BIKES Stake Pool on Nostr: Sunday rant. 21.5 billion ADA staked. That's roughly 60% of circulating supply just ...
Sunday rant.
21.5 billion ADA staked. That's roughly 60% of circulating supply just sitting there earning yield and securing the network. Not locked in some VC vesting contract. Not stuck in a bridge hoping nothing explodes. Actually staked, liquid, delegated to around 5000 independent pools.
For context, Ethereum sits around 28% staked and most of that flows through Lido which is basically three guys in a trench coat pretending to be decentralized. Solana has higher percentage staked but good luck finding out how much of that is foundation controlled versus actual retail delegation.
The treasury number is the quiet one though. 1.45 billion ADA sitting there waiting for governance to figure out what to do with it. No foundation gatekeeping. No VC backroom deals. Just a big pile of money that will eventually be allocated by people who actually hold the token. Novel concept I know.
Meanwhile crypto twitter is busy arguing about which L2 has the best meme coin launchpad. Different priorities I suppose.
https://pool.pm/33502e7de0cc0331534210f16726b7c0c8407ca40e2ab2754dff0bd5/stake#Cardano #ADA
Published at
2026-08-14 17:00:48 UTCEvent JSON
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