{"id":149336,"date":"2026-04-11T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=149336"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:00:16","slug":"cardano-in-danger-zone-trader-drops-time-bomb-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=149336","title":{"rendered":"Cardano In Danger Zone? Trader Drops \u2018Time Bomb\u2019 Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cardano\u2019s 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<\/a> ready to blow.<\/p>\n

Whale Activity Signals Quiet Accumulation<\/h2>\n

Exchange data tells a quiet story of confidence beneath the surface. More 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

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

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

BREAKING:<\/p>\n

CARDANO ( $ADA<\/a> ) IS A TICKING TIME BOMB SAYS EXPERT TRADER <\/p>\n

The target is 1.20$ end of this week.<\/p>\n

In his words \u201cthere\u2019s nowhere left for it to go this week it will either go up or go down.\u201d pic.twitter.com\/Sg8yef818a<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Mintern (@MinswapIntern) April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n

A Chart Four Years In The Making<\/h2>\n

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\u2019s self-described chief meme officer 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

ADA\u2019s 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

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

A 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

Today, the price sits where that trendline meets the channel\u2019s lower boundary \u2014 a compression point that typically forces a decisive move.<\/p>\n

The unnamed trader\u2019s 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

A Bold Call From An Unknown Voice<\/p>\n

Still, the prediction carries real weight only if its source does \u2014 and that source remains unknown. The trader behind the \u201cticking time bomb\u201d call was never identified in the analysis Mintern shared, which raises obvious questions about credibility, track record, and motive.<\/p>\n

A 380% rally in under 48 hours is an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims demand more than an anonymous chart.<\/p>\n

Featured image from Meta, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cardano\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":149337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}