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I dunno, I think i understand Cardano pretty well, at least some aspects of what it's about and what went wrong.
A big issue of theirs was how they tried to build use cases, often behind others doing similar projects and often in worse ways. Cardano has tokenization! Nobody cared. NFT's? Nope. How about just the coin itself for the use case? Nope. They tried making it a ubiquitous cross border currency in Africa early on, only to find out that the gas fees destroyed the notions of a low cost coin being used for every day purchases when people were having to shell out a rather large percentage for fees compared to what they had just spent... so that shit failed.
Then later on we see Cardano's head Charles Hoskinson rubbing up against the leg of the Trump administration in the hopes that they might put some ADA into the governments coffers in an effort to give it more legitimacy. Trump did what Trump does, and fucked the guy over by not actually accruing any ADA, but by holding on to a small amount the government had already seized... but not before a good solid speculative pump that good old Charles used to make himself lots and lots of money. I remember people laughing at me when I got out around 85 cents at the time.
Cardano had a fun idea with Ouroboros, this notion that fees would circle back into wallets through staking, but it seems to not be enough to keep people investing, not when staking their coin through things like Daedalus won't even beat inflation.
Then you have the unmitigated failure that Sundaeswap was, with the token to date having lost 99.4 percent of it's overall value.
Cardano was/is... in many ways... a worse version of coins like Algorand, which beat it in speed, transaction cost and scalability, but even Algorand didn't win out, and that's what I usually point to when people are confused about the crypto space, because if solid tech in regards to the 'trilemma' is what people were really looking for, they'd have found it in Algorand... but it turns out none of this is about any of that.
Cardano survives because it's old, and well known in the space, and because there are still scores of people out there, extolling it's virtues, holding their bags, and waiting.

Gotta load up on that ADA /s

I'm not a pro, just someone who has seen the cycles before.
It's the same thing as usual. Coins follow BTC, meme token shit gets dumped first, then L1's.
SOL, ADA, ETh, whatever, it's all going to take a HARDER hit than BTC does.
I won't be surprised if we see around $50. Michael Sailor is saying 42K BTC potentially too.
But as always, who the fuck knows...? Only the less than one percent of whales.

I really haven't paid attention to Crypto in 5+ years... When i did, pay attention, ADA/Cardano was the clear winner on all the technical aspects and i invested. Its never done me any better or worse than anything else.

The fact its not in the top 3 at this point just shows nothing really matters, public sentiment, backdoor manipulation, and just straight poopoo magic drives this scene more than any fundamentals and technology.

As much as I hate Cardano, I consider it still in top 10.
What are these garbage OCTA, YZY and WBT ranked ahead of ADA?

It's crazy that Cardano was ever in the top 10. It's a useless chain, ADA is basically a meme token for people too proud to buy FARTCOIN on Solana, and too stupid to operate within DeFi on Ethereum.

ADA has been in and out of top 10 since its launch in 2017, MC ranking is one of the most meaningless metrics anyway. If you want to FUD Cardano why not mention that it failed to hit a new ATH in this cycle – which is true for the vast majority of cryptos.
This post is beyond stupid.

He’s the reason I got into crypto 5 years ago but you have to have a lot of patience for ADA.

Hey everyone,
I jumped into crypto mid-2025 right in the middle of the big pump. Went pretty heavy on alts (mostly SOL, ADA, LINK, plus some ETH and BTC). Put in about $100k total. Now it's sitting around $20k… down roughly 80%.
It hurts a lot. I keep replaying the “should haves” selling earlier, sizing smaller, not going so alt-heavy, investing in stocks instead of crypto. My partner is worried and stressed about it too, and honestly I’ve been struggling to sleep. The regret is real.
I do know crypto cycles are brutal but they do turn around eventually. I’ve read stories of people down 80–90% who held on and came out way ahead years later. Right now though, it just feels heavy.
If you’ve ever been in a similar spot (big drawdown, feeling awful, doubting everything), I’d really appreciate hearing from you:
\- How did you get through the mental side of it?
\- Did you hold everything, start DCA-ing, or trim a bit?
\- Was there any advice, quote, or mindset shift that actually helped pull you through the worst days?
Hurts like hell right now. Just want to hear from people who’ve been this down and made it back.
Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance to anyone who shares. Appreciate this community more than you know.
Take care everyone ❤️

This list isn’t bad, ETH and SOL are solid core plays. LINK and AVAX have real utility and ecosystem activity, so they’re not DOT-like. ADA and NEAR need clear reasons to outperform, and LTC feels more like a legacy play than a growth asset. If you want alternatives, consider more ETH L2 exposure like OP/ARB, and some DeFi primitives that actually capture value. Don't forget HYPE. The key is not just “top 10” but *active usage growth + token utility*.

I'm Charles Hoskinson. And Trump is bad because he doesn't do things that will pump ADA. If I were Trump, I would do such and such so that ADA would pump. And I would do this and that and ADA would pump. But Trump doesn't do those things. That's why ADA doesn't pump.

Buy ADA!!
Just joking

Another HBAR bag holder 😂 They are the same as ADA bag holders.

Add ADA to the dead list, it's just a pet project at this point with zero adoption.
I'd love AVAX to do well, first decent chain I used, but hasn't had enough adoption. Similar, SUI and NEAR seem more about wishful thinking than gaining real traction. I'm even sceptical about SOL now, it's eco system is such a wasteland of half-baked ideas and memes. These large L1s probably track ETH now, so you may as well hold that.
LINK is one of few genuine real use tokens, that's going to be strong return. Glaring missing token is HYPE, working chain, major application which is making more revenue than tradefi alternatives (see comparisons to Robinhood). If Hyperliquid were a stock it would be valued 5-10x its current marketcap.
Beyond that QNT and ONDO have real financial industry connections that might bear results, along with exchanges like UNI and small projects that deliver real applications.

I like HYPE, the only reason why I’m not investing in it is because I feel like it’s dropped hard like the others. Still hasn’t dropped to 50% from last high.
What’s CANTON and QNT? What do you believe on them more than the likes of ADA, AVAX or LTC?

As a bag holder from 2021 to 2025, ADA?!?! Absolutely not.

Friends this is the best time to invest money in crypto.
So I’ve shortlisted 8 coins I’d like to invest in RIGHT NOW and I would like your feedback:
1. $ETH
2. $SOL
3. $ADA
4. $AVAX
5. $LINK
6. $NEAR
7. $LTC
8. $SUI
So last time when I invested in alt coins, I put money in polygon and polkadot and I later realized from research that those are dead projects. Hence this time, I don’t want to make the same mistake.
$ETH and $SOL are obvious OKs but the other projects.. i need some reaffirmations if they’re like $DOT or not. I don’t want invest in another $DOT like coin.

ETH AVAX ADA NEAR RENDER SOLANA ONDO SUI INJECTIVE
Some of these I bought high and they are completely destroyed right now but long-term I have faith in all of them.

Cardano (ADA) & Fiat Weapons | Cardano Rumor Rundown #792 - Army of Spies

Would be nice if ADA would finally see some upwards action, but that's more hopium than probability...