Charles Hoskinson
Charles Hoskinson is a mathematician, founder of Cardano and co-founder of Ethereum, which are two of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency networks.
He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado Boulder to study analytic number theory before moving into blockchain. Hoskinson joined the Ethereum founding team with Vitalik Buterin in late 2013 and left in June 2014. He devoted a lot of time to the Ethereum project because he realized it was "going to be big”.
After having returned to study mathematics, he was then approached by former Ethereum colleague Jeremy Wood to form a new project called IOHK, an engineering and research company that builds cryptocurrencies and blockchains. IOHK's key project is Cardano, a public blockchain and smart-contract platform that hosts the Ada cryptocurrency. In 2017, Hoskinson and IOHK sponsored research labs focusing on blockchain technology at the University of Edinburgh and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 2020, Hoskinson opened a blockchain research project at the University of Wyoming.
