Kadena is a layer-1 proof-of-work blockchain project that ended business operations on October 21, 2025, with its blockchain subsequently forked by a team of community members. Kadena's Twitter Score is 95 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of October 2026, ranking #7,818 (top 5%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Kadena was founded by Stuart Popejoy and Will Martino, both former members of JPMorgan's blockchain development team for Juno. The project built Chainweb, a public proof-of-work architecture that runs several independent blockchains in parallel, and introduced Pact, a human-readable smart contract language. Kadena previously conducted its token sale through CoinList and was formerly backed by Interchain Foundation.
Kadena formerly served as advisor to Scott Barker as co-founder of GTMfund, Nitin Gaur as founder of LedgerLink, Stuart Haber, Wayne Martino, and Brooke Rickett. Kadena has accumulated 314,381 followers as of October 2026 and published 5,792 posts, and has been mentioned by 427 accounts a total of 1,825 times.
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The accounts that follow Kadena include 361 founders, 73 angel investors, 230 influencers and 16 VCs, among them Smolting Wassie, Tarun Chitra, Eric Wall, Polygon, RYAN SAN ADAMS and Sandeep.