According to @ItsDave_ADA, Cardano aims to deliver decentralized applications for identity, value exchange, and governance to expand economic access, highlighting core utility pillars relevant to ADA usage, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 17, 2025. Cardano’s official materials state that ADA is the native asset used to pay transaction fees and for staking, making on-chain activity and governance participation directly denominated in ADA rather than external assets, source: Cardano Foundation documentation and Input Output Global documentation. The roadmap underscores decentralized identity such as Atala PRISM and on-chain governance including Voltaire and CIP-1694, aligning identity and governance DApps with protocol demand for ADA, source: Input Output Global and Cardano Foundation. For trading, actionable monitoring includes identity and governance DApp usage, transaction count and fee consumption in ADA, and active stake and participation rates, all observable via the Cardano blockchain explorer and official analytics, source: Cardano blockchain explorer and Cardano Foundation analytics.