为什么Cardano的工程处于“拐点”

Cardano创始人查尔斯·霍斯金森（Charles Hoskinson）说，区块链的工程文化与早期的“单片纯度”果断地脱节

The engineering culture of Cardano (ADA) has pivoted decisively from the “monolithic purity” of its early years to a multi-team model that—if it works—will finally give the ecosystem the development velocity many stakeholders have long demanded, founder Charles Hoskinson says.

创始人Charles Hoskinson表示，Cardano（ADA）的工程文化从其早期的“整体纯度”到了多团队模型，如果它起作用，最终将为生态系统提供发展速度，许多利益相关者长期以来要求的发展速度。

In a post on X, Hoskinson reflected on the methodical, research-first mentality that produced Cardano’s Haskell-based node and its peer-reviewed protocol suite, but also, in his words, “deeply alienated many who wanted to contribute, prevented new ideas from entering our ecosystem, and resulted in a very slow delivery of features.”

在X上的一篇文章中，Hoskinson反映了有条理的，研究的心态，产生了Cardano的基于Haskell的节点及其同行评审的协议套件，但也用他的话来说，“深深地疏远了许多想贡献的人，阻止了新的想法进入我们的生态系统，并导致了非常缓慢的功能交付。”

He described the moment as “a very exciting inflection point” marked by the coexistence of “small agile teams like Aiken and Midgard” with the heavyweight formal-methods units at IOG—particularly the group that continues to specify critical components in Agda.

他将当下描述为“非常令人兴奋的拐点”，其标志是“像艾肯和米德加”的小型团队与IOG的重量级正式使用单元的共存，尤其是继续指定AGDA中关键组件的群体。

“We are opening up the ecosystem,” Hoskinson wrote, adding that the arrival of alternative clients “will and should challenge the assumptions, designs, and features of prior teams to accommodate new protocols, economic realities, and our progress as a community.”

霍斯金森写道：“我们正在开放生态系统。

He conceded that the transition would displease those “who will look for easy scapegoats and want a return to days that never actually existed,” but insisted that “the new days will be filled with even greater opportunities and exciting new capabilities.”

他承认，过渡将使那些“将寻求轻松的替罪羊，并希望重返从未真正存在的日子”，但坚持认为：“新的日子将充满更大的机会和令人兴奋的新能力。”

Hoskinson’s upbeat framing clashes with a wave of concern triggered by IOG’s termination, on 30 April, of its long-running contracts with Well-Typed and PN-Sol—two specialist vendors that supplied much of the low-level talent for Cardano’s networking, scalability and key-management initiatives.

霍斯金森（Hoskinson）在4月30日与IOG终止的一波关注点发生了冲突，并于4月30日与良好的PN-SOL签订了长期合同，两位专家供应商为Cardano的网络，可扩展性和密钥管理计划提供了许多低级人才。

The move surfaced publicly during the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) meeting of 7 May, whose minutes were summarised by community member YUTA-Cardano/CPA.

这一举动在5月7日的技术指导委员会（TSC）会议上公开浮出水面，社区成员Yuta-Cardano/CPA总结了会议记录。

According to that summary, engineers from the two firms had been working on Leios, a high-throughput execution layer targeting roughly 1,000 transactions per second; on the Log-Structured Merge-tree (LSM) project, which relocates UTxO data from memory to disk; and on KES Agent, an externalised key manager meant to deliver the forward-security promise of the original Preos design.

根据该摘要，这两家公司的工程师一直在开发Leios，这是针对每秒大约1,000件交易的高通量执行层；在日志结构合并树（LSM）项目上，该项目将UTXO数据从内存转移到磁盘；关于KES Agent的外部钥匙经理，旨在实现原始Preos设计的前瞻性承诺。

Duncan Coutts, a veteran Cardano architect now serving on the TSC, warned that “one-third of the networking team may have been lost” and that onboarding replacements “typically take over six months,” raising the spectre of delivery slippage at the very moment when Hoskinson is pressing for acceleration.

现在在TSC任职的老将Cardano建筑师Duncan Coutts警告说：“三分之一的网络团队可能已经丢失了”，并且在霍斯金森（Hoskinson）紧迫加速的那一刻，登上替换的“通常需要六个月以上”，这使交付滑倒的幽灵降低了。

When a user on X asked, “Why were key members contracts terminated?”, Hoskinson’s reply was unflinching:

当X上的用户问：“为什么关键成员合同终止？”时，霍斯金森的答复是坚定的：

“Because I want Leios in 2026 not 2028 and I value Pragma and different ideas and implementations. No more fucking games or delays. Cardano needs to get to the next level.”

“因为我想要2026年的Leios，而不是2028年，我重视Pragma以及不同的想法和实现。不再有他妈的游戏或延误。Cardano需要达到一个新的水平。”

The remark confirmed that internal deadlines—not performance issues—lay behind the shake-up, and that IOG is prepared to reshuffle contractors if it believes alternative teams can move faster.

这句话证实，内部截止日期（不是绩效问题）在改组背后，并且IOG准备改组承包商，如果承包商认为替代团队可以更快地移动。

Hoskinson’s call for “no more…delays” crystallises an old tension at the heart of Cardano: the project’s reputation was built on mathematical caution, yet its market relevance depends on proving that scholarly methods can deliver at commercial speed.

霍斯金森（Hoskinson）要求“不再……延误”的呼吁在卡尔达诺（Cardano）的核心中形成了旧的紧张局势：该项目的声誉是基于数学谨慎的，但其市场相关性取决于证明学术方法可以以商业速度提供。

At press time, ADA traded at $0.81.

发稿时，ADA的交易价格为0.81美元。