{"id":26823,"date":"2025-05-14T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/cardanos-hoskinson-rejects-crypto-tribalism-reveals-fresh-details-on-massive-glacier-drop\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:47:28","slug":"cardanos-hoskinson-rejects-crypto-tribalism-reveals-fresh-details-on-massive-glacier-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=26823","title":{"rendered":"Cardano\u2019s Hoskinson Rejects Crypto Tribalism, Reveals Fresh Details on Massive \u2018Glacier Drop\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ADA’s Charles Hoskinson wants crypto\u2019s tribal warfare to end, and he\u2019s prepared to drop tokens on 37 million wallets across eight different blockchains to make peace.<\/p>\n

“Every Consensus, there’s a new token… running around saying, ‘my thing is better than your thing,'” Hoskinson said on stage at Consensus 2025 in Toronto. “The Nash equilibria is competitive, not cooperative.”<\/p>\n

Using Midnight’s upcoming airdrop, called Glacier Drop, for Cardano\u2019s privacy-focused sidechain that’s currently under construction, Hoskinson thinks he can do his part to bring peace to the crypto galaxy.<\/p>\n

Glacier Drop was first teased in late 2024, Hoskinson revealed key new details during his speech at Consensus 2025, including Midnight\u2019s expansive multi-chain approach.<\/p>\n

Hoskinson confirmed that Midnight tokens, both the NIGHT governance token and the DUST privacy-focused transaction token, will be distributed to approximately 37 million users across eight major blockchains.<\/p>\n

Unlike typical token launches, Midnight’s tokens will be distributed entirely to the retail community with zero allocation to venture capitalists or early insiders, Hoskinson said.<\/p>\n

The Cardano founder said on stage that he dismissed venture capital interest in Midnight\u2019s token launch, saying he had \u201cno f-ing time for your ponzi\u201d and told them to \u201cget the hell out,\u201d opting instead to give the tokens away in what he pitched as a principled, VC-free airdrop.<\/p>\n

Recipients of Midnight tokens from the upcoming Glacier Drop can freely keep, trade, or discard them, Hoskinson explained, a departure from traditional crypto airdrops that typically reward insiders or early adopters exclusively.<\/p>\n

“You already have it, congratulations,” Hoskinson said. “It’s yours. It’s your property.”<\/p>\n

Glacier Drop underscores Hoskinson\u2019s vision of “cooperative economics,” another core concept introduced during his speech.<\/p>\n

Midnight\u2019s new economic model will enable developers from different blockchain networks to seamlessly build hybrid decentralized applications, allowing users to pay fees in their native tokens.<\/p>\n

Ethereum developers pay in ETH, Solana developers in SOL, and Bitcoin developers in BTC, Hoskinson explained.<\/p>\n

Validators across different chains can collaboratively maintain the network, earning rewards regardless of their blockchain affiliation.<\/p>\n

Midnight is currently in testnet, with a mainnet launch expected by late 2025. <\/p>\n

Hoskinson sees the Glacier Drop, cooperative economics, and rational privacy as essential ingredients for welcoming billions of mainstream users expected as Big Tech companies finally enter crypto.<\/p>\n

“This is the project that I’m having the most fun with right now,” Hoskinson said, “because it’s the project where I get to be friends with everybody.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ADA’s Charles Hoskinson wants crypto\u2019s tribal warfare to end, and he\u2019s prepared to drop tokens on 37 million wallets across eight different blockchains to make peace. “Every Consensus, there’s a new token… running around saying, ‘my thing is better than your thing,’” Hoskinson said on stage at Consensus 2025 in Toronto. “The Nash equilibria is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-26823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}