Cardano (ADA) price

#17 in the top 100Layer 1

$0.1728−2.59%

Data as of November 11, 2026, 02:11 UTC+3, the price refreshes on the page

Cardano (ADA) is a proof-of-stake blockchain with smart contracts and on-chain holder voting.

Market cap: $6.49B
24h volume: $198.1M
Volume / market cap: 3.05%
Fully diluted value: $7.78B
Circulating supply: 37.6 B ADA
Total supply: 45.0 B ADA
Max supply: 45.0 B ADA
24h range: $0.1709 … $0.1796
All-time high: $3.09September 1, 2021

Cardano chart

1 hour−0.43%

24 hours−2.59%

7 days−9.22%

30 days−30.94%

1 year−70.54%

Price in US dollars, data from CoinGecko

Analytics

What the numbers say about how the coin behaves. Based on hourly prices over 7 days and data as of November 11, 2026, 02:11 UTC+3.

Volatility

76%moderate

1.7× higher than Bitcoin over the same week.

Link to Bitcoin

0.86strong

Moves almost in step with Bitcoin. When Bitcoin moves 1%, ADA moves 1.5% on average.

From the all-time high

−94.40%far below

The high of $3.09 was set on September 1, 2021.

Liquidity

3.1%normal

A day’s trading equals 3.1% of market cap. Trades steadily, no frenzy.

Supply issued

83%most

83.5% of the max supply is out.

Place in the week’s range

2%near the bottom

The week ranged from $0.1721 to $0.1998, with a max drawdown of −13.87%.

Market share

0.27%small

Share of the top-100 market cap.

What is Cardano

Cardano is a layer 1 blockchain with smart contracts whose mainnet went live in September 2017. The project was led by Charles Hoskinson, one of Ethereum’s co-founders, who set up the company IOHK with Jeremy Wood in 2015 to build it. Work is split between several organizations: the engineering firm IOG (formerly IOHK) builds the core software, the Swiss-based Cardano Foundation handles standards and adoption, and Emurgo works with businesses. The network is named after the mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, and its coin ADA after Ada Lovelace.

Blocks are produced by Ouroboros, a proof-of-stake protocol: instead of mining, stake pools win the right to make blocks in proportion to the ADA delegated to them. Delegation happens straight from a wallet, and the coins are neither locked nor moved. Balances follow an extended UTXO model (eUTXO): as in Bitcoin, a transaction spends specific outputs, but those outputs can carry scripts and data. Smart contracts arrived in September 2021, and since the Chang (September 2024) and Plomin (January 2025) upgrades, ADA holders vote on protocol changes and treasury spending, either directly or through delegated representatives (DReps).

ADA pays transaction fees, earns staking rewards through delegation and carries voting power. Projects can issue native tokens at the ledger level without a dedicated smart contract, and those tokens move just like ADA. The main difference from Ethereum is the accounting model: the fee is known before a transaction is sent, but applications are designed differently, so code from EVM chains cannot be ported without a rewrite.

What it’s used for

paying transaction fees on Cardano
delegating to stake pools for staking rewards
voting on protocol upgrades and treasury spending
issuing native tokens and using apps on the network

Risks

Node software bugs: in November 2025 a malformed transaction split the chain into two branches, and exchanges paused ADA deposits and withdrawals until nodes were upgraded.
Core development has historically come from one company, IOG, so the network’s direction depends heavily on its plans, even though changes now go through holder votes.
The eUTXO model differs from Ethereum’s accounts, so apps from EVM chains do not port over directly and the choice of services depends on Cardano’s own ecosystem.

Questions

How much is Cardano worth today?

As of November 11, 2026, Cardano trades at $0.1728. Over 24 hours the price moved −2.59%, over 7 days −9.22%. The price on this page refreshes automatically.

How many ADA are in circulation?

37.6 B ADA are in circulation. Max supply is 45.0 B ADA, so 83.5% has been issued. The fully diluted value of all coins is $7.78B.

What is the Cardano all-time high?

The all-time high of $3.09 was set on September 1, 2021. The price is now 94.40% below it. The all-time low was $0.0193 (March 12, 2020).

Who created Cardano?

Cardano was led by Charles Hoskinson, an Ethereum co-founder, and built by IOHK, the company he founded with Jeremy Wood in 2015. Its mainnet launched in September 2017. IOG develops the core software, while the Cardano Foundation looks after standards and adoption.

How does ADA staking work?

You delegate ADA to a stake pool from your wallet; the coins stay at your address, are not locked and can be spent at any time. The pool produces blocks, and rewards are shared among delegators after the pool’s fee.

Prices and analytics are for information only and are not investment advice. Market data source: CoinGecko.