Cardano: Native Token Leads Top 25 Cryptos With 7% Gain

Cardano native token leads the top 25 cryptocurrencies by market cap with a 7% advance, driven by accelerating on-chain metrics and protocol upgrades that have unfolded over the past six months.

DEX activity spiked sharply in late August, with daily volume hitting 245.31 million ADA and seven-day totals reaching $151.01 million. At the protocol layer, Leios advanced from simulations to the Earth phase of MusashiNet, delivering 26.8 TxkB/s throughput—six times the 4.51 TxkB/s Praos baseline—while Hydra and Midgard rollups matured and the $80 million Orion Fund entered initial deployment alongside the ratified 120 million ADA PRIME treasury allocation.

With ADA trading at $0.21 and testing upper Bollinger resistance while the RSI(14) sits at 61.29, the neutral momentum reading combined with the MACD golden cross leaves room for continuation before any retracement toward the EMA50 support at $0.20; the lower band at $0.19 remains the key structural floor. This confluence supports sustained ADA price prediction upside as Cardano ecosystem growth and ADA scaling roadmap milestones align through late 2026.