Cardano has the potential to become a scarce asset like Bitcoin
According to “ADA Whale”, a gimbal A community-focused Twitter account, Cardano remains one of the few coins that comes close to Bitcoin’s distribution and inflation. He also believes that ADA could become a very scarce asset at some point in the future, as it could follow a BTC-like path.
The “ADA whale” thinks that Bitcoin got its dynamics right because of its fair distribution, its price staying low long enough to allow many to buy, and its fixed supply. Satoshi Nakamoto, the enigmatic Bitcoin creator, believes that scarcity may create value; hence, the maximum supply of Bitcoin was limited to 21 million coins. The 19 millionth Bitcoin was mined in April, leaving only two million BTC to be mined in about 100 years.
Cardano, like Bitcoin but unlike Ethereum, has a finite supply limit, with only 45 billion ADA ever created during the coin’s existence.
Presently, 33.82 billion ADA are in circulation, accounting for 75% of the maximum supply, and 34.27 billion ADA have been created so far, per CoinMarketCap data.
However, due to the still unfavorable market conditions, the “ADA whale” believes that now may not be the time to stock up on ADA. “This is a bear market, so be prepared for months of negative double-digit returns if you do,” he advises. “I’m just trying to put it in a long-term perspective.”
Cardano’s closed Vasil testnet deployed ahead of June hard fork
According to the latest weekly report by Cardano’s parent company, IOHK, the closed Vasil testnet has already been launched to assess its functionality with a select group of dApps and users. The Cardano team continues to work on consensus-specific enhancements in anticipation of the Vasil Hard Fork Combinator (HFC) event in June.
Additionally, IOHK provided a chart with information about the network’s growth. Currently, 986 projects are being built on Cardano, compared to 943 previously. A total of 88 projects have recently launched on Cardano, while the number of NFT projects has increased to 5,727. For the week, Github logins totaled 3,028, while native Cardano tokens stood at 4, 9 million.
Also, the number of Plutus scripts was 2,745. ADA is currently trading at $0.46, down 2.28%.
