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Cardano News: Hoskinson Responds to Proposal to Burn $500M in ADA from Treasury

Charles Hoskinson has criticized a proposal to burn $500 million in ADA tokens by the Cardano community as the network enters the era of community governance. The proponents of the proposal have claimed that...

Cardano News: Hoskinson Responds to Proposal to Burn $500M in ADA from Treasury
  • Charles Hoskinson has criticized a proposal to burn $500 million in ADA tokens by the Cardano community as the network enters the era of community governance.
  • The proponents of the proposal have claimed that it could prop up the ADA price as supply diminishes, but opponents say that the funds should be used to fund ecosystem developments.

Should the 1.5 billion ADA held by the Treasury—worth $513 million—be burned to prop up the price of the token? This is the question that the Cardano ecosystem is debating, with founder Charles Hoskinson facing off with some community members who believe that a burn would serve the community best.

The proposal has been floated by some popular figures, led by Big Pey, a renowned ecosystem member allied with ADA staking protocol Atrium Lab and Bloom.

“There’s 1.5 Billion ADA in the treasury. The ADA community could vote to burn all of the ADA,” he posed on X to his 39,000 followers.

The proposal has received the support of one section of the ADA community, which believes that it could greatly benefit crypto. Token burns are popular in crypto as a deflationary measure, with some, like Shiba Inu and Floki, having permanent burn mechanisms integrated into their code. The logic is that with each burn, the token supply will decrease, even if it’s very marginally. This decrease, in theory, would result in a price increase as dictated by the laws of demand and supply. But it’s not as straightforward as other market factors play a bigger role in determining the price of a token.

Hoskinson: Burning ADA is Stealing From Cardano Builders

Despite the popularity of token burns, not everyone is a fan. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is among those opposed to the burns. He took to X to criticize the proposal, which he believes is tantamount to stealing from the people working tirelessly to build applications and advance the ecosystem.

He stated:

For those advocating burning the funds of the treasury, understand that the treasury isn’t some pile of preprinted tokens that came from nowhere. It was aggregated from a tax on block production and transactions.

The entire treasury comes from people building blocks and economic activity. You are effectively stealing from every SPO and ADA holder if you burn the treasury.

Hoksinson isn’t alone in his criticism. DRep Jaromir Tesar is also opposed to the proposal, which he described as a “terrible mistake.”

“Burning a small amount of these coins might have a short-term impact on ADA’s price, but the long-term effect would be negligible.”

In Cardano, a DRep is any party registered to become a governance council member and gets to vote on proposals, such as the current burning of Treasury ADA or others like Treasury withdrawals, network perimeter changes, and more. Anyone can become a DRep if they are willing to stake around 500 ADA.

DRep Tesar proposed more constructive use of the ADA, such as using it to offer liquidity in DeFi applications, funding developers through new Catalyst Funds, funding the deployment of stablecoins on Cardano or even marketing efforts.

“There are countless ways to spend this ADA to ensure Cardano’s success. The worst thing we could do is destroy the very resource that can finance these initiatives,” he stated.

While Hoskinson and Tesar are influential in the Cardano community, it’s worth noting that they lack the power to determine what the community does with the tokens. This power now rests with the DReps, who will get to vote on the proposal as Cardano is now fully governed by the community.


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