Kadena has released mainnet mining to the public, inviting the mining community to begin solving blocks on the Kadena public blockchain. Kadena’s network has come alive with activity as miners from all over the world participate on the Kadena network.

In addition to mainnet mining, Kadena also announced Block Explorer, a tool that allows for real-time monitoring of Kadena’s parallel chains. View the propagation and braiding of blocks, or dive into any block for key details such as block height, PoW hash, neighbors, and payload.

The Kadena network has experienced significant growth in its first few weeks:

Kadena will continue to listen to the community and make improvements that benefit the network’s health and accessibility.

For those with general questions about participating in Kadena’s mainnet, read on for more information.

Read the token economics breakdown for more information on the Kadena token model.

What hashing algorithm does Kadena use?

Blake2s_256

Where can I find the latest release of binaries?

Our latest releases are always open-sourced on GitHub. Chainweb Node is here and Chainweb Miner is here. Make sure you are on the most up-to-date releases, or else it’s possible that your miner/node will not work properly.

What kind of computer is required to run a Kadena public blockchain node?

As of publication, the minimum requirements are 2 cores and 2 GB RAM. However, our recommendation is to use 4 cores and 4 GB RAM.

Currently, disk space is rarely an issue and a few gigs should be more than enough. Note that the amount of data in the blockchain will continually grow and will eventually consume a more significant amount of disk space. Please plan accordingly.

What is the target block time?

The target is to reach a new block height every 30 seconds and there are 10 blocks (i.e. 10 chains) at every height.

How can I check my account details, including balance?

You can check your account details by sending a Pact local API request calling *coin.details *on any node.

For more on how to do this, see: Pact Local Queries

How can I tell if a node is minable?

We recommend that you connect to our bootstrap nodes that are closest to your geography and turn on mining. You can find our list of bootstrap nodes here.

You can also test if public nodes are minable by pointing your miner at any of the available nodes and see if it starts mining. This is easiest if you set the default log level to debug. For example:

How come my balance doesn’t exist on all chains?

Kadena’s public blockchain architecture is unique in the fact that account names are not global entities. Account names, as a result, only exist for the chain(s) on which you create them. Consequently, you will also have a distinct balance on each chain. The easiest way to get your account on all chains right now is to mine.

Can my account name be different from my public key?

Our public blockchain supports cross-chain transfers which allow you to unify your accounts across all chains, but there is always the possibility that if you wait, you will not be able to reserve the account name you want. We recommend reserving an account name at your earliest convenience.

Need more support?

For a more extensive FAQ about participating in Kadena’s public blockchain, head over to our GitHub. Keep in touch with Kadena through Discord or by following announcements shared on Twitter and Medium.