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What Is ADA? A Brief History of the Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Network Cardano – Learning - Insights Bitcoin News

On October 6, 2023, the cryptocurrency Cardano, known by its ticker ADA, is ranked as the eighth-largest in market capitalization, valued at just over $9 billion, or 0.817% of the $1.08 trillion...

What Is ADA? A Brief History of the Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Network Cardano – Learning - Insights Bitcoin News

What Is ADA? A Brief History of the Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Network Cardano

On October 6, 2023, the cryptocurrency Cardano, known by its ticker ADA, is ranked as the eighth-largest in market capitalization, valued at just over $9 billion, or 0.817% of the $1.08 trillion cryptocurrency market. As the digital currency landscape evolves, ADA has emerged as a key contender. This article delves into Cardano’s origins, its native cryptocurrency ADA, its history, and its functionality.

Introduction to Cardano: Origins and Founders

Cardano is a decentralized, open-source blockchain platform that enables peer-to-peer transactions with its native cryptocurrency, ADA. The Cardano project was launched in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson. Through Cardano, Hoskinson sought to tackle challenges posed by earlier blockchain systems.

Cardano’s journey started in 2015 when Hoskinson and Jeremy Wood founded IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong), a research and development firm. Their mission was to leverage peer-reviewed academic research to construct a more secure and scalable blockchain. After extensive research and development, the Cardano blockchain officially debuted in September 2017.

Technical Foundations: Ouroboros and Plutus, and the Native Cryptocurrency ADA

A hallmark of Cardano is its consensus mechanism, Ouroboros, a proof-of-stake (PoS) algorithm. Unlike Bitcoin’s proof-of-work (PoW) consensus, Ouroboros PoS lets users validate transactions and earn rewards. Cardano’s developers contend that Ouroboros, segmented into various versions, is the first PoS protocol with proven security based on peer-reviewed research.

What Is ADA? A Brief History of the Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Network Cardano

The network employs Haskell for Plutus, its native smart contract language. ADA functions as the native cryptocurrency on the Cardano platform, facilitating value transfer and being used for staking, transaction fees, and governance. The total ADA supply is capped at 45 billion, with a current circulation of 35 billion. Since its inception, ADA has seen 76,098,522 transactions.

Market Insights: Cardano’s Place in the Blockchain Ecosystem

Data from October 6 shows 3,577,963 unique addresses holding ADA. The top ten holders possess 8.73% of all ADA, the top 20 have 10.37%, the top 50 control 15.09%, and roughly 20.74% is in the hands of the top 100 ADA addresses. The largest address, “Ae2td,” holds 1.65 billion ADA, or 3.67% of the total supply.

What Is ADA? A Brief History of the Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Network Cardano

Currently, ADA trades at $0.26 per unit, a 91% drop from its all-time high of $3.09 in September 2021. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has labeled ADA and several other digital currencies as potential securities or investment contracts. In response, IOHK refuted recent SEC claims that categorized ADA as an unregistered security, highlighting numerous inaccuracies in the filings and asserting that ADA is not a security under U.S. laws.

Despite challenges, Cardano has solidified its position alongside leading blockchain platforms like Ethereum and other first-layer (L1) networks. In terms of decentralized finance (defi), Cardano is the 15th largest chain in terms of total value locked (TVL). The network’s TVL is $163.26 million on October 6, and the chain has 27 unique defi protocols. As far as all-time non-fungible token sales, Cardano is the sixth largest chain with $611,361,634 in NFT sales.

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Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 8,700 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.

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