Tony Pham

Moving forward in 2021, the team is tracking dramatic shifts in the crypto markets, providing us with helpful data for (re)focusing. We believe that economic infrastructure adds the most value to Kadena at this time. Looking at the year ahead, major initiatives include the full launch of the Kadenaswap DEX alongside decentralized bridges to Ethereum and wrapped KDA. We’ll also continue working towards additional exchange listings and community-led efforts (DAOs).

Kadena, the first blockchain technology company to come out of J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, and Celo, an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone, are announcing a partnership. As part of the collaboration, Kadena is joining the Alliance for Prosperity. The partnership will see both Celo’s cUSD stablecoin and Kadena’s KDA token interoperate on both platforms via a trustless bridge relay, increasing utilization for both tokens.

Kadena, the first blockchain technology company to come out of J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, and programmable money leader Terra are partnering to contribute their combined expertise towards expanding the DeFi ecosystem. Kadena will add Terra’s Luna stablecoin to the multi-protocol Kadenaswap DEX that will utilize Kadena’s 20-chain sharded and scalable layer-1 public blockchain. This collaboration highlights how Kadena is well positioned to help DeFi scale with high throughput and low gas costs, enabling innovative products like Terra’s Luna stablecoin to accelerate adoption.

As announced last month, creating the multi-protocol Kadenaswap DEX is the primary focus for Kadena’s blockchain engineers for the rest of the year and going forward through 2021. Of course, the team will also be working on additional efforts to benefit the ecosystem and community. Some of the activities we’ve already completed in October include Co-founder and CEO Will Martino speaking at LA Blockchain Summit and the Zel project partnering with us for node incentivization on the Flux platform.

Kadena, the first blockchain technology company to come out of J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, today announced a multi-protocol decentralized exchange (DEX) named Kadenaswap. Kadenaswap will utilize Kadena’s 20-chain sharded and scalable layer-1 public blockchain with 480,000 transactions per second capability. The company also announced community onboarding initiatives such as partnering with ZelCore on full-node incentivization for miners, offering a free month of gas during October 2020, and launching a developer engagement program.

Company concludes monumental upgrade to the world’s first sharded Proof of Work layer-1 blockchain for the scale required of institutional and retail applications NEW YORK — Aug 20, 2020 — Kadena, the first blockchain technology company to come out of J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, today announced that its scalable layer-1 public blockchain has increased from 10 to 20 chains, becoming the fastest blockchain platform in the world. Kadena’s Chainweb public protocol functions through a braided, parallelized consensus mechanism, a unique architecture that boosts speeds while preserving the security of the Proof of Work consensus utilized by Bitcoin.

Kadena has successfully launched the first sharded layer-1 PoW public blockchain. Since the launch in January, the team has been concentrating on the growth and stability of the public network. At the end of March, the Kadena public blockchain grew to a hash rate above 100 Terahashes per second (that’s 100 trillion hashes), completed over 75,000 successful token transfers, and mined more than 4 million blocks.

The company is also open-sourcing a COVID-19 test result tracking dApp and announcing the public blockchain shard count is scaling from 10 to 20 chains BROOKLYN, N.Y., June 25, 2020 — Kadena, the first blockchain technology company to come out of JP Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, will have the first official listing of its KDA token on Bittrex Global. Bittrex Global is a Top Ten exchange as measured by real trade volume according to Bitwise Investments and Messari. The company is also open-sourcing a coronavirus test result tracking application made available for the healthcare industry effective immediately. Additionally, Kadena continues to lead the industry by announcing that its public network is scaling from 10 to 20 chains on July 31.

Scalable layer-1 PoW public network, developed by former JP Morgan blockchain team, will deploy Chainlink’s oracles for tamper-proof on-chain data feeds Chainlink and Kadena are working together to integrate Chainlink’s market-leading decentralized oracle network to Kadena’s scalable layer-1 Proof of Work public blockchain. This will be an industry first in deploying oracles to a public/private hybrid blockchain platform.

Kadena has successfully launched the first sharded layer-1 PoW public blockchain. Since the launch in January, the team has been concentrating on the growth and stability of the public network. At the end of March, the Kadena public blockchain grew to a hash rate above 100 Terahashes per second (that’s 100 trillion hashes), completed over 75,000 successful token transfers, and mined more than 4 million blocks.