Stuart Popejoy

At Kadena, we’re proud of our token economic model, as it provides robust rewards for the miners who keep our network running, and funds all the critical initiatives that drive adoption on the platform. In January 2021, working closely with our incredible community, Kadena announced a major update to our token economic model in January 2021.

Since Kadena’s mainnet launch in January 2020, our team and community have grown tremendously. Our ecosystem experienced exponential growth with several hundred projects now building on the Kadena blockchain. Kadena’s massive growth could only be accomplished with the help of our amazing community, ecosystem of partners, builders, and ambassadors! Thank you everyone for accompanying us through this journey!

At Kadena, we like to say that our users “live in the future” because every day they leverage advanced cross-chain bridge technology just by using and trading KDA! Kadena’s scalability joins multiple independent chains like lanes on a freeway. However, unlike a real freeway, we can add more lanes anytime, so there are no “traffic jams” to drive up gas prices and slow down dapps, like we see on Ethereum and other unscalable layer-1s. The future of blockchain is a multi-chain protocol and it’s currently being realized today.

To everybody that has joined the Kadena community this year we want to give a hearty thanks for going on this journey with us! With that in mind, here are the highlights of a truly incredible year for Kadena as we made huge progress defining and executing on our vision. We couldn’t have done it without the help of our tremendous community and ecosystem of partners, builders, and ambassadors!

In the previous article, we showed how Kadena Marmalade is revolutionizing how NFTs are transacted on-chain with multi-step pacts controlling sale, and token policies offering “pluggable” marketplace implementations for creators to choose from, or write their own! In this article we will go deep into the actual standards and Pact implementations so builders can start minting marketplaces right away on testnet!

Learn how new account protocols on the Kadena blockchain make multi-chain operation safer and easier! Blockchain custody is hard. At Kadena we set out to solve this hard problem with Pact, by making it easy to do things like key rotation, multi-sig, and autonomous guards, so that the average user can benefit from institutional-level security best practices.

Smart-contract blockchains are unique app environments as they combine storefronts, back ends, and APIs into one dynamic environment. A single dapp may be composed of numerous contracts an NFT exchange might have separate contracts for handling the auction vs offering a token for instance.

Learn how you can help secure the Kadena Chain Relay by bonding KDA! Today, the Kadena Chain Relay Bonding Program launches on Kadena Mainnet and is ready to accept bonders. This is an important first step to establish robust economic security for bridging activities like wrapping Ethereum tokens on Kadena.

Today, we deployed the beta smart contract of the Kadena Chain Relay into testnet. The chain relay provides economic security through bonded KDA for our Ethereum, Celo and Terra decentralized bridges. In this post, we describe how participants can bond KDA to operate and validate the Chain Relay.

Tokensoft Wrapped and Kadena have announced a partnership to bring Wrapped tokens for BTC and ETH to the Kadenaswap DEX in early Q2 2021, following the launch of our live mainnet beta, “Bountyswap”. What does this mean for the road ahead?