Kadena network report: October 2026

What happened on Kadena mainnet in October 2026: transactions, blocks and mining hashrate across all 20 chains, measured by Kadena Nexus from public chain data, compared with September 15–30.

Published October 15, 2026 · Data through October 14, 2026 (UTC) · Updated every week until the month is complete.

Summary

• Over September 15–30 about 99% of all Kadena transactions were automated calls to one contract, free.block-history, a service that recorded each block's hash and time on-chain: about 8 calls per block on every chain, 436,751 a day. Its developer then wound the service down: calls dropped from October 4 and the last ones were on October 12. That one contract explains the drop in the total, from 441,437 transactions a day to 4,716 on October 14.
• Excluding those recorder calls, Kadena carried an average of 4,261 transactions a day from October 1 to October 14, down 9% from September 15–30 (4,686 a day).
• Mining hashrate averaged 16.4 PH/s from October 1 to October 14, up 14% from September 15–30 (14.4 PH/s).
• All 20 chains kept producing blocks: about 57,501 blocks a day, an average of 30.1 seconds per block on each chain against the 30-second target.
• Chain 2 carried 37% of October's transactions outside the recorder, the largest share of any chain.

All transactions per day

Non-coinbase transactions included in canonical blocks on all 20 chains, per UTC day. Hover a bar for the exact value.

Most of this total was one automated service, explained next.

The block-history recorder

free.block-history is a Pact contract that stores each block's height, hash and time on its own chain, so other contracts can look them up later. A recorder service called its attest function to record the previous block. Over September 15–30 the recorder accounts called it about 8 times in every block on every chain, 436,751 transactions a day, most of Kadena's daily total. Its developer then wound the service down: calls dropped from October 4 and the last ones were on October 12. The contract stays on chain with the blocks it recorded, but no new calls are being made. These were real, fee-paying transactions, but they came from one automated service, so this report shows activity with and without them.

Transactions excluding the recorder

Everything except calls to free.block-history: transfers, swaps, contract calls and the rest, per UTC day.

Busiest day in October: October 1 (4,972). Quietest: October 10 (3,046).

Mining hashrate

Daily average hashrate in petahashes per second (PH/s), from the difficulty of every canonical block that day. As an outside check, MiningPoolStats, which tracks the active KDA pools, showed about 16.7 PH/s for the network on October 15.

Where transactions happen

Transactions per chain from October 1 to October 14, excluding recorder calls. Activity is uneven: a few chains host the busiest contracts.

Blocks and block time

Each chain targets one block every 30 seconds, which is 57,600 blocks a day across 20 chains. In October so far the network produced 57,501 canonical blocks a day on average, so blocks arrived every 30.1 seconds per chain. September 15–30 averaged 57,308 a day.

Nodes

The public node crawler found 40 active nodes in 12 countries in its last scan (October 12, 2026), including the Kadena Nexus node in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Nodes are placed by IP location, so the count covers public nodes only.

Nodes by country

Country	Active public nodes
France	9
Japan	8
Germany	4
Hong Kong	4
Singapore	3
United States	3
Canada	2
Ireland	2
Poland	2
Belgium	1
Saudi Arabia	1
United Kingdom	1

Adoption Index

The Kadena Community Edition Adoption Index combines five weighted signals (active addresses, new contracts, value locked, hashrate and developer commits) into one daily number against a summer 2026 baseline of 50. Its reading for October 14, 2026 was 54. How each input is measured is published in the methodology.

Supply

KDA in circulation was 376.3 million when this report was last updated, according to the indexer's network summary. The maximum supply is 1 billion KDA, most of it paid to miners over time.

Data and method

• Source: the public Chainweb GraphQL indexer (graphql.chaddex.com), queried block by block in 50-block windows on every chain. Each UTC day starts at the first block created at or after 00:00 UTC. New days are added every week.
• Transactions count non-coinbase transactions in canonical blocks; orphaned blocks are excluded. As a check, the October 14 total (4,716) is within 1% of the Kadena Network Monitor's own rolling 24-hour count (4,659) at the last update.
• Recorder calls are transactions whose code calls free.block-history.attest, found by reading the code of every transaction in every block. Other transactions are the total minus recorder calls.
• Hashrate is the sum of each canonical block's difficulty over the day, divided by 86,400 seconds.
• Nodes come from the public node crawler (nodes.denascan.com); Adoption Index from adoption.kadena.ws; supply from the indexer's network summary. These are read when the page is updated.
• Figures are Kadena Nexus measurements from public data, not official statistics. Please cite "Kadena Nexus, Kadena network report: October 2026".

Download October's daily data (CSV)All days since September 15, 2026 (CSV)

Daily table

Date (UTC)	Blocks	All transactions	Recorder calls	Other transactions	Hashrate (PH/s)
2026-10-14	57,515	4,716	0	4,716	16.57
2026-10-13	57,626	4,085	0	4,085	16.28
2026-10-12	57,708	6,292	2,519	3,773	15.97
2026-10-11	57,515	233,173	230,074	3,099	15.70
2026-10-10	57,534	233,164	230,118	3,046	16.23
2026-10-09	57,483	234,059	230,159	3,900	15.79
2026-10-08	57,833	235,138	230,376	4,762	15.69
2026-10-07	57,316	234,693	229,893	4,800	15.61
2026-10-06	57,479	234,778	229,856	4,922	16.29
2026-10-05	57,421	233,707	229,815	3,892	16.97
2026-10-04	57,487	347,480	343,075	4,405	17.13
2026-10-03	57,460	464,660	460,093	4,567	17.45
2026-10-02	57,652	465,103	460,393	4,710	16.79
2026-10-01	56,987	460,061	455,089	4,972	16.94
2026-09-30	57,522	463,761	460,090	3,671	16.76
2026-09-29	57,687	464,013	460,501	3,512	16.87
2026-09-28	57,542	464,172	459,880	4,292	16.39
2026-09-27	57,581	448,471	443,548	4,923	15.63
2026-09-26	57,971	467,419	461,211	6,208	15.30
2026-09-25	57,681	467,027	460,519	6,508	13.78
2026-09-24	57,500	380,064	374,250	5,814	12.70
2026-09-23	57,574	359,064	354,435	4,629	13.30
2026-09-22	52,815	341,510	336,867	4,643	12.61
2026-09-21	57,842	420,189	415,931	4,258	13.25
2026-09-20	57,367	463,722	459,797	3,925	13.23
2026-09-19	57,758	464,770	460,654	4,116	12.78
2026-09-18	57,286	463,548	459,716	3,832	14.00
2026-09-17	57,561	463,548	459,800	3,748	14.28
2026-09-16	57,557	464,809	460,255	4,554	14.48
2026-09-15	57,686	466,898	460,555	6,343	14.88

Transactions by chain

Chain	Other transactions, Oct 1–14	Share
0	12,266	20.6%
1	17,875	30.0%
2	22,019	36.9%
3	415	0.7%
4	416	0.7%
5	487	0.8%
6	418	0.7%
7	543	0.9%
8	428	0.7%
9	416	0.7%
10	417	0.7%
11	418	0.7%
12	415	0.7%
13	416	0.7%
14	417	0.7%
15	414	0.7%
16	417	0.7%
17	413	0.7%
18	418	0.7%
19	621	1.0%

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