What is ada? What’s in a name?
Ada is Cardano’s native currency. It is named after Ada Lovelace, the English mathematician and programmer. Ada became the first cryptocurrency to run on Cardano, in 2017. One ada equals 1,000,000 lovelaces. Lovelace is the smallest unit of ada. A lovelace is to ada what a satoshi is to bitcoin.
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