Cardano Founder Calls Minotaur the Key to Beating 51% Attacks

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has urged the blockchain industry to adopt stronger security measures after Monero suffered a significant 51% attack. He highlighted Cardano’s Midnight sidechain and its Minotaur consensus protocol as proof that networks can resist such threats.

Hoskinson explained that Minotaur combines Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS) into a multi-resource consensus model. This spreads control across different resource types, ensuring no single method can dominate the network. He stressed that this built-in balance makes it extremely difficult for attackers to seize power through one approach.

This is another reason we built minotaur for Midnight. Multi-resource consensus ensures checks and balances for the consensus providers using different resources from work to stake. Thus no one attack can take over the network