Cardano’s Biggest Interoperability Push Now Brings 800+ Tokens Across Chains

The company will scrap seven spot trading pairs on June 12.

Cardano’s total value locked dropped close to 30% in June, sliding from $129 million to $92 million — a fall that closely tracks ADA’s own price decline of 27% over the same stretch. Yet one platform inside the ecosystem is pushing back hard against the idea that the network is finished. DexHunter, a Cardano-based DEX aggregator, took to X to argue that the blockchain is more alive than ever, citing a sharp spike in trading activity as proof that user engagement remains strong despite ADA’s price weakness. Related Reading: Security Milestone: XRP Lending Protocol Completes Military-Grade Assessment A Surge, Then A Pullback Daily DEX trading volume on Cardano shot up from roughly 6 million ADA to 25 million ADA across four days, one of the steepest volume increases in recent months. DexHunter attributed that spike to heavy trading in tokens including NIGHT, STRIKE, and SNEK, as well as stablecoins such as USDCx. Volume has since retreated to around 7.45 million ADA, down 11% in the most

The decentralized identity protocol said a compromised employee's laptop let attackers seize its bridges and mint tokens at will.

Cardano showed the deepest negative reading, placing it in a stronger historical accumulation zone by MVRV standards.

Charles Hoskinson says Cardano is not merely competing for crypto market share, but for a much larger role: becoming the infrastructure layer for global trust. In a June 8 livestream titled “Why Cardano is the only Ecosystem that can run the world,” the Cardano founder argued that ADA’s long-term value depends on whether the network […]

XRPL’s native lending protocol enters formal verification as Ripple and Common Prefix test Layer-1 code before Mainnet validator activation.

Charles Hoskinson says Cardano's four pillars can cut global trust costs, but weak ADA prices and falling TVL now test the wider vision too.

Aave V4 on Arc proposes a $2M/year DAO revenue floor and a USDC, EURC, cirBTC scope. Institutions favor asset quality as Arc moves from testnet to mainnet.