Tagged: kadena

April 4, 2025 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kadena, the “scalable” blockchain technology provider, has announced Chainweb EVM with the addition of 20 EVM-compatible chains to its multi-chain network. Chainweb EVM reportedly positions Kadena as a decentralized alternative to Ethereum Layer 2s, with “near-zero gas fees, infinite scalability, and energy-efficient Proof of Work… Read More

January 11, 2025 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kadena, the “scalable” Layer 1 Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain, announces a strategic partnership with Ownera, a Fintech enabling distribution and trading of tokenized assets through their global interconnectivity network. This collab integrates Kadena’s blockchain tech with tokenization applications using Ownera’s FinP2P routers to “connect… Read More

September 19, 2022 @ 1:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Lago DAO recently voted to pass its first proposal, “putting in motion a series of events resulting in the birth of a new decentralized digital currency: USD2.” USD2 is implemented on the Kadena blockchain via smart contracts, which are “controlled by the Lago DAO.”… Read More

March 20, 2022 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Okcoin notes that they are the first US licensed exchange to offer Kadena’s token, KDA, “against USD.” You can now deposit KDA on Okcoin. This offer is for all customers including those in the United States, “except for residents of the EU,… Read More

March 15, 2022 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaddex, the “first gas-free DEX” (decentralized exchange) built on the Kadena blockchain, has finalized a second sale “completing a total of $8M raised pre-launch.” As confirmed in an update shared with CI, “100% of KDX available in the second round was sold.” The second public… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kadena, the first blockchain tech-focused firm to come out of J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, confirmed in August 2020 that they had performed major updates to their scalable layer-1 public blockchain network. Kadena’s developers claim that they have one of the fastest blockchain platforms… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Kadena has embraced the decentralized finance (DeFi) movement with a decentralized exchange (DEX) called Kadenaswap, according to a note from the company. Kadenaswap will utilize Kadena’s scalable blockchain that is said to currently top out at 480,000 transactions per second thus addressing a nagging scalability… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Claiming the title as the world’s first sharded Proof of Work (PoW) layer-1 blockchain, Kadena says it has completed a “hybrid” blockchain capable of 480,00 transactions per second on 20 chains, according to a company release. Kadena is a blockchain that claims to solve the… Read More

June 17, 2020 @ 12:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

  As part of their “master plan,” Coinbase has announced today the launch of Rosetta. In a blog post, Coinbase Chief Product Officer Surojit Chatterjee said the open-source specification and set of tools making the integration with different blockchains simpler, faster, and more reliable. Rosetta… Read More

May 19, 2020 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart contract security firm Chainlink and blockchain startup Kadena are working cooperatively to integrate Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network to Kadena’s layer-1 proof-of-work (PoW)-based public blockchain network. Enterprises and business owners working with Kadena will be able to use Chainlink oracles to write end-to-end Pact smart… Read More

January 19, 2020 @ 10:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kadena, both a public and permissioned blockchain platform, announced last week the full launch of its public blockchain. Kadena claimed that its public blockchain is first to market as a sharded Proof of Work Layer 1 network. “Following the start of genesis mining in October… Read More

August 27, 2019 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Kadena, both a public and permissioned blockchain platform, says it is now available for free on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Previously, Kadena released a “free community edition” of their permissioned blockchain on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. Kadena has claimed in the past that no… Read More

March 27, 2019 @ 4:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Kadena has announced that its proof-of-work blockchain Testnet, Chainweb, is now live. Beginning with v1 and v2, the testnet will become open to the public to participate in the network and provide feedback. The next test version expects to have a mining client. Kadena started… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 5:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kadena is now offering blockchain as a service, free of charge, on the AWS marketplace. The new offering should make the tech far more accessible to a diverse group of potential users. AWS has more than a million enterprise users and is one of the… Read More