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I have been watching Grayscale's wallet movements and something interesting is happening with Cardano. The asset manager has been steadily increasing the ADA position in their smart contract fund. It went from 18.55% at the beginning of the year to 20.2% recently, and that says a lot about institutional confidence in the platform.
The curious thing is that Grayscale has done this gradually over several months. First, it rose to 19.50%, then to 19.55%, then to 20.07%, and finally reached that 20.2% we see now. It’s not an impulsive move, but rather a strategic rebalancing. Cardano is now the third-largest position in that fund, just below Solana (28.53%) and Ethereum (28.39%).
If institutions like Grayscale are increasing exposure to ADA, they probably see something in Cardano that the market has not fully priced in yet. The fund has around $1.8 million in assets under management, not huge, but these rebalancing moves by major managers are often good indicators of where they see long-term opportunities.
It’s also interesting that the manager distributes the rest among Hedera, Avalanche, and Sui. It seems the strategy is to maintain diversification among the main smart contract platforms, but they are clearly betting more heavily on Cardano in this cycle.