Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson blasted U.S. regulators on Monday for labeling ADA and other cryptocurrencies as unregistered securities while giving bitcoin (BTC) a “complete pass” from the same level of scrutiny. According to the developer, Bitcoin could easily meet the legal criteria of an investment contract due to the “overly broad” nature of securities laws....Read More
Charles Hoskinson, the founder of the Cardano blockchain, has slammed the mainstream media and everyone who is trying to paint the wrongdoings of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the indicted founder and former CEO of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, as mistakes, thereby making him look like a good man. In a recent post on X, Hoskinson...Read More
Amidst heat waves, a multi-year drought, and devastating floods, environmentalists have shifted their focus to celebrities using emissions-spewing private jets. The latest high-profile individual from the crypto industry who has made it to the list is Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson. The exec’s private jet is reportedly among the top 15 biggest polluters in the US,...Read More
The Ripple lawsuit is now rounding out its 29th month. Ripple Labs (XRP) has spent over $200M defending itself in court. Cardano and Ethereum founder Charles Hoskinson said it will probably be resolved in June. During a recent “Surprise AMA” interview on YouTube, a viewer asked Hoskinson: “Charles, do you think the Ripple case gets...Read More
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson believes the project’s decentralization would act as a “wake-up” call for the industry. In a recent update to the community, Hoskinson said ADA is “substantially more decentralized” than all cryptocurrencies in the market. The exec stressed that the Cardano Improvement Proposal (CIP-1694) – which is a mechanism for on-chain governance that...Read More
Cardano’s Founder – Charles Hoskinskon – believes the cryptocurrency industry should differentiate itself from the “unstable and volatile” banking sector. Three of America’s leading financial institutions – Silvergate Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank – were shut down by regulators earlier this month, propelling severe losses for numerous crypto-focused firms. In a recent tweet,...Read More
Ripple continues to be embroiled in a legal tussle with the SEC, and certain community members have claimed significant corruption on the agency’s side for targeting the blockchain firm. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has cleared his stance on the matter and backed Ripple by saying that layer-1 protocols aren’t securities. The XRP Army, however, isn’t...Read More
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s latest tweet did not sit well with the Cardano creator, Charles Hoskinson, who squarely aimed at the Bitcoin proponent and said the Merge will kick off an “era” where all proof-of-stake (PoS) networks will be unfairly categorized as being similar to Ethereum. His tweet read, “Now begins the Era of...Read More
With energy sources getting expensive rapidly, the environmental impact of validating PoW crypto-assets is being studied intensely. The White House’s latest report mentions the excessive usage of energy by several industries, including cryptocurrency mining, was brought up by IOG CEO Charles Hoskinson. He went on to say that the paper, published on the order of...Read More
The feud between the Cardano founder and the Ethereum Classic community appears to have escalated. After an Ethereum Classic proponent accused Charles Hoskinson of attempting to milk the network following the proposed 20% miner tax, the Cardano founder slammed the entire project. In the latest tweet, Hoskinson called Ethereum Classic a “dead project” that serves...Read More
Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson has responded to critics who claim that the Vasil hard fork is being rushed after a critical bug was identified in version 1.35.2, which was supposed to be used for the upgrade. Hoskinson noted that everyone, including the network’s stake pool operators (SPOs), has thoroughly tested the code for months. He...Read More
Cardano’s Vasil upgrade has been delayed for several weeks to ensure a smooth transition for the end users. But the Input Output Global (IOG) CEO, Charles Hoskinson, believes that things are moving in the right direction, steadily and systematically. While addressing the pushback of the highly anticipated upgrade in a brief update, the Cardano founder...Read More
Charles Hoskinson – CEO of Input Output Global (IOK) and founder of Cardano – testified to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy and Credit on Thursday. He provided congress with information about the utility of blockchain, and what responsible regulation of the technology and industry could look like. The Benefits of Transparency In...Read More
The company behind the Cardano ecosystem – Input Output – announced the launch of its Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) sidechain alpha on the testnet. However, the layer-one blockchain did not specify if such EVM compatibility would be directly deployed to its mainnet one day. Interoperability Is The Future IOHK tweeted that the initiative will enable...Read More
Bitcoin plunged to a 16-month low, while the altcoins suffered even more in the past week or so. Despite bouncing off and reclaiming some ground, the situation is still dire, and Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson provided his outtake on it. Charles Hoskinson’s Views Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson noted that the market is deep in a new...Read More
