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Charles Hoskinson Lays Out His Vision for Cardano's Future in Latest Two-Hour Ask-Me-Anything

May 26, 2025 at 04:30 pm

Charles Hoskinson's latest two-hour Ask-Me-Anything on May 24 ranged from personal anecdotes to quantum-era thought experiments

Charles Hoskinson Lays Out His Vision for Cardano's Future in Latest Two-Hour Ask-Me-Anything

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, hosted a two-hour Ask-Me-Anything session on May 24, where he touched on a variety of topics, from personal anecdotes to quantum-era thought experiments.

Throughout the broadcast, Hoskinson repeatedly circled back to a single theme: the network must evolve—both technically and politically—if it is to compete in an age of zero-knowledge, AI-assisted finance.

Early on, Hoskinson sketched out a testing ground for that evolution: a fully simulated “crypto city” populated by AI agents.

“Why don’t you create a virtual city, and then you introduce crypto into the city … you just see all the transactions that go through and what happens with it.”

In his scenario, private stablecoins, roll-ups and even illicit actors would interplay inside a sandbox large enough to stress Cardano’s forthcoming privacy layer, Midnight, and its recursive-proof scaling stack. The experiment, he argued, would let developers “stop thinking of TPS and start thinking of … concurrent cities processing.”

Behind the thought exercise lies a concrete roadmap. Hoskinson confirmed that Midnight’s trust-minimised bridge to Cardano is “on schedule,” positioning the sidechain as a de facto privacy hub where stablecoin issuers could launch fully compliant “private stablecoins” before bridging them into the main network. He doubled down on the idea that privacy-preserving assets will become existential: “The minute one person has it, everybody else is going to die.”

That urgency also framed his call for faster finality. Cardano’s base protocol, Ouroboros, deliberately mirrors Bitcoin’s probabilistic security, but Hoskinson said the time has come for a BFT-style add-on. Ouroboros Paris, a finality gadget written by “Agalos and the team of Gigabrains,” would let partner chains settle to Cardano “in minutes” rather than the current half-day.

He lamented pushback from engineering committees that repeatedly removed Paris from the official roadmap: “I will pay out of my own pocket to have Ouroboros Paris,” he said, describing the proposal’s journey through Intersect—the member-run body that now stewards Cardano’s codebase.

Does Cardano Need A “President”?

Governance, indeed, was the morning’s dominant undercurrent. Hoskinson characterised Cardano’s post-Vasil polity as lopsided: a legislature and judiciary (community voting and constitutional committee) exist, but no clear executive authority to enforce branding, marketing or an integrated roadmap.

“At some point you have to reintroduce some form of executive function,” he argued, floating a model in which a community-elected “president” would be rewarded in ADA for meeting network-level KPIs such as monthly active users or total value locked.

Without that accountability, he warned, roadmap items like Ouroboros Kronos—his favoured remedy for time-sync attacks—could languish indefinitely because “no one can really unilaterally say, ‘this is what’s going to happen.’”

Technical privacy surfaced again when an audience member asked whether the long-dormant Crypsinous paper—private staking for Ouroboros—should be revived. Hoskinson acknowledged its conceptual elegance but cautioned that full anonymity would “take a big hit” on performance and complicate multi-resource consensus. Any resurrection, he said, would need to marry new zero-knowledge primitives with the emerging, multi-ledger world Cardano now targets.

That multi-ledger push was most vivid in his discussion of partner chains for Bitcoin DeFi. Hoskinson outlined a three-layer stack: first, a bridging mechanism built on BitVM-X and Hydra-backed operators to batch Bitcoin transactions; second, a wallet layer (headed by Lace) that abstracts the complexity; third, an ecosystem of Cardano DeFi apps refactored to accept Bitcoin collateral and fees.

“Even five or ten percent coverage would be larger than the market cap of Aptos, Solana and pretty much Ethereum combined,” he claimed, dismissing Bitcoin maximalist objections with an analogy: “Gold is valuable whether it sits in a mine or a jewellery shop.”

Amid the technical depth, Hoskinson’s frustration with misinformation was palpable. He returned repeatedly to what he called “600 articles, 50-plus million views” alleging that he had misappropriated unredeemed ICO funds—allegations he flatly denies and says will be negated in an imminent BDO forensic audit.

Still, the founder’s tone was more determined than defensive. He framed every grievance—whether about “gridlock,” misaligned incentives or public defamation—as a data point in how decentralised systems mature.

“We have the right to rewrite the economic, political, and social systems of the world,” he said, linking Cardano’s ethos to his childhood fixation on unfinished games and four-dimensional puzzles: “If it’s not good enough for you, how could you possibly say it’s good enough

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