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# ![@IOHK_Charles Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1376161898.png) @IOHK_Charles Charles Hoskinson

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, has been discussing various updates and developments in the Cardano ecosystem. He recently mentioned working with Google on the Midnight project, a private smart contract system, and expressed his goal for it to be the largest in the world by 2026. Hoskinson also touched on other topics, including Cardano's scalability, governance, and integration with other systems.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  #496 [finance](/list/finance)  #4316 [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  #142 [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies)  XXXX% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[cardano](/topic/cardano) #18, [midnight](/topic/midnight) #93, [defi](/topic/defi) #1882, [crypto](/topic/crypto) #787, [ada](/topic/ada) #1733, [ethereum](/topic/ethereum) #80, [$night](/topic/$night) #6, [native](/topic/native) #56, [blockchain](/topic/blockchain) #703, [solana](/topic/solana) XXXX%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@minswapintern](/creator/undefined) [@hoskytoken](/creator/undefined) [@lunaoncardano](/creator/undefined) [@local_3_3](/creator/undefined) [@pr0f0ak](/creator/undefined) [@angrycryptoshow](/creator/undefined) [@songoncardano](/creator/undefined) [@cryptomansixty9](/creator/undefined) [@midnightntwrk](/creator/undefined) [@cardanians_io](/creator/undefined) [@stakewithpride](/creator/undefined) [@nikepig_ada](/creator/undefined) [@user11011001069](/creator/undefined) [@cerkoryn](/creator/undefined) [@jurekaramarko](/creator/undefined) [@dankarda](/creator/undefined) [@travesty_nb](/creator/undefined) [@bone_pool](/creator/undefined) [@filmtoshi](/creator/undefined) [@snek](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Cardano (ADA)](/topic/cardano) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Solana (SOL)](/topic/solana) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Chainlink (LINK)](/topic/chainlink) [Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase)
### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"1.2 million views in X days Midnight is surging The 4th generation is nearly here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1990241150918344756)  2025-11-17T02:10Z 1.1M followers, 167.3K engagements


"Can't wait to see the Netflix remakes of Game of Thrones Westwood the Sopranos and the Wire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997005732278161529)  2025-12-05T18:10Z 1.1M followers, 54.9K engagements


"Now that we have governance moving along really well this year I'm going to focus deeply on three big themes for Cardano: 1) Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano (Market is X times the size of Ethereum and Solana combined) 2) 24/7 work on scalability including Leios 3) Making Cardano a peninsula not an island. Integrations integrations integrations. Already got a meeting with Chainlink on the books. Stablecoins next. Let's fucking go 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1880679284525895788)  2025-01-18T18:10Z 1.1M followers, 516.7K engagements


"We are launching a Midnight Ambassador program. Reply here if you would like to join and be part of the ecosystem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1986861187817160903)  2025-11-07T18:19Z 1.1M followers, 154.8K engagements


"Crypto right now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1995377101101519317)  2025-12-01T06:19Z 1.1M followers, 123.5K engagements


"Thoughts on Growth for Cardano in 2026 (Pentad Series)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1995565699771891786)  2025-12-01T18:48Z 1.1M followers, 123.1K engagements


"Another reason why we created Midnight: Dystopia regimes punish people for their expressions associations and commercial activity regardless if it violates the actual laws"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1995859538961203421)  2025-12-02T14:16Z 1.1M followers, 37.2K engagements


"It's fun watching the exchanges announce. Many more to come"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997027891046203830)  2025-12-05T19:38Z 1.1M followers, 65.8K engagements


"More Exhanges Got to catch them all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997322313155690520)  2025-12-06T15:08Z 1.1M followers, 50.7K engagements


"Release the Kraken"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1998249189218861099)  2025-12-09T04:31Z 1.1M followers, 73.8K engagements


"More partnerships"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1987202818042962306)  2025-11-08T16:57Z 1.1M followers, 64.2K engagements


"Here is my whiteboard video on Midnight. Thank you for letting me share my passion:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1989132762297823314)  2025-11-14T00:46Z 1.1M followers, 1.6M engagements


