TechFlow news, September 25 — According to Cointelegraph, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson recently criticized Ethereum's current governance model during an interview in Singapore, describing the Ethereum network as resembling a "dictatorship" that is overly reliant on guidance from its co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Hoskinson stated that Ethereum's "entire vision" begins and ends with the 30-year-old Vitalik, and without him, the project would have no clear direction for its future. "Everyone looks to him for the roadmap. Everyone seeks inspiration from him, and he is also the only one with enough influence to unite people," he said. "If you were to remove him from the equation right now, what would the next hard fork look like, and how quickly could they actually get there?"
Hoskinson acknowledged Vitalik’s crucial role in shaping Ethereum’s roadmap, particularly regarding rollups and Layer 2 network scaling. While Vitalik holds significant influence, he does not possess absolute authority within this decentralized network. Hoskinson was one of Ethereum’s eight original co-founders and served as its CEO, but his profit-driven vision for the protocol clashed with Vitalik’s; as a result, he was removed from the project during a meeting in Switzerland in 2014.
Hoskinson noted that blockchains can either choose to remain simple forever like Bitcoin, or "choose a king" to lead them. For instance, Cardano’s new governance model addresses the so-called "governance trilemma" of "efficiency, effectiveness, and integrity," using delegated representatives and a membership organization called Intersect to distill complex governance topics for voting. "If you have these three elements, then you stand a fair chance of avoiding both Bitcoin’s anarchism and Ethereum’s dictatorship. You actually have something that can move forward with one voice, yet it ultimately remains decentralized because it represents everyone."
