In the latest Ask-Me-Anything session streamed on April 23, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson made a drastic critic of Ethereum’s long-term outlook, claiming that the world’s second-largest smart contract platform is called three “self-injury” and lacks what they need to hire.
Ethereum faces a 15-year deadline: Cardano founder
Questions to answer audience questions – “If you run the Ethereum Foundation, what do you do differently?” – Hoskinson I said The project chose “Wrong Accounting Model, Wrong Virtual Machine, and Wrong Consensus Model.” “People told them not to do it, they did it, and they got the place they needed to go,” he said, warning that any modifications adopted up to now “put in two of these strange novel economics and layers and more.”
Hoskinson, who co-founded Ethereum in 2014 before launching Cardano two years later, argued that viable turnarounds would require parallel workstreams. “First, we have to solve the technical issues,” he said. He pointed out the implementation of Ethereum proofs as “as something the network needs to separate.”
He proposed a move to what is called “telescope protocol design,” such as Cardano’s upcoming upgrade path, Useboros-Leios, urged Ethereum developers to look into the “object model of SWE,” suggesting Narwhal and Tusk-style consensus, and a move to the RISC-instruction set. “Something like intentions like RISC-V with an object model like SWE would probably fit very well into their ecosystem,” he argued.
However, in Hoskinson’s view, the bigger obstacle is Ethereum’s lack of formal autonomy. “They don’t have a really good on-chain governance system,” he said. He estimates that building one will take “five to seven years” considering the size of the network and the entrenched stakeholders. Without that, protocol upgrades and community coordination would remain vulnerable, he warned.
Hoskinson’s most sharp predictions were made mid-session. “I don’t think Ethereum will survive for more than 10 to 15 years,” he predicted that the Layer-2 network would “drink everything about the Alpha,” and would cause internal conflicts that would become “more difficult” as Vitalik could hold, eroding the utilities of the base chain. […] Together through the pure power of will. ”
He also argued that the Bitcoin ecosystem, powered by Cardano’s efforts and faster monolithic chains, could compete for Ethereum in both liquidity and user experience. “one time [Bitcoin DeFi] When on, TVL is bigger than Ethereum […] And the other is that they are eaten alive by Solana and Sui and these other things,” he said. Ethereum’s plight was likened to companies like Myspace and Blackberry, which struggled to pivot during “a fundamentally different paradigm.” […] I’ll sneak up on you. ”
Hoskinson also compared the Ethereum roadmap with Cardano’s own roadmap. He highlighted Cardano’s RISC-V-based virtual machines, extended UTXO accounting, and “non-parasitic” approaches to layer 2 scaling, namely Hydra and Midnight Sidechain.
Hoskinson admitted that some of Cardano’s governance tools are “now strange,” but claimed that it was “great in three or five years.” In contrast, he warned that Ethereum’s transition would be slower and more controversial, giving time to alternative platforms to attract developers and liquidity. “The users will gradually move elsewhere and then be covered in Bitcoin debt,” he said.
This statement comes at a sensitive moment for Ethereum, who has completed a proven stake merger 18 months ago and is preparing for upgrades aimed at reducing transaction costs and increasing throughput. Hoskinson’s comments are unlikely to shake up Ethereum’s core developers, but highlight the growing debate over whether a modular roll-up-center roadmap can maintain network consistency as the competitive ecosystem evolves.
Asked to summarise his outlook, Hoskinson returned to first principles. “Amazing project,” he said of Ethereum. [a] A victim of its own success. Without decisive architectural and governance reforms, the platform concluded that “a highly hostile divorce between the basic layer and its scaling solutions, and ultimately obsolescence, within the next decade.
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