Cardano whales accumulate 819.4M ADA as shorts build near $0.27 resistance zone

The altcoin market is trading sideways while Cardano shows an 8.66% rebound in its ADA/BTC pair after a 47% slide in Q4, with price holding above the $0.20 range that marked its 2020 cycle floor. Over the last six months, wallets holding 100k–100 million ADA have added 819.4 million tokens, even as ADA closed Q1 with a 60% drop and short liquidity clusters form around $0.27 and $0.30. This overlap of whale accumulation, rising short interest and historical support has led some market participants to watch for either a squeeze toward $0.30 or a failed breakout that extends ADA's volatility loop.