Cardano Founder Calls For Simpler, Safer Crypto Across All Chains

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used a Wednesday keynote at Consensus 2026 in Miami to argue that crypto’s next phase will not be won by another isolated chain, token or wallet. The Cardano founder said the industry must make self-custody, identity, privacy and multi-chain access simple enough for mainstream users without handing control back to centralized […]

Cardano Builder IO Says It Delivered 16 Of 18 Treasury Commitments

Input Output said it progressed 16 of 18 treasury-funded Cardano commitments across Q4 2025 and Q1 2026, framing the period as a test of whether ecosystem funding can translate into publicly verifiable delivery. Two commitments, Acropolis and tiered pricing, were canceled, with funding returned to the treasury, according to IO’s delivery report. The report positions […]

Hoskinson Says Cardano Faces A Make-Or-Break Web3 Problem

Charles Hoskinson used his latest livestream to argue that Cardano’s next phase should focus less on abstract decentralization rhetoric and more on fixing a structural weakness he says still defines crypto: the reliance on centralized off-chain infrastructure. In the process, he tied that critique directly to Cardano’s treasury debates around BlockFrost, Midnight, partner chains and […]

Cardano Gets Filecoin-Backed Storage Upgrade

A new storage offering is moving from partnership language to product language inside the Cardano stack. Filecoin said Blockfrost has added a premium storage tier for developers backed by Filecoin, giving builders a distributed, verifiable backup layer without requiring changes to existing workflows. Hoskinson Backs Filecoin Move Into Cardano Cardano developers using Blockfrost already rely […]

Cardano Founder Warns KelpDAO Hack Exposes Ethereum’s Weakest Link

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used his latest livestream to argue that the roughly $292 million KelpDAO exploit was not just another bridge failure, but a broader warning about how Ethereum’s restaking, cross-chain messaging, and lending stack can turn a single compromise into system-wide contagion. In Hoskinson’s telling, the April 18 attack exposed what he sees […]

Cardano Founder Says The Old System Is Breaking Down

Charles Hoskinson used a March 19 livestream to deliver a defense of crypto as a response to political dysfunction, market weakness, and what he described as a broader collapse in institutional legitimacy. Broadcasting from Colorado, the Cardano founder framed the current macro backdrop in apocalyptic terms, citing war, layoffs, inflationary pressure tied to energy costs, […]

Hoskinson Outlines Cardano Funding Overhaul For 2026

Charles Hoskinson says Cardano’s 2026 budget debate is no longer really about whether the ecosystem should fund itself, but how. In a March 10 video, the Cardano founder argued the network has spent too long overweighting infrastructure while underinvesting in the applications, user experience and narrative needed to turn technical capacity into adoption. Hoskinson framed […]