to follow, frequently overshooting in both directions.
How has the price performed over time?
% return across 9 horizons — heatmap by magnitude
Data refreshed 4 minutes ago · auto-updates daily
Price history table
Last 30 trading days · daily OHLC
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | $0.2473 | $0.2547 | $0.2389 | $0.2421 | -2.10% |
| 2026-09-28 | $0.2551 | $0.2581 | $0.2395 | $0.2473 | -3.06% |
| 2026-09-27 | $0.2540 | $0.2596 | $0.2500 | $0.2551 | +0.43% |
| 2026-09-26 | $0.2588 | $0.2654 | $0.2478 | $0.2540 | -1.85% |
| 2026-09-25 | $0.2477 | $0.2598 | $0.2462 | $0.2588 | +4.48% |
| 2026-09-24 | $0.2384 | $0.2515 | $0.2329 | $0.2477 | +3.90% |
| 2026-09-23 | $0.2543 | $0.2623 | $0.2334 | $0.2384 | -6.25% |
| 2026-09-22 | $0.2451 | $0.2578 | $0.2401 | $0.2543 | +3.75% |
| 2026-09-21 | $0.2279 | $0.2488 | $0.2266 | $0.2451 | +7.55% |
| 2026-09-20 | $0.2279 | $0.2330 | $0.2183 | $0.2279 | +0.00% |
| 2026-09-19 | $0.2244 | $0.2350 | $0.2209 | $0.2278 | +1.52% |
| 2026-09-18 | $0.2026 | $0.2271 | $0.2014 | $0.2244 | +10.76% |
| 2026-09-17 | $0.1964 | $0.2043 | $0.1944 | $0.2026 | +3.16% |
| 2026-09-16 | $0.1954 | $0.1972 | $0.1903 | $0.1965 | +0.56% |
| 2026-09-15 | $0.2085 | $0.2088 | $0.1930 | $0.1954 | -6.28% |
| 2026-09-14 | $0.2035 | $0.2159 | $0.2023 | $0.2086 | +2.51% |
| 2026-09-13 | $0.2074 | $0.2097 | $0.2023 | $0.2035 | -1.88% |
| 2026-09-12 | $0.2063 | $0.2097 | $0.2059 | $0.2074 | +0.53% |
| 2026-09-11 | $0.2046 | $0.2163 | $0.2004 | $0.2064 | +0.88% |
| 2026-09-10 | $0.2119 | $0.2152 | $0.2042 | $0.2047 | -3.40% |
| 2026-09-09 | $0.2194 | $0.2231 | $0.2082 | $0.2119 | -3.42% |
| 2026-09-08 | $0.2205 | $0.2321 | $0.2150 | $0.2195 | -0.45% |
| 2026-09-07 | $0.2235 | $0.2264 | $0.2143 | $0.2205 | -1.34% |
| 2026-09-06 | $0.2183 | $0.2238 | $0.2154 | $0.2234 | +2.34% |
| 2026-09-05 | $0.2112 | $0.2220 | $0.2091 | $0.2183 | +3.36% |
| 2026-09-04 | $0.2211 | $0.2272 | $0.2092 | $0.2113 | -4.43% |
| 2026-09-03 | $0.2012 | $0.2253 | $0.1991 | $0.2211 | +9.89% |
| 2026-09-02 | $0.1967 | $0.2012 | $0.1920 | $0.2012 | +2.29% |
| 2026-09-01 | $0.1978 | $0.2030 | $0.1936 | $0.1967 | -0.56% |
| 2026-08-31 | $0.1926 | $0.2008 | $0.1915 | $0.1978 | +2.70% |
Technical analysis
RSI · MACD · moving averages · Bollinger
- R$0.2546
- R$0.2548
- R$0.2561
- R$0.2576
- S$0.2354
- S$0.2358
- S$0.2383
- S$0.2408
Derivatives & leverage
Perpetual-futures positioning from Hyperliquid · ADA-PERP
Funding is negative at -15.8%/yr, so short positions are paying longs — leverage is skewed bearish. Deeply negative funding sometimes precedes short-squeeze rallies.
Perpetual-futures data from Hyperliquid, the leading on-chain perp DEX. Funding is paid hourly; a positive rate means long holders pay shorts. Derivatives positioning is informational, not a trade signal.
Multi-model price forecast
3-model ensemble · TA + statistical + peer-relative
Per-model breakdown +
| Model | Horizon | Low | Mid | High | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Technical | Short | $0.3361 | $0.3642 | $0.3923 | TA composite (ATR + Bollinger + slope) |
| Technical | Mid | $0.3120 | $0.3276 | $0.3682 | TA composite (ATR + Bollinger + slope) |
| Technical | Long | $0.1072 | $0.1532 | $0.1992 | TA composite (ATR + Bollinger + slope) |
| Monte Carlo | Short | $0.2045 | $0.2378 | $0.2765 | Monte Carlo on 90d log returns |
| Monte Carlo | Mid | $0.1639 | $0.2240 | $0.3062 | Monte Carlo on 90d log returns |
| Monte Carlo | Long | $0.0707 | $0.1520 | $0.3267 | Monte Carlo on 90d log returns |
| Peer comparison | Short | $0.2344 | $0.2462 | $0.2690 | Peer comparison · 15 peers in same category |
| Peer comparison | Mid | $0.2848 | $0.3473 | $0.3482 | Peer comparison · 15 peers in same category |
| Peer comparison | Long | $0.2730 | $0.3107 | $0.3320 | Peer comparison · 15 peers in same category |
The forecast above combines three independent models per the STNews methodology:
- Technical model derives its ranges from moving averages, ATR, Bollinger bands and trend slope, and is most informative when price is cleanly trending or ranging.
- Statistical (Monte Carlo) model uses the 90-day distribution of daily log returns to project the 5th, 50th and 95th percentile prices at each horizon — useful as an unbiased baseline that does not assume any trend continuation.
- Peer-relative model benchmarks the asset against similarly-sized coins in its category, asking where it would sit if it tracked the median, lower-quartile and upper-quartile peer returns — a sector-anchored sanity check.
The ensemble forecast is a weighted blend — 40% statistical, 30% technical, 30% peer-relative. The confidence badge tracks model agreement: the tighter the three cluster, the higher the confidence; wide disagreement lowers it and flags a regime where statistics alone are unreliable.
Cross-asset correlations (90d)
Pearson correlation of daily log returns vs top L1 references
Beyond Bitcoin, ADA's 90-day return correlations to the other two largest layer-1 references help characterize whether the asset moves as part of a crypto-market beta complex or as something more idiosyncratic. The Pearson correlations across daily log returns:
- Bitcoin reference: +0.76 — a strong positive relationship.
- Ethereum reference: +0.69 — a strong positive relationship.
- Solana reference: +0.70 — a strong positive relationship.
When an asset correlates strongly with multiple majors, it is trading largely as market beta — the big caps set the direction and standalone outperformance is elusive. Weak or negative correlations instead signal idiosyncratic forces (its own news, sector rotation, narrative changes) capable of producing returns the broader market does not share.
About Cardano
Cardano (ADA) is a cryptocurrency, traded on global digital-asset markets. It trades at $0.2444 as of the latest update, with a 24-hour move up 0.62%, placing it at rank #9 by market capitalisation among all listed digital assets. Cardano's current market cap stands at $8.75B, a figure used by traders, analysts and institutional desks to gauge relative liquidity and risk exposure across the crypto market.
On this page you'll find a live, daily-refreshed dashboard tracking Cardano across multiple data sources — price history going back several years, on-chain activity where available, fundamentals like circulating supply and dilution, top exchanges by volume, technical analysis using moving averages and RSI, and an algorithmic short, mid and long-term forecast. All figures are pulled from public APIs and cached locally; nothing here is investment advice.
Cardano is a programmable Layer-1 blockchain — a base settlement layer that other applications build on. How it fares depends less on any single feature than on whether developers keep shipping and users keep transacting on it relative to rival chains.
Cardano (ADA) is a top-25 asset, ranked #14 among all tracked tokens by capitalisation. About 80% of the maximum ADA supply is in circulation today (35.80B of 45.00B), leaving a moderate emission stream still to come. It currently trades about 92% below its all-time high of $3.10 set in September 2021.
By market value Cardano (ADA) sits inside the top 25, trading at $0.2444000 as of the latest snapshot. ADA is +0.62% over 24 hours, -11.45% over the past week, putting it among the weekly underperformers across the top 250 by market capitalisation. Cardano remains roughly 92% beneath its all-time high of $3.10, a level first printed in September 2021. Roughly 80% of ADA's total supply is liquid today (35.80B of 45.00B), with the balance scheduled for gradual release over time.
Trading volume is light versus market value — only about 4.3% of capitalisation changes hands daily — so larger orders can move price more than they would for higher-liquidity peers. On a one-year view ADA has lost 67.2%, against a broader crypto-market backdrop that closed the period roughly flat after several volatile quarters.
How it works — Cardano
Cardano runs its own Layer-1 chain secured by proof-of-stake. Instead of miners, a set of validators stakes the native asset to win the right to produce blocks; correct behaviour is rewarded and provably bad behaviour is penalised by slashing. That same token pays transaction fees and confers governance rights.
Cardano (ADA) is a top-25 asset, ranked #14 among all tracked tokens by capitalisation. About 80% of the maximum ADA supply is in circulation today (35.80B of 45.00B), leaving a moderate emission stream still to come. It currently trades about 92% below its all-time high of $3.10 set in September 2021. Its fully-diluted valuation of $10.89B is about 1.2× the circulating market cap of $8.75B, a gap that signals issuance overhang to factor into any longer-term thesis.
Use cases — Cardano
The chain is used to deploy and run smart contracts, to stake for network security and yield, to pay transaction fees, and as the reserve collateral underpinning its on-chain economy. Its relevance scales with how much real application activity it hosts.
Daily volume runs at about 4.3% of market capitalisation ($376.69M in the last 24 hours), in the normal band for a coin of this size and supportive of orderly entries and exits.
Tokenomics
Supply schedule & distribution
- Circulating supply: 35.80B ADA — tokens actively trading and held by the public
- Total supply: 45.00B ADA — all tokens minted to date (including those locked or held by the issuer)
- Max supply: 45.00B ADA — the protocol-defined upper limit (if any) on lifetime issuance
- Issued to date: 79.6% of max supply
- Locked / treasury: 20.4% of total supply
Cardano's supply schedule directly affects its long-term inflation rate and, by extension, how dilutive future issuance will be to existing holders. A coin near full dilution behaves very differently from one that still has 60% of its supply waiting to be unlocked.
Supply economics
Issuance pressure, dilution, and structural value accrual
The supply story for Cardano comes down to three things: how tokens are issued over time, how many are circulating now, and how far the fully-diluted valuation sits above the circulating market cap. Approximately 79.6% of maximum supply is currently circulating, meaning roughly 20.4% of total potential supply remains to be issued. This implies a structural emission stream against current demand for the asset. The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $10.9 billion stands at 1.2× the current circulating market cap of $8.7 billion. The wider this ratio, the more issuance overhang the asset faces — a structural headwind on valuation that mature assets like Bitcoin do not face but that early-cycle assets typically do.
The question that matters for a longer-term view is simple: does value accrual (burns, staking-yield reinvestment, deflationary mechanics, growing ecosystem TVL) run ahead of new issuance, or behind it? Ahead, and price can compound quietly; behind, and it leans on continuous fresh demand to soak up the supply.
Trader's note
Coin-type-aware tactical interpretation
For Cardano, the metrics that lead price most reliably are application-layer adoption (active addresses, transaction count, fees paid) and staking-economic health (% of supply staked, staking-yield trajectory, net staking inflows). When these network metrics improve faster than market sentiment, the asset tends to re-rate higher even before retail attention notices.
With Price Strength at 47/100 (neutral), the tactical read for a PoS L1 leans on usage rather than candles: look for DeFi TVL and active-user counts to base out before committing. ADA re-rates on ecosystem narrative more than on chart patterns, so fundamentals carry more weight than for the average token.
Developer activity
On-chain projects live or die by code shipped · via GitHub
- 11.1.2 2026-09-17
- 11.1.1 2026-09-08
- 11.1.0 pre 2026-08-21
- 11.0.1 2026-05-05
- 10.7.1 2026-04-15
Cardano's public repository
(IntersectMBO/cardano-node)
shows 3,178 stars,
36 commits over the trailing 30 days from
8 active contributors, and the
most recent release on 2026-09-17.
Combined into our composite Developer Activity Index, the project reads as
active
(63/100) — useful as a quasi-fundamental signal alongside on-chain
metrics and market pricing.
Markets & exchanges
Top trading pairs by 24h volume
| # | Exchange | Pair | Last price | 24h volume | Trust |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Binance | ADA/USDT | $0.244400 | $376.69M | A+ |
| 2 | Coinbase | ADA/USD | $0.244424 | $82.87M | A+ |
| 3 | OKX | ADA/USDT | $0.244376 | $52.74M | A |
| 4 | Bybit | ADA/USDT | $0.244449 | $41.44M | A |
| 5 | Kraken | ADA/USD | $0.244351 | $30.13M | A |
Initial rows server-rendered from our verified pipeline (binance-v2). Data-only. STNews does not place affiliate links here. See our affiliate disclosure.
If you'd bought Cardano...
ROI calculator · historical close prices
Calculated on daily close prices. Does not include trading fees, taxes, or staking yields. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Converter
Rate: 1 ADA = $0.2444
Compared to peers
Price, market cap, volume, supply
| Coin | 7d trend | Price | Market Cap | 24h Vol | 24h % | 7d % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cardano
ADA
|
$0.2444 | $8.75B | $376.69M | +0.62% | -11.45% | |
Bitcoin
BTC
|
$83,362.00 | $1.67T | $23.18B | +0.29% | -4.60% | |
Ethereum
ETH
|
$2,674.77 | $327.32B | $12.30B | +0.31% | -5.79% | |
Solana
SOL
|
$119.57 | $64.95B | $2.67B | +1.43% | -13.42% | |
XRP
XRP
|
$1.50 | $149.54B | $2.94B | +0.47% | -6.39% | |
TRON
TRX
|
$0.3362 | $29.04B | $278.38M | +0.54% | +1.23% | |
Avalanche
AVAX
|
$11.27 | $4.76B | $871.91M | +8.10% | -10.32% | |
Polkadot
DOT
|
$1.21 | $1.84B | $164.01M | +4.32% | -10.49% | |
Polygon
MATIC
|
$0.1167 | $1.17B | $3.78M | +2.44% | -12.71% |
Market sentiment
Crypto Fear & Greed Index · alternative.me
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index aggregates volatility, market momentum, social media activity, dominance and Google Trends data into a single 0–100 score updated daily. Today's reading is 73 — Greed.
Extreme fear (below 25) historically signals buying opportunities for contrarians, while extreme greed (above 75) often precedes corrections. The index works best as one input among many, not as a standalone trading signal.
Macro & cross-asset context
How macro liquidity and cross-asset moves frame the trade
At the macro level, the variables that move this asset class most are the direction of US interest rates, the supply of dollar liquidity, and the state of global risk appetite. Crypto has behaved like a long-duration, high-beta risk asset: it tends to rally when real yields fall and the dollar softens, and to sell off when liquidity tightens.
The cross-asset relationships worth watching: the dollar index (DXY), historically inversely correlated with crypto over longer windows; the 10-year Treasury yield, a proxy for the cost of risk capital; gold, which sometimes shares a "monetary hedge" framing with Bitcoin during regime changes; and the S&P 500, which during liquidity-driven moves often rhymes with crypto despite the "uncorrelated" narrative.
Narrowing to Cardano, the cleanest leading signal has usually been crypto-native liquidity — the combined trend in stablecoin supply, futures open interest and exchange turnover. When that pool of on-chain capital grows, ADA has tended to advance with it; when it drains, the move has typically gone into reverse. Given the 90-day BTC correlation of +0.76, ADA's near-term macro sensitivity will be similar to Bitcoin's — driven primarily by the same liquidity conditions and risk-asset flows.
Risks
Key risks include concentration of stake among a few large validators, exploits in the contracts deployed on the chain, fierce competition from other Layer-1s for the same developers and liquidity, evolving regulatory treatment of staking, and the reality that network value unwinds quickly if activity migrates elsewhere.
Frequently asked questions
What is Cardano (ADA)? ▾
Cardano is a cryptocurrency, traded on global digital-asset markets. It trades under the ticker ADA and currently has a market capitalisation of $8.75B.
What is the price of ADA today? ▾
The price of Cardano today is $0.2444, refreshed daily from public market data. Live price changes are visible at the top of this page.
What is the maximum supply of Cardano? ▾
The protocol caps lifetime issuance of Cardano at 45.00B ADA. This limit is enforced by the network's code and cannot be raised without coordinated upgrades.
What was Cardano's all-time high? ▾
Cardano's all-time high in USD terms is $3.10. Past performance does not guarantee future returns.
How can I buy Cardano? ▾
Cardano is available on the major centralized exchanges; the Markets table on this page ranks them by ADA/USD volume. As always, verify the venue's withdrawal fees, funding options, and licensing for your jurisdiction first.
Is Cardano a good investment? ▾
This page does not offer financial advice. Cryptocurrency markets are extremely volatile. Anyone considering an allocation should review the data above, weigh their own risk tolerance, and consider speaking with a qualified financial professional in their jurisdiction.
Where does the data on this page come from? ▾
Our price, supply and volume data come from public cryptocurrency APIs (Binance, CoinGecko, CoinPaprika and similar), and the sentiment gauge is from alternative.me. Everything is stored locally and refreshed on a recurring cycle.
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