{"id":21769,"date":"2026-07-19T01:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/hoskinson-wants-bitcoins-money-on-cardano\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T01:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T01:27:52","slug":"hoskinson-wants-bitcoins-money-on-cardano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoted.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/hoskinson-wants-bitcoins-money-on-cardano\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoskinson wants Bitcoin&#8217;s money on Cardano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.crypto.news\/2025\/09\/crypto-news-Cardano-founder-Charles-Hoskinson-option03.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">There is $1.6 trillion in Bitcoin sitting idle, earning nothing, doing nothing. Charles Hoskinson has a plan to put it to work on Cardano, and the plan quietly requires every transaction to burn a little ADA. Whether that saves Cardano or exposes its central problem is the whole question.<\/p>\n<div id=\"cn-block-summary-block_d2f597d752cc313cbe50fc321acb47c4\" class=\"cn-block-summary\">\n<p>\n        <span class=\"tabs__item is-selected\">Summary<\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"cn-block-summary__content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has laid out a strategy to bring Bitcoin into Cardano\u2019s DeFi ecosystem through a platform called Pogun, targeting the roughly $1.6 trillion in idle Bitcoin.<\/li>\n<li>Pogun rolls out in three phases across 2026: a non-margin credit market in the second quarter, a yield application in the third, and a BitVM-based trust-minimized bridge in the fourth.<\/li>\n<li>The mechanism that matters for ADA holders: every transaction in the system requires ADA for fees, paid invisibly by Bitcoin users, creating a demand driver that Cardano\u2019s token has lacked.<\/li>\n<li>It leans on Midnight, Cardano\u2019s privacy partner chain, for confidential transactions, and on Cardano\u2019s EUTXO architecture, which shares design lineage with Bitcoin\u2019s own UTxO model.<\/li>\n<li>The sharp objection, raised by Cardano\u2019s own community: if Bitcoin can be lent, earn yield, and settle without users noticing ADA, why hold ADA at all? The plan may build against its own token.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .cn-block-summary --><\/p>\n<p>Cardano has a problem it has had for years, and it is not a technology problem. ADA trades around 94% below its 2021 high, the network\u2019s DeFi activity has long lagged its ambitions, and its founder spends a meaningful share of his time denying rumors that he is quitting. What Cardano has never lacked is engineering and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>What it has lacked is a reason for capital to show up. Charles Hoskinson\u2019s answer, laid out across 2026, is audacious: stop trying to attract crypto capital to Cardano and go <a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/cardano-launches-bitcoin-defi-protocol-cardinal-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\">get Bitcoin\u2019s instead<\/a>. There is roughly $1.6 trillion in Bitcoin sitting idle in wallets, earning nothing, and Hoskinson wants to route a slice of it through Cardano\u2019s infrastructure, with every transaction quietly paying fees in ADA. It is the most concrete demand thesis Cardano has produced in years. It also contains a contradiction its own community has already spotted.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The idle-Bitcoin thesis<\/h2>\n<p>The premise starts with a real and large number. Something on the order of $1.6 trillion in Bitcoin sits in wallets doing nothing productive. Bitcoin is superb as a store of value and poor as a financial instrument: it does not natively lend, earn yield, or plug into decentralized finance without wrapping, bridging, or handing custody to an intermediary. That gap, enormous dormant capital with no native way to work, is what every \u201cBitcoin DeFi\u201d project is chasing, and Hoskinson has decided Cardano should chase it hard.<\/p>\n<p>His framing, delivered publicly in May 2026 and reiterated through the year, is that Bitcoin holders would be able to access lending, yield, and privacy tools through Cardano without surrendering control of their assets. A dedicated team, described at various points as around 19 people, is building it. The pitch to Bitcoin holders is straightforward: keep your Bitcoin, but make it productive, through infrastructure that does not require you to trust a centralized custodian.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>The pitch to Cardano holders is different and more important to the ADA investment case. Hoskinson has been explicit that the entire system runs on ADA underneath. In his own words, every single transaction requires ADA to happen; the Bitcoin user pays a fee in ADA but does not see it. The idea is to make ADA the invisible fuel of a Bitcoin-DeFi economy, generating persistent, usage-based demand for the token regardless of whether anyone is speculating on ADA itself. For a token whose central weakness has been the absence of a demand driver, that is the whole game.