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Surprise AMA 11/11/2025 📱
...; Nick Szabo knew that; David J knew that. All the OGs knew that. So we created smart contracts and brought them to light, and that was awesome. It was like when JavaScript ca...
Surprise AMA 11/11/2025
...ck Szabo knew that; David Chaum knew that. All the OGs knew that. So we created smart contracts and brought them to light, which was awesome—like when JavaScript came with the...
PRD and the Lies of Process
Hello everyone, today is February 4th, 2025. I'm making a video that a bunch of people are going to watch, especially people in Wyoming. We know who you are. So, let’s talk a little bit about product ...
Surprise AMA 02/02/2025
...s are being discussed. For example, Patrick Tobler brought up the idea of using smart contracts for the budget process. I think it’s a great idea, and we can innovate a little...
On RFK
...aw that thinks about computational law, something that is directly connected to smart contracts and regulation in our industry. She’s part of that; she’s also involved in AI p...
SpacePlace #145 Forking in Public
...e brought the DApps in, and then we started adding the CC features. Then we did smart contracts, and we decided we needed to add guardrails, so we did the guardrails stuff. Th...
RWA and Cardano
... Cardano has a hybrid issuance system. Instead of treating assets as ADA plus smart contracts, which is what Ethereum does, we have this concept of a Cardano native asset or...
On Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cardano
...to control that. At the end of the day, the Bitcoin core protocol does not have smart contracts capable of doing the things that Cardano and Ethereum can do. There are no DEXs...
On Hydra Scaling
...ops, Dex transactions, Oracle transactions, Jed transactions, and complex, rich smart contracts with lots of things going on. What happened over a three-year period is that ...
CS Conversation Board
...business models, like enhanced yields or more complex business relationships or smart contracts, while also giving people onshore more abilities to comply if they need to. I...
PFP, Art, and Sharing
...ical. It would be beneficial if these standards were honored and appreciated by smart contracts across multiple systems—not just Solana, Algorand, Cardano, or Ethereum, but a ...
I wrote a book
...ch is what Midnight uses. This helps provide a broader understanding of private smart contracts in general. I also delve into some new developments in the ecosystem, like ZK...
Thoughts on Growth for Cardano in 2026 (Pentad Series)
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. This is the first in a new series of videos I'm going to make. I call it the P...
The Profane Unaccountability of Social Media
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Always warm, always sunny, sometimes Colorado. Today is Halloween, October 31st, 2024. I'm making a quick video before I go h...
Live Reaction Video: Trump's Bitcoin Speech
Hi, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I wanted to try something a little new here. I'm live streaming a reaction video to Donald Trump's Bitcoin speech. We're a...
Metatransactions
...t come in, and then you can add arbitrary complexity to these relationships via smart contracts, which is why these things exist. Of course, you can add any regulatory regime ...
The End of an Era
Hi everyone, this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm, sunny Colorado. Today is November 22nd, 2023, and I'm wearing a really fun shirt. I wanted to make a video to talk about the Binance...
Basho, Input Endorsers, and the Future of Scalability
...rally speaking, they are consumed from activities such as issuing assets, using smart contracts, voting, and putting stuff on the system. You can usually break it into three b...
Getting to a Minimum Viable Constitution and Beyond
... place. One of the things designed is to encode parts of that Constitution into smart contracts to constrain the behaviors of the Constitutional committee members. When that n...
Intersect, Repos, and Cardano Product Backlog
...his concept of tribes, and each tribe is connected to a different concept, like smart contracts, for example, or core technology. Smart contracts cover things like Plutus and ...
Surprise AMA 12/10/2022
hi this is Charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado always warm Always Sunny sometimes Colorado today is December 10th Ada lovelace's birthday you better believe we&#39...
What is RealFi?
...foundational definitions of defy and the different types of Primitives of D5 so smart contracts and Keepers and oracles and governance different D5 protocols on-chain acid exc...
More on FTX and the Industry
hi this is Charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado always warm Always Sunny sometimes Colorado today is November 11th Veterans Day 11 11. it's very special day I it&#3...
Video to Elon: How to Build Decentralized Twitter Using Doge and Cardano for Profit and Pleasure
...eate a standard for representation of identity not just of people but agents so smart contracts iot sensors autonomous vehicles and so forth so right off the bat you should re...
