Research Scope
Cardano (ADA) is covered here as a smart-contract network associated with the Cardano ecosystem. This note is a market-structure and risk-monitoring reference, not an investment recommendation.
Market Data Snapshot
| Field | Observed value |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 0.174960 |
| Price date | 2026-08-18 |
| Latest daily-close change | +0.55% |
| 30-day close-to-close return | +5.41% |
| 90-day close-to-close return | -29.74% |
| One-year close-to-close return | -81.05% |
| One-year annualised volatility | +76.63% |
| One-year maximum drawdown | -85.09% |
| Observed daily closes | 400 |
Current observed market data were available for this snapshot.
What to Monitor
Research attention should centre on Cardano protocol delivery and application-layer adoption. Price data alone does not establish adoption, decentralisation, cash-flow generation, or a valuation conclusion. The reported return metrics are calculated from the stored daily-close series and should be interpreted alongside protocol, liquidity, custody, legal, and counterparty evidence.
Risk Lens
Key areas for ongoing diligence include execution pace, ecosystem depth, competition, and token-demand risk. Digital assets can experience material gaps in liquidity and rapid repricing; market structure, venue access, custody arrangements, and regulatory treatment can change independently of protocol activity.
Data Lineage and Method
The market-data series is sourced from Yahoo Finance via yfinance, using yfinance.Ticker.history for X:ADAUSD. The stored basis is daily close (unadjusted crypto OHLCV) for the request window 2025-07-14 to 2026-08-18. Thirty-day, 90-day, and one-year returns use the last close and the latest available close on or before each lookback date. Annualised volatility is the standard deviation of daily close-to-close returns multiplied by the square root of 365; maximum drawdown is the lowest decline from a running closing-price peak across the stored series.
Further protocol reference: Cardano documentation.
Disclosure: This is research and analysis only, not personalized financial advice. Market-data figures are dated 2026-08-18; they are not intraday prices, forecasts, or suitability assessments.