Cardano Founder Updates Ripple, Chainlink And Bitcoin Partnerships

In a wide-ranging two-hour livestream on December 26, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson addressed ongoing discussions around partnering with Ripple, advancing a Chainlink integration, and bridging Bitcoin into the Cardano ecosystem. Speaking from Gillette, Wyoming, Hoskinson provided new details and timelines for these initiatives, emphasizing security requirements and technical collaboration across multiple blockchains.

Update On The Potential Cardano And Ripple Partnership

Hoskinson described the relationship with Ripple as “early days,” highlighting a desire to incorporate Ripple’s infrastructure into Cardano’s upcoming privacy-focused sidechain, Midnight. “We’d like to include Ripple in the Midnight ecosystem,” he stated, underscoring that his team and Ripple CTO David Schwartz have pursued technical conversations about how both platforms could benefit from each other.

“There are ongoing talks between the Midnight people and the Ripple people and a lot of technological talks as well. And we’ve been trying to learn more about how their stack works,” Hoskinson confirmed.

He also referenced Cardano’s smart contract language, Marlowe, suggesting it could be of particular interest to Ripple developers. “There’s some tech we invented, in particular Marlowe, that would be tremendously useful with the Ripple ecosystem, and it would be a lot of fun to see what we can do there and also just some things in Ripple like Flare, for example, are pretty cool, pretty interesting” he explained.

Nonetheless, Hoskinson noted that partnership agreements require time to “ferment,” adding, “First step was just technical conversations and that’s what we did with David [Schwartz] who’s been tremendously helpful and a great asset. Then at some point once you’ve got beyond that, then there’s actual integration work and other things to get done, but overall they’ve been easy to work with.”