Kadena LLC shuts down, but the blockchain lives on
The company behind the Kadena blockchain has announced that it’s ceasing operations — and therefore ending official support for the network.
Now, what does that sound more like?
- Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2011 farewell message saying he was stepping away from Bitcoin development?
- Or the closure of the HECO chain — the one I wrote about roughly a year ago?
Back then, I was puzzled: how could developers know a blockchain would stop functioning once they stopped maintaining it? And yet, HECO really did go offline.
But the Kadena story feels more like Satoshi’s exit. When Kadena’s team announced the shutdown, they made it clear: the blockchain itself won’t be affected. After all, the blockchain doesn’t belong to any company.
And that’s exactly how any public blockchain should work. No one can shut it down. As long as even one device keeps producing blocks, the chain exists. And if that device goes offline, another one can take its place and continue the process.
- That’s what happened in 2011, when Satoshi disappeared. Bitcoin kept running.
- That’s what happened in 2016, when the Ethereum Foundation abandoned the old chain containing the infamous “wrong” transaction. That chain still exists today as Ethereum Classic.
- And that’s what will happen with Kadena. As long as someone cares enough, blocks will keep being produced.
And, of course, KDA is still available for swaps on rabbit.io, with the best rates as always.
