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Whether you are already familiar with Kadena or just learning about it for the first time, the Kadena Tech Bulletin provides a short technical overview of how we are revolutionizing the blockchain industry, one block at a time. From Pact to Chainweb, to how we are refining our builder onboarding process, we will provide our community of builders and developers with all the updates and tools needed to help nurture and scale their projects in our ever-growing ecosystem.

We are delighted to present the first experimental versions of the chainweb-stream server and client, a new system that enables persistent streaming of transactions and their confirmation status.

Whether you’re already familiar with Kadena or just learning about it for the first time, the Kadena Tech Bulletin provides a short technical overview of how we are revolutionizing the industry one block at a time. From Pact and Chainweb to how we are refining our builder onboarding process, we’ll be providing our community of builders and developers with all the updates and tools to help grow and scale the entire ecosystem.

When interacting with smart contracts on Chainweb, one will often see module names or module member expressions prefixed with static names such as free, or util, or kaddex (e.g. free.radio02.direct-to-send). We refer to these static prefixes as “namespaces”, and they form an integral part of the Kadena ecosystem that allows developers and users to write contract and keyset definitions within a private namespace that they govern themselves.

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!

Kadena is releasing a new version of Chainweb Node, version 2.17 which will have a service date in effect as of 2022–12–01T00:00:00Z. In addition to various bug fixes and performance optimizations, this release will change the current Pact and Chainweb Node experience for some dApp developers and users. In this article, we will explain the UX/DX-relevant changes in depth, and provide a migration path.

Kadena is a unique open-source, public blockchain. Kadena’s entire architecture, from the blockchain technology to the smart contract language, has been built from the ground up, solving the blockchain trilemma of security, decentralization, and scalability — making it entirely possible for the next generation of the Internet to be built on Kadena!

In March 2017, Kadena entered my radar when raising its seed round. Despite initial skepticism, I remarked to my partners at Asimov Ventures how impressed I was with Kadena’s software — it seemed to be addressing serious problems with Ethereum. When I subsequently met Kadena’s founders, Will Martino and Stuart Popejoy, I was blown away here were two brilliant programmers solving their own problems.

Part 1 Create and fund a testnet KDA account. Part 2 Create a Bond on Kadena Testnet. Part 3 Install and Run Kadena Relay App on Testnet. Part 4 (bonus) Rotate, renew, and unbond your bonds.

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.