Hoskinson’s comments were made during an interview with Marco Monty Montemagno, the host of “InsideW3B”. When Hoskinson was asked about his three top priorities, he replied:
“Right now, I would say commercial comparability, sustainability, and self-determination are the three big things that we are really working on.
“In terms of commercial comparability, we focused an enormous amount of effort in the beginning of the project on correctness and scientific excellence… so we developed all of these phenomenal protocols…
“This year all these updates are coming that are massively improving the scalability and expressiveness of the system so that you’ll get the same type of performance you’re seeing from systems like Solana and so forth. Or at least in the same orders of magnitude... Not only do you get all the security, the correctness, the resilience and a great three-million person community, but you also get the best of what competitors are bringing to bear…
“June and October are going to be great months for us because those are the months where we’re turning a lot of new features on... in terms of improvements in Plutus, side chains, pipelining… and there is some phenomenal applied research threads like Hydra…
“In terms of sustainability, you’d like a system that as it operates, it gets more efficient, more scalable, and has the ability to grow at an organic pace, and the system contains that same cost center and standard of performance that you come to know and love… That means you need things like Mithril…
“And then self-determination, which is unique to Cardano and a few others like Tezos (XTZ)… We have a great governance layer. You hold data, you can vote. And you can participate in the governance of the system... Also, Cardano has its own treasury system. Like any government, it has the ability to print money. And as a result, you can use that to fund its development. So, it’s not just self-determination — it’s also self-funding, self-bootstrapping.“
On March 12, Hoskinson talked about TVL in Cardano-powered DeFi protocols. His comments came in response to an $ADA HODler’s tweet about the rapid growth in Cardano’s Total Value Locked (TVL), i.e. the aggregate amount of funds locked into its DeFi protocols.
The IOG CEO said that there are many Cardano DeFi apps that are waiting for Vasil hard fork combinator (HFC) event, which is expected to take place in June, and once that happens, we should see an even more impressive growth in Cardano’s TVL.
On 10 December 2021, Hoskinson explained that he was going to honour his Bulgarian friend and Cardano ambassador Vasil Dabov — who had died recently — by naming the June hard fork after him. Dabov was a blockchain consultant, Haskell practioneer, and experienced ginkgologist.