The Time Will Come Again: Cardano Edition
- Mike Adamemes
- Nov 3, 2025
- 2 min read
On Cardano, silence hits different.The DEXs breathe slow, liquidity drips like ADA in a bear market,drop by drop.Raids are rare, degens are tired, and memes... patient.
But this isn’t death. It’s a breath-hold. Cardano never rushes and neither do its memes. They wait for the right moment to strike.
The Quiet Has a Reason
Cardano’s meme coin market cap floats around $350–400M, barely 0.7% of the global meme market (worth $56.9B).Down 5–8% in the past 24h, not pretty, but DEX volume on Minswap and SundaeSwap quietly climbed +12% this week. ADA itself is chilling near $0.55, steady as ever while others melt down.
From the outside, it looks dead.But inside? It’s loading.
From Conviction to Reflex
As @StalkHQ said: “The market shifted from conviction to reflex.” On Cardano, the same pattern holds. Degens keep flipping microcaps on launchpads like CardStarter, but the survivors, $SNEK, $HOSKY, and $CHAD, evolved.They built roots: NFTs, staking, DeFi hooks things that make them stick.
$SNEK still pulls over $15M in daily volume.$HOSKY remains the most-held token on the network, distributing meme dividends through NFTs.Even smaller ones like $ADENG and $NIKEPIG manage to keep their pulse.
The Calm Before the Slither
The community feels it, something’s brewing.On October 31st, @goofy_crisp, the $SNEK founder, posted a quiet consolidation chart. @TapTools asked: “Do you still believe in Cardano native assets?” replies flooded with snake emojis.Liquidity might be asleep, but sentiment isn’t.
DEXs like Strike and Surf now show 60% borrowed liquidity, meaning whales are positioning in silence.
When ADA Moves, Memes Will Roar
Big players haven’t rotated yet IOHK funds and treasury wallets are still sitting tight. But once ADA crosses $0.60, the tide flips. When that happens, memes won’t just move, they’ll slither.
Because Cardano memes aren’t built on hype, they’re built on conviction. Solana has speed. BNB has volume. But Cardano has something rare, faith in tribes.
In a world where everyone flips everything, conviction is the ultimate alpha.
So when you hear silence, don’t mistake it for the end.
It’s just ADA inhaling. Before the next roar.
The time will come again. And this time, it’s hissing.
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