Before deactivating your X account, Whale wrote:
We are in a place where the founding entity has not delivered much for years and is requesting obscene amounts of money to maintain the same level of non-compliance.
Whale urged other stakeholders of Cardano to delegate their ADA to representatives committed to automatically denying IOG's proposals, essentially triggering a governance revolt just as a vote on the proposal for the Cardano Summit 2025 was underway.
Charles Hoskinson was quick to respond. He denied the common criticism that Cardano was neglecting scalability development, stating that it was already "in progress," and dismissed Whale's demands as "trivialities on-chain."
The founder of Cardano further reaffirmed that Whale does not speak for the community at large and revealed that he had been in contact with a defamation law firm regarding recent accusations.
This escalation quickly generated comparisons with Craig Wright's aggressive legal strategy with BSV, a strategy that many say went wrong and damaged the project's image. Some Cardano users fear that Hoskinson's legal warnings could trigger a similar effect.