#KADENA Preparing for the future, not the present

Kadena is an enterprise-grade, Layer 1 Proof of Work (PoW) blockchain. It aims to provide a highly scalable and developer-friendly hybrid blockchain that guarantees a level of security similar to Bitcoin. To achieve this, Kadena leverages Chainweb and a new consensus mechanism known as the Pact programming language.

Kadena’s mission is to perfect its foundation layer for scalability and developer purposes without the need for Layer 2 scalability and functionality protocols. These protocols can make application development difficult, so offering a complete set of tools on a single platform would undoubtedly be more developer-friendly. The Kadena team claims that Kadena can process up to 480,000 transactions per second across 20 chains, and they expect it to exceed 1 million transactions per second when expanding to 50 chains running in parallel.

The network’s native programming language, Pact, is designed to improve on the major drawbacks that plague Ethereum’s Solidity, particularly its vulnerability to unbridled loops and lack of Formal Verification. Formal Verification is a way to prove that a system is working properly within the limits of its underlying algorithms. Furthermore, developers can upgrade their Pact smart contracts at any time without the need for a hard fork.

Kadena also developed a private blockchain prior to its public smart contract blockchain. The private chain, called Kadena Kuro, features a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) consensus method and is designed for enterprise-level applications. A healthcare consortium has been using it since 2018 to streamline the process of collecting and maintaining insurance data. Essentially, Kuro works as a sidechain alongside Kadena’s public blockchain to augment transactions and create new data marketplaces.