In an interview with Cointelegraph, Charles Hoskinson criticized Ethereum’s current governance model, explaining that it relies too heavily on co-founder Vitalik Buterin. According to Hoskinson, blockchain developers typically have a choice: keep the protocol simple like Bitcoin or “pick a king” to run things.

Cardano’s new governance model solves the “governance trilemma” of efficiency, effectiveness, and integrity through delegated representatives and a membership organization called Intersect, where complex governance issues are put to a vote. Decisions are made in a decentralized manner, as the opinions of all participants are taken into account.

“The entire concept of Ethereum begins and ends with 30-year-old Vitalik Buterin. The community looks to him for a roadmap. Everyone looks to him for inspiration. He is the only person with enough power to rally people. If Buterin were removed right now, what would the next Ethereum hard fork look like, and how quickly could the developers do it?” asked the Cardano founder.

Hoskinson believes that Buterin is largely responsible for changing Ethereum’s roadmap from one that was focused on optimizing the main chain using sharding to one that is now focused on rollups and layer-two solutions to improve network scalability. In recent months, Ethereum’s roadmap has come under fire for expanding the capabilities of layer-two networks as fee revenue and activity on layer-one networks have declined.

“Where did this idea of ​​second-layer decision making or rollups come from? Was it some random Ethereum engineer who suggested it or did Vitalik Buterin write a blog post about it and everyone followed suit?” Hoskinson asked.

Buterin previously stated that Ethereum is capable of developing independently of his participation, since the network is already sufficiently developed and will not “stand still.” Recently, the co-founder of Ethereum spoke in favor of individual staking, which, in his opinion, can increase the security and decentralization of the blockchain.

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