Cardano (ADA) Price Drops 5% Amid Trader Shorts, Hoskinson Blames Community for DeFi Struggles

Cardano (ADA) continued its downward slide on Monday, falling over 5% to trade around $0.57, extending last week’s 10% ￰0￱ Reading: XRP’s Next Earthquake: Billions Set To Flow In, ‘Supply Shock’ Coming—Analyst Market data from CoinGlass shows trader sentiment turning increasingly bearish, with ADA’s long-to-short ratio at 0.75, the lowest this ￰1￱ metric indicates that more traders are betting on further declines. On-chain data mirrors this negative ￰2￱ to Santiment, daily active addresses on the Cardano network dropped from 32,115 in mid-October to 24,280 on November 3, signaling reduced demand and declining ￰3￱ indicators also reflect weakness.

ADA’s RSI sits at 32, deep in bearish territory, while the MACD histogram shows fading bullish ￰4￱ warn that a sustained move below $0.55 could open the door to deeper corrections toward the $0.49 support zone. ADA's price trends to the downside on the daily chart.) could easily reach $5–10 billion if users embraced native DeFi ￰5￱ stated, “It’s not a technology problem. It’s a problem of governance, coordination, and accountability.” Despite over 1.3 million ADA holders staking on the network, few engage with DeFi apps, leading to ￰6￱ TVL stands at $271 million, far behind Ethereum’s $85 billion and Solana’s $11 ￰7￱ argued that without community adoption, attracting users from other ecosystems would remain ￰8￱ (ADA) DeFi Integration and Institutional Accumulation Offer Hope Despite its sluggish DeFi performance, Cardano remains one of the most active blockchains by development activity, outperforming Ethereum and Solana in late October, per Santiment ￰9￱ like Midnight and RealFi aim to link Cardano with Bitcoin liquidity and real-world lending markets, potentially unlocking billions in capital ￰10￱ Reading: Dogecoin Must Defend This Level To Avoid A $0.07 Meltdown, On-Chain Data Shows Meanwhile, large investors appear to be quietly ￰11￱ data shows over 37.5 million ADA moved from Coinbase to private wallets, a sign of long-term ￰12￱ with steady token outflows from exchanges, this accumulation phase could lay the groundwork for a future ￰13￱ Hoskinson puts it, “We can pretty much do anything, the question is, can we do it together?” Cover image from ChatGPT, ADAUSD chart from Tradingview