Nine years since the Byron launch. Congratulations, Cardano.

The archive keeps the earlier birthdays too. Here is Charles Hoskinson in 2020, fourteen minutes on turning three.

https://askhosk.com/v/rVuBCJZqvxU

Charles explains why he has no fight left for Cardano governance and is betting his time on Midnight City and Pogun.

Also: Moriarty, his new DeFi intent language for Midnight, a SpaceX mission with seats for ADA holders that never flew, and Leios on schedule.

https://askhosk.com/v/q5sZIdeC8eM

Six years ago today, 45 minutes on governance, four years before Chang.

At 3:58 Charles names the two requirements for it working at all: broad participation, and participants who actually know what they are doing.

https://askhosk.com/v/7_zIzjWZHgg?t=238

The Clarity Act was dead on arrival and Charles said so for a year. Why it needed breaking into pieces like the GENIUS Act, why a CFTC of 700 people was never going to regulate a two trillion dollar industry, and why crypto should stop waiting on Washington.

https://askhosk.com/v/Xt05z3xJnBE

Charles on why Midnight cut its DevRel team: vibe coding turned developer counts into a vanity metric, so the bet is on builders who ship products. Also a blunt ask to the Cardano Foundation to promote its biggest project, and why privacy alone never sells.
https://askhosk.com/v/VI5OuB6o5BU

Charles on OpenAI's claimed Navier-Stokes proof, and the mathematician who says the model lifted a year of his work out of ChatGPT logs. Also: whether a Lean proof counts as real mathematics, and why Midnight was built so your prompts stay yours.

https://askhosk.com/v/dcQxe9ohHOw

This archive doubles as a reading list. Six books Charles has recommended on stream:

How to Read a Book, Adler
Enlightenment Now, Pinker
Life 3.0, Tegmark
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Zuboff
The Model Thinker, Page
On Numbers and Games, Conway

https://askhosk.com/?q=recommends%20the%20book

Two years ago today, the day Chang went live, Charles called it an independence day: every ada holder an equal, with a say over the protocol.

The archive has the moment at 1:29.

https://askhosk.com/v/rqvymw3gEeA?t=89

SPOs, Charles needs your vote: the constitutional committee action is past the DRep threshold but ~7% short, and the Leios hard fork can't be approved without a seated committee. Plus Pogun's $600M in soft commitments and Cardano on Jan 1, 2027.

https://askhosk.com/v/AembF0-NPvI

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Sony's crypto arm S.BLOX is the first Japanese exchange to list NIGHT, and the first to list any privacy preserving asset there. Charles: ADA needed five or six years of JFSA review to get liquidity in Japan. Midnight cleared it in under a year.

https://askhosk.com/v/QRmcUr3DBqE

Somewhere in 335+ streams, Charles has already answered your question. Probably twice. Once with a whiteboard.

Charles is cancelling his Claude subscription. Anthropic watermarks everything the model touches, even text it only edited, and he calls it groundwork for an IP claim on your work. His answer: open models like Muse Glimmer and Gemma 4 under Apache 2.

https://askhosk.com/v/jCbw_QjonMo

$70M drained from Coldcard users who did everything right. Charles on wallets in 2026: AI has erased the gap between wanting to attack and knowing how. Every wallet, hot or cold, is now a moving target. askhosk.com/v/e3z-IPQahVY

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