{"id":43416,"date":"2026-05-14T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptd.in\/cardano-whales-keep-buying-as-ada-crashes-71-in-9-months\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:20:56","slug":"cardano-whales-keep-buying-as-ada-crashes-71-in-9-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptd.in\/en\/cardano-whales-keep-buying-as-ada-crashes-71-in-9-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardano Whales Keep Buying as ADA Crashes 71% in 9 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At $0.26, Cardano (ADA) continues to trade significantly below its previous market highs, but large holders of the 11th-largest crypto asset by market cap appear unfazed.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, new data suggests that millionaire-tier Cardano wallets consistently expanded ADA holdings.<\/p>\n<h2>Aggressive ADA Buying Spree<\/h2>\n<p>According to crypto analytics platform Santiment,\u00a0wallets holding at least 1 million ADA <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SantimentData\/status\/2054663063299924281\">have steadily increased<\/a> their share of the supply. These wallets now collectively hold 25.09 billion ADA, which represents 67.47% of the current circulating supply. The accumulation trend has continued even as Cardano\u2019s market cap dropped more than 70% over the past nine months.\u00a0Santiment said the \u201cmillionaire\u201d tier of sharks and whales appears to be taking advantage of lower prices.<\/p>\n<p>Amid continued accumulation by major Cardano holders, crypto analyst Ali Martinez recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/ada-bullish-prediction-can-cardano-repeat-its-historic-240-rally\/\">pointed<\/a> to the $0.25 level as a historically important price zone for ADA. According to Martinez, Cardano saw a strong recovery after holding that level in January 2023, as the asset rose more than 88% in the following weeks.<\/p>\n<p>A similar trend unfolded in September 2023 as well, when ADA once again maintained support around $0.25 before later recording a 243% rally. With Cardano currently trading above $0.26, the same support range remains critical for the asset\u2019s price structure.<\/p>\n<p>Based on his analysis, continued strength above the $0.25 zone could support a move toward $0.36, while a broader rally could push ADA toward $0.53. However, he warned that losing the support range could lead to a deeper correction.<\/p>\n<h2>Scaling Debate Intensifies<\/h2>\n<p>Beyond price, Cardano continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/charles-hoskinson-blasts-medias-negative-portrayal-of-cardanos-prospects\/\">face<\/a> criticism over the pace of its development and scaling progress. Responding to those concerns, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson recently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IOHK_Charles\/status\/2051518521264283767\">pushed<\/a> back against claims that the network had \u201cabandoned scaling in favor of governance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoskinson said Cardano\u2019s scaling research has been ongoing since before the Shelley era and involved years of work across Layer 2 solutions, the extended UTXO accounting model, zero-knowledge technologies, partnerchains, and the Leios protocol. He explained that many of these initiatives required extensive research, scientific publications, and long-term engineering efforts that could not simply be accelerated by adding more developers.<\/p>\n<p>Hoskinson also maintained that the implementation of the Voltaire governance system did not divert resources away from scaling research.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/cardano-whales-keep-buying-as-ada-crashes-71-in-9-months\/\">Cardano Whales Keep Buying as ADA Crashes 71% in 9 Months<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At $0.26, Cardano (ADA) continues to trade significantly below its previous market highs, but large holders of the 11th-largest crypto asset by market cap appear unfazed. In fact, new data suggests that millionaire-tier Cardano wallets consistently expanded ADA holdings. Aggressive ADA Buying Spree According to crypto analytics platform Santiment,\u00a0wallets holding at least 1 million ADA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feeds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cardano Whales Keep Buying as ADA Crashes 71% in 9 Months - cryptd.in<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptd.in\/en\/cardano-whales-keep-buying-as-ada-crashes-71-in-9-months\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardano Whales Keep Buying as ADA Crashes 71% in 9 Months - cryptd.in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At $0.26, Cardano (ADA) continues to trade significantly below its previous market highs, but large holders of the 11th-largest crypto asset by market cap appear unfazed. 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