How High Can Cardano (ADA) Go — Crypto Price Predictions

Market Cap & Market Share Analysis

Col Jung
10 min readJan 5, 2022

Edit: See my Cardano updates on YouTube here, here, here & here.

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Making cryptocurrency price predictions is a form of dark art.

Unlike the discounted cashflow model for equities/shares, there is no consensus on how to value cryptocurrencies.

Bespoke approaches and metrics are used for different use cases. A simple classification for crypto use cases is as follows:

  • Bitcoin. Use case: store of value asset that competes with gold.
  • Altcoins. Use cases: smart contracts, dApps, DeFi, NFTs and so on.
  • Memecoins. No real utility. Gambling and speculation.

Common valuation approaches include looking at: hash rates, network effect, number of dApps, TVL, Metcalfe’s Law and so on. One can spend days debating the merit and relevance of these metrics.

To keep things simple, investors typically use market capitalization as an easy-to-use guide for forecasting and prediction.

Cardano’s native token ADA has a current market cap of roughly $45 billion. If that sounds sensible to you, then a…

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