Rank 17 by market cap
A project where engineering starts from peer-reviewed research: the Ouroboros consensus protocol was published and picked over by academics before it was implemented. Hence the unhurried release cadence the network is regularly criticised for.
Market mood: 52 · Neutral, as of 2026-10-11; calculated from part of the components
The price of Cardano (ADA) is 0.2475 USD as of October 11, 2026, -1.16% in 24 hours. Price change: +1.23% over 7 days, +19.91% over 30 days. Market capitalization is 9.29 billion USD, ranked 17. The price is 91.62% below its all-time high of 2.97 USD. Its link to Bitcoin over 90 days is strong and positive (correlation 0.77).
A project where engineering starts from peer-reviewed research: the Ouroboros consensus protocol was published and picked over by academics before it was implemented. Hence the unhurried release cadence the network is regularly criticised for.
The maximum supply is capped at 45.0 B ADA.
Cardano is grouped under: Smart Contract Platform, Proof of Stake (PoS).
We track 11 trading pairs for ADA; the full list with venues is on the coin's "Exchanges" tab.
| Metric | Latest | Change, over 90 days |
|---|---|---|
| Active addresses per day | 18,023 | +31.2 % |
| Transactions per day | 249,614 | +979.7 % |
| Daily fees (total), coins | 48,887.31 | +512.4 % |
| Daily issuance, coins | 421,457.57 | −79.9 % |
| Circulating supply, coins | 37,119,358,411 | +0.9 % |
This section is informational. Data comes from public sources and is not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile and may lose value.
Our database holds 3,099 days of daily price history for ADA.
Cardano is ranked #17 by market capitalisation, at 9.26B $. Market capitalisation is price multiplied by circulating supply, so it moves with both — a coin can climb the ranking without its price rising, simply by issuing more.
37.5 B ADA are in circulation, which is 83.4 % of the declared maximum. The remainder enters the market on the schedule written into the protocol, and until it does, the circulating figure is what market capitalisation is computed from — not the cap.
Over the last twelve months the price of ADA fell by 60.9 %. That is the change of the quote itself and says nothing about what comes next: crypto drawdowns of tens of percent within a year are ordinary, not exceptional.
Cardano is the native coin of its own blockchain: transaction fees in that network are paid in it, and its issuance is set by the protocol rather than by a contract on someone else's chain.
Consensus runs on proof of stake: time is cut into slots, the right to propose a block is drawn in proportion to stake, and a holder can delegate that stake to a pool without handing over the funds or locking them — they stay available at any moment. Accounting uses an extended unspent-output model rather than accounts, so the outcome of a contract is predictable before the transaction is sent and the fee is known in advance.
Supply is capped at forty-five billion coins. A share of fees flows into a network treasury that funds community proposals by vote, and development is carried in parallel by several independent organisations rather than a single company. Smart contracts did not arrive at launch: for several years the chain settled transfers and nothing more, which shaped its reputation for a long time.
The output-based accounting model buys predictability but complicates porting applications written for Ethereum's familiar account model.
A reference description of the project, not investment advice.
Change over the period shown (line colour): +1.14 %
Turnover is what the venue itself reports; we do not verify it, so the order in the table is not a reliability ranking.
| Venue | 24h turnover | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Binance | 23.4 M $ | 54.5 % |
| OKX | 6.71 M $ | 15.6 % |
| MEXC | 5.04 M $ | 11.7 % |
| Binance | 3.71 M $ | 8.6 % |
| Bybit | 2.97 M $ | 6.9 % |
Periods from a week are calendar-based, from midnight UTC. The 24-hour figure is a rolling window from the current price — different bases, not a discrepancy.
| Period | ADA | BTC | ETH |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 hoursrolling | −3.26 % | +0.31 % | +0.28 % |
| 7 days | +1.68 % | −2.20 % | −6.91 % |
| 30 days | +20.45 % | +8.00 % | +2.24 % |
| 90 days | +53.36 % | +30.13 % | +38.71 % |
| year to date | −25.46 % | −5.31 % | −15.66 % |
| 1 year | −60.87 % | −26.41 % | −34.56 % |
We compute market cap from circulating supply, so its date matters as much as the price.
Computed by us from our own history. This section shows no buy/sell ratings — these are values, not verdicts.
At the price as of 11/10/2026, 14:30 MSK — a moment's rate, not a live tick.
1 ADA = 0.2465 $
Same sector (Smart Contract Platform, Proof of Stake (PoS)) and a similar market cap
Coin sectors: Smart Contract Platform, Proof of Stake (PoS)