Birthday Musings
...f you're a Bitcoin maximalist if you ever were curious about how to get smart contracts to come to bitcoin you should look to cardano because the extended utxo and plu...
Bitcoin is Digital Gold. Let's talk about the mine...
...the Bitcoin main chain and that Bitcoin will be used in all kinds of adapts and smart contracts and potentially could even be used by nation states to create a means of Exchan...
Road to a Polyglot Ecosystem for Cardano
hi everybody this is Charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado always warm Always Sunny sometimes Colorado today is September 26 2022 and I wanted to make a video to discuss a very ...
Surprise AMA 09/17/2022
... are we making it Charles are you concerned about emergent Behavior via complex smart contracts which would be out of scope of the original security model EG chain derivatives...
Vasil is Coming September 22nd, 2022
...id back when we launched alonzo there's really two ways you can look at smart contracts and programmability in the ecosystem one way is to start with maximum expressiv...
Surprise AMA 08/19/2022
...i'd love to collaborate on standards i'd love to collaborate on smart contracts um collaborate on future protocol design uh gavin's a very bright guy a...
Mongolia Special AMA 07/16/2022
...acts you can point to the creation of solidity the way it was built and the way smart contracts are designed on ethereum tend to lead to insecure smart contracts there were 10...
Let's Talk Roadmap and Governance
...p;#39;t make everybody happy all the time for example being slow to market with smart contracts meant that cardano missed a lot of the defy stuff that's happening toda...
Vasil Upgrade - The State of Play
...on rate with pipelining and then all the sips are basically there to make pluto smart contracts easier to write if you're a developer whether you're doing it o...
Post-Consensus, Markets, and Thoughts
...sformed and used with ai and other techniques so that they can be embedded into smart contracts and entrepreneurs can ask simple questions of whether is this transaction legal...
Update from Washington
...ing to collaborate and cooperate on some basic principles like the standards of smart contracts the definitions of things like decentralization trying to create regulatory fra...
Gifts, Obsidian, and Back in the Office
...the Barcelona Summit for formal methods and applying formal methods to Cardinal smart contracts to me it's very important that everybody who writes Cardinal smart cont...
A Few Musings
... than ever before there are more transactions on cardinal than ever before more smart contracts on cardano than ever before more nfts on cardano than ever before more daps und...
Back from California (Milken Institute)
...ing a deep and detailed conversation about the application of formal methods to smart contracts that will result in certification standards for all cardano dabs so we don&...
Surprise AMA 04/13/2022
hi this is charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny colorado always warm always sunny sometimes colorado today is april 13th 2022. it's a lovely day back in the office having some f...
Rollup
...na spain may 17th and 18th to sit down and discuss the certification levels for smart contracts level one level two level three this same working group could certainly have a ...
Dubai Surprise AMA: 03/26/2022
... what bitcoin had done extend it and then add more capabilities to it to enable smart contracts ethereum chose a completely different accounting model which i think was based ...
Some Updates
...erate on the intent and embed them as kind of a regulator of the system for all smart contracts this comes up a lot in the Privacy space people want confidentiality and privac...
Surprise AMA 02/21/2022
... remain nameless did a podcast today came out today and said well the launch of smart contracts on cardano is a failure we are not a real competitor to ethereum uh you know we...
Moxie's Thoughts on Cryptocurrencies and Web3
... as well as more complex things like constructing transactions interacting with smart contracts ensure metamask needs to interact with the blockchain but the blockchain has be...
Cardstarter and SundaeSwap
hi this is Charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado always warm Always Sunny sometimes Colorado today is January 24th 2022 and I'm making a video to discuss the latest dram...
Whiteboard: DApps and Development
...e industry especially the bitcoin maximalist guys if you are ever going to have smart contracts this is the way you should be looking at cardano as the beta test for bitcoin y...
Little Bit of Everything
... ah we have deads ah we have prism need a platform a settlement system you need smart contracts gogen's out cardano is at scale you need a large community to draw from...
DApps and Cardano DeFi Alliance
...hat ecosystem that have as much incentive as we do for the correctness of their smart contracts especially for government Enterprise clients this is a call in that respect bur...
I'm Back and Live from Warm Sunny Colorado
...retty impressive that we have been able to change consensus protocols and adopt smart contracts within 18 months ethereum has been trying just to do one change its consensus p...
On DApps
...nization of math to dependently type language and in this case the standards of smart contracts crossed industry and it'll be a members-based organization that compani...