$ADA

Cardano
archetype: l1 / chain

$ADA is alive, but fading. Multiple systems are weakening: it’s moving in line with similar coins (down 7% over 30 days), and holders are staying put (-176 in 30 days), though it’s liquid enough to easily sell ($215m traded per day). The price is down 95% from its all-time high.

label capped: score says STRAINED, but coins down 95% don’t earn better labels than WEAKENING. why?

59/100
HIGH
−95%
$0.1603
8/10 above peers
01 · RECLAIM OUTLOOK — WILL THE PRICE COME BACK?
PRICE $0.1603 ATH $3.09 (SEP 2021) DRAWDOWN −94.8% RECLAIM 19.3×
break-even from here: +1,830% $100 held here would need to become $1,930 just to get back — and 92 out of 100 coins that fall this deep never see their old high again.
Recent risk alert signal on the record (2026-06-24) — not reflected in the score; check before acting.
02 · STRUCTURE — 6 MEASURED scores 0–100 · peer bins cited vs 2538 scored peers
01 is anyone still building it? structural solvency / liveness 67/100

Actively built and maintained.

0 commits/4wk80 contributorslast commit 0d ago — actively developed.
02 are holders staying or leaving? holder conviction & overhead supply 42/100

Holders are staying put.

addresses -176/30d · -0.0% · bin 3/10MVRV 0.43 · bin 7/10 — address base is holding steady. [L1 / Chain bins, provisional]
03 could you actually sell? liquidity / exitability 79/100

Easy enough to sell.

$215,030,658/24h · bin 10/103.60% turnover · bin 6/10 — tradeable.
04 is anyone actually using it? usage / demand 65/100

Genuinely used.

13,582 active addresses/day · bin 9/1030d trend -18.5% · bin 4/10 — usage is strong for its peer group. [L1 / Chain bins, provisional]
05 how much more will be printed? supply overhang & emissions 50/100

Meaningful dilution still to come.

83% of supply circulating · bin 6/10FDV/MC 1.2x · bin 5/10 — meaningful dilution still to come.
06 how is it doing vs similar coins? relative strength / narrative 40/100

Moving with the pack.

30d -7% · bin 5/10200d -56% · bin 4/10 — middle of its peer pack.
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03 · COMMON QUESTIONS answers generated from this coin’s frozen readout · not advice

Is Cardano ($ADA) dead?

Not dead, but fading. As of 2026-07-14, Cardano scores 59/100 on bagcheck’s structural aliveness scan — WEAKENING. Multiple systems are weakening. Aliveness measures whether the project still works, not whether the price recovers.

Is Cardano a good investment?

bagcheck doesn’t rate investments — this is information, not advice. What the frozen record shows as of 2026-07-14: a structural aliveness score of 59/100 (WEAKENING), a price 95% below its all-time high, a drawdown cohort (down 85-95%) in which historically only ~8% of coins ever reclaimed their high. What you do with that is yours.

Will Cardano ($ADA) recover?

Nobody can predict price, and bagcheck doesn’t try. Historically, of coins down 85-95% (3-year window), about 8% reclaimed their all-time high; break-even to ATH from the scan price needs +1,830%. The WEAKENING aliveness read says whether the project still works — a precondition for recovery, not a promise of it.

MEMBERS · ENGINE BOTTOM LINE the engine’s verbatim verdict — not rendered publicly
SAME SHELF — L1 / CHAIN all 273 l1 / chain coins →
bagcheck v0.17.1 · snapshot 2026-07-14 v16 · scored monthly · batch of 2026-07-14 · frozen JSON ⇩ sha256 ab47…fe03 Information, not advice.