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I have one friend who's literally going all in for ADA

“Thesis” ?
You either understand the fundamentals of first mover advantage or you don’t. ETH was first. Well before ADA, SOL, etc.
In developing alternative layer two solutions there has been no greater layer one blockchain to adapt to.
You want a “thesis”? Try google.

for ADA staking it’s actually pretty chill compared to most chains
you’re not locking anything or sending your coins away, you just delegate to a stake pool. your ADA stays in your wallet the whole time and you can move it whenever. I keep mine on Tangem for storage so I’m not relying on an exchange and still keep full control of keys. Feels like the cleanest setup for long-term staking

I’ve dumped literally everything except for the valuable stable coins that have actual real world utility.  Like XRP, XLM, Bitcoin, HBAR, and ADA.  I still hold those and keep buying more.  As far as most of the rest…..most are just shitcoins. 

Don't use AI or search engines like Google to get links to crypto-related stuff.
For the sake of the Adalite, go to the official Cardano website and then go into the wallets section. It provides proper links to all of the endorsed wallets that support Cardano and ADA.

I'm still counting on that - i traded a large bag of ETH for ADA and this was a terrible decision.

I read another post here and saw a few people still held a few altcoins from a few years ago. After the 2025 crypto bull run ended, most altcoins didn't do as well as in the past (DOGE, ADA, etc). For me, I cut my altcoins down to a handful along with BTC. HODL is a good catch phrase, but not everything needs to be fit in there and HODL forever. Change is good.
Is it time to make adjustments to your portfolio and cut your losses?

A 10X would be a start given the price is the same as six years ago and ADA is no longer in the top 10. Yes, none of that matters if people are fine with Cardano being a hobby project that friends use amongst themselves to do whatever. Crazy that a billion dollars, making it one of the most expensive in the space, has been spent by the various organizations to build an amazing project to be used for a hobby.
Merely existing isn't driving people to adoption. Transactions cover 1% of rewards. Without more transactions, rewards will drop. I'm sure this sub will waive away any concerns about a death spiral, but it is plausible. Call me alarmist or a hater, I don't care. I'd rather know what might be on the horizon than blindly huffing hopium. No, there isn't much more time. The next 1-2 years will determine if it is a dead/hobby chain or something more. To be clear, I want it to succeed, but I'm not optimistic anymore.

Bought ADA in 2021 after the crash, held til 2024. Gave me great hopium for the future lol 300ish%

The coins never leave your private keys to stake; that's how secure ADA is. I recommend using a hardware wallet connected to Eternl.

Gonna buy lots of ADA. All in.
Got Avax, Ethereum and BNB.
Let's set my average cost to 0.30 and let it ride again to $1

>best setup where you can stake but still keep full control of your keys and not rely on an exchange
That's exactly how Cardano staking works. You don't need to send your ADA to a third party, and you get rewards in native ADA instead of a liquidity token like stETH. Find a pool that performs consistently and fits your ideals (some pools give a portion of their rewards to charity, for example), then stake your wallet to that pool. You always remain in complete control of your ADA, and can spend or save it however you wish.
All the major wallets support staking. Pick the one you like best, secure your seed phrase, and pick a stakepool.

It's actually pretty straightforward. If you want to stake ADA and keep full control of your keys, the standard setup is:
* Use a hardware wallet (like Ledger, Trezor, Keystone) for self-custody
* Connect it to a Cardano wallet app (like Eternl, Yoroi, Lace etc.)
* Delegate your ADA to a stake pool from within the wallet
Your ADA never leaves your wallet when you delegate, and you keep full control of your keys the whole time. Rewards are paid automatically, and you can switch pools whenever you want.
That's really all there is to it for a secure, long-term setup.
?staking

Best way to stake ADA securely long term?

