Cardano founder Hoskinson claims he never promised ADA would rise Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson told a recent YouTube AMA that he never promised Cardano would take Bitcoin or that the price of ADA would rise, Decrypt reported. In response to criticism from investors, Hoskinson said some are asking him to push the markup higher. Hoskinson said that Karano completed his original roadmap, that everything he did to build it was in place, and that the network now controls it without relying on it. At the time of report, ADA was trading at about 0.17, compared to 94% of its 2021 high, and about 86% of its 2024 high.