The Cardano Foundation's new CEO says he will prioritize the platform's longevity

Cardano recently celebrated the third anniversary of its Mainnet launch.

In the run up to this occasion, Cointelegraph had the opportunity to discuss the project's future plans with the Cardano Foundation's incoming CEO, Frederik Gregaard.

Whereas the entire crypto space is barely 10 years old, many established corporate players have been around for decades, if not centuries.

They may have business plans that cover longer time horizons than the existence of projects like Cardano.

Although Cardano has been criticized for chronic development delays, this year may be different.

The platform underwent a mainnet upgrade, known as Shelley, earlier this year which brought on staking and pools.

With this in mind, we asked Gregaard, about the industries he sees as most promising for the adoption of Cardano.

"It gave us five to six years of digital adoption of worldwide consumers, including enterprises in half a year," he said.

In his view, Cardano could be leveraged for a number of use cases in this space, like tracing the origins of medications or recording patient vaccination records.

Still, gaining traction in these big and well-established industries is essential for Cardano if it really intends to stick around for the decades to come.