Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used an October 13 livestream to sketch an expansive, two-track future for the web, arguing that accelerating AI automation will force a structural split between a bot-dominated “slop land” and an invitation-only “human internet” whose trust rails run on decentralized identity, NFTs and on-chain incentive systems. In that architecture, he said, Cardano’s stack—spanning DIDs, the Midnight data-protection network, and a planned decentralized social platform—would serve as foundational infrastructure.

Opening with a diagnosis that “the internet is dying,” Hoskinson framed the problem as a runaway rise in automated accounts and AI-generated media that he believes has already tipped major platforms away from authentic human interaction. “The majority of intern

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