Cardano Founder Accuses Ethereum Co-Founder Of ‘Bag-Holding’ Over AI Cryptography Warning
Charles Hoskinson publicly attacked Vitalik Buterin after Buterin warned about AI-driven threats to lattice-based cryptography. Hoskinson said Buterin was defending his own research and described the warning as tied to hash-based crypto work. The dispute centers on how major blockchains plan for future quantum-computing risks.
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Ethereum users and Cardano users notice this as a public dispute between the two founders over security planning, not as a change already applied on-chain. The immediate effect is that attention shifts to how each ecosystem talks about future threats to wallet security and cryptography. This is visible in the comments from Hoskinson and in the warning that triggered them.
In practice, nothing in these pieces shows a new rule, upgrade, or wallet requirement taking effect today. What changed is the public position-taking around lattice-based and hash-based cryptography, while the broader question of how major blockchains prepare for quantum computers remains open. That makes the disagreement about framing and research direction rather than a confirmed technical rollout. (per coinpedia.org)
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Where this sits in the Ethereum series
| When | What happened | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 years ago | ETH at $4,245 high | today it sits -47.5% from there |
| 4 months ago | ETH at $1,566 low | today it sits +42.3% from there |
From what we have stored, starting 1.1 years ago.