Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson courts the Dogecoin community again.
When Tesla CEO and Dogecoin champion Elon Musk bought X (then Twitter), Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson was quick to court the doggy-themed memecoin community.
Perhaps in an attempt to front-run speculation of potential integration of the memecoin with the social media network, he offered to make it suitable for payments on the platform, albeit as a Cardano sidechain.
This initial overture devolved after a heated exchange with Dogecoin creator Billy Markus. But Hoskinson appears to be back at it again as Musk’s X payments goal begins to take shape. This time, he has dropped the talk of making the network a Cardano sidechain, at least for now.
Try, Try Again
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is courting the Dogecoin community again.
In a series of X posts on Tuesday, March 4, the Cardano founder has offered to “fix up” the Dogecoin network and make DOGE “the standard currency of X.”
Hey @elonmusk, you want to fix up doge and make it the standard currency of X? I have the old Bitcoin 2 roadmap I wrote up years ago.
— Charles Hoskinson (@IOHK_Charles) March 4, 2025
In his most seductive tone yet, Hoskinson teased the Dogecoin community with the potential of being the blockchain rails for X’s AI model Grok and low-cost payments for tipping posts.
“Come on Dogecoin, you know you want a little retrofit. Little bit of sharded useful proof of work to run that expensive Grok. Some state channels for ultra low cost payments for tipping X posts. Some full secure smart contracts running on eutxo,” the Cardano founder wrote, adding a GIF with the caption, “I can fix that.”
To sweeten the deal, Hoskinson noted that he would even “throw in some quantum resistance,” adding, “Just tell me how you like it (hashes or lattices).”
“Dogey Style”
Unlike the last time, Hoskinson’s Dogecoin advances have not sparked a heated exchange. Far from it, the Dogecoin team has offered the Cardano founder a chance to woo the community formally.
Responding to Hoskinson, the official Dogecoin X account quipped that the only way the Cardano founder could advance his cause was “Dogey style,” referring to a community-led effort. As such, the team welcomed him to present his proposal to network operators.
That's how adversarial consensus works, present your proposal to the network operators 🫡
— Dogecoin (@dogecoin) March 4, 2025
X Payments on the Horizon
Hoskinson’s latest effort to court the Dogecoin community over a potential integration with X comes as the platform has disclosed that its payments service will launch later this year, unveiling Visa as its first partner in January.
Despite the speculation over the years, X has not disclosed any interest in using crypto or DOGE in this financial service vertical. However, this could have been due to the U.S.’s uncertain crypto regulatory landscape, which the pro-crypto President Donald Trump administration looks set to change.
The Dogecoin community has long fantasized about a potential X integration amid the potential to revolutionize adoption, which could bolster the asset’s price.
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