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Cardano

2026-10-01 02:18:00

Analyst says ADA still faces selling pressure after a 10% weekly drop, with $0.24 as key support

Cardano’s derivatives market is losing momentum, and whales appear to be trimming exposure, according to crypto analyst Ai cited by Odaily. Over the past week, ADA open interest fell 9%, dropping from $1.99 billion to $1.81 billion, a sign that traders are pulling back on leveraged positions rather than adding new risk. Ai also said large holders have likely been taking profits. Since Sept. 20, whales have reduced their holdings by about 90 million ADA, worth roughly $22.5 million. That selling has added to near-term pressure on the token. On the technical side, Ai said ADA flashed a sell signal on the daily chart on Sept. 26 and has declined 10% since then. The analyst argued the pullback may not be over yet. A parallel channel on the daily chart places $0.24 as the key mid-range support. If that level breaks, ADA could slide toward the lower end of the channel near $0.21. If $0.21 holds, Ai said that area could mark the next buying opportunity, with a potential upside target near $0.28 at the top of the channel.

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Cardano

2026-09-22 04:26:11

Cardano added to x402 toolkit to support onchain payments for AI agents

Cardano has been integrated into the x402 software toolkit, giving developers a way to build applications and AI agents that can accept payments in ADA and other tokens on the Cardano network. The setup is designed to let AI agents pay onchain for services such as online data and computing resources. Engineers at the Cardano Foundation have completed the related specifications and built the core components, including a client, a server, and a Facilitator responsible for validating and submitting transactions. The first release supports TypeScript, while a Python version is planned for a later stage. For now, the Facilitator has only completed live transaction testing on Cardano’s pre-production network. It has not yet gone live on mainnet. The update points to a practical payment layer for AI-driven applications on Cardano, but deployment remains limited to pre-production testing at this stage.

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Cardano

2026-09-22 04:15:45

Cardano added to x402 toolkit as AI agent payment standard expands

Cardano has been added to the official x402 software kit, giving developers the tools to build apps and AI agents that can pay for online services with ADA or tokens issued on the network. The x402 standard embeds pay-per-use transactions directly into internet requests by repurposing the web’s little-used HTTP 402 Payment Required response. In practice, a service can return pricing and payment instructions, an agent can sign the payment, and access to data or computing power is delivered after verification. Coinbase created x402 in 2025 and later contributed it to a Linux Foundation-backed organization whose members include Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google and Amazon Web Services. Solana, the XRP Ledger and several Ethereum-compatible networks already support the standard. Cardano Foundation engineers built the client and server components, along with a facilitator that verifies and submits transactions. The first release supports TypeScript, with Python planned next. Documentation says the facilitator has completed a real transaction on Cardano’s pre-production network, but it has not yet run on mainnet, and the release does not show commercial payments at scale. That places Cardano in the same contest as Solana and XRP Ledger to get its assets adopted wherever developers choose to build machine payments.

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Cardano

2026-09-21 08:08:39

Cardano adds x402 SDK to enable ADA payments for API services

Cardano has integrated the x402 SDK, allowing users to pay API service fees with ADA. According to the announcement cited by Techub News, the move is intended to expand practical blockchain use and improve interactions involving AI agents. x402 focuses on blockchain payment solutions, and its SDK is designed to help developers add cryptocurrency payment functions with less friction. The report, citing Crypto Briefing, said the collaboration could open up new application scenarios within the Cardano ecosystem. No further technical details or launch timeline were disclosed in the brief.

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SecondFi

2026-09-21 08:51:57

SecondFi warns affected users not to claim NIGHT tokens with compromised wallets

SecondFi has warned users whose wallets were affected in an earlier security incident to be careful with upcoming NIGHT token claims. According to the wallet app, some affected users will reach their NIGHT claim window on Sept. 22, but the Midnight Foundation system only allows claims from the original wallet address and does not support switching to another unaffected address. SecondFi said those impacted wallets carry permanent security risks, meaning any NIGHT claimed through them could be stolen. The company also said the NIGHT claim process is managed independently by the Midnight Foundation, and that its own wallet migration and asset recovery tools do not cover NIGHT claims. Users with related issues were told to contact the Midnight Foundation directly. SecondFi had previously suffered a security incident between June 21 and June 23, in which about 16.1 million ADA, worth roughly $2.6 million, was stolen across 374 wallets.

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Cardano

2026-09-11 02:06:43

Empowa reports unauthorized transfers from project wallets and starts blockchain probe

Cardano ecosystem project Empowa said three of its project wallets were involved in two related unauthorized asset transfer incidents. In the first case, about 143,710 ADA was moved out of a project treasury wallet in 18 transactions between November 2025 and June 2026. The wallet’s associated Midnight airdrop was also registered and claimed by an unknown party using the private key, and about 36,000 NIGHT has already been transferred out. In the second case, roughly 4.24 million EMP was moved from two other project wallets between June and August 2026, with part of the tokens sold through Minswap, VyFi and other venues. Empowa said the funds from both incidents ultimately flowed to the same intermediary wallet, leading the team to conclude they were controlled by the same party. The project added that it cannot yet identify who operated the private keys. Empowa said it has hired a professional blockchain investigations firm and plans to seek KYC information through the centralized exchanges that ultimately received the funds.

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Cardano

2026-09-09 02:01:39

SecondFi updates Cardano wallet migration tool with fee support for staked ADA wallets

SecondFi, a wallet service provider for Cardano, has launched an updated wallet migration tool, according to an official announcement cited by BlockBeats on Sept. 9. The new version is aimed at users who have already delegated ADA to a staking pool but do not hold enough balance in their wallets to cover network fees required for migration. In those cases, SecondFi will pay the related on-chain costs on the user’s behalf. The update also changes how balances appear inside the app. Staked ADA is now included in the in-app asset overview, which means users who previously saw a zero balance in the application should now be able to view their delegated holdings. SecondFi said users with delegated ADA still need to complete the migration, but they do not need to add extra funds to the wallet for that step. The company also said the migration process is available only inside the official SecondFi app or browser extension after updating to the latest version. It said there is no separate migration website and no new standalone app.

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Cardano

2026-08-27 23:35:17

Cardano unveils Lightning state channel system now in pre-production

Cardano disclosed its Cardano Lightning state channel system on Aug. 24, outlining a payment design modeled on the Bitcoin Lightning Network and built natively on the extended unspent transaction output, or eUTXO, model. The project is now in a pre-production deployment stage, according to the update cited by Techub News. The system uses a forked LDK node and a Rust relay, while liquidity is managed through smart contracts. Cardano said the setup is intended to support fast, low-fee payments. Through the Konduit protocol, users can pay with ADA while merchants receive native Bitcoin, without wrapped tokens or intermediaries. The team also said the eUTXO model has advantages over account-based chains in security and routing. The item was attributed to CryptoBriefing in the source material.

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