In the latest figures released by financial rating agency Weiss Crypto Ratings this week, Cardano (ADA), Tezos (XTZ), Cosmos (ATOM) and Fantom (FTM) are the top coins by in the “technology” category, ranking above Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). Released weekly, the rating compares cryptocurrency coins in a number of categories including adoption, risk/reward and technology. The list currently rates 123 coins and tokens with the highest overall rank only hitting a B+. The risk/reward column does not give any coin a rank above D. Rating system The Weiss Crypto Ratings model is built with five basic layers that take …

In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Ethereum (ETH) co-founder and Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson explained why he believes Cardano is poised for a trillion dollar market cap. One of the main distinguishing points of Cardano’s development approach is its emphasis on research-first. Genius founder will not always be around Though there have recently been a new crop of what Hoskinson calls “science coins” — such as Algorand (ALGO), AVA, and StarkWare — when Cardano was starting out, this approach was radically unorthodox. To this day, the approach often attracts criticism for being too academically pedantic and slow. However, Hoskinson …

A blockchain protocol designed by one of the most prominent blockchain scholars has launched a public testnet. AVA Labs has its roots in Cornell University, where its co-founder Emin Gün Sirer had been teaching for almost two decades. In 2003, he started Karma, the first cryptocurrency to use a Proof-of-Work mechanism. Internet of value AVA co-founder Kevin Sekniqi told Cointelegraph that the best way to describe the new protocol is the “internet of blockchains”. One of the key features of this “empty framework” is that virtually any blockchain network can become interoperable with AVA. For instance, there is a fork …

In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Ethereum co-founder and Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson discussed a potential early acquisition that could have made a world of difference for Ethereum. According to Hoskinson, had Vitalik Buterin applied the Snow White Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus developed by Elaine Shi, it would have greatly expedited the development of Ethereum 2.0: “My biggest problem is that he hasn't divided and conquered. Like, for example, the development of Casper — with Casper, Vitalik could have gone to Cornell and went to Elaine Shi. She wrote a great protocol, called 'Snow White,' it’s a competitor of our …

Cointelegraph recently sat down for an interview with Ethereum (ETH) co-founder and Cardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson. During the interview, he discussed his criticism of the development of the Ethereum platform. “His first project” Hoskinson believes that one of the main reasons why Ethereum’s development has struggled is that too much hinges on Vitalik Buterin personally: “So, basically Ethereum moves at the speed of Vitalik. So if he knows how to do something very well and he's become very competent in something, they have a handle on it. But when you're talking about research, when you're talking about actually delivering …

Cointelegraph recently sat down for an interview with Charles Hoskinson, who is the co-founder of Ethereum and CEO and founder of IOHK — the company developing Cardano. During that interview, Hoskinson shared details about some of the crypto projects that he is most interested in. Ergo “It's one of the most revolutionary cryptocurrencies ever built. Got so many crazy ideas like non-outsourceable puzzles and sigma protocols and pruning the blockchain and roller chains. All this crazy stuff. Even has a proof of no premine.” Ergo was founded by Hoskinson’s “favorite technologist”, Alex Chepurnoy, who also contributed to the development of …

Charles Hoskinson suggests applying stylometric techniques to find Satoshi Nakamoto, but there is a caveat. Stylometrics In an April 5 interview, Ethereum (ETH) co-founder and founder of Cardano (ADA) Charles Hoskinson suggested that the most effective way to find the person or team behind Bitcoin (BTC) is to apply stylometric techniques. Stylometry is the application of the study of linguistic style, usually to written language. This technique had been previously applied to Satoshi Nakamoto’s writing without conclusive results. Use the code instead Hoskinson suggested instead of using Nakamoto’s writing, use his code. Hoskinson explained to Cointelegraph why this could be …

On March 24, Cardano (ADA) founder, Charles Hoskinson, streamed a YouTube video titled “On Wikipedia,” in which he berated Wikipedia for applying arbitrary commercial censorship against Cardano. Wikipedia’s censorship of Bitcoin may have led to Satoshi’s disappearance Censorship of cryptocurrency projects is as old as the industry itself. Back in 2010, even Satoshi Nakamoto was frustrated with Wikipedia’s editors for removing Bitcoin’s wiki entry several times. After PayPal severed ties with WikiLeaks, one of Bitcoin’s supporters suggested that becoming the site's new source of donations would generate enough publicity to gain entry into Wikipedia. Satoshi strongly opposed WikiLeak’s adoption of …

Pundits and public health experts alike are reeling at President Donald Trump’s pledge to get “the country opened up and rarin’ to go by Easter,” whatever the risks of coronavirus may be. With Easter less than three weeks away, the president has diverged from the advice of public health authorities worldwide, tweeting on March 24 that: “Our people want to return to work. They will practice Social Distancing and all else, and Seniors will be watched over protectively & lovingly. We can do two things together. THE CURE CANNOT BE WORSE (by far) THAN THE PROBLEM! Congress MUST ACT NOW. …

Earlier today, March 16, Cardano Foundation made an announcement on its website disclosing that Z/Yen Group Limited (UK) has initiated legal proceedings against it. Z/Yen Group — Former Research Partner Z/Yen Group Limited is a fintech think tank and a former research partner of the Foundation. Back in 2018, the two co-authored a report entitled “The Quantum Countdown: Quantum Computing and the Future of Distributed Ledger Encryption.” Interestingly, Cardano founder, Charles Hoskinson, in a YouTube Ask Me Anything live stream from March 15, mentioned that his company is doing research on quantum-resistant signatures. IP rights dispute? The information released by …

Ethereum co-founder and founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, pronounced “the economic order of the 20th century” dead in a recent YouTube livestream. By “the economic order of 20th century”, Hoskinson means a centralized hierarchical economy that was built through “a series of treaties” made by a few great powers, this economy was built for the times “when information was not instantaneous”, and when most people were willing to accept “big brother’s” dictum. Hoskinson said that the recent market downturn was caused by the incongruence of the hierarchical order created by powerful institutions like governments, corporations, international organizations, where few powerful …

The legal leader at Big Four auditor PwC, Gunther Dobrauz, recently praised the people responsible for Cardano’s (ADA) development. A huge part of the future In a Mar. 3 tweet, Dobrauz claimed that he has long been saying that decentralization is the future. Furthermore, he added that the Cardano Foundation and the team surrounding IOHK CEO and founder Charles Hoskinson “are a huge part of this” future. IOHK is the blockchain firm behind Cardano and Ethereum Classic. Dobrauz’s tweet also featured a photo where he stood beside Hoskinson. A tweet sent shortly afterward by Hoskinson reveals that he met Dobrauz …