"@R1chardMaur1ce You do understand what I do for a living I literally make decentralized central banks and rebuilt Wallstreet on a blockchain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1992770798063628603)  2025-11-24T01:42Z 1.1M followers, 1.9M engagements


"@paramecatol @R1chardMaur1ce I've built X blockchains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1992774320620441977)  2025-11-24T01:56Z 1.1M followers, 128.8K engagements


"Looks like we have ink on paper for the first integration. The pentad is already working. Announcement this month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1995533209069912183)  2025-12-01T16:39Z 1.1M followers, 78.2K engagements


"At cowboy Christmas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997026331222331842)  2025-12-05T19:32Z 1.1M followers, 34.9K engagements


"@filmtoshi You guys couldn't get listed because basic infrastructure wasn't in place. Midnight spent millions and a year to get it into place so exchanges could list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997045894072750082)  2025-12-05T20:50Z 1.1M followers, 2036 engagements


"NFR is very good this year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997868829092016174)  2025-12-08T03:20Z 1.1M followers, 26.1K engagements


"You all ready for next week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997887570739679499)  2025-12-08T04:34Z 1.1M followers, 67.4K engagements


"@GuttleWZ Night token on Cardano isn't Midnight Mainnet :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997985985804874142)  2025-12-08T11:05Z 1.1M followers, 2584 engagements


"Sorry everyone I won't be making it to Abu Dhabi this year. We had issues with the landing gear and had to make an emergency landing in Boston. Everyone is safe but grounded for a bit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1998374432436572450)  2025-12-09T12:49Z 1.1M followers, 68.4K engagements


"@Katsumoto87 @MidnightNtwrk @midnightfdn All the DEXes will be active within XX hours. Patience kids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1998390366303604777)  2025-12-09T13:52Z 1.1M followers, 3418 engagements


"And while I'm in Patagonia apparently @nayibbukele literally found the lost city of El Dorado in El Salvador"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1866266853972300224)  2024-12-09T23:41Z 1.1M followers, 60.2K engagements


"I need to do spaces more often with Cardano DeFi projects. What do you all think about starting with Metera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1871202718842593441)  2024-12-23T14:34Z 1.1M followers, 159.9K engagements


"Is anyone working on a Kickstarter for the Cardano ecosystem Something that will allow projects to crowdsource capital using CNTs and Ada"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1871606586873192843)  2024-12-24T17:19Z 1.1M followers, 142.3K engagements


"Does anyone want to tell Robin that he got scammed by someone over the internet and now he's blaming a multi-billion dollar company for his carelessness and stupidity It never ceases to amaze me that people fall for scams and then seek out someone to blame. Let's see what email number X has so the self-own can continue and we can all see how he fell for an obvious impersonation scam. Will he apologize for falsely accusing me of stealing money from him No he won't. They never do. Thus public humiliation is the only deterrent. I've lived through almost a decade of impersonation scams. Tens of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1945324919992066507)  2025-07-16T03:29Z 1.1M followers, 74.1K engagements


"After a long hard day I came home to the cat in the hat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1948919883028201475)  2025-07-26T01:34Z 1.1M followers, 60.6K engagements


"NES Game Concept Art from HoskyBrew #DSOC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1965431585525866536)  2025-09-09T15:06Z 1.1M followers, 43.9K engagements


"Congratulations to my friend @cz_binance. Trump has corrected a grave injustice. The weaponization of the justice department against our industry and its entrepreneurs should have never happened. It was and still is a deep wound that will take a long time to heal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1981380952636215573)  2025-10-23T15:23Z 1.1M followers, 602.5K engagements


"For Midnight Ambassadors I'm thinking they should be paid in night and must also use XX percent of their renumeration on Midnight DeFi. What do you think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1987333098493931567)  2025-11-09T01:35Z 1.1M followers, 51.6K engagements


"The most exciting thing about RealFi is that the returns come from microfinance and can be converted into ada btc or other assets automatically. This creates an offchain conversion to crypto and thus constant buy demand. 2026 is going to be a BEAST of a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1987337938716533199)  2025-11-09T01:54Z 1.1M followers, 45K engagements