Was scrolling last night and saw someone ask where ETH would be next year. The comments saying 5000, some saying back to 800. People focused on arguing about price but completely ignored what ETH is actually doing.
ETH's biggest problem is slow. It can only handle about 30 transactions per second, it's slow and expensive, everyone knows. But the Ethereum team has two big upgrades planned for 2026 and when those are done it's not just a little bit faster, it's like dozens of times faster. Then there's another one coming in 2027 and by then the whole network should be processing transactions faster than swiping your Visa. Then it won't be slow or expensive to use anymore.
Another thing people barely talk about is the ETF side. ETH ETFs already got approved, but the ETH inside them is basically just sitting there and cannot be staked. It is kind of like owning a stock that pays yield, except the fund tells you that yield does not go to you. The SEC has a new chair now and the tone has become a lot softer. If staking gets allowed in 2026, then institutions would not just be buying ETH to hold it. They would be buying something that can also earn yield. And once ETH inside ETFs gets locked up for staking, that means even less supply is out there to be sold.
The on chain side kinda interesting too. BlackRock, which is about as big as it gets, chose Ethereum for tokenized assets. Not because ETH is the fastest chain, but because it has been around the longest and people trust it not to break. Stablecoins are still huge on Ethereum too, and every transfer uses ETH in some way. That is why I do not really buy the idea that ETH is only being propped up by speculation. There are still real things happening on it every day.
And all those ETH killers everyone was hyped about? DOT ADA AVAX? Go look at them now. Meanwhile stuff that left Ethereum is coming back,like Polymarket and Synthetix. I was also watching the order book on bydfi for a while and buyers were way heavier than sellers. Price got down at one point and bounced right back up. Thats means down there is buying everything.
I honestly don't know where ETH will be next year but it really feels like it's about to make some big moves

bought ADA at 0.01-0.02 cent and i knew was going to pass 2$

now there is the midnight blockchain so im repeating history :) buying a ton of night , i bet is gonna be past 10$ soon

Or ADA 😂

Buddy are you simply retarded or joking? CRO did x8 this circle, wat? Let me remind you in 2024 it was between 0,5-0.6 cents, last year was the same and this year it’s the same where you see the x8 lmao?
I was there and the Monaco token was a scam, as soon people received the Crypto.com price tanked very hard and most people lost their initial money , which was what they originally had in Monaco so stop taking out of your ass.
It doesn’t affect price? You even know how to read blockchain or not? Even by your logical you realize these tokens are diluted into the market everyday making the price the same if not worse? Is not said by me, its what it has been proved in the last 4 years by CDC so stfu and stop whining just because you have a full bag of it because you know it’s a utter scam. Check blockchain and see how many tokens are being sold into the market by CDC and how much they are added into supply, you people deserve to lose money because I can’t believe you don’t have a proper logic of how crypto and supply works.
BTC did a x5 from 20k if not lower while CRO barely moved, where in the hell did you see the x8? Since Russia war this token did nothing, it had a small pump in 2024 because CDC started buying ( check again). ADA doesn’t have one of the biggest crypto platform in the world paying sponsor millions of dollars while fucking their customers in the ass.

Oh boy, where do I start:
1) The "unburn" is a new token mint. Original tokens are still burnt. You can look that up onchain
2) Unlocked tokens do NOT effect price until they truly effectively hit the market. 50% higher circulating supply now, but not even close to a 50% lower price since April 2025. (You mentioned March, but it started unlocking in April).
3) Both CRO and Bitcoin did ~8x from low to high this cycle (so far).
4) Monaco holders where reimbursed in CRO and have/had crazy ROI potential. No scam
5) Not a hater, but calling it scam every other sentence?
6) No customers have been rugged. CRO chart looks much like the ADA Chart. Is the Cardano team rugging?
7) "There are a lot of people in line waiting to sell at the first x2-x3..." Source? VexorLabs? This is utter BS because this is the EXACT same argument people thought CRO couldn't go to $0.20+ levels. Yes, there will always be people selling, but doesn't stop the token from pumping. Even better, I think the 'paperhands' are already out of the market by now
Please just leave the community if you don't like the token instead of spreading falsehoods or rumours. Take some peace of mind and just go