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Pogun actually is<\/h2>\n<p>Pogun is the platform that operationalizes the thesis, and its structure is more concrete than Cardano\u2019s roadmaps usually are.<\/p>\n<p>It rolls out in three phases across 2026. The first, targeted for the second quarter, is a non-margin credit market: lending against Bitcoin without the liquidation-cascade risk that leveraged lending carries. The second, targeted for the third quarter, is a yield-focused application that lets Bitcoin holders earn returns.<\/p>\n<p>The third, targeted for the fourth quarter, is a BitVM-powered bridge, a trust-minimized way to move Bitcoin onto Cardano infrastructure without the custodial risk that has plagued wrapped-Bitcoin products. Input Output Group sought treasury funding for the effort, with figures around 12.3 million ADA cited, as part of a larger proposal slate that also funded the Leios scaling upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>The architecture leans on two Cardano-specific pieces. The <a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/midnight-the-cardano-privacy-sidechain-almost-no-one-is-talking-about\/\" target=\"_blank\">first is Midnight<\/a>, Cardano\u2019s privacy-focused partner chain, which launched its mainnet in early 2026 and serves as the confidential coordination layer, letting Bitcoin holders use DeFi tools without exposing their positions publicly. Hoskinson has framed Midnight as proof of Cardano\u2019s partner-chain model, specialized chains operating alongside the main network while drawing on its security.<\/p>\n<p>The second is Cardano\u2019s EUTXO accounting model, which shares design lineage with Bitcoin\u2019s own UTxO model. That shared lineage is not incidental; it is part of the technical argument that Cardano is a more natural home for Bitcoin DeFi than account-based chains like Ethereum, because the two systems think about transactions in a similar way.<\/p>\n<p>The sequencing is deliberate. The team has described building the credit market and liquidity first, so that by the time the consumer-facing products launch, there is already a functioning market underneath them instead of an empty shell waiting for users.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Cardano enables thousands of onchain signature checks at lower cost<\/p>\n<p>Plutus smart contracts can now verify signatures natively using BLS12 381 cryptography <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Mqk9B6J9V\">pic.twitter.com\/9Mqk9B6J9V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cryptodotnews\/status\/2078310286893969904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The bull case<\/h2>\n<p>The strongest version of this argument is that Cardano has finally identified the right target and built a credible, differentiated way to reach it.<\/p>\n<p>The demand mechanism is genuinely elegant. Cardano\u2019s problem was never capability; it was that ADA had no structural reason to be in demand beyond speculation and staking. Embedding ADA as the mandatory fee layer of a Bitcoin-DeFi economy creates exactly the kind of usage-based demand that speculation cannot provide, and that does not evaporate when sentiment turns. If Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano generates real volume, ADA demand rises mechanically with it, transaction by transaction, whether or not anyone is bullish on ADA as a trade. That is a far healthier demand base than the memecoin-and-narrative cycles driving other chains.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN: Cardano reduces reliance on creator input output<\/p>\n<p>Key infrastructure will be handed to external teams with community oversight starting in August <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/72NTpukLYb\">pic.twitter.com\/72NTpukLYb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cryptodotnews\/status\/2078393334398161114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The target is also the right one. Every serious chain is chasing Bitcoin DeFi because the prize, a fraction of $1.6 trillion in dormant capital, is the largest untapped pool in crypto. Cardano bringing brokerage-grade patience, a privacy layer, and UTxO compatibility to that chase is a real differentiator against the wrapped-Bitcoin approaches that have dominated and repeatedly failed on custody and trust. A BitVM bridge that reduces custodial risk addresses the exact failure mode, hacked or insolvent custodians, that has burned wrapped-Bitcoin users before.<\/p>\n<p>And it fits Cardano\u2019s identity rather than betraying it. Cardano\u2019s whole brand is methodical, research-driven, security-first engineering, often criticized as too slow. Bitcoin holders are, as a group, the most conservative and security-conscious in crypto. A careful, peer-reviewed, custody-minimizing approach to Bitcoin DeFi is arguably better matched to Bitcoin holders than the move-fast culture of other DeFi ecosystems. For once, Cardano\u2019s slowness could be a feature aimed at exactly the audience that values it.