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How to set a Cardano price alert
A Cardano price alert is a condition on the price of Cardano (ADA). When a check finds the condition met, a message can go to your phone or your inbox. It does not place an order, and it does not move money.
Votes, the undated hard fork, and the partner network are covered below.
What a price alert is
A check reads the latest ADA price. It does not read a vote tally, a hard-fork name, or a post about another token. One alert is stored when the condition is met, the rule is armed, and the wait has ended. Quiet hours can keep the message back. The alert stays on your list. The sources name no mainnet date to arm a rule for.
What tends to move Cardano
Since the Plomin hard fork, protocol version 10, ADA holders vote on upgrades and on treasury spending. The Cardano Foundation's interim constitutional committee published its rationale for that hard fork on January 23, 2025. The vote and the on-chain tally are public. The alert still needs your price condition.
The next named hard fork in public discussion is Dijkstra. A constitutional amendment, CAP-12, was filed so the new parameters can be changed later. No mainnet epoch for Dijkstra was confirmed in the sources checked on October 11, 2026. A price alert cannot fire on a date the sources do not name.
Midnight is a partner network, not a second ticker for ADA. Its genesis block was in March 2026. The Cardano Foundation's March 31, 2026 digest reported the mainnet launch. On October 2, 2026 the Midnight Foundation said permissionless smart-contract deployment was live on Midnight mainnet. Midnight uses its own token, NIGHT, for governance, and a shielded resource, DUST, for fees. A move in NIGHT is not a move in ADA.
ADA delegated to a pool receives rewards set by protocol parameters. The treasury takes a cut under those same parameters. This article does not quote a live reward rate. ADA also moves with Bitcoin on many days, and with leverage on perpetual markets. Funding-rate and open-interest alerts are on paid plans, which open later.
Governance deadlines live in the governance tool. A 24-hour unusual-move rule can be on while a vote is open. The vote does not fire it. A volume spike defaults to 3 times the 20-day average and needs at least $10,000 of trading in the window. What a volume spike is is that rule.
Three ways to define "the price moved"
A level: price above or price below
You type a price. Say a level of $1, as an example.
Price above fires when the highest of the latest price and the candle highs in the crossing window is at or above that level. Price below uses the lows. Minutes from before the rule armed, armed again, or finished its wait are left out. The latest price still counts. Level alerts and the crossing price explains a print already back across the line.
A percent move inside a window
You type a percent, a direction (up, down, or either), and a window of 15 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, or 24 hours. The check compares the latest price with the reference at the start of that window.
A move that is large for Cardano lately
Unusual move compares the window with how much ADA has been moving. A floor of 0.5% blocks a tiny wobble, and the fired alert stores the bar. What counts as an unusual move is the comparison. Dijkstra has no mainnet date here, so the bar follows ADA.
What happens after a level alert fires
A crossed level stays true, so the rule disarms. The default wait is 1 hour. It arms again when the latest price is back through the re-arm band. The default band is 1% of the level, shown as its own level. It may arm again during the wait, and it does not fire during the wait.
A percent move, an unusual move, or a volume spike arms again under half its threshold, or after a full window. An unusual move waits 4 hours by default. The other two wait 1 hour. Quiet hours record the alert and pause delivery. Only a price level sends once when they end, and only if the price is still across the level. The daily limit defaults to 8 messages a day. You can set 1 to 30. The first alert past it can send one notice. Cooldowns, quiet hours, and the daily limit separates the controls.
Where the alert arrives
Phone notifications and email are on. An iPhone or iPad shows them from a Home Screen icon, after you add the site there and turn phone alerts on. A Safari tab does not. Android and desktop ask in the browser you have open. Crypto price alerts on your phone includes Focus. Email stays off until the address is confirmed.
Checks run about every 5 minutes on Free, about every minute on Trader, and about every 15 seconds on Pro (How often alerts are checked). A look that starts too late is skipped and is not rerun.
Check it before you rely on it
Send a test to the phone or inbox you turned on. It checks delivery, not a move in ADA, and it does not count toward the daily limit.
The preview counts fires on stored minutes for the last 30 days and saves nothing. What the preview shows before you save. It checks every minute, while a Free look is about 5 minutes apart, so a short percent move can show there and stay quiet live.
Other places to set one
An exchange app alerts on that venue's ADA price. The sources name no Dijkstra epoch to attach. A chart site keeps a trigger log, which is not the later price at 1 hour, 4 hours, 24 hours, and 7 days. TradingView, exchange alerts, and a dedicated alert app compares those pages.
FAQ
Is there a mainnet date for the Dijkstra hard fork?
No. The sources checked on October 11, 2026 name the fork and a filed amendment, CAP-12. They do not name a mainnet epoch. This article does not add one.
Does a move in NIGHT fire a Cardano price alert?
No. NIGHT and ADA are different assets. The check reads the ADA price only. A Midnight post is not a condition.
Why can the message name a price already back across my level?
The check uses the high or the low in the crossing window, plus the latest price. The alert stores the latest price, which can already be back across the line.
Sources
Network facts come from these sources:
- Plomin hard-fork rationale: Cardano Forum, Cardano Foundation, January 23, 2025, governance action for protocol version 10.
- Midnight mainnet: Cardano Foundation digest, March 31, 2026.
- Permissionless deployment: Midnight Foundation, October 2, 2026.
- Dijkstra and CAP-12, filed, in the October 2, 2026 weekly note from SIPO: SIPO weekly brief.
Before you save
Choose a level, a percent in a window, a move that is large for ADA lately, or a volume spike for trading size. There is no Dijkstra morning in the sources to put them on. Turn on phone, email, or both, then send a test and read the preview. Terminal offers those conditions, delivery, the test, and the preview. Price alerts are on the Free plan. Plans lists the limits. The record describes what the price did. It is not investment advice.