Which cryptocurrency has the ticker ADA?

The cryptocurrency with the ticker ADA is Cardano.

Cardano is a public, decentralized blockchain platform, while ADA is the cryptocurrency used for transactions within its network. The platform was developed by organizations including the Cardano Foundation, Input Output, and EMURGO, with Charles Hoskinson and Jeremy Wood among its founders.

Cardano was released publicly in 2017 and uses proof of stake through a protocol called Ouroboros. Its name honors Gerolamo Cardano, an Italian mathematician and physician. The ADA token, meanwhile, is named after Ada Lovelace, the 19th-century English mathematician often regarded as an early computer programmer.

One ADA is divided into one million smaller units called Lovelaces. The ticker is easy to confuse with symbols for other major projects: AVAX belongs to Avalanche, SOL to Solana, and DOT to Polkadot. Those names identify different networks and tokens, whereas ADA specifically refers to Cardano’s native cryptocurrency.