In the dusty plains of the crypto market, where the winds of fortune howl and the shadows of uncertainty loom, the big fish of Cardano have been quietly casting their nets. While the little guys scatter like startled quail, the whales-those great leviathans of the digital deep-have been swallowing ADA by the millions, their appetites undeterred by the storm.
Since the great sell-off of October, a tempest that wiped out nearly $20 billion in leveraged bets, the air has been thick with caution. Cryptocurrencies, once soaring like hawks, have been grounded, their wings clipped by fear. Cardano, too, has felt the bite, plummeting through key support levels like a stone through thin ice. From its lofty perch at $0.90 in October 2025, it has tumbled over 71%, now trading just above $0.26. A fall so steep, it’d make a canyon blush.
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Yet, in this desert of despair, the whales have been hoarding like squirrels before winter. According to Santiment, those with wallets fat enough to hold 100,000 to 100 million ADA have been on a shopping spree, adding 819.4 million more ADA to their vaults. That’s $213.9 million worth, a haul so big it’d make a robber baron jealous. And what’s more, they’ve gobbled up an extra 1.6% of the total supply, their bellies swelling while the rest of us tighten our belts.
🐳🦈 Cardano’s key whales & sharks have quietly been accumulating over the past 6 months. While its price has fallen over 71% from $0.90 to $0.26, wallets with 100K-100M $ADA have added +819.4M more ADA ($213.9M) & +1.6% of the total supply.
– Santiment (@santimentfeed) February 24, 2026
Santiment tells us these big players have scooped up 819.14 million ADA in six months, their holdings rising from 24.54 billion to 25.35 billion. In percentage terms, that’s a jump from 66.84% to 68.44% of the supply. While the rest of us are counting pennies, they’re counting fortunes. It’s enough to make a man wonder if they know something we don’t-or if they’re just gluttons for punishment.
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Since the sell-off began four months ago, the crypto market has been a graveyard of caution, and Cardano has been digging its own grave, breaking through support levels like a bull in a china shop. ADA is on track for its sixth straight month of decline since August 2025, down 9.34% so far in February. The slide, which started in October, is part of a broader risk-off sentiment sweeping global markets. It’s like everyone’s decided to play it safe, leaving Cardano out in the cold.
At the time of writing, ADA was up 3.22% in the last 24 hours to $0.265 and 5.79% in the last seven days. A small bounce, perhaps, but hardly enough to call it a comeback. Meanwhile, Midnight is gearing up for its mainnet launch, expanding its ecosystem with a set of trusted federated node operators. MoneyGram and Google Cloud have joined the party, though whether they’ll be enough to turn the tide remains to be seen. In the words of a weary farmer, “It’s a long road from seed to harvest.”
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2026-02-25 13:26