Emily Pillmore

Kadena is hard at work offering new and improved visions of the blockchain industry and its tooling. In particular, the Pact team is happy to announce improvements to the Kadena public blockchain Pact API in conjunction with developments and new additions to the language itself. As Kadena matures, we are bringing a new focus to the User Experience/Developer Experience of the platform and its tools, which includes envisioning future L2 solutions in the ecosystem. To initiate these efforts, Kadena presents the following new features

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.

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 aims to continue building and supporting our developer community with a robust, best-in-class experience for Web3 developers. In order to do so, the team at Kadena continues to provide developer updates swiftly to ensure a smooth builder experience. This article will inform you on how to migrate away from two guard types in Pact to safe alternatives. These deprecated guards will be removed in a future release.

Every growing decentralized community needs builders. With the new cohorts of grantees selected by Kadena Eco being announced every week, the Pact engineering team has been hard at work soliciting feedback and developing features for dApp developers to build their projects with more security, robustness, and confidence than ever before. Pact 4.4 brings major improvements in functionality, auditability, and transparency — primitives for building the decentralized economies and marketplaces that continue to dominate crypto.

Smart contracts are all about making things happen — every transaction on the blockchain records assets changing hands, or community members committing to support a project. With Pact 4 the safest and easiest smart contract language gains powerful new features to ensure apps ship with the most security, transparency and kickass functionality possible. With new community-driven primitive ops, better cross-chain and event support, and code coverage, Pact 4 is the most productive smart contract language ever.

After a successful and productive run in testnet, Kadenaswap is headed to mainnet to start “Bountyswap” — the live beta! It’s a good time to lay out the current plans for Kadenaswap, Bountyswap and the future of multi-protocol, scalable DeFi.

When getting started with the Kadena public blockchain, the first thing you’ll want to do is create an account so you can start transacting with other users. This article will break down exactly what keys are, what an account is, the myriad ways to create one, and how to add your account to several existing tools.

Kadena began enabling Kadena (KDA) token transfers on December 17. The network has experienced some serious growth as we’ve transitioned from testnet to mainnet, with over 1,000,000 blocks mined by more than 10,000 GPUs (at an average hash rate between 10–15 TH/second) on mainnet. We’ve been heavily relying on the community to help establish best miner practices in the network.

After a lot of hard work by the team at Kadena, we are pleased to announce the release of Pact 3.1! This new version of Pact brings significant additions to the language, including expanded Formal Verification coverage for our interfaces and governance, and our new cross-chain features in defpact, which makes it dead simple to write cross-chain multi-step transactions.