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SOL Cardano ADA News: Ecological Growth, Dijkstra Era and Today's ADA Prices
Cardano Chain has just won second place in blockchain development activity, and this ADA update confirms this ranking with hard data.
Chainspect data shows that ADA has 42 active developers in the past 30 days, surpassing Solana's 21 and second only to Ethereum's 460. 
This ranking, coupled with recent price movements, makes this week one of the more active periods in Cardano news.
Cardano ranks second in developer activity, behind Ethereum.
Chainsight's 30-day data captures short-term activity in core protocol warehouses rather than the full application ecosystem. Other tracking tools provide a more comprehensive view:
Chaininspect's cumulative data ranks Ethereum first, with approximately 11,130 developers;Solana closely follows with approximately 10,865; and Cardano ranks sixth with approximately 3,768 and has recorded more than 300,000 commits.
Sanitation's data in late July showed that $ADA ranked among the top ten in terms of the number of developer events, with approximately 62,600 events and approximately 295 contributors.
Token Terminal ranks $ADA chains at the forefront of core GitHub submissions over longer time windows, sometimes even exceeding Solana.
The output of each core contributor to the $ADA network remains high, reflecting the small but focused nature of its engineering team rather than large and loose. This Cardano upgrade cycle, funded through Project Catalyst and coordinated by Intersect, maintains this pattern even during relatively calm times in the market.
Cardano ADA News Today: Van Rossem upgrades to inject power in 2026
Timing is crucial. The blockchain activated the Van Rossem hard fork on July 18, 2026, marking Version 11 of the protocol and the first major upgrade to the $ADA to be proposed, discussed and approved entirely through on-chain governance.
DReps and the Constitutional Council gave strong support, and equity pool operators met all necessary thresholds. This upgrade brings Plutus improvements, new encryption primitives and smart contract performance improvements, providing developers with new reasons to build.
ADA prices broke through key levels today, and whale accumulation data suggested signals
According to CoinMarketCap data, ADA prices today were US$0.184, up 0.87% in 24 hours. The market value was US$6.74 billion, and the daily trading volume was US$600 million, an increase of 32.8%. The token also broke the 200-day simple moving average around $0.17, a level that usually marks a shift in trend structure. 
Meanwhile, chain trackers also found signs of whale accumulation, with large holders reportedly purchasing more than 240 million ADAs in a week.
According to market analysts, if ADA prices remain above the US$0.176 support level, retesting the US$0.19 to US$0.20 resistance zone is a realistic possibility.
Cardano 2026 roadmap points to Dijkstra Era Upgrade Plan
Focus has shifted from Van Rossem to Cardano Dijkstra Era Upgrade, the next major stage on the $ADA 2026 roadmap. At the heart of this phase is Ouroboros Leios, a new expansion solution designed to increase transaction throughput far beyond current levels.
Supporting work is already in progress. Leios prototype testing continues, Mithril development is progressing steadily, and the Lace wallet update now includes expanded hardware support and new security features. The Cardano Foundation partnership, including work on proxy payment standards through x402, adds another layer of meaning to the ecosystem's growth story.
The network's latest updates show that it still relies on research and governance rather than rapid roll-out of features, an approach that continues to pay dividends in developer rankings. As work begins in the Dijkstra era, the next real test for the $ADA ecosystem will be to translate this development activity into measurable throughput growth by the end of the year.
