Cardano price stays under 0.18 USD as Amaru expands mainnet participation
Published on 11/12/2026 at 13:03 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSCardano development meets market pressure
- ADA was listed at 0.1731 USD on the Investing.com Cardano page, with a market capitalization of 6.37 billion USD.
- Amaru's November 5 release enabled block production beyond test networks, while the DijkstraNet test environment advanced to protocol version 12.
- Cardano's mainnet Dijkstra activation remains undated, so the development milestones do not establish an immediate price catalyst.
The Cardano price remained below 0.18 USD as network developers continued work on node diversity and the Dijkstra upgrade. The Cardano price page on Investing.com showed ADA at 0.1731 USD when read for this report. The same page listed a market capitalization of 6.37 billion USD, a 24-hour range of 0.1723 to 0.1805 USD and a 52-week range of 0.1385 to 0.5807 USD.
Node diversity moves forward
A recent technical step concerns Amaru, the alternative Cardano node implementation. According to CryptoTicker, the Amaru release dated November 5, 2026, removed the restriction that had limited block production to test networks. The release also allowed Amaru-built blocks to include transactions from the mempool and added a software identifier to those blocks. That permission does not show how many stake pools are using Amaru or prove that it has already produced a specific volume of mainnet blocks.
Dijkstra remains in testing
Intersect reported that DijkstraNet successfully moved to protocol version 12 at 00:00 UTC on November 2, using node 11.2. The testnet is intended for integration testing of Dijkstra-era features, but the report explicitly states that node 11.2 was not yet cleared for mainnet use. The same update said the Dijkstra mainnet hard fork had no fixed date and identified a November 12-13 node diversity workshop in London as a forum for implementation discussions.
For investors, the distinction between testnet progress and a live protocol upgrade remains important. The available evidence supports continued engineering activity, but it does not establish a confirmed mainnet launch date or a direct link between these milestones and ADA's market performance.
Usage context remains mixed
Cardano's project website reported 2,613,142 transactions during the 30 days from October 1 to October 31, 2026, including 323,931 transactions attributed to showcased applications. It listed 103 curated applications, with Minswap as the most active highlighted decentralized exchange by transaction count in that period. These figures describe network activity but do not provide a forecast for the token price.
More Cardano reporting and subsequent network developments are collected on the Cardano topic page.
