Masato Alexander accused Hoskinson and the Cardano development team of seizing 318 million ADA tokens during a past protocol upgrade.
The accusations claim that unspent tokens from Cardano's initial coin offering were redirected to the project's reserves through hidden code in the Allegra hard fork.
Hoskinson denied the allegations, stating that the tokens became inaccessible and were placed in a custodial account managed by the Token Generation Event.
Hoskinson mentioned that 99.8% of ADA from the original ICO was claimed by rightful recipients, with the remaining 0.2% returned to the TGE and donated to Intersect. Legal action will be considered if accusations persist.