Cardano Advances 6% as Decentralised Exchange Trading Volumes Drop Over 50%
Cardano led major cryptocurrency gains on October 4 despite a sharp drop in decentralized exchange activity.
Cardano climbed 6.29 percent to trade at $0.2597 on October 4, 2026, outperforming all other assets among the top 25 cryptocurrencies. However, data compiled by cryptoticker.io shows that on-chain trading activity moved in the opposite direction over the same window.
Daily trading turnover across the eight decentralised exchanges on Cardano peaked at $11.74 million on October 1 before sliding for three consecutive days to $5.72 million on October 3 and $4.05 million on October 4. That marks a decline of more than 51 percent from the monthly high, even though seven-day total turnover of $41.22 million remained roughly three and a half times larger than the prior week.
On-chain volume also remains heavily concentrated. On October 3, SundaeSwap handled $2.27 million, or around 40 percent of total network turnover, followed by Minswap at $1.12 million, Dano Finance at $0.54 million, and WingRiders at $0.11 million, with remaining venues contributing negligible activity.
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