#215 Charles Hoskinson - Cardano Founder on the Secret DARPA AI Project That Became Siri

Shawn Ryan Show

Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 307 minutes

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Charles Hoskinson is the CEO and Founder of Input Output Global (IOHK), the company behind the Cardano blockchain, a proof-of-stake platform hosting the ADA cryptocurrency. A mathematician by training, Hoskinson co-founded Ethereum in 2013. He launched IOHK with Jeremy Wood in 2015, raising $62 million in a 2017 ICO for Cardano, initially targeting the Japanese market before global expansion. Hoskinson advocates for decentralized governance, as seen in Cardano’s 2024 Voltaire framework and 2025 Wyoming Integrity PAC to challenge state stablecoin policies. His ventures extend to longevity science, with a $100 million investment in the Hoskinson Health & Wellness Clinic in Wyoming, and quirky pursuits like glow-in-the-dark botany and a 2023 Papua New Guinea expedition for extraterrestrial objects. With a net worth estimated at $1.2 billion, he owns an 11,000-acre Wyoming ranch and remains a vocal critic of centralized control in crypto. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: https://americanfinancing.net/srs NMLS 182334, nmlsconsumeraccess.org https://tryarmra.com/srs https://betterhelp.com/srs This episode is sponsored. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/srs and get on your way to being your best self. https://meetfabric.com/shawn https://shawnlikesgold.com https://hillsdale.edu/srs https://masachips.com/srs – USE CODE SRS https://paladinpower.com/srs – USE CODE SRS https://patriotmobile.com/srs https://rocketmoney.com/srs https://ROKA.com – USE CODE SRS https://trueclassic.com/srs https://USCCA.com/srs https://blackbuffalo.com Charles Hoskinson Links: X - https://x.com/IOHK_Charles YouTube - www.youtube.com/@charleshoskinsoncrypto Input Output Global - https://iohk.io Cardano - https://cardano.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup Charles Hoskinson welcome welcome to the show.
0:37.7	It's good to be here, Sean. How you been?
0:39.9	Amazing. We had a great breakfast with you.
0:42.3	It was a lot of fun.
0:43.6	But, well, I've been one to have you on the show for a super long time.
0:49.1	And so now to have you here, it's just, it's awesome.
0:51.8	You are a fascinating individual. He's got your hands and
0:57.8	all kinds of different stuff. And I want to dive into it as, into all of it as much as we possibly can.
1:03.1	And then, and then we had breakfast. And I was like, oh, man, I could go for days with this guy.
1:08.1	Right. There's a lot. There's a lot there's a lot there so thank you for coming well i
1:12.0	do appreciate it you're one of the o gs and uh this is an amazing studio by the way it's uh you got
1:17.6	some artifacts here man a lot of history a lot of history but um yeah a lot of the guests have sent in
1:23.9	stuff and we probably only covered about half of it but um but yeah it's a lot of good people have sat in stuff and we probably only covered about half of it but but yeah it's a lot of good
1:29.8	people have said in here and now you're one of them so thank you again but uh everybody starts
1:36.7	off with an introduction here so here we go charles hoskinson co-founder of of Ethereum and the CEO and founder of input-output,
1:47.7	the company behind the Cardano blockchain. Cardano is positioned to be included in the U.S. Strategic
1:54.0	Crypto Reserve alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana. He testified in front of U.S. Congress regarding crypto currency regulation,
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