Network
What identifies the chain, and what one block may hold.
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Chain ID
The network's name, part of every transaction its wallets sign, so a transaction signed for another network can't be replayed here.
- band-v3-testnet-1
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Block size limit
The most a block may hold, its transactions included.
- 3 MB
- 3,000,000 bytes
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Block gas limit
The most gas a block's transactions may use together. Each transaction says how much gas it may use, and pays for it.
- 50,000,000
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Evidence window
How long proof that a validator signed twice can still be used to punish it. It must also be within the window in blocks.
- 2 days
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Evidence window in blocks
How many blocks back proof of double signing can still be used. It must also be within the window in time.
- 100,000 blocks
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Validator key type
The kind of key validators sign blocks with.
- secp256k1
Staking
How stake is bonded and unbonded, how many validators make blocks, and what they may charge.
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Unbonding time
How long undelegated tokens stay locked before they are back in the wallet. They earn nothing meanwhile, and can still be slashed for something the validator did before.
- 21 days
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Active set size
The most validators that make blocks at once. The places go to the validators with the most stake; the rest wait outside the set and earn nothing.
- 50 validators
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Minimum commission
The lowest commission a validator may charge on its delegators' rewards.
- None
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Unbondings at once
How many undelegations (or redelegations) one account may have under way with one validator at a time. Another has to wait until one of them ends.
- 7
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Historical entries
How many recent blocks' validator sets the chain keeps, so other chains can check its blocks (IBC light clients).
- 10,000 blocks
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Staking token
The token staked on the chain, by the name of its smallest unit.
- uband
- 1 BAND is 1,000,000 uband
Slashing and jailing
What happens to a validator that stops signing blocks, or signs two at once.
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Signing window
The stretch of recent blocks over which each validator's uptime is counted.
- 86,400 blocks
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Minimum signed
The share of the signing window's blocks a validator must sign. Below it, the validator is jailed for downtime.
- 5%
- Jailed after missing more than 82,080 of 86,400 blocks
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Downtime jail
How long a validator jailed for downtime must wait before it may unjail itself. Its delegators earn nothing while it is jailed.
- 10 minutes
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Downtime slash
The share of a validator's stake, its delegators' included, burned when it is jailed for downtime.
- 0.01%
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Double-sign slash
The share of stake burned when a validator signs two different blocks at the same height. It is also banned for good (tombstoned).
- 5%
Governance
What it takes to put a proposal to a vote, and to pass it.
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Minimum deposit
The deposit a proposal needs before voting starts. Anyone may add to it while the deposit period lasts.
- 1,000 BAND
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Deposit on submitting
The