Charles Hoskinson issued a rebuttal on November 3, rejecting circulating headlines that claimed he blamed Cardano’s users for the network’s decentralized finance shortfall. In a brief video, the Cardano founder said media outlets misrepresented his prior comments about participation patterns across the ecosystem, stressing that his point was a structural “mismatch” between who stakes and governs versus who takes part in DeFi—not blame.

“I never once blamed anyone from the Cardano ecosystem for the DeFi [woes],” Hoskinson said , naming The Crypto Basic as an example of outlets whose framing he called fundamentally inaccurate. “I’m sorry crypto media that you guys are […] and you just want clickbait headlines. You guys have to cut this the […] out.” He added that there is “not a single pe

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