Livestreamed by over 40,000 people, the Cardano Vasil Hard Fork upgrade was implemented on 22 September at 9:44 p.m. UTC. Needless to say, it was soon declared a success.
That’s not all, however. Following the hard fork, ADA’s price rallied by over 4% to close the 22 September trading session at $0.458 on the price charts.
For a while, ADA continued on its upward price trajectory to exchange hands at a high of $0.4789 on 23 September. Soon after, the crypto-market’s bears took over to initiate a price movement down south. At press time, ADA was trading hands at $0.4572, having declined by 5% since the high of 23 September.
Juxtaposing ADA’s performance after the Cardano Vasil Hard Fork upgrade with that of ETH after the Merge, data from CoinMarketCap revealed that the price of the leading alt rose momentarily by 3%. Following the same, the price immediately plummeted. Over the seven days that followed the Merge, the price of ETH dropped by 16% on the charts.
With the bears spotted to be in control of the ADA market, the altcoin appeared poised to follow in the footsteps of ETH.
On the daily chart, following the Vasil Hard Fork, selling pressure for ADA rallied. Positioned in downtrends, key indicators revealed low buy order volumes since the upgrade. At press time, ADA’s Chaikin Money Flow was positioned at -0.07. Headed towards the oversold zone, ADA’s Money Flow Index (MFI) was found at 35.
Furthermore, a look at the Directional Movement Index (DMI) revealed that ADA sellers had control of the market. The strength (red) at 17.66 was positioned solidly above the buyers’ (green) at 13.58. Also, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) was placed at 46.32 at press time.
Source: TradingView
According to on-chain data from Messari,
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