"This is an example of a narrative that is wrong on so many levels. Every single statement is a misrepresentation or factually wrong. But there isn't an accountable group that plays counter narrative. Thus X months from now it will be accepted common knowledge in the broader crypto circles that a vibe coder brought down cardano. XX years of formal methods high assurance engineering and meticulous science is undone by a false narrative. As we unify and discuss how to stop these things from happening we also have to discuss getting accountability to entities and people for rapid response to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1992269645618073849)  2025-11-22T16:31Z 1.1M followers, 207.8K engagements


"Somehow I'm not feeling sympathy for the "we are having a hard time scamming people" crowd. No it's not over we just actually have to do the work show up every day and make real impact on people's lives businesses and governments. It turns out that's an important thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1992586572529877078)  2025-11-23T13:30Z 1.1M followers, 67.2K engagements


"When we get around to building decentralized cryptomedia we'll have a holiday called Cointelegraph day celebrating the date of their bankruptcy. In the meantime quantum hosky will have a special character named CT who never tells the truth and runs away from any accountability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1992617715958435998)  2025-11-23T15:34Z 1.1M followers, 73K engagements


"@hoskytoken @LunaOnCardano @NikePig_ADA @crawju He's a drowned pig"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1994488202745581994)  2025-11-28T19:26Z 1.1M followers, 3840 engagements


"Five become one for the good of all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1994564067290439852)  2025-11-29T00:28Z 1.1M followers, 57.9K engagements


"@verybullish1 Just closed it out. The last question was ridiculous and absurd given the space"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1994657380358132198)  2025-11-29T06:39Z 1.1M followers, 1354 engagements


"The new Chicago style tithe collection is getting pretty out of hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1994908249850855823)  2025-11-29T23:16Z 1.1M followers, 32.3K engagements


"The entire LLM market needs to take 3-5 years focusing on mass optimization of the models to reduce their inference cost giving hardware energy production and data centers time to catch up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1994993488157708642)  2025-11-30T04:54Z 1.1M followers, 52.3K engagements


"@NicolasC3rny you guys did good"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1996265475936833681)  2025-12-03T17:09Z 1.1M followers, 1498 engagements


"@hoskytoken @NicolasC3rny Welcome to the age of the Pentad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1996316028880789584)  2025-12-03T20:30Z 1.1M followers, 7424 engagements


"@lilybrodi This is pretty much my standard for any man too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1996640641821167745)  2025-12-04T17:59Z 1.1M followers, 3639 engagements


"Last week I saddled up with @ShawnRyan762 on the #ShawnRyanShow to connect the dots between #Cardano bison ranching and the race for immortality. 🐃🧬💡 Crypto buffalo and life-extensionall in one conversation. Watch here #FutureTech #Crypto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1944934622980080011)  2025-07-15T01:38Z 1.1M followers, 1.2M engagements


"Cardano is going to break the internet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1968882290072678538)  2025-09-19T03:38Z 1.1M followers, 596.7K engagements


"Shop Smart Crypto.YOU GOT THAT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1976793816758903024)  2025-10-10T23:35Z 1.1M followers, 90.6K engagements


"ISO 20022 support is essential to open banking and combining the tradFi and DeFi worlds. Ada is Glad to be holding the line with XRP HBAR ALGO and others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1987962807061487932)  2025-11-10T19:17Z 1.1M followers, 664.7K engagements


"@Av_Sebastian I'll bet $0.5"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1988581349016649891)  2025-11-12T12:15Z 1.1M followers, 39.4K engagements


"What should a midnight community member be called"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1988852680119193726)  2025-11-13T06:13Z 1.1M followers, 59.5K engagements


"Cardano works so fast that we forked fixed and caught the guy all in one day. He was quite active in the Fake Fred discord. It was absolutely personal and now he's trying to walk it back because he knows the FBI is already involved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1991947634030883236)  2025-11-21T19:11Z 1.1M followers, 1.4M engagements