On April 12, Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano, posted a “recap video” on his YouTube channel, explaining the new update that will make Cardano better after the “Vasil” hard fork. At the beginning of the video, Hoskinson mentioned that he was preparing for the upcoming Consensus 2022, which will take place in Austin, Texas, from...Read More
As the new quarter rolls in at full speed, Charles Hoskinson – the founder of Cardano – and Snoop Dogg, who needs no introduction, will discuss the Cardano ecosystem in a few days. Charles Hoskinson will be meeting Snoop Dogg to talk about the Cardano Ecosystem at Cardano360 on April 5th. This became clear earlier...Read More
Cardano network has seen notable traction in terms of total locked value (TVL) that has been on a steady rise since the beginning of the year. DeFi TVL on Cardano Skyrockets The latest stats from DeFi TVL aggregator Defi Llama suggests the total value locked (TVL) on Cardano’s decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols has broken a...Read More
Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano – one of the world’s leading blockchain projects – laid out some thought on the last day of 2021. Yesterday, he went live on an hour-long YouTube video, talking about the past, the present, and the future of Cardano and the industry as a whole. One of the things...Read More
El Salvador officially became the very first country in the world to formally recognize Bitcoin as a legal tender, essentially making it illegal for anyone to refuse to accept BTC as payment. Speaking on the matter and congratulating the entire community, Charles Hoskinson said that he thinks many other nations will follow in these footsteps....Read More
Cardano, the third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization behind Bitcoin and Ethereum, came under criticism after reports of a concurrency issue found in the testnet. Concurrency Crisis for ADA? The Cardano team earlier in September announced that the smart contract functionality was now available on the Alonzo Testnet. Following the deployment of smart contracts, the Alonzo...Read More
Charles Hoskinson, Cardano’s founder and CEO of blockchain research company Input Output Hong Kong (IOHK), has urged the U.S. crypto community to rally against the recently proposed taxation policy. Hoskinson first took it to Twitter earlier this week, calling on digital asset proponents in the U.S. to rally in Washington DC to vent their grievances...Read More
Charles Hoskinson – the founder of Cardano – stated that the project’s native cryptocurrency ADA is one of the greenest and most eco-friendly digital assets. He further opined that Tesla (TSLA) should choose it if it really cares about environmental sustainability. Tesla Should Go for Cardano (ADA) In a recent interview with Lex Fridman, Charles...Read More
While explaining the potential impact of decentralized autonomous organizations on legacy businesses, billionaire investor Mark Cuban, who recently joined the cryptocurrency space, ironically denied referring to Cardano’s blockchain. No, Not Cardano, Says Cuban Mark Cuban used to be among the many critiques of the cryptocurrency industry in the past. However, as it happened with quite...Read More
Charles Hoskinson – the creator of Cardano – opined that central banks would fade away as they are slow and corrupt. Furthermore, he claimed that crypto is the cure to the current financial system. Crypto Is The Antidote In a recent video, Hoskinson shared his thoughts on the financial ecosystem and the significant role of...Read More
Charles Hoskinson – the founder of the blockchain platform Cardano – revealed his three reasons why Ethereum falls behind his project. Additionally, he scratched the topic of BTC’s energy consumption. Why Cardano Is Superior to Ethereum? In a recent Yahoo Finance interview, Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson criticized Ethereum’s network by calling it overrated and outlining...Read More
IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson has replied to critics calling Cardano a scam that has not been able to develop any smart contracts since its launch. Baseless Allegations Drive Investors Away Responding to comments made by Bankless podcast co-owner David Hoffman, Hoskinson noted that over the years, podcasters had used their platform to level baseless allegations...Read More
IOHK, the company behind Cardano, has partnered with Orion Protocol, becoming the first liquidity aggregator of the Cardano blockchain. Orion has provided a non-custodial gateway to the crypto market by aggregating liquidity from crypto exchanges into a single DeFi platform. The partnership with Cardano comes after a series of integration to other protocols, such as...Read More
On March 31, Cardano will become a fully decentralized platform, this means that over 1,800 community pools will be responsible for block production. Since the release of the Shelley update in July 2020, Cardano was slightly criticized by the DeFi community for issuing their own blocks while its SPO (stake pool operator) was being developed,...Read More
While doing the necessary work on the upcoming hard fork Alonzo, Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson said that his project would also focus on NFTs and NFT marketplaces. He noted that Cardano has already carried conversations with several such marketplaces about potentially transitioning to its blockchain. Cardano and the NFT Mania Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) are undoubtedly...Read More
