Here’s why ADA transaction volumes surpassed those of Bitcoin
Crypto investors checking out Messari’s charts and stats may have expected to glimpse Bitcoin or Ethereum at the top of the rankings when it came to 24-hour transaction volumes. However, many were stunned to see that the top crypto was sometimes Cardano, with ADA’s 24-hour transaction volumes often coming in above Bitcoin itself.
While some Cardano investors joyously took the data at face value, others were skeptical and claimed that there was a glitch. Now, Messari has stepped in to answer some questions.
The crypto metrics platform first confirmed that there had indeed been some “confusion around the methodology and validity” of Cardano’s volume calculation process.
Messari did not exactly specify the nature of the confusion but went on to discuss Cardano’s UTXO architecture. The platform tweeted,
“5/ @Cardano‘s UTXO architecture into account but instead uses a methodology that would be similar for accounting for “economic transactions” on the @ethereum network.”
There was some debate amongst users as to what this meant, and Messari promised to improve the way it documented the rationale behind its metrics.
To understand, let’s take a look at the metric in question. At press time, Cardano was still at the top of the list with $42.93 billion in 24-hour transaction volume, putting it some $6 billion dollars ahead of Bitcoin itself.
While adjusted transaction volume for Bitcoin was around $15.82 billion, Cardano’s adjusted transaction volume was still above $42 billion.
Source: messari.io
Messari explained,
“6/ This caveat is important. “Adjusted” can be interpreted as accounting for the @Cardano UTXO architecture and filtering out change outputs which is not the case.”
When considering that Cardano’s market cap was close to only
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