In a world where cryptocurrencies are basically digital pet rocks that sometimes spontaneously combust, IOG CEO Charles Hoskinson stepped up to clarify that the recent chaos wasn’t caused by some mysterious “vibe coding”. Nope, just your run-of-the-mill blockchain misadventure, with a dash of ‘someone thought they were clever’ for flavor.
“This is an example of a narrative that is wrong on so many levels…” Hoskinson declared, probably while sighing theatrically into the void of the internet.
“A highly personal attack” – or just a very strange tech meme
Earlier this week, a stake pool operator, possibly bored or just really into cryptographic puzzles, sent a malformed delegation transaction to the mainnet. Because who doesn’t love a good puzzle, especially when it crashes the entire network?
This transaction was a cunning jab at Hoskinson’s own pool, exploiting a bug from 2022 buried deep in the cryptographic library-like finding a secret door in a very old mansion and then tripping over it. The bug, which somehow survived multiple updates, was eventually uncovered in a moment of divine or perhaps hallucinogenic clarity, causing nodes to either accept or reject transactions with all the grace of a malfunctioning robot.
It led to a chain split-think of it as the blockchain going through an existential crisis-where one chain continued its merry way, rejecting the malformed data, while the other went full meltdown, creating invalid blocks and forcing the network to take an unintended vacation. Nice. 👏
Hoskinson insisted it was “obviously” a highly personal attack-probably because someone out there doesn’t appreciate his sense of humor. Meanwhile, the network didn’t completely die; it just had a little tantrum, then picked itself up with some node upgrades, because apparently that’s how blockchain therapy works now.
Vibe coding? More like vibe blaming!
The perpetrator, a certain Homer J, admitted via social media that this was a messy “challenge” gone wrong, with AI guidance that ended up making everything worse-kind of like a robot chef trying to make a soufflé but ending with a burnt pancake. In his own words, he’s sorry, but the internet’s already decided he’s the villain in this epic saga.
Wait someone halted Cardano today with a vibe coded exploit? LOL – zodomo.eth (🌍,💻) (@Zodomo) November 22, 2025
Yet, Hoskinson insists that this wasn’t some fuzzy-headed vibe magic; it was a straightforward case of a bug, a challenge, and a very public lesson in humility. After all, ten years of careful, scientific engineering shouldn’t be undone by a kid with an AI toy and a Twitter account.
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2025-11-23 11:19