Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson is a technology entrepreneur and mathematician famous for co-founding Cardano, Ethereum, and Input Output Global, Inc. (formerly IOHK).

Hoskinson began his involvement with cryptocurrencies in 2013, where he started the Bitcoin Education Project, whose two part mission was to reduce barriers of entry into the crypto world for anyone that was interested, while also educating the public on how Bitcoin by eliminating misinformation and creating educational content.

In 2013 Hoskinson would become the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation’s education committee.

He also established the Cryptocurrency Research Group that same year.

In late 2013, Hoskinson joined a team including Vitalik Buterin and several others that eventually founded Ethereum.

During his time working on Ethereum, Hoskinson would take up the position of chief executive of the Ethereum Foundation.

During his short time holding that position, he suggested to the founding team and community that the Ethereum Foundation could transition to a for-profit organization with a more formal governing structure.

Theis position didn’t sit well with Buterin, or the rest of the Ethereum community, who were all in favor of keeping the Ethereum platform open-source and decentralized, free from venture capital.

This disagreement surrounding outside funding lead to Hoskinson being removed from the Ethereum team.

Hoskinson’s next adventure led him to team up with a former Ethereum colleague to form IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong), an engineering and research company that builds cryptocurrencies and blockchains for, government entities, academic institutions, and corporations.

Cardano, a public blockchain featuring smart contract capabilities, was IOHK’s standout project.

Cardano (ADA) is a top 10 cryptocurrency by market capitalization, which stands at roughly $15.5 billion in August 2022.

Related Terms

Cardano (ADA)

Cardano is a decentralized open-source blockchain platform built with proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus, offering smart contract capabilities, and using the native cryptocurrency ADA.

Gavin Wood

Gavin Wood is a computer scientist most well known for being a co-founder of Ethereum and creator of Polkadot (DOT) and Kusama (KSM).

Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin is best known for being a co-founder of Ethereum, along with co-founders Gavin Wood, Charles Hoskinson, Anthony Di Iorio, and Joseph Lubin. In 2013, Buterin first published his ideas behind Ethereum in a whitepaper, proposing that Bitcoin (BTC) lacked a scripting language for application development. He also co-founded Bitcoin Magazine in 2011, later becoming its leading writer.

Ethereum (ETH)

Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform that makes digital money, global payments, and applications possible using open-source software and smart contract functionality. The big difference between the two is that Ethereum is programmable, meaning you can build and use decentralized apps on the network. That means the Ethereum blockchain can be programmed to do virtually anything.

Shiba Inu (SHIB)

Shiba Inu (SHIB) is an ERC-20 token built on Ethereum that’s reported to be 100% run by its community. “The Dogecoin killer” is the second most famous altcoin and meme coin behind Dogecoin, even though it has a faithful army of 500,000 members called the SHIB Army promoting it on social media.