CIP-0113 went live October 7: What it means for the Cardano price

Published on 10/20/2026 at 07:40 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

.ada advanced after 75 percent community support. The Cardano price is 0.2213 USD as of October 20, 2026, up 0.66 percent.

Programmable tokens and network activity

On October 7, Cardano launched programmable tokens on its mainnet.
The .ada application advanced with 75 percent community support.
The Cardano price stands at 0.2213 USD as of October 20, 2026, 0.66 percent above the UTC daily close of October 19, 2026.
Epoch 660 processed 1,780,896 transactions through October 11, 2026.

Cardano, XCCRYPTOADA0, Illustration mit AI erstellt.

Cardano (ADA) launched the CIP-0113 programmable token standard on October 7, 2026, adding compliance rules to native assets on its mainnet. The Cardano Foundation said the standard supports regulated stablecoins, tokenized funds and bonds through rules such as know-your-customer checks, sanctions screening and transfer restrictions, according to Cardano Foundation.

CIP-0113 adds programmable token rules

CIP-0113 keeps the assets native to Cardano's extended unspent transaction output model, a ledger design that records how transaction outputs can be spent. The October 7, 2026, launch means wallets, explorers and applications can handle the assets as Cardano tokens while the compliance logic travels with them, the Foundation said in its announcement.

The launch included support from Eternl, GeroWallet, CardanoScan and BloxBean. The Cardano Foundation also said the Capital Markets and Technology Association recognizes CIP-0113 as a smart contract equivalent for its certification scheme, according to the October 7, 2026, announcement.

The .ada application reaches ICANN review

Cardano's ecosystem also advanced an Internet naming initiative on October 8, 2026. The Cardano Foundation said its .ada application moved to the next phase of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers generic top-level domain program after a governance action received approximately 75 percent support, according to Cardano Foundation.

If approved, the .ada domain could support shorter wallet addresses, links to decentralized identity services and domain tokenization. The application still faces technical, financial and operational evaluation, while delegations from the application round are expected between 2028 and 2030, the Foundation said on October 8, 2026.

Network activity offers a separate measure of Cardano usage. Epoch 660 processed 1,780,896 transactions between October 6 and October 11, 2026, while fees reached 337,720 ADA. Crypto.news reported that daily active addresses were lower during the period and that transaction totals do not equal unique users, according to Crypto.news.

ADA trades at 0.2213 USD

According to Investing.com, ADA stands at 0.2213 USD as of October 20, 2026, up 0.66 percent compared with the UTC daily close of October 19, 2026. The daily high is 0.2213 USD and the daily low (UTC day) is 0.2213 USD. Market capitalization is 8.11 billion USD, ranking Cardano 15th, while 24-hour volume is 244.38 million USD. Circulating supply is 36.81 billion ADA.