Cardano创始人针对社区质疑拟将对话主渠道从X平台转移至新Discord社群
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In response to community concerns, Cardano's founder plans to shift the main channel of communication from the X platform to the new Discord community.
PANews reported on June 12th that Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, in response to recent criticism from the crypto community, announced plans to create a Discord channel for the Cardano community "to say goodbye to the drama, lies, and endless anger on the X platform, and to find a place for genuine dialogue and progress." Hoskinson stated that he will continue to stream on the X platform, but AMA questions will only come from the new Cardano and the current Midnight Discord channel. This comes yesterday, when on-chain tracking again sparked allegations that Cardano's founder sold 1.5 billion ADA during the 2021 bull market.
Cardano was included in CME futures and the Nasdaq index, but ADA fell 37% this month to a five-year low.
According to Mars Finance, CME included Cardano futures in its 24/7 trading platform on May 29th, and ADA was subsequently added to the Nasdaq CME Crypto Index on June 8th, alongside BTC, ETH, XRP, and Solana. However, ADA has fallen 37% in the past month to approximately $0.17, its lowest level since 2021. Ecosystem issues continue to worsen: TapTools, an analytics platform serving over one million users, shut down due to the departure of key executives; the 2026 Singapore Summit was canceled because the governance vote failed to reach the two-thirds absolute majority threshold of 66.67% with only 65.21% support; and founder Charles Hoskinson warned that more DeFi projects will fail in the second half of 2026. According to DefiLlama data, the Cardano DeFi ecosystem's TVL has shrunk by 85%, from approximately $905 million at the end of 2024 to less than $140 million currently. The only noteworthy event at present is the launch of the Ouroboros Leios testnet on June 23. This upgrade focuses on speed and throughput, with the mainnet deployment target being the end of 2026.
On-chain tracing has once again sparked allegations that Cardano's founders sold 1.5 billion ADA tokens during the 2021 bull market.
PANews reported on June 11 that, according to The Defiant, on-chain tracing has once again sparked allegations that Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson sold approximately 1.5 billion ADA during the 2021 bull market. NFT creator Masato Alexander released on-chain analysis claiming that the large ADA transactions during this period had shorter paths to IOG-related staking pools, reducing the number of intermediate steps from approximately 40 to 1-7. His tracing focuses on two transactions: a transfer of 925 million ADA and nine payments of 20 million ADA each. Hoskinson has not yet responded. The Cardano Foundation responded, stating, "Cardano has three separate founding entities: IOG, Emurgo, and the Cardano Foundation."
The privacy-focused public blockchain Namada suffered a vulnerability attack, resulting in the cross-chain transfer of 228,000 ATOM tokens.
PANews reported on June 20th that the privacy blockchain project Namada officially confirmed a vulnerability attack on its protocol. The project team has launched a full investigation and is collaborating with multiple security agencies to handle the situation. The official statement indicated that if the attacker was a white-hat hacker, they are welcome to contact the project team to cooperate in disclosing vulnerability details and working together to fix the vulnerability and mitigate the risk. On-chain monitoring data shows that the ATOM assets involved in this attack were transferred to a Cosmos Hub address via the IBC cross-chain channel. This address received 228,517 ATOM on June 18th, and the funds were all transferred out within hours through multiple IBC transfers, leaving only a small balance in the wallet.
Cardano founder responds to controversy over the whereabouts of $70 million worth of Bitcoin: Audit fees were paid in 2016.
According to Mars Finance, on June 15th, the crypto OG project Cardano has recently encountered controversy. The controversy stems from Thomas Braziel, an investor specializing in bankruptcy claims and crypto assets, who discovered through company documents and on-chain records that the whereabouts of approximately 1090 BTC raised during Cardano's crowdfunding campaign are unknown. He revealed that these Bitcoins were initially allocated to the Isle of Man entity (an early precursor to the Cardano Foundation), but this entity was dissolved in December 2025. Braziel publicly questioned this on X: Hoskinson was an early participant in the Isle of Man entity; after its dissolution, what happened to these BTC, now worth approximately $70 million? Who controls them? Is the distribution transparent? In response, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson stated in an AMA yesterday that these Bitcoins were used to pay audit fees related to the 2016 crowdfunding sale, as their value at the time was only $454,000. Thomas Braziel requested Hoskinson to provide further evidence to prove the purpose of the project, including invoices, agreements, approvals, and payment records, to ensure transparency in the project's finances.
EMURGO announced that SecondFi, the Cardano wallet that was hacked, will permanently cease operations.
ChainCatcher reports that Cardano's founding entity, EMURGO, stated on Monday that SecondFi, the wallet service that suffered a hack, will not resume normal operations even after a security audit is completed. All users are required to migrate their assets through the official recovery process. SecondFi is a rebranded version of the Yoroi wallet and is described by EMURGO as Cardano's largest wallet provider. According to EMURGO's incident report on June 25th, the service suffered four separate wallet thefts on June 22nd, with 374 addresses compromised and approximately 16 million ADA (worth about $2.4 million at the time) stolen. The team also took emergency measures to recover approximately 129 million ADA. EMURGO stated that compromised wallets should be considered permanently exposed at the address and private key levels, and restoring the damaged seed phrase to other wallets cannot eliminate the risk. EMURGO plans to launch an isolated wallet state inspection tool this week, followed by a secure export tool and an offline migration workshop in Tokyo. They are also building a dedicated recovery fund for the on-chain recovery system, and will return assets to affected users after the external audit is completed.