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The bear case<\/h2>\n<p>The skeptical case starts with a question a Cardano community member asked Hoskinson directly, and it is devastating in its simplicity: what would be the point of holding ADA over Bitcoin? Are we building against our own core token?<\/p>\n<p>The concern is real and structural. If the system is designed so that Bitcoin users pay fees in ADA without seeing it, then the design goal is explicitly to make ADA invisible. A Bitcoin holder using Pogun holds Bitcoin, earns yield in Bitcoin, and never needs to acquire, hold, or think about ADA. The fees are abstracted away. If ADA is successfully hidden from the user, then ADA is a backend utility token that the end user has no reason to hold as an investment, which means the demand is limited to whatever float the protocols need to operate, not the broad holder demand that supports a token\u2019s price.<\/p>\n<p>Making ADA the invisible plumbing is good for usage and potentially bad for ADA as an asset people want to own. Hoskinson\u2019s answer, that transactions require ADA regardless, addresses mechanical demand but not the deeper question of why anyone holds ADA rather than the Bitcoin it is helping to mobilize.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<p>The second problem is execution and timeline. Cardano has a long history of ambitious roadmaps that arrive late or underdeliver relative to the promise. Pogun\u2019s phases are targeted across 2026, and Cardano\u2019s governance has been visibly deadlocked, with treasury votes for exactly this kind of initiative facing friction and Hoskinson warning that rejecting research funding could drive engineers away. A plan that depends on multiple new components, Midnight, the BitVM bridge, the credit and yield layers, all shipping and integrating on schedule, is a plan with substantial execution risk in an ecosystem that has struggled to convert roadmap into adoption before.<\/p>\n<p>The third problem is competition. Cardano is not alone in chasing Bitcoin DeFi; it is late to a crowded race. Bitcoin layer-2s, wrapped-Bitcoin protocols on Ethereum, and Bitcoin-native DeFi efforts are all pursuing the same idle capital, several with more liquidity, more developers, and more existing integrations than Cardano has managed to attract. Cardano\u2019s DeFi TVL has sat around $1.1 billion at times, a fraction of Ethereum\u2019s or Solana\u2019s, which raises the question of why Bitcoin holders would route their capital through the ecosystem that has struggled most to attract capital in the first place. Being a natural technical home for Bitcoin DeFi does not help if the liquidity and developers are elsewhere.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LATEST: Bitcoin is heading natively to Cardano. The Cardinal protocol aims to wrap BTC UTXOs into Cardano native assets with a one-to-one peg, unlocking liquidity for Cardano DeFi without custodians <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hEhZzGzefV\">pic.twitter.com\/hEhZzGzefV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cryptodotnews\/status\/2049221110986600954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The token question at the center<\/h2>\n<p>Everything about this plan comes back to one unresolved tension, and it is worth stating plainly because it is the crux of whether Pogun helps ADA or merely helps Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>Cardano is trying to solve its demand problem by making ADA essential but invisible. Those two properties are in tension. Essential means every transaction needs ADA, which creates mechanical demand proportional to usage. Invisible means users never consciously hold or value ADA, which suppresses the discretionary demand that actually drives a token\u2019s price above its pure utility floor. A token that is essential-but-invisible tends to trade at its utility value, the minimum float the system needs to function, rather than at the premium that comes from people wanting to own it. Ethereum resolved this tension by making ETH visible and desirable as an asset in its own right, through staking, through the ultrasound narrative, through being the reserve asset of its own economy. Cardano\u2019s Pogun design points the other way, toward ADA as backend infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The optimistic resolution is that sufficient usage makes even utility-value demand large. If Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano processes enormous volume, the mechanical ADA demand could be substantial even if no one holds ADA for love of it. The pessimistic resolution is that Cardano will have built a successful piece of Bitcoin infrastructure whose value accrues to Bitcoin holders and Pogun\u2019s operators, while ADA captures only the thin utility margin, which is not the outcome ADA holders are hoping for when they cheer a Bitcoin-DeFi announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Which resolution wins depends on numbers that do not exist yet, because the products are still launching. The second-quarter credit market and third-quarter yield app are the first real tests. If they generate meaningful Bitcoin volume and ADA demand rises visibly with it, the thesis has legs. If they launch quietly into the same low-liquidity environment that has characterized Cardano DeFi, then Pogun becomes another well-engineered Cardano initiative that did not move the token, and the community member\u2019s question, why hold ADA over Bitcoin, will have answered itself.