Cardano (ADA) Booms 20% In Last Week, Will It Hit $1 Amid ‘Vasil’ Launch

Considering the launch of the most anticipated hard fork on the Cardano blockchain, dubbed ‘Vasil,’ investors expect more growth for the crypto project in near future. Consequently, traders’ actions over the tentative launch of the most significant upgrade of the project pumped ADA’s value more than other top-ranked digital assets’ gains. 

It will be completed on June 29th, 2022. It could have a greater impact on the Cardano network’s adoption than the previous hard forks.

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The trading stats for June 6 show that ADA was left behind by major cryptocurrencies, as investors recognize the opportunity in this latest update. This upgrade aims to improve blockchain capabilities in order to execute smart contract executions.

An example of it is yesterday’s upsurgeIt reached its current value of $0.64 at 14%. Ethereum was however able to increase its value by 6%.

Cardano, which is a proof-of–stack blockchain platform has experienced significant price rises many times, even when there were hard forks in the past. Source: ADA/USD price chart from TradingView.com An example of it is the Alonzo upgrade which skyrocketed ADA’s price by more than 200%, launched in September 2021.

Likewise, Mary hard fork launched in March 2021 saw a massive gain of up to 1,600% in the ADA’s price. 

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ADA’s price currently fluctuates around $0.60. | Source: ADA/USD price chart from TradingView.com

What Trapped ADA’s Bulls?

With huge profit margins driven by price increases, the previous hard forks took place in an expanding macro-environment. Federal Reserve bought government bonds at $120 billion per month during that period.

The U.S. central banking has since become aggressive, despite the fact that inflation is continuing to rise. Analysts have pointed out that there’s less liquidity in the U.S. dollar to buy highly volatile assets such as stocks and cryptocurrencies.

Like the entire crypto market, Cardano also lost its momentum due to the Fed’s tightening policies and high rates. ADA’s September 2021 ATH of $3.16 is now almost 80% lower than it was in September 2021. These facts dropped the ADA’s price significantly.

Can The Vasil Enhancement Lift ADA at $1

We must consider the Cardano Improvement Proposals, or CIPs to determine the price movement. Upgrade Additions Four CIPs (including CIP-40)Other Outputs), CIP-33 (Refer to Scripts), CIP-32 (Online Datums), and CIP-31 (Reference Inputs). CIP-31 will primarily reduce transaction costs on Cardano’s blockchain.

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Per statements of Cardano’s development team on the first week of May, “reference scripts reduce your transaction costs. New scripts must be added to each transaction at the moment. Referential scripts allow you to interact with the script by using a reference and pushing it onto your chain. Interaction with a smart contract becomes minimal.”

According to Coinmarketcap’s poll, 24468 people believe that the ADA price will reach $1.06 by the end of July. 15.940 people predicted that $0.972 would be the highest price for ADA by July’s end.

Featured image taken from Pixabay. Chart from TradingView.com

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