It’s still the biggest rival to Solana, but the Cardano Foundation and Hoskinson are trying to prove they can co-exist and are focusing on other domains, rather then trying to take part in the crypto gambling and shitcoin minting like solana. Solana is also currently in a rapid decline (number of validator nodes is dropping and is nearing a critical treshold, and it’s not as nearly decentralized as cardano). Cardano with Hydra should be able to reach over 1M tps, it’s the most resillient 3rd gen chain and has a good community sentiment, also there is a large amount of long term hodlers still to this day. The biggest issue is the fact the founders were too busy with making the tech, they didn’t market it properly and didn’t tap into many areas of the domain currently dominated by ethereum or solana. But crypto and blockchain is growing.