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Kadena set a new all-time high of $18.38 in the early hours of the morning UTC as prices rose more than 43% in the last 24 hours and around 210% in the last 7 days.Â
In the space of 10 hours since setting a new record, Kadena has suffered a near 10% pullback and currently trades at a price of $17.10.
Chances are you might not have heard of Kadena. It is, after all, the 64th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, but this particular Brooklyn-based crypto project has high ambitions.Â
Kadenaâs hybrid blockchain launched in January last year. The project was founded by two former JP Morgan employeesâStuart Popejoy and Will Martinoâwho both led JP Morganâs Blockchain Center for Excellence, the American investment bankâs in-house blockchain team.Â
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A central component of Kadena is the companyâs private chain âKuroâ, a public chain, and an open-source smart contract language called âPactâ that enables anyone with a rudimentary understanding of programming to draft their own smart contracts.Â
Kadena claims it is more affordable and scalable than its competitors. Sure, thereâs no end to blockchain projects claiming to be âthe next Ethereumâ with cheaper gas fees and faster transaction processing speedsâSolana has been doing great this week and it boasts about 50,000 transactions per second on Ethereumâs 14 TPSâbut Kadena promises much more.Â
Kadena claims to be able to handle a staggering 480,000 TPS thanks to its use of âbraided chainsâ. The Kadena blockchain combines 20 sub-chains to support the transactions on its main chain, thus increasing the blockchainâs hash rate by a factor of twenty.Â
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Kadena also boasts nominal transaction fees and it claims to have introduced âthe first crypto gas stationâ to enable businesses to eliminate consumer transaction fees.Â
Kadenaâs has plans to hard fork and establish blockchains with up to 100 sub-chains working in parallel in the near future. It may not be as popular as Cardano, Ethereum and Polkadot, but it certainly is a speed demon.
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