How Coinbase’s new moves will affect ADA

• Coinbase has announced perp trading for Cardano.
• The price of ADA fell, alongside Cardano’s development activity and social sentiment.

Coinbase, one of the largest exchanges in the world, has been through a lot of uncertainty recently, due to regulatory scrutiny. Despite this, the exchange continued to make progress and post updates.

More perps, more problems?

Recently, Coinbase announced that it will add support for Cardano [ADA], Chainlink [LINK], Dogecoin [DOGE], and Stellar’s [XLM] perpetual futures contracts on Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced.

This could impact liquidity around Cardano positively. At press time, ADA was trading at $0.3808 and its price had fallen by -3.1% in the last 24 hours. The volume with which it was trading had also fallen.

Not so social

On the social front, the Social Volume and overall Weighted Sentiment around ADA had fallen. This showed that ADA’s popularity was slowly waning and that negative comments around ADA were on the rise.

Additionally, the Development Activity around ADA fell as well. This implied that developers were not as active while working on the Cardano network. This slowed momentum could affect the Cardano ecosystem in the long run.

The MVRV ratio of ADA also fell massively, implying that there were not a lot of profitable addresses holding ADA at press time. That meant that these addresses had less of an incentive to sell their holdings, which could reduce selling pressure on the token.

Source: Santiment

With the help of AI

However, things could improve for Cardano going forward.

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Girolamo, Cardano’s AI chatbot, could help uplift the platform. The chatbot, created with an aim to merge artificial intelligence and blockchain, helps create content and pictures and understands images.

The introduction of Girolamo is a huge move for Cardano’s future, and could potentially impact the entire crypto ecosystem as well.