The ADA coin, has seen significant market movement today.
What is ADA?
Cardano’s coin is ADA, and while it may appear out of nowhere to people who are just starting with Bitcoin or Litecoin, Cardano has been there since 2015. It’s a fully open-source, decentralized blockchain project that goes beyond ADA. Cardano emerged when Charles Hoskinson, a co-founder of Ethereum, teamed up with the Cardano Foundation.
The term “smart contract” will be familiar to Ethereum users. Check out this primer for those who don’t. Cardano aspires to be a more advanced smart contract platform than Ethereum and other protocols. Therefore devising a new Proof-of-Stake (POS) technique dubbed Ouroboros.
So ADA coin, the Cardano network’s cryptocurrency, claims to provide more functionality. This is while also operating swiftly, efficiently, and cheaply (like Litecoin) and providing the same kind of “store of value” like Bitcoin. Everything is in a single coin.
Cardano sometimes has the term the “Ethereum of Japan” because 95 percent of the participants in the ADA Initial Coin Offering (ICO) were Japanese, but it’s best renowned for its strongly research-based approach, which includes a global team of scientists and academics that have examined the blockchain area and what makes a coin successful.
According to CoinMarketCap, ADA’s price sold was $0.20636 at 5:14 pm PST on December 15. That number has more than doubled in price as of 2:54 p.m. PST today. The price was $0.40251 at the time of writing.
Cardano is also the creator of the Daedalus wallet. Which currently supports only the ADA token but promises to support more in the future. Check out CryptoSlate’s article about Cardano and Cardano’s essay titled “Why We Are Building Cardano” for more information.
Why is Cardano Rising?
The ripple impact Bitcoin has had in the last month must be mentioned in any discussion on cryptocurrency’s growth. Bitcoin has pushed cryptocurrencies into the mainstream with huge announcements like breaking $10K (and now nearing $20K). Bitcoin futures trading on Cboe and CME, as well as Bitcoin futures trading on Cboe and CME.
Fresh Investors
The entire market is booming as more investors join the crypto bandwagon every day. Many new users begin with Coinbase, which supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, and where many new users begin.
However, as purchasers become more comfortable with those markets—particularly when they don’t experience huge spikes in growth, as Bitcoin did this week—they look for new alternatives. As a result of this increased global attention, ADA is clearly gaining traction.
In addition, both new and existing participants are expecting to find the next coin to travel “to the moon,” as DASH, ETH, IOTA, LTC, NEM, and XRP have done this year. This is especially true for coins that aren’t considered “expensive”–those that may be purchased for less than $1.
Though this has little to do with value (0.1 BTC = $1900+), it does have an impact on buyer psychology, especially among new investors who are unfamiliar with crypto or traditional markets.
Many people probably saw ADA, which has already made significant gains this year, as the ideal horse in the current crypto race.
