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Ethereum co-founder Charles Hoskinson established Cardano in 2015, and successfully launched it in 2017. Hailed as a greener, environmentally friendly alternative to other computational-heavy coins, Cardano’s ADA coin has skyrocketed in popularity. Since its launch, an investment in Cardano has returned over 7,000 percent to its investors.

Fun fact: ADA, Cardano’s coin, is named after Countess Augusta “Ada” King, daughter of the poet Lord Byron. She worked on a theoretical computation engine in the 1840s, and is regarded by many to be the first computer programmer.

If you had invested $1,000 in Bitcoin on January 1, 2019, it would’ve grown 1,004 percent by the end of September 2021. But if you had invested $1,000 in Cardano, then it would’ve grown about 4,930 percent. Not too shabby.