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Cardano needs this to work<\/h2>\n<p>To understand why Hoskinson is betting so heavily on Bitcoin DeFi, you have to understand how much pressure Cardano is under, because Pogun is not an opportunistic add-on. It is a response to an existential question the market keeps asking.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure is visible in the numbers and the noise around them. ADA trades roughly 94% below its 2021 high, deep in the ranks of large-cap tokens that led the previous cycle and never recovered. Cardano\u2019s DeFi total value locked, around $1.1 billion at times, is a fraction of Ethereum\u2019s or Solana\u2019s despite Cardano having been live since 2017 and commanding one of the most committed communities in crypto. Hoskinson has spent 2026 denying rumors that he is leaving the project and calling them fiction, which is not a thing founders of thriving networks typically have to do. And the governance apparatus, the CIP-1694 on-chain system Cardano is genuinely proud of, has been deadlocked over treasury proposals, with Hoskinson warning that rejecting research funding could push engineers out.<\/p>\n<p>Underneath all of it is a criticism Hoskinson himself has accepted in his own framing: Cardano\u2019s problem is not technology. He has said explicitly that it is not a node problem, not a problem of imagination, not a problem of execution capability, but a problem of governance, coordination, and ultimately getting capital and users to show up. That is a striking admission from a founder, and it reframes Pogun. Bitcoin DeFi is not just a product; it is Hoskinson\u2019s answer to the accusation that Cardano builds impressive technology that nobody uses. If he can route Bitcoin\u2019s enormous, idle capital base through Cardano, he solves the adoption problem and the demand problem at once, and he does it without needing to win the crypto-native DeFi users who have consistently chosen other chains.<\/p>\n<p>That is why the stakes are higher than a normal roadmap item. Cardano has tried narratives before: smart contracts, then DeFi, then real-world assets, and none produced the adoption inflection the community keeps waiting for. Bitcoin DeFi is the biggest swing yet, aimed at the biggest target, and it arrives at a moment when patience with the slow-and-steady thesis is visibly thinning. If Pogun works, it vindicates the entire methodical approach. If it lands quietly like its predecessors, it will be much harder to argue that the next initiative will be different. Hoskinson has effectively staked the credibility of Cardano\u2019s whole strategy on reaching an audience that has never been Cardano\u2019s, which is either the boldest possible move or a sign of how few options remain.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to watch<\/h2>\n<p>Three concrete markers will tell you which way this breaks.<\/p>\n<p>The first is whether the Pogun phases actually ship on their 2026 timeline. The credit market was targeted for the second quarter and the yield app for the third; slippage on those dates, in an ecosystem already criticized for slow delivery, would be an early negative signal. Shipping on time, with working products, would be a genuine and somewhat unexpected positive given Cardano\u2019s track record.<\/p>\n<p>The second is Bitcoin volume through the system, not ADA price. The entire thesis rests on attracting idle Bitcoin, so the metric that matters is how much Bitcoin actually flows into Pogun\u2019s credit and yield products once they are live. ADA price will be noisy and driven by the broader market; Bitcoin TVL on Cardano is the clean read on whether the idle-Bitcoin thesis is working.<\/p>\n<p>The third is whether ADA demand becomes visible in the data as usage grows. This is the crux question made measurable. If Bitcoin volume rises and on-chain ADA demand rises with it in a legible way, the essential-and-invisible design is working as a demand driver. If Bitcoin volume rises and ADA does nothing, then the community\u2019s fear was correct, and Cardano will have built valuable infrastructure for someone else\u2019s asset. Hoskinson has made the boldest, most concrete bet of Cardano\u2019s recent history. The next two quarters start to settle whether it was aimed at the right target or against his own token.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<div id=\"rank-math-faq\" class=\"rank-math-block\">\n<div class=\"rank-math-list \">\n<div id=\"faq-question-1784403994350\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">What is Cardano\u2019s Bitcoin DeFi plan?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n<p>It is a strategy, led by founder Charles Hoskinson, to bring Bitcoin into Cardano\u2019s DeFi ecosystem and tap the roughly $1.6 trillion in idle Bitcoin. The centerpiece is Pogun, a platform letting Bitcoin holders lend, borrow, and earn yield through Cardano infrastructure without surrendering custody. Crucially, every transaction in the system requires ADA for fees, creating usage-based demand for Cardano\u2019s token.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1784404003961\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">What is Pogun?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n<p>A three-phase Bitcoin DeFi platform rolling out across 2026: a non-margin credit market in the second quarter, a yield-focused application in the third, and a BitVM-based trust-minimized bridge in the fourth. It integrates Midnight, Cardano\u2019s privacy partner chain, for confidential transactions, and builds on Cardano\u2019s EUTXO architecture, which shares design lineage with Bitcoin\u2019s UTxO model. Input Output Group sought around 12.3 million ADA in treasury funding for it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1784404010000\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">How does this benefit ADA holders?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n<p>Through embedded demand. Hoskinson has stated that every transaction in the system requires ADA for fees, paid by Bitcoin users who may not even notice. If Bitcoin DeFi on Cardano generates real volume, ADA demand rises mechanically with it, independent of speculation. For a token whose main weakness has been the lack of a structural demand driver, that is the core of the investment argument.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1784404017632\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">What is the main criticism?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n<p>That the design makes ADA essential but invisible, which are properties in tension. If Bitcoin users pay fees in ADA without seeing it, they have no reason to hold ADA as an investment, so demand may stay limited to the minimum the protocols need instead of the broad holder demand that lifts a token\u2019s price. A community member asked Hoskinson directly what the point of holding ADA over Bitcoin would be, capturing the concern that Cardano may be building against its own token.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1784404026256\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">How is this different from wrapped Bitcoin?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n<p>Wrapped Bitcoin typically requires trusting a custodian to hold the underlying Bitcoin, a model that has failed through hacks and insolvencies. Pogun\u2019s fourth phase is a BitVM-based bridge designed to be trust-minimized, reducing reliance on a custodian. Combined with Cardano\u2019s UTxO compatibility with Bitcoin and the Midnight privacy layer, the pitch is a more secure, more private way to make Bitcoin productive than existing wrapped approaches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1784404034142\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">Why does Cardano think it can win Bitcoin DeFi?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n<p>Three arguments: its EUTXO architecture shares design lineage with Bitcoin\u2019s UTxO model, making it a technically natural fit; its methodical, security-first culture matches Bitcoin holders\u2019 conservatism; and its Midnight privacy chain offers confidentiality that Bitcoin holders value. The counterargument is that Cardano is late to a crowded race with lower liquidity and fewer developers than competitors, which may outweigh any technical fit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1784404042897\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">When does Pogun launch?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n<p>Its phases are targeted across 2026: the credit market in the second quarter, the yield application in the third, and the BitVM bridge in the fourth. Given Cardano\u2019s history of ambitious roadmaps arriving later than promised, and ongoing governance friction over treasury funding, whether these dates hold is itself a meaningful signal to watch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1784404051328\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question \">Will this fix ADA\u2019s price?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer \">\n<p>Unknown, and it depends on the essential-versus-invisible tension. If Bitcoin volume through Pogun is large, mechanical ADA demand could be substantial even without holders wanting ADA for its own sake. If volume is modest, or if ADA is so well hidden that demand stays at the minimum float the system needs, the plan could succeed as Bitcoin infrastructure while doing little for ADA as an asset. The next two quarters of launches are the first real test.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> <em>This article is for information and educational purposes only and does not constitute financial or investment advice. It describes a development roadmap whose components are still launching and whose outcomes are uncertain. Nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any asset. Always do your own research. 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