"There was a premeditated attack from a disgruntled SPO who spent months in the Fake Fred discord actively looking at ways to harm the brand and reputation of IOG. He targeted my personal pool and it resulted in disruption of the entire cardano network. Every single user was impacted. SPOs lose block rewards. There could be double spends. DeFi was disrupted. It will take weeks to clean up this mess and even longer for the brand and reputation damage to be repaired. He apologized because the ITN pool in my video earlier linked to him and he knew a criminal investigation has already been launched"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1991962518961692880)  2025-11-21T20:10Z 1.1M followers, 113K engagements


"Make sure to share it when the FUD comes rolling in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1992624575147126964)  2025-11-23T16:01Z 1.1M followers, 114K engagements


"Should I do a video on how the world financial system actually works and how we are all debt slaves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1992743294275871136)  2025-11-23T23:53Z 1.1M followers, 283.3K engagements


"Congratulations to @MidnightNtwrk @midnightfdn and the Shielded team for deploying the Midnight Cardano Native Asset: Full launch December 8th"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1993733599309516978)  2025-11-26T17:28Z 1.1M followers, 56.9K engagements


"Looking for comic book artists. Any good leads"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1993769955469480314)  2025-11-26T19:52Z 1.1M followers, 50.7K engagements


"We are back"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1994073951044325498)  2025-11-27T16:00Z 1.1M followers, 171.1K engagements


"Thanksgiving for Unity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1994105594731745514)  2025-11-27T18:06Z 1.1M followers, 95.8K engagements


"I'm really liking the new Midnight Man. He's got some sort of side job in South America as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1994128878391185495)  2025-11-27T19:39Z 1.1M followers, 38.6K engagements


"The Spanish only part of the conversation was hard to follow but I think it was something about adoption in Argentina"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1994468033147146700)  2025-11-28T18:06Z 1.1M followers, 55.5K engagements


"Hang in there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1995517827051372772)  2025-12-01T15:38Z 1.1M followers, 206.6K engagements


"So Vitalik now wants solidity to be more like Haskell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1995553720697061595)  2025-12-01T18:00Z 1.1M followers, 73.9K engagements


"Sometimes you have to wrap your ada to be safe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1995679440429613147)  2025-12-02T02:20Z 1.1M followers, 95.7K engagements


"Got to integrate them all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1995684203183440363)  2025-12-02T02:39Z 1.1M followers, 87.6K engagements


"Great writeup"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1995980245464482093)  2025-12-02T22:15Z 1.1M followers, 25K engagements


"Should Hosky Snek CrawJu Nike and Luna team up for a memecoin pentad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1996471158267650285)  2025-12-04T06:46Z 1.1M followers, 67.9K engagements


"@Justin_Bons Justin you know after Leios you're going to love Cardano"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1996636100685975612)  2025-12-04T17:41Z 1.1M followers, 8066 engagements


"My CrawJu are multiplying and are very excited about the Pentad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1996727061512425560)  2025-12-04T23:43Z 1.1M followers, 28.7K engagements


"We finally updated the website :)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1996996876240138583)  2025-12-05T17:35Z 1.1M followers, 40.6K engagements


"@Justin_Bons XXX sure CIPs/CIP-0164/README.md at leios cardano-scaling/CIPs GitHub"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997345122368057474)  2025-12-06T16:39Z 1.1M followers, 2232 engagements


"Monday is going to be a good day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997547412840481277)  2025-12-07T06:03Z 1.1M followers, 286.1K engagements


"Welcome to Midnight Binance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1997985277827338453)  2025-12-08T11:03Z 1.1M followers, 105.4K engagements


"Predictable prices for Gas. I've heard about this concept somewhere before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1998252252570775651)  2025-12-09T04:43Z 1.1M followers, 93.5K engagements


"Flying home. It's been a long week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1998432018321846762)  2025-12-09T16:38Z 1.1M followers, 74.5K engagements


"Congratulations Midnight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/IOHK_Charles/status/1998526897018515487)  2025-12-09T22:55Z 1.1M followers, 31.7K engagements