Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson recently posted a “hypothetical poll” on the X social media platform asking the crypto community if they’d like to see a Cardano and Bitcoin Cash integration.
The poll received more than 12,000 votes in its first 24 hours with a 66.3% early majority voting “Yes” to the proposal.
Ben Scherrey, founder and chief technology officer of blockchain firm Biggest Lab, posted commentary in favor of the move, stating that he’d “always thought there was some natural synergy between the two chains given the shared UTXO model that allows for high scalability and decentralization.”
While the community appears to support the idea of a Bitcoin Cash and Cardano integration, how such a partnership would form and function is a bit murky.
On the technology side, Hoskinson used the term “partnerchain.” This seems to imply Bitcoin Cash would have to be bridged or cross-chained in some form in order to operate with the proposed upgrades.
Assuming both development teams could agree on the technical aspects of the partnership, there would still need to be a consensus among stakeholders and developers.
Hoskinson’s discourse on social media comes as Cardano prepares for two “major upgrades” in 2024. The company is preparing for the “Chang” hard fork slated for sometime in the second quarter of 2024, as well as a new proof-of-stake model called “Ouroboros Leios.”
Hoskinson lauded the pending upgrades in his response to an April 7 video posted by crypto influencer Ben “Bitboy” Armstrong. In the video, Armstrong referred to Cardano as “dead.”
