Cardano founder Hoskinson shifts community to Discord

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is coordinating with EMURGO CEO Phillip Pon to migrate the blockchain project's primary community discussions from X to Discord, aiming to create a more constructive and moderated environment. The plan, announced this week, will see Hoskinson continue his livestream broadcasts on X, where he has approximately one million followers, but future "Ask Me Anything" sessions will be restricted to participants in a new Cardano Discord server and the existing Midnight Discord hub.

Hoskinson framed the move as an effort to escape persistent negativity and unproductive drama on X, stating the goal is to foster happy, positive, well-moderated channels where real conversations and progress can occur. He emphasized that using X for broadcasts does not signify a full return to daily engagement on the platform, telling critics that substantive community work will happen elsewhere.

The migration proposal follows several weeks of public tension within the Cardano ecosystem. Recent controversies have included governance disputes, such as a community vote that rejected a 7.8 million ADA treasury proposal for a Cardano summit in Singapore, leading to the event's...