The founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, has never chewed his words. Contrary to the dominant consensus around Bitcoin, he affirms that ADA constitutes a higher investment option. Its arguments are not based on simple intuitions, but on encrypted comparisons, ambitious growth prospects and an assumed technological philosophy.
In short
- The founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, says that ADA is a better investment than Bitcoin.
- ADA has posted a cumulative yield of +4,000 % since 2017, against +2,400 % for the BTC.
- Charles Hoskinson relies on technological innovation and defi to make ADA a more useful alternative than bitcoin by 2025.
Bitcoin underperforming? Ada's shock figures
In an interview with Jason Yanowitz (Blockworks), Charles Hoskinson questions the supremacy of Bitcoin. He underlines:
- A return of +4,000 % for ADA (0.02 to 0.82 USD between 2017 and 2025), against +2,400 % for BTC (4,337 to 110,000 USD).
- The 108,000 initial BTCs, invested in Cardano, generated a capitalization of USD 30 billion, or 2.8 × their current value.
Charles Hoskinson criticizes the calls to convert Ada cash into Bitcoin, seeing it as a loss of yield. For him, Cardano shows that an asset focused on innovation can create more value than a simple reserve asset.
Why ADA could crush the growing BTC
Bitcoin is not better than Ada according to Charles Hoskinsonand it is not only based on the past. Besides, he projects Ada into a trajectory much more ambitious than that of Bitcoin. He believes that the BTC could still be multiplied by 10, reaching $ 1 million per unit. An already spectacular perspective in itself. But according to him, Ada could reach a growth of 100 × or even 1,000 ×, which would imply theoretical capitalization of up to 28,000 billion dollars.
Such a scenario is based on the idea that Cardano (ADA) is not a reserve asset, but a programmable infrastructure. Unlike Bitcoin, its architecture would allow an exponential rise in power thanks:
- Decentralized applications;
- To smart contracts;
- In the active participation of the community.
Can Cardano surpass Bitcoin in 2025?
In the eyes of Charles Hoskinson, Cardano does not seek to dethrone Bitcoin in gross value, but to overcome it in economic utility. By combining DEFI, confidentiality and a modular architecture, ADA aims for structural growth where the BTC remains static. The ambitions of projects like Midnight or the positioning of Cardano as a functional layer for the BTC nourish this strategy.
Hoskinson thus opposes a productive network to a passive asset. If the adoption follows, Cardano could in 2025 capture more attention, developers and capital. No need to go beyond Bitcoin in capitalization to impose yourself: you just have to be perceived as more useful. It is this paradigm change that ADA intends to embody.
Cardano is therefore positioned as the technological outsider in the face of a bitcoin perceived as frozen. Charles Hoskinson is betting on usefulness to overcome rarity. If the future proves him right, Ada may well redefine hierarchies in the crypto market. And you, will you bet on innovation or reserve?
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