Charles Hoskinson warned that Cardano could face a broader “wave of failures” across its ecosystem after TapTools said it is preparing to wind down operations over the next two weeks, citing leadership departures and difficult platform economics. The June 2 livestream marked one of Hoskinson’s sharpest public interventions on Cardano’s current governance and commercialization debate. […]
Readers respond to an article by Nesrine Malik on what we lose when we trust machines over humans
Nesrine Malik is right to worry about the effect that AI may have on writing (AI is devoid of meaning and humanity. That’s why its vapid voice suits this political moment, 1 June). The examples she cites of fabricated quotations and unreliable research should concern anyone who values truth and public trust.
However, I suspect the deeper problem is not AI’s bland prose but its relationship to evidence. The writers caught out by false quotations were often not trying to deceive. They believed that they were using AI as a research aid while retaining editorial control. Yet somehow, fiction entered the factual record. The issue was not laziness but misplaced confidence in a system that can produce plausible reconstructions without distinguishing between what was observed, inferred or simply generated.
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TapTools, the most-used analytics platform on Cardano, said on X it will wind down within two weeks after losing its fifth senior executive in a year. Founder Charles Hoskinson warned in a video the same day that more older Cardano-ecosystem projects will fold in the second half of 2026.
TapTools will shut down within 2 weeks after announcing closure on X. All 5 senior executives, including both co-founders, COO, and CTO, left this year. Rising operating costs and leadership collapse made operations unsustainable. The decentralized finance landscape is seeing some fresh turbulence, with TapTools, a major analytics platform, shutting down. This sudden departure triggered […]
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As syntax becomes cheap and abundant, architectural control becomes the scarce resource. Effective governance starts upstream, where intent, constraints, and threat models shape the agent’s working context before generation begins. The goal isn’t better prompting but build-time boundaries that prevent structurally invalid code from entering the system. The Frankenstein factories The dark factories (as Dan […]
TapTools has announced plans to wind down within the next two weeks after losing its fifth senior executive this year, adding to mounting pressure across the Cardano ecosystem following recent governance disputes and project closures. According to a statement published…
The broader crypto market pulled back as Bitcoin (BTC) briefly slipped below the $67,000 level on Tuesday, and that weakness quickly spread to other major chains. In the weekly timeframe, Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA) each recorded a 10% retrace. Against that backdrop, market expert Anders Bylund of The Motley Fool published a fresh comparison […]
