Cardano emerged as the clear winner in the first week of September despite the sluggish market. The Input-Output project's native token, ADA, managed to surge13%, outperforming all competitors in CoinMarketCap's top 10 by market capitalization. Moreover, Cardano (ADA) became the sixth most profitable cryptocurrency among all the coins in the top 100, right behind the fundamentally strong coins such as Cosmos (ATOM) and Chainlink (LINK).