Cardano Breaks Its 2021 Transaction Record: 1.78 Million in Five Days, Vote Lapsed

Cardano processed exactly 1,780,896 transactions in the five days between 6 and 11 October 2026. The chain has never moved more in its history; the previous high, from November 2021, sits 13.7 percent below it. The Cardano price has not responded: ADA stands at around $0.2384, about 5.3 percent below where it was 24 hours earlier.

Most reports name the Cardano governance votes as the cause, above all the proposal for a minimum fee of 75 ADA for stake pools. That explanation does not add up arithmetically. We counted the votes on that proposal one by one: there were 148. This article sets out what the chain data supports about the record, why the proposal has since lapsed, and what follows from it if you hold ADA in Germany.

The figures in this article rest on the public block data of the Cardano chain itself, analysed across all 662 epochs since the chain launched, and on the full list of votes on the proposal in question. cryptoticker.io compiled this analysis itself on 12 October 2026.

Epoch 660: 1,780,896 transactions between 6 and 11 October

Cardano counts in epochs rather than days. An epoch is a fixed stretch of five days in which the chain produces blocks, settles rewards and fixes voting rights. Epoch 660 began on 6 October 2026 at 9:44 p.m. and ended on 11 October at the same time.