Bitcoin
BTC
Cardano
ADA
Bitcoin vs Cardano
Last 7 days, both indexed to zero
Each line starts at zero seven days ago and shows the percentage move since, so the two are on the same scale regardless of what one coin costs. Seven days is a week, not a trend.
| BTC | ADA | |
|---|---|---|
| Price A higher price per coin is not a bigger asset — it is the same value cut into fewer pieces. | $78,170.00 | $0.2016 |
| Market cap Price multiplied by circulating supply. The closest thing to "how big is this". | $1.57T (larger) | $7.56B |
| Rank by market cap | #1 (larger) | #19 |
| Change, 24h | ▲0.83% | ▼0.14% |
| Change, 7 days | ▲1.20% | ▼12.00% |
| 24h volume How much actually changed hands. Thin volume against a large market cap means the price is easier to move than the cap suggests. | $16.49B (larger) | $201.15M |
| Daily turnover Volume as a share of market cap — how much of the asset trades in a day. | 1.05% | 2.66% (larger) |
| Circulating supply | 20,076,853 BTC | 37,498,597,081 ADA (larger) |
| Supply cap A hard cap and an uncapped supply are different designs, not a better and a worse one — what matters is whether issuance is predictable. | 21,000,000 max | 45,000,000,000 max |
| Below all-time high How far each sits under its own record price. It says where the price has been, not where it is going. | ▼38.00% | ▼93.47% |
| All-time high | $126,080.00 Oct 2025 | $3.09 Sep 2021 |
A highlighted figure is simply the larger of the two. It is marked on size, liquidity and supply — where bigger is a fact — and deliberately not on price or on percentage change, where "bigger" would be us implying a winner.
What each one is
Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a decentralised digital currency launched in 2009 by a person or group writing under the name Satoshi Nakamoto. It runs on a public network of computers that agree on a shared ledger, so a payment can settle without a bank, a payment processor, or a government sitting in the middle.
Cardano
Cardano is a proof-of-stake blockchain founded in 2017 by Charles Hoskinson, one of Ethereum's original co-founders. Its distinguishing feature is method: changes are formally specified and peer-reviewed academically before they are built, an approach borrowed from safety-critical engineering.
Where each one lives
Bitcoin
Native asset. BTC has no token contract — it is the asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Cardano
Native asset. ADA has no token contract — it is the asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Whichever you hold, holding it yourself is the same problem
Both of these can sit on an exchange, and on an exchange neither of them is yours in the way people assume. If you decide to hold either one properly, this is the category that does it — devices that keep the keys off any internet-connected machine.
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Other comparisons
Figures for Bitcoin and Cardano synced 11m ago from CoinGecko and shown in USD. This page is market information and education, not financial advice, and nothing on it is a recommendation to buy or sell BTC or ADA. Both can lose value.