Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said that the engineering culture of blockchain has decisively rotated from early “monopoly purity” to a multi-team model that, if it works, would eventually provide the ecosystem with speed of development, which many stakeholders have long asked.
Why Cardano’s project is at the “turning point”
In an article on X, Hoskinson reflects a organized, research mindset that produces Cardano’s Haskell-based nodes and its peer-reviewed protocol suite, but also in his words, “deeply alienates many who want to contribute, prevents new ideas from entering our ecosystem and leads to very slow functional delivery.” He describes the present as a “very exciting turning point” marked by the coexistence of small teams “like Aiken and Midgar” with heavyweight formal use units of IOG, especially the group that continues to designate key components in AGDA.
“We are opening up the ecosystem. He acknowledged that the transition will allow those “will seek easy scapegoats and hope to return to days that never really existed,” but insisted: “New days will be filled with greater opportunities and exciting new abilities.” ”
Hoskinson clashed with a wave of concerns that ended IOG on April 30 and signed a long-term contract with good PN-SOL on April 30, with two expert vendors providing a lot of low-level talent for Cardano’s network, scalability and key management programs. The move publicly surfaced at a meeting of the Technical Steering Committee (TSC) on May 7, with community member Yuta-Cardano/CPA summarizing the minutes.
According to the summary, engineers at both companies have been developing Leios, a high-throughput execution layer for approximately 1,000 transactions per second; on the Log Structure Merge Tree (LSM) project, which transfers UTXO data from memory to disk; on the external key manager for KES Agent, aiming to achieve forward-looking commitments from the original Preos design.
“A third of the network team may have been lost,” and the “usually six months” to board the replacement at Hoskinson’s urgent acceleration, adding to the ghost of delivering slips.
Leios is released in 2026
When a user on X asked, “Why is the key member contract terminated?”, Hoskinson’s reply was unwavering: “Because I want Leios in 2026, not 2028, I value Pragma, and different ideas and implementations. It’s no longer a fucking game or delay. Cardano needs to reach a new level.” This sentence confirms that the internal deadline (not a performance issue) is behind the reshuffle, and that IOG is ready to reshuffle the contractor if the contractor thinks the alternative team can move faster.
Hoskinson’s call for “no longer…delay” has created old tensions in the heart of Cardano: The project’s reputation is based on mathematical prudence, but its market relevance depends on demonstrating that academic approaches can be offered at commercial speeds.
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