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 — 
a price point that one unnamed trader is calling a powder keg ready to blow. 
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Seen At Risk: Analyst Whale Activity Signals Quiet Accumulation Exchange data 
tells a quiet story of confidence beneath the surface. More ADA 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. 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. 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 — about $135,200 — as buyers got caught on the wrong side of brief 
downward swings. BREAKING: CARDANO ( $ADA ) IS A TICKING TIME BOMB SAYS EXPERT 
TRADER 🤯🤯🤯 The target is 1.20$ end of this week. In his words &#8220;there’s nowhere 
left for it to go this week it will either go up or go down.&#8221; 
pic.twitter.com/Sg8yef818a — 🪏Mintern (@MinswapIntern) April 9, 2026 A Chart 
Four Years In The Making 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 Mintern 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. 
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. 
That range — from roughly $0.23 on the low end to $1.18 on the high end — has 
contained price action ever since. A descending trendline developed inside the 
channel starting around August 2025, when ADA peaked near $1.02 and then began 
forming a series of lower highs. Today, the price sits where that trendline 
meets the channel&#8217;s lower boundary — a compression point that typically forces 
a decisive move. Related Reading: Bitcoin ETF Hype Hits Ceiling, Sharp Drop 
Risk Emerges: Analyst 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. A 
Bold Call From An Unknown Voice Still, the prediction carries real weight only 
if its source does — 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. A 
380% rally in under 48 hours is an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims 
demand more than an anonymous chart. Featured image from Meta, chart from 
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