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Anatoly Yakovenko applauds Cardano’s design
Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko praised Cardano’s network design and the way it handled the recent chain split. Yakovenko shared his thoughts in one X messagenoting that the network showed resilience and functioned as designed despite the activation of a bug.
The Solana co-founder pointed out the near-perfect design of the Cardano network, highlighting its Bitcoin-like consensus mechanism but without the heavy computing requirements. Yakovenko revealed that achieving Bitcoin’s security standard without Proof-of-Work is an impressive achievement in itself.
“I’m going to go out on a limb and basically say this is pretty cool,” Yakovenko said in response to an X post about Cardano’s recovery. “Nakamoto-style consensus without proof of work is extremely difficult to build. The protocol functioned as designed.”
Unlike Bitcoin, Cardano relies on Ouroborous, a Proof-of-Stake model designed to be energy efficient, deploying epochs and slots for orderly block production. Meanwhile, the network design allows the ‘honest chain’ to win in the event of a split, suppressing the growth of the ‘wrong chain’.
 Last week, Cardano suffered a temporary chain split, resulting in two competing versions of the network. Within hours, ecosystem players formed a joint incident team to ship patched software, effectively resolving the split.
During the incident, Cardano continued block production, with some users experiencing a slowdown. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson revealed that the upcoming Leios upgrade will “maintain this level of resilience,” improving the network’s security standards.
Push to prosecute the mastermind
An incident report revealed that the team identified the bad actor behind the malicious transaction that caused the chain split. Despite a public apology from the actor, Hoskinson announced that the team considers the incident “potentially malicious,” noting that the individual has bypassed all active bug bounty and responsible disclosure programs.
Meanwhile, Yakovenko urged Hoskinson not to send law enforcement authorities after the bad actor, arguing that this could have a “chilling effect” on the entire ecosystem. However, Hoskinson denied his request, noting that the attack was premeditated and that the bad actor had no control over the act until he was exposed.
“It was a premeditated attack by a disgruntled SPO with extensive knowledge of Cardano and who had already observed the testnet fork and patch efforts and was in direct contact with the core developers,” Hoskinson said.
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