JUST IN: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "Japan hasn't even turned on yet, and that's where they love me the most." $NIGHT

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UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "private DEXes are going to be a massive winner, and they're going to rival CEXes in terms of transaction volume." $NIGHT

UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "when you want to privacy augment your DEX, prediction market, or stablecoin, you use a privacy preserving system to do that, and it feels like a Layer-2, a natural extension of your infrastructure. We built $NIGHT this way."

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UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "Vitalik is right, that the paradigm of the transaction will be replaced with a proof, that's the way to go—they started with scalability like rollups but now they're realizing they need to do privacy at the same time." $NIGHT

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UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson says "we gotta start putting up numbers. Our MAUs, TVL, and stablecoin issuance have to go up by a factor of 10x to 100x. The growth of $ADA is going to come from the DeFi system getting big."

UPDATE: #Cardano $ADA Founder Charles Hoskinson signals more upside potential for $XRP, says "XRP, that was just a return to a historic high, because Gensler was gone, so they went back because they were always a top 5 cryptocurrency. It's a very large and very old ecosystem."

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