{"id":11044,"date":"2026-04-11T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/cardano-in-danger-zone-trader-drops-time-bomb-claim\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T05:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T05:00:28","slug":"cardano-in-danger-zone-trader-drops-time-bomb-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/cardano-in-danger-zone-trader-drops-time-bomb-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardano In Danger Zone? Trader Drops \u2018Time Bomb\u2019 Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardano&#8217;s short sellers are taking a beating. Over the past 24 hours, over $500,000 worth of short positions were liquidated as ADA hovered near $0.25 \u2014 a price point that one unnamed trader is calling a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MinswapIntern\/status\/2042079297184395742\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">powder keg<\/a> ready to blow.<\/p>\n<h2>Whale Activity Signals Quiet Accumulation<\/h2>\n<p>Exchange data tells a quiet story of confidence beneath the surface. More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/cardano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ADA<\/a> has been flowing out of exchanges than flowing in, a pattern that often shows up when large holders are pulling coins into private wallets rather than preparing to sell.<\/p>\n<p>Whale accumulation has picked up as well. Reports indicate the number of wallets holding 10 million or more ADA recently climbed to a four-month high, even as the price continued sliding.<\/p>\n<p>The liquidation data reflects the same tension. Of the $637,500 in total ADA positions wiped out in the past day, shorts accounted for nearly 80% of the damage. Long positions absorbed the rest \u2014 about $135,200 \u2014 as buyers got caught on the wrong side of brief downward swings.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING:<\/p>\n<p>CARDANO ( <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ADA&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$ADA<\/a> ) IS A TICKING TIME BOMB SAYS EXPERT TRADER <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/16.0.1\/72x72\/1f92f.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd2f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/16.0.1\/72x72\/1f92f.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd2f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/16.0.1\/72x72\/1f92f.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd2f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The target is 1.20$ end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>In his words &#8220;there\u2019s nowhere left for it to go this week it will either go up or go down.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sg8yef818a\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Sg8yef818a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/16.0.1\/72x72\/1fa8f.png\" alt=\"\ud83e\ude8f\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>Mintern (@MinswapIntern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinswapIntern\/status\/2042079297184395742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-891362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbtc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a_f5d44d.png?resize=1024%2C553\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>A Chart Four Years In The Making<\/h2>\n<p>The technical case for a breakout rests on a structure that has been building since early 2022. Based on a chart shared by Minswap DEX&#8217;s self-described chief meme officer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MinswapIntern\/status\/2042079297184395742?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mintern<\/a> on X, ADA has been trading inside a horizontal price channel for roughly four years, bouncing between a ceiling and a floor without breaking decisively in either direction.<\/p>\n<p>ADA&#8217;s all-time high of $3.10 came in 2021. After that peak, the coin dropped sharply. By the week of January 17, 2022, it had fallen from $1.60 to below $0.91, before eventually settling near the top of the channel around $1.18.<\/p>\n<p>That range \u2014 from roughly $0.23 on the low end to $1.18 on the high end \u2014 has contained price action ever since.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/x\/PFE6WdEK\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1835\" height=\"925\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investopedia.com\/terms\/d\/descendingtriangle.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">descending trendline<\/a> developed inside the channel starting around August 2025, when ADA peaked near $1.02 and then began forming a series of lower highs.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the price sits where that trendline meets the channel&#8217;s lower boundary \u2014 a compression point that typically forces a decisive move.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed trader&#8217;s analysis calls for a breakout to the upside with a price target near $1.20 before the week ends. That would represent a roughly 380% gain from current levels in less than two days.<\/p>\n<p>A Bold Call From An Unknown Voice<\/p>\n<p>Still, the prediction carries real weight only if its source does \u2014 and that source remains unknown. The trader behind the &#8220;ticking time bomb&#8221; call was never identified in the analysis Mintern shared, which raises obvious questions about credibility, track record, and motive.<\/p>\n<p>A 380% rally in under 48 hours is an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims demand more than an anonymous chart.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image from Meta, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardano&#8217;s short sellers are taking a beating. Over the past 24 hours, over $500,000 worth of short positions were liquidated as ADA hovered near $0.25 \u2014 a price point that one unnamed trader is calling a powder keg ready to blow. Whale Activity Signals Quiet Accumulation Exchange data tells a quiet story of confidence beneath&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[183,184,220,22,185,51,419],"class_list":["post-11044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-altcoin","tag-ada","tag-adausd","tag-altcoin","tag-bitcoin","tag-cardano","tag-crypto","tag-digital-currency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ad-doge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}