{"id":2000,"date":"2021-07-13T15:08:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adavault.com\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2021-07-13T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:39:42","slug":"a-billion-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adavault.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/13\/a-billion-users\/","title":{"rendered":"A billion users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recent article in City A.M. covering the Cardano aspiration for a billion users within 10 years caught our eye. A billion users, that&#8217;s a big number right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment Cardano has about 1 million users based on <a href=\"https:\/\/datastudio.google.com\/reporting\/3136c55b-635e-4f46-8e4b-b8ab54f2d460\/page\/k5r9B\">active wallet data<\/a>. So to hit a billion over 10 years requires a Compound Annual Growth Rate (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnicalculator.com\/finance\/cagr\">CAGR<\/a>) of about 99%. That is, the number of users needs to double each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is actually a pretty conservative projection if the current growth rate to a million users is maintained. The project has gone from zero to a million in less than four years which is a CAGR of 3,062%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So even if we allow that the rate will drop off in the coming years (due to an &#8216;S&#8217; curve adoption profile which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stratechi.com\/adoption-curves\/\">most technology follows<\/a>), our prediction is that we will actually hit a billion users much faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"582\" height=\"308\" data-src=\"https:\/\/adavault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/historicaladoptioncurves.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2014 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.adavault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/historicaladoptioncurves.png 582w, https:\/\/dev.adavault.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/historicaladoptioncurves-300x159.png 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 582px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 582\/308;\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Allowing for a relatively modest CAGR of 300% would see Cardano hit a billion in 5 years, or the middle of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/cardano-aiming-for-a-billion-users-over-next-decade\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article in City A.M. covering the Cardano aspiration for a billion users within 10 years caught our eye. 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