Input Output, the developer of Cardano, hands over core components to external teams
Input Output, the developer of Cardano, has transferred control of key components such as the Haskell node, Plutus platform, and Daedalus wallet to external professional teams starting in August, as part of a long-term decentralization plan.
Independent companies like Se7en Labs and Teragone will take over parts of the core infrastructure, with at least three versions of Cardano being maintained in parallel using Haskell, Rust, and Go languages, under community oversight and formal specification management.
Cardano is facing low network activity and a significant drop in ADA prices, with founder Charles Hoskinson describing this restructuring as a necessary growing pain in the process towards full decentralization.
Source: Public information
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Input Output has long dominated the core development of Cardano, and this large-scale handover continues its gradual decentralization roadmap since 2021, similar to the early transition of the Ethereum Foundation to the community.
By decentralizing technical control to external teams like Se7en Labs, the motivation is to reduce reliance on a single entity and enhance censorship resistance, while improving ecosystem resilience through multi-language implementations.
Similar to the multi-client strategies of Polkadot and Solana regarding core components, and the community criticisms faced by Cardano due to development centralization, Cardano is currently in a critical growing pain phase transitioning from foundation-driven governance to community governance.
This essentially represents a transition from capital concentration to decentralization: control of core infrastructure is being dispersed from a single company to multiple independent teams, attempting to enhance long-term viability through decentralization, but short-term network activity and price pressures highlight governance and adoption challenges, with pricing power gradually shifting to community-validated implementations.
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Decentralization always comes with short-term growing pains; long-term resilience depends on the coexistence of multiple implementations.
When founders define growing pains, it often marks a turning point for the ecosystem from centralized control to community governance.
Technical decentralization enhances risk resistance, but adoption and price need to be supported by actual utility rather than governance narratives.