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On Sunday (May 30), popular crypto analyst Benjamin Cowen commented on $ADA’s impressive price action during the current downtrend in the crypto bull market.
Cowen Tweeted:
$ADA in my racehorse this market cycle. It was at $0.02 and it still is today at $1.60. I have larger positions in $ETH and $BTC for risk management, but there is simply no denying the numbers $ADA is putting up. pic.twitter.com/JthPvleBGT
— Benjamin Cowen (@intocryptoverse) May 30, 2021
According to data by TradingView, currently (as of 08:45 UTC on May 31), on crypto exchange Kraken, $ADA is trading around $1.6187, down 0.39% in the past 24-hour period.
However, if you look at the year-to-date (YTD) period, $ADA is up 790.86% vs USD.
In a video released on his YouTube channel on May 15, Cowen told viewers that Cardano could double in price after a big breakout against Bitcoin.
According to a report by The Daily Hodl, he said:
“The highest valuation that ADA has ever been against Bitcoin is over here (0.00008 in 2018). If we take a measured move from the current prices to that level, it’s another 105%… With the idea that ADA can go up 105% in terms of reaching its global top against Bitcoin for an invariant Bitcoin, where would that put ADA/USD? It would actually put it at a modest, at a very, very humble $4.35… We’re not saying it’s going to go there by any means… We’re just saying, ‘Hey, it’s done it before.’ And arguably, ADA has got a lot more going for it today than it did back in 2017, 2018.“
Another crypto analyst impressive with Cardano is Michael van de Poppe, who said yesterday that $ADA is “one of the strongest performers in the market.”
Request 02 – #Cardano
This one is actually one of the strongest performers in the market.
Hard drop, after which a strong bounce occurred.
Since then, beautiful HL constructed and further consolidation, before continuation expected.$BTC pair doing fine too. pic.twitter.com/wbQErmP1tl
— Michael van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) May 30, 2021
Van De Poppe said on May 5 that he could see $ADA reaching $5:
Can #Litecoin reach $700?
Can #Cardano reach $5?
Can #Chainlink reach $100?
Can #Ethereum reach $5,000?
Can #Zilliqa reach $1?
I think yes.
— Michael van de Poppe (@CryptoMichNL) May 5, 2021
Given that yesterday Cardano’s $ADA token was one of the best performing cryptoassets among the top 20 cryptos by market cap and the fact that Cardano has one of the largest and most passionate communities, perhaps it is not surprising that Cryptocurrency social media analytics platform LunarCRUSH rated Cardano #1:
Cardano is showing accelerating social + market activity, pushing it all the up to the #1 AltRank™ on @LunarCRUSH????
24-Hour Activity
20.8% price change
26,883 social mentions
36,283,682 social engagementshttps://t.co/8c0DeFzFap $ada #cardano @Cardano pic.twitter.com/PKptdWFYMo
— LUNARCRUSH Social Listening for Cryptocurrencies (@LunarCRUSH) May 30, 2021
On May 27, IOHK, which is the main company that develops the Cardano protocol software, announced that it had launched the first “Alonzo Blue” testnet, which is an important milestone in the journey to the launch of smart contract support on Cardano’s mainnet.
We've now started the process of onboarding a small, select group of SPOs & #Plutus Pioneers to help lay the foundations.
To hear all about the next 90 days and more on #AlonzoWhite & #AlonzoPurple join us on #Cardano360.
Starting in 5… Let's go. 2/2https://t.co/iayNT1EfUF
— Input Output (@InputOutputHK) May 27, 2021
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