Kadena Ecosystem August Recap

Kadena Ecosystem

8 min readSep 8, 2022

Here’s what what happened on Kadena in August!

Kadena Project Network Updates & AMAs

The Eucalyptus Labs team is expanding and hiring Pact developers! Think you got what it takes? Submit your CV and any relevant experience to future@eucalyptuslabs.com

We’ve made some changes and updates to our Kadena ecosystem explorer! Be sure to check out our brand new BUILD page for the latest job opportunities on Kadena! https://euclabs.typeform.com/WorkAtEucLabs
Check out our latest blog post all about Arkade, play, earn, and trade on the gamified NFT platform.
We shared a blog post about what’s next in the Kadena ecosystem, if you haven’t read it, go check it out!
Here’s our blog post from earlier in the month on the Kadena NFT rush we are experiencing this summer

You can now find all our past AMAs on Youtube!

Catch up on all our AMAs from this past month:
Our team hosted a special AMA with some $KDA mining projects & community $KDA miners listen in here
AMA with Kadena Weeb, they are taking over the Kadena NFT scene with a twist on the music industry and anime!
AMA with the teams at EqualBet and KDLaunch ahead of the Kings whitepaper release
AMA with Alpha Slayers Club NFT
AMA with KadCars
AMA with Full Spend Yacht Club, an NFT mining project building on Kadena, listen in here
We had a great AMA with the original meme coin on Kadena, Kishu Ken!
Telegram AMA featuring Runic NFT, the 1st AR NFT marketplace! https://t.me/Kadena_DeFi/28352
AMA with Kor Blockchain, an NFT mining project
Pre-mint party AMA with Kadena Mining Club
AMA with Arkade!

Kadena Updates

Stuart, Will, Emily, Francesco & Doug from the Kadena team spent some time in their official Telegram to answer the communities questions! You can read up here: https://t.me/kadena_io/411010
Catch up on the Kadena Eco Project Spotlight LIVE Youtube AMA with Crankk, a Proof-of-Coverage LoRaWan Crypto Network built on Kadena.

Kadena Eco’s CEO, Francesco Melpignano, was recently featured on an NFT panel during Web3 Investor Day in Chicago! You can watch the panel here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wusHgds1-UI
Kadena climbed rank from #85 to #65 in terms of TVL by Chain since the Kaddex launch!
After much success this past year in distributing over 2.3M $KDA to 163 Bonders, the Kadena Chain Relay Program will be ending on 8/15 to power new DeFi projects through Kadena eco! A message from Stuart:

A note regarding the Kadena Bonding Program from Stuart

Kadena Eco team hosted a Grant Cohort AMA on YouTube, listen in for a very special shoutout to our parent company, Eucalyptus Labs!

Another Kadena Eco Project Spotlight was Hypercent! Read up on the blog post on the team here

Kadena Eco’s Project Spotlight: Hypercent

And live YouTube AMA below:

Pact 4.4 brings major upgrades in functionality, audit-ability & transparency. Namespacing and gas adjustments are some of the notable improvements in this version. Read more in Kadena’s latest post highlighting the updates: https://medium.com/kadena-io/whats-new-in-pact-4-4-db31dbcbda0e

Kadena’s team is growing! Let’s give a warm welcome to the latest addition, Brooke Ricketts. Learn more about Brooke’s experience as she joins the team as strategic advisor in this post: https://medium.com/kadena-io/kadena-eco-onboards-strategic-advisory-board-to-fuel-growth-52de05c7463b

Welcome Brooke to Kadena as Strategic Advisor

We got an update this week from the Kadena team regarding the node issue from last month:

Kadena Eco hosted an Office Hours to update the community & answer some of your burning questions, be sure to tune in if you didn’t get the chance yet! https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAxRAaRdYkJl?s=20
wBTC is now available on the Lago Bridge, contract address: lago.kwBTC! Read the full post here. Check out the bridge: https://bridge.lago.finance/bridge/tokens

Kadena Project Updates

Kaddex went live August 1st!

New listing announced on Kaddex, $KISHK

Kadena Komodos started minting August 4th on https://www.arkade.fun/mint
Kadena Bulls share some utility details behind their IDO, $ARKD, launching on KDLaunch

Check out Kadena Bulls’ Arkade stats to date below

The Kadena Bulls IDO $ARKD hosted by KDLaunch dates were announced:

Registration Opens: 29/08
Allocation: 05/09
WL Round: 05/09
KDL Round: 06/09
Public Round: 08/09
Sale Ends: 12/09

We got a sneak peek of Kadena Bulls new P2E game “Super Bull” on Arkade.fun coming soon in Q3. Read some more alpha that was shared in this recent blog post by KDLaunch

KDSwap has added a new Token Locker feature, read more in their blog post

Lock your tokens, now available on KDSwap!

Techfleet announced a partnership with Miners of Kadenia, for a PACT internship. Read more here
KDAPunks minted 08/08 on https://www.arkade.fun/mint
The team at Arkade has partnered up with Flux Labs

Kadena Eco grantee Electron Labs is featured on Crypto Pulse’s latest podcast episode, listen on Apple or Spotify

The @MintItOnKadena x @NIGHTBREAKERZ mint date may have been pushed back a little but we can assure you that the wait will be worth it. Here’s a sneak peek:

ICYMI KDLounge had Kevin Murko CEO of Coin Metro on their latest episode, listen below:

Kadena will soon join the evergrowing Cosmos ecosystem — first iteration of a bridge powered by @Timpi_TheNewWay, the worlds first real decentralized search engine
EqualBet have released their thorough Kings whitepaper, read up here
Kadena Komodos launched their minting on https://www.arkade.fun/mint/kadena-komodos
Kaddex had over $5.5M TVL exactly 10 days post launch!

Kadena Mining Club Phase 1 minting started August 13th, more details here: https://farm.kdamining.club/
Kadena Hashing whitelist minting has begun, they also released a new edition of their weekly hash blog
Kishu Ken teases an NFT collection coming soon!
The team from Alpha Slayers Club is embarking on an informational crypto YouTube channel! Go give the Kadena fam a listen:

Rug pull insurance? Yes please! Thanks Stake Factory, looking forward to launch.

Check out Ryan Matta’s new Kadena whiteboard series:

Miners of Kadenia launched their staking program and have seen some amazing support since!

Kadena Kongs registration on Hypercent has been postponed until further notice, below you can read a statement from the team’s Discord:

X-Wallet announced that they have over 25,000 users since launch! Congratulations to the team, these are BIG numbers

You can now view: price, market cap, circulating & total supply for $KDS on KDSwap. Looking forward to seeing this feature added for more tokens!

KDSwap is pushing the Kadena ecosystem forward again with a listing on Live Coin Watch, they have brought $KDL, $BABE, $HYPE, $MOK, $KISHK, $BKA, $kwUSDC & $KDX along with them. You can view them here: https://livecoinwatch.com/exchange/kdswap
Another episode of KDLounge, Arkade joined in anticipation of their $ARKD IDO on KDLaunch:

Crankk has some plans for taking the next steps on getting $CRNKK listed on a DEX near you!
Formally known as HyperHub, the team has revamped their branding and are reintroducing themselves as Kryptic Wallet.
Interested in learning more about Cyberfly? They are the first IoT web3 platform building on Kadena. You can read more in their latest blog post
KDLaunch is officially listed on CoinMarketCap, this makes it the first Kadena token to be listed. In addition, KDSwap was added as well! Go check it out: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/kdlaunch/

$KDL & $KDS are the first $KDA tokens to be listed on CMC!

This week some of your favourite Kadena tokens were also listed on Coin Gecko! Kishu Ken, Hypercent, Miners of Kadenia, KDSwap and KDLaunch!
Kaddex hosted an AMA with Arkade ahead of their IDO launch! https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1yoJMWPkQvnKQ?s=20
Action CEO joined Nicholas Ramsrud from Kaddex for an AMA https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1YqxoplWZlzKv?s=20
Kadena Monster Punks free mint sold out on https://babena.art/marketplace
Kitty Kad shared some updates in their latest Medium post highlighting marketplaces, breeding & more!
Crankk has revamped their logo & website! Check it out: crankk.io

Check out The Crypto Spider’s recent YouTube video on our Kadena Ecosystem Explorer!

A record was set for Kitty Kad and Arkade this week on the NFT marketplace, first a Kitty Kad sold for 420 $KDA and then another Kitty Kad shown below sold for 1,999 $KDA!

A rare Kitty Kad sells for 1,999 KDA on Arkade

We got word that the Flux x MOK node program will commence in September!

We got some unfortunate news from the EqualBet team and some issues regarding building on Kadena’s layer-2 Kuro. You can read more in their recent post regarding the situation:https://kdlaunch.medium.com/an-update-on-the-equalbet-ido-c68163e435b0
Kadena Mining Club‘s NFT reveal that was scheduled for 02/09 will be postponed, see below for a message from the team: