Cardano
Cardano (ADA) Price Prediction 2022 to 2025
Key Points
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At $0.50 per token, ADA is over 85% lower versus its September 2021 ATHs near $3.0.
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Despite its strong fundamentals, Cardano has been brought down alongside the broader crypto bear market.
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When global economic conditions improve, Cardano is likely to come back strong and could 10x by 2025.
Since the launch of the Cardano blockchain back in May 2017, it has gone on to become the fourth largest layer one blockchain cryptocurrency by market capitalization, with the total value of all circulating ADA tokens currently clocking in just below $17 billion. Whilst Cardano’s rise to prominence in the crypto space has been impressive and lucrative for its developers and early investors (ADA’s market cap has increased 30x at current prices since its launch), it’s been a bumpy road.
ADA was trading at just under $3.0 per token as recently as early September 2021 but has since shed about 85% of its value and now trades around $0.50. The driver of this pullback has been a deterioration in broader cryptocurrency markets that has seen other comparable cryptos drop a similar amount. Investors have been selling down speculative assets, which cryptocurrencies are viewed as, as central banks globally move to raise interest rates in order to dampen the recent surge in inflation, and as the global growth outlook darkens.
Strong Fundamentals
Cardano’s drop comes despite the fundamentals surrounding the blockchain’s future growth prospects looking very healthy. In early June, the number of projects being built on top of the Cardano blockchain surpassed 1000, Input Output Hong Kong (Cardano’s developer) said. More than 40% of these projects are Non-Fungible Token (NFT) related, indicative of a broader trend of Cardano’s growing popularity as the go-to platform for NFTs.
In June, the number of NFTs minted on the Cardano blockchain surpassed 5 million. Cardano’s proponents call it an “Ethereum killer”, owing to its much faster transaction speed (of 250 transactions per second versus Ethereum’s 15-45) and much lower energy consumption owing to its proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.
Cardano’s development team also works closely with academics and upgrades its blockchain-based on peer-reviewed research, ensuring a level of rigour that its competitors struggle to match. At the end of this month, Cardano will deliver a major upgrade called the Vasil hardfork that with further boost speed and scalability.
All the above suggests that Cardano is very likely to remain a major player in the crypto space for the long-term, meaning it should be able to ride the expected wave of crypto adoption in the coming decade.
Outlook For ADA
If the above is true, that suggests ADA’s long-term upside prospects look very good. But would-be crypto investors should exercise caution about aping in. In late 2017/early 2018 during an explosion in the price of various smart-contract enabled cryptocurrency tokens, ADA rose about 47x in a matter of weeks from under 3 cents per token to record highs at the time above $1.30.
However, by the end of 2018, it had shed about 97% of its value. It then took until February 2021 before ADA was able to post fresh record highs. Based on prior history then, investors should mentally prepare for a drawdown this time around that could near 98% from last September’s highs, which implies a potential drop to as low as about $0.06 per token.
Whilst support around $0.40 has been holding up very well in recent weeks, macro investor sentiment remains in the dumps and could further worsen if global inflationary pressures continue to build, which would demand an even more aggressive response from global central banks. A break below $0.40 would open the door to a run towards the next area of support under $0.20.
For cryptocurrency markets to come roaring back, there needs to be more certainty about inflation and investors need to know that central banks are on the path back towards easing rather than tightening. But the global economy might not reach this point until 2023/2024.
That suggests that over the course of the rest of this year and likely a large portion of next, ADA is going to continue to struggle. But when it does come back, Cardano has a track record of coming back with fury.
As already noted, ADA increased by 47x in a matter of weeks in late 2017/early 2018. Between early 2021 and September 2021, it increased by 16x. It is perfectly feasible that by 2025, ADA could 10x from current levels.
This article was originally posted on FX Empire
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Popular Cardano-based decentralized exchange WingRiders has lost its position as the most valuable DEX on Cardano.
WingRiders slumped from the first position to third after losing more than 59% of the total value locked (TVL) on the platform in the past 30 days.
At the time of writing this line, WingRiders is now the third-largest DEX by total value locked, with a TVL of $19.66 million. It is noteworthy that WingRiders maintained the top spot for more than two months, claiming 42% of TVL On Cardano. However, the DEX has fallen from glory ever since.
Minswap Is Now Cardano’s Most Valuable DEX
The development also affected the total value locked on Cardano. The total value locked on Cardano has fallen below $100 million in the last 30 days after the WingRiders TVL slumped.
Interestingly, Minswap has taken the lead to become the most valuable decentralized exchange on Cardano after the massive decline of WingRiders’ TVL.
At press time, Minswap is leading, with a $49.09 million total value locked on the platform. The DEX hit the milestone after recording a massive growth of 30.9% in its TVL in the past 30 days. Minswap accounts for 51.82% of the total value locked on Cardano.
SundaeSwap, the first decentralized exchange on Cardano, is now the second most valuable DEX in the ecosystem. SundaeSwap is second in the ranking, with $19.72 million in TVL.
Like WingRiders, SundaeSwap has also lost a significant amount of its TVL over the past 30 days. In the past month, SundaeSwap has lost nearly 10% of the funds locked on the platform.
Commenting on the development, Cardano Daily, a platform that shares new developments about Cardano, said:
“After the major decline of @wingriderscom, the TVL scenario of the Cardano ecosystem has stabilized back to normal as we have seen in the past few weeks. @MinswapDEX still led the ecosystem with $51M TVL, contributing 50% of the ecosystem.”
CARDANO TVL STATUS
After the major decline of @wingriderscom, the TVL scenario of the @Cardano ecosystem has stabilized back to normal as we have seen in the past few weeks. @MinswapDEX still led the ecosystem with $51M TVL, contributing 50% of the ecosystem#tvl #cardano $ADA pic.twitter.com/xjZ6cHo8jX
— Cardano Daily (@cardano_daily) August 9, 2022
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