Searchable timestamps from Charles Hoskinson's AMAs

335 videos · 18,581 timestamps · Jan 2018 to Jul 2026 · ~344 hours

335 videos

46:09 2026-07-21 Getting Bridges back on Track
  • A whiteboard lecture prompted by the OneChain Cardano to Binance Smart Chain bridge hack that stole about 500 million NIGHT, explaining why bridge hacks keep happening.
  • He walks through how a lock and mint bridge works, its four attack surfaces, and why the stolen BC-NIGHT is a synthetic peg while the underlying CNIGHT and Midnight were never hacked.
47 timestamps 15:26 2026-07-16 Blockfrost
  • A governance appeal about Cardano's decentralized budget, which is funded in layers and now faces hard decisions about what to keep as ada trades far below last year.
  • IO is transitioning into a venture studio focused on ventures and research, spinning core Haskell node engineering out to partner companies for node diversity.
25 timestamps 4:21 2026-07-15 repo for zero knowledge recovery
  • Hoskinson open sources a zero knowledge recovery app he mostly wrote himself, started after the second Fly hack.
  • It uses the new zero knowledge primitives from this month's Cardano fork to build a Groth16 proof that your 24 seed words belong to a derivation path.
10 timestamps 8:35 2026-07-14 RealFi
  • RealFi, a microfinance platform for bringing the unbanked into banking, is rolling out on Cardano after years of quiet development.
  • Early nation state B2G deals in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Zanzibar, and elsewhere went nowhere, so John O'Connor's team pivoted to microfinance in Kenya and Uganda.
15 timestamps 2:46 2026-07-09 No I'm not leaving
  • A quick rebuttal to a rumor, spread by influencers with edited out of context clips, that Hoskinson is retiring and leaving the Cardano ecosystem.
  • The claim is categorically false, libelous in some cases, and intended to spread FUD and hurt the markets.
7 timestamps 12:57 2026-07-07 doesn't look like anything to me (Ethereum's C Word)
  • A frustrated rant that Ethereum is now proposing native UTXOs, cutting permanent state by 99.8%, without ever mentioning Cardano.
  • Cardano spent ten years on UTXO, extended UTXO, and smart contracts on UTXO, including the chimeric ledgers paper combining UTXO and accounts.
18 timestamps 5:58 2026-07-01 Welcome Monument and Mayo to Gillette Wyoming
  • Monument Health, part of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, is taking over the Gillette, Wyoming clinic after Hoskinson's decision to cease operations.
  • The original goal was to bring Mayo level care to Gillette, and a Mayo affiliate now making that real is promises made, promises kept.
8 timestamps 30:19 2026-06-29 Update
  • A deep update on recovering funds after the Second Fi hack, having gotten a Groth16 verifier working on Cardano preview using new primitives from the upcoming hard fork.
  • The exercise tests the worst recoverable case, where everything is compromised except the 24 seed words, which then need a zero knowledge proof of ownership.
27 timestamps 8:53 2026-06-24 Update
  • A forensics follow up on the Second Fi incident, having disassembled its minified TypeScript and replicated how the attack occurred.
  • The open source Cardano cryptographic libraries used by the majority of wallets are not compromised: key derivation, signatures, and HD wallets appear intact.
13 timestamps 12:23 2026-06-23 SecondFi
  • An initial statement on a security incident with Second Fi, a wallet product from the founding entity Emurgo, with an estimated impact of about 16 million ada.
  • Wallet software works perfectly until it does not, whether from an anomaly, an insider threat, or a hack, and the hard part is that funds are then hard to recover.
16 timestamps 8:27 2026-06-23 Welcome Leios
  • The Leios testnet is here, Cardano's scaling solution, taken from an IOHK research paper to a prototype now open for the community to test and break.
  • The testnet is named Musashi Dojo after Miyamoto Musashi, whose two sword style maps to Leios's short and long blocks, with phases named after The Book of Five Rings.
13 timestamps 32:30 2026-06-22 Block 45 and Leios
  • The Ouroboros Leios testnet enters its phase the next day, with a new IO podcast, Block 45, launching to cover it.
  • The testnet runs through Musashi phases, and Leios aims for about a 44x throughput increase, putting Cardano in the hundreds of TPS with a path to thousands.
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