Cardano Attack: Hoskinson Invokes Feds, Solana Chief Objects

Cardano in Turmoil: Senior Dev Quits After Hoskinson Brings in Federal Authorities - Crypto Economy · Cardano Feed

TL;DR Developer Roman Kireev resigned from IOG due to fears generated by the intervention of federal authorities. The crisis was triggered by a “poisonous transaction” that caused a partition in the Cardano...

Cardano crisis: senior dev quits after Hoskinson calls in the feds

Roman Kireev, a senior developer at Charles Hoskinson’s Input | Output, has publicly resigned after the Cardano founder supported the FBI in its investigation of a staking pool operator who “accidentally broke” the network while “vibe coding.” On November 21, Homer J submitted a transaction that partitioned the Cardano mainnet. Two distinct blockchain histories then persisted — one with a poison transaction and a healthy chain without it. Engine…

Cardano Attack: Hoskinson Invokes Feds, Solana Chief Objects

Cardano’s mainnet experienced a rare chain partition on November 21, 2025 after a malformed staking-delegation transaction exploited a long-standing deserialization bug, briefly producing a “poisoned” branch containing the transaction and a parallel healthy branch that rejected it. The network continued producing blocks on both sides until emergency node upgrades restored convergence later that day; Intersect said no user funds were lost and tha…