{"id":414945,"date":"2025-12-23T13:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/time-to-get-cooking-cardano-and-solana-founders-tease-cross-chain-bridge-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:48:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:18:19","slug":"time-to-get-cooking-cardano-and-solana-founders-tease-cross-chain-bridge-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/time-to-get-cooking-cardano-and-solana-founders-tease-cross-chain-bridge-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Time to Get Cooking&#8217;: Cardano and Solana Founders Tease Cross-Chain Bridge &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article__contents\">\n<ul class=\"article__contents-list\">\n<li class=\"article__contents-item\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__contents-link link-pseudo\" href=\"#h272897\">The olive branch\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"article__contents-item\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__contents-link link-pseudo\" href=\"#h372897\">The benefits\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko have <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IOHK_Charles\/status\/2003316026973515885\">agreed<\/a> to establish a cross-chain bridge between their two networks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Historically, the Solana and Cardano communities have been fierce rivals. Hence, this marks quite a significant breakthrough.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>The olive branch\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It began with Anatoly Yakovenko showing a desire to end the hostility between blockchain communities.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the X social media network, he opined that fighting with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/u.today\/cardano-ada-price-analysis-for-december-21\">Cardano<\/a> or XRP is &#8220;bearish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A user mentioned a &#8220;wADA sprint,&#8221; referring to Wrapped ADA. Yakovenko explicitly endorsed this, telling a developer (@0xMert_) to &#8220;get Ada bridged to Solana and set up some liquid markets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Before the founders could seal the deal, prominent community members engaged in a heated debate over which chain is superior.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__related\">\n<p>You Might Also Like<\/p>\n<div class=\"news__item\">\n<div class=\"news__item-img--wrap\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A pro-ADA user argued that Solana should bridge to Cardano instead, claiming Solana DEX (Decentralized Exchange) traders were down. The other camp mocked this, arguing that CEX volume doesn&#8217;t count as &#8220;real&#8221; usage. He argued Solana has superior DEX volume and claimed Cardano&#8217;s on-chain volume is &#8220;dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Despite the bickering, Yakovenko replied to the idea of interoperability with &#8220;Let&#8217;s do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hoskinson then quote-tweeted the interaction with &#8220;Time to get cooking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>The benefits\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The bridge would allow Solana to get access to ADA holders&#8217; liquidity (billions of dollars in market cap) who might want to use Solana&#8217;s faster DeFi applications.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the same time, it would also increase the utility of ADA, allowing it to be used outside its own ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The olive branch\u00a0 The benefits\u00a0 Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson and Solana founder Anatoly Yakovenko have agreed to establish a cross-chain bridge between their two networks. Historically, the Solana and Cardano communities have been fierce rivals. Hence, this marks quite a significant breakthrough.\u00a0 The olive branch\u00a0 It began with Anatoly Yakovenko showing a desire to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414948,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-414945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414949,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414945\/revisions\/414949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}