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Kadena makes blockchain work for everyone.

Overview of Kadena

Manage KDA

KDA Concepts

Digital currency that is used to pay for compute on the Kadena public chain.

What is KDA?

Kadena's public blockchain, Chainweb, is the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW network

Chainweb Layer 1

Pact makes designing safer smart contracts effortless, whether you’re writing your first contract or launching your fiftieth dApp. It’s fundamentally different from other contract languages. It’s readable by non-developers. It automatically detects bugs, freeing you from the exploits you’ll face on Ethereum and other unsafe platforms. And it has been battle-tested in production applications for over two years.

Pact Smart Contract Language

Kuro has been proven to support up to 8,000 transactions per second across 500 nodes, and is available for evaluation on AWS and Azure. Lightning+BTC powers El Salvador, but Chainweb's layer 1 scalability and Kuro's near instant finality can power the whole world.

Kuro Layer 2

Answers to commonly asked questions about Kadena.

Whitepapers Overview

Troubleshooting Chainweaver

Chainweaver Terms of Service

Chainweaver User Guide

KDA custody tools for desktop and mobile, with support guides to get you started.

Kadena Wallets

A summary of the key features supported by the exchanges trading KDA.

Kadena Exchanges

Exclusive resources and support for you to build your best dApp.

Developer Program

Get rewarded for your contributions to the growth of Kadena.

Technical Grants

Our ecosystem is growing rapidly, so we are now providing access to our branding assets that are available and approved for public use.

Press Kit

General and specific terminology related to Kadena.

Glossary

Explore our collection of articles, written pieces, podcasts and more to get you up to speed on all things Kadena and beyond.

Content Repo

Here are the official links for Kadena's social pages, blog, and developer resources

Kadena Resources

Build the future on Kadena

Intro to Kadena

Learn Kadena’s core concepts & tools for development in 15 minutes

Kadena Quickstart

Useful Tools

Pact-lang-API Cookbook

Marmalade Tutorial

Pact Local API queries

Building a voting dApp

Safe Rotate and Drain

Safe Transfer

A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Pact Smart Contract

Get rewarded for your contributions to the growth of Kadena

Exclusive resources and support for you to build your best dApp

Kuro layer 2 - guides

Resources to start building on Kadena with Pact.

Pact Resources

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Hello World

Language Basics

This tutorial introduces an essential feature in Pact known as modules. We’ll discuss what modules are, why they’re important, and how they relate to smart contracts.

Modules

This tutorial introduces another essential feature in Pact known as keysets. We’ll discuss what keysets are, why they’re important, and how they help regulate access to Pact modules.

Keysets

The goal of this tutorial is to get you familiar with what schemas and tables are, why they’re useful, and to demonstrate how to implement these within a Pact smart contract.

Schemas and Tables

The goal of this tutorial is to get you up and running with the Pact environment and the Pact Atom SDK to begin running Pact programs locally.

Atom SDK

The goal of this tutorial is to help you build an application that transfers value between two accounts. To do this, you’ll build a smart contract that implements this functionality named Simple Payments. This is an important function of smart contracts and will set you up to create more complex applications using accounts and transfers.

Accounts and Transfers

The goal of this tutorial is to learn the basics of building interactions between modules in Pact. You will go over some of the fundamentals, then build a smart contract that allows users to both make and authorize payments using multiple Pact modules.

Contract Interaction

Here you’ll create a smart contract named Rotatable Wallets that demonstrates many important Pact features that you learned throughout previous tutorials.

Rotatable Wallet

In this tutorial, you will build an example loans application using many of the techniques you learned in earlier tutorials

Loans

In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of testing in the SDK to build your own REPL file. This is a great start to begin testing the smart contracts you build locally.

Test in the SDK

Welcome to Pact

The goal of this tutorial is to help you connect your Pact development environment to a front end application.

Pact and JavaScript

In this tutorial, we’ll focus specifically on how Pact approaches control flow to ensure safety.

Safety Using Control Flow

Throughout this tutorial you’ll learn why interfaces are valuable and how to implement them with Pact.

Interfaces with Pact

In this guide, we will go through and explain specific built-in functions that are listed in the pact reference page

Built in Functions

The goal of this tutorial is to help you run and deploy a working Pact test server locally.

Deploy to a Local Server

Welcome to the Pact Developer Tutorials

Learn Pact

Start Mining

Interact with Nodes

If you're running a node and getting something like this the following, then it means that peer synchronization has failed

Troubleshooting Chainweb

Run a node

Content Creators amplify Kadena’s brand by educating the wider community about Kadena through informative collateral whether visual or audio.

Content Creator

Moderators are essential to keeping our official online social media channels up to date as well as providing a welcoming environment for community members to come together and monitoring those discussions.

Moderator

Community channels serve as a home for community members to discuss niche topics about Kadena or share news about Kadena not otherwise discussed in the main channel. To foster community growth on a more organic level, Kadena plans to help fund community channels by token awards to Community Channel Leaders who create the group and the community events.

Communnity Channel Leader

Join a community of passionate individuals in helping spread Kadena's brand and mission

Ambassador Overview

Meaningful Initiatives Driven by the Voice of the Community

Kadena DAO

How to contribute to the docs from docs.kadena.io, GitHub, or a local environment.

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