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Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of Cardano and one of the co-founders of Ethereum, provided some context to Cardano’s plans for the future ahead of the company’s Apr. 17th IOHK Summit in Miami. Hoskinson’s latest interview revealed the company’s target market and the very specific ways in which it plans to enter them.
Personality Cults Won’t Solve the Governance Crisis in the Crypto Sphere
In an interview with BlockTV’s Yael Lavie, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, spoke about the problems the crypto industry is faced with. Hoskinson’s appearance on the Fireside Chat show is just one of the many interviews the engineer gave during the past week in an effort to shed more light onto Cardano and the company’s efforts to better the market.
Hoskinson started out by agreeing with the statement that there is an ongoing governance crisis in the crypto sphere. Up until now, there hasn’t been a recorded case of establishing stable structures that were both leaderless and global and cryptocurrencies have managed to challenge that, which is why the industry faces so many problems when it comes to regulating itself.
When asked about the increasing trend of a single person being both responsible for a company’s development and its official face, Hoskinson said that blockchain’s very nature prevents a cult of personality to be created.
Therefore, Cardano is focused on creating tech that doesn’t depend on the will of one person or entity in order to come against the rule of the few that has plagued the entire global financial system.
That is also the main reason why Cardano has established formal methods in peer review. According to Hoskinson, these math-based methods ensure that the process is durable and can survive any single personality or a select group of leaders.
Perfect Operability Stifled by Regulation, Not Slow Tech Development
The Colorado-based engineer then went on to describe his view of the industry. He said that establishing when the industry will achieve what Lavie called “perfect operability” is much harder than it might seem. The PC took several decades to figure out, Hoskinson said, but then the web standard was completed in under 15 years. As time progresses, tech development moves increasingly faster, which is why both Bluetooth and WiFi proliferated quickly.
When it comes to cryptocurrencies, Hoskinson described perfect operability as the ability to move information, state, and value between different ledgers. This, he said, was anywhere between 5 and 10 years away. And while most protocols and standards could take much less time to mature, regulators will be the most determining factor.
Hoskinson pointed out that mass adoption and the so-called “perfect operability” won’t happen everywhere and it most certainly won’t happen at the same time. Many regulators “simply won’t want to do that,” he said.
He did, however, say that there has been a lot of regulatory innovation in the past 2 years. With the turf between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) becoming more clear, an acceptance of cryptocurrency ETFs could be on its way, Hoskinson noted.
The main reason why this might not happen as soon as the crypto market wants is the fact that regulating a multi-billion dollar economy requires careful deliberating. As the market is not run by institutional investors but is financed with retail investor money, regulators are put in a tough position of balancing between protecting consumers and enabling the market to grow.
Another thing that might put of achieving mass adoption is the fact that this is a global market, Hoskinson said, with many institutions and entities involved in policing different parts of the market. Without a single entity with a sovereign authority to regulate, it will take time before any kind of unity in regulation is achieved.
Volatile Crypto Market Has Very Little Effect on Cardano
Regulated or not, the cryptocurrency market is a volatile one. But, when asked on how the company deals with the oscillating prices and crypto winters, Hoskinson had a very positive outlook. He said that drastic spikes in the market don’t worry him as he’s been through six collapses in the crypto sphere. Hoskinson noted that while big, crypto is not a free nor a fair market, as it frequently falls victim to insider trading and fake volume reports.
However, he acknowledged the power such spikes had on the entire crypto sphere, as it makes more people interested in the industry. Hoskinson said,
“Any visibility is positive for space.”
He added that as more people start questioning the nature of money and value, the more recognition cryptocurrencies can get.
The project Hoskinson and his company are working on, while loosely based on the principles of Bitcoin, aim to create a third generation of blockchain, not engage in short-term, high-risk trading. It’s a natural extension to Ethereum, which, in Hoskinson’s words, became a victim of its own success.
While putting a programming language on a blockchain opened up a whole new world of possibilities, it lacked the scalability, interoperability, and built-in governance the market was looking for.
Blockchain 3.0 Will Transform Emerging Economies
Despite being the focus of most crypto-related news in the past few weeks, Cardano seems to be moving away from the mainstream cryptocurrency bubble. The company is currently developing the newest iteration of blockchain tech, dubbed blockchain 3.0, which it wants to bring to the masses.
Hoskinson said that Cardano’s target market are countries who don’t have financial operability, such as Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Mongolia, etc. Solving the problems of remittance and microfinance people in these countries face is Cardano’s priority, he said. Passing and implementing laws that regulate financial issues is much faster in developing nations, and its effects can be felt more rapidly.
In order to facilitate that, Cardano has already partnered with Tangem, a Swiss manufacturer of hardware wallets for cryptocurrencies. Having low-cost cards that act as crypto wallets be used for offline payments could help propel some of these emerging economies into the 21st century, Hoskinson said.
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And while the technology is three to five years from where it needs to be, the hundreds of engineers and developers working on solving this problem will eventually bring an offline, off-chain, infinitely scalable system running.
The problems Cardano is working on solving are in like with Hoskinson’s own vision of the future. When asked what his dream world would look like in 2030, he said that he would like to see an instantaneous exchange between different assets become widely used. This would be done through a universal wallet which would have all kinds of assets living in one interface–everything from air miles, stocks, bonds, gold, to crypto and fiat currencies.
Putting people in control of their finances and making individual decisions on which assets to hold and where is something both Hoskinson and the entire Cardano network are striving for. While most of the crypto industry agrees on the fact that the current financial system is far from ideal, it seems that Hoskinson and Cardano are the ones that have moved the furthest away from it.
For more information, see:
- the latest Cardano news
- the latest Cardano price
- the IOHK Summit in Miami on April 17-18
- Watch the full interview with Hoskinson below:
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