I read useless alerts about imminent unlocking of Millions of Ada that will bring down the price bla bla bla...
Ada was designed to do decentralized finance.
It is made up of stake pools to which holders can delegate their cryptocurrencies.
Your Ada will then be connected to an address in the pool which is designed to grind blocks every 5 days called epochs.
Each solved block produces Ada which is charged proportionally to the pool's delegates every 5 days.
The average yield on Ada is 3.28% and is set to rise as the network increases work and produces more blocks.
The maximum number of Ada that can be generated this way is 45 billion.
About 34.99 billion of them have been produced now and the number of new ADAs increases by about 18.5 million per epoch (5 days).
The Adaptors delegated to the pools are and will always be your property and it will never be possible to take them without your consent, even if the pool were to close.
Era rewards are credited the next era and can be withdrawn to accumulate in your wallet.
There are no destacking constraints: withdrawal is immediate
In order to collect the rewards, after the Chang hard fork it was established that you must actively participate in governance. Don't be scared, it is very simple and can be done in 2 ways:
1. By delegating participation to a DRep (they are on X). Then you enter their address, confirm and withdraw
2. Becoming Drep yourselves and voting when asked to decide what to do and which projects to develop.
Ada will never be burned to eliminate cryptocurrency and thus drive up the price.
What you see in xrp, Solana and all the other cryptos other than BTC and Ada is that they hold most of the tokens by manipulating the price, while Ada is so free and easy to trade that it is completely transparent and genuine and despite this the price continues to rise because its ecosystem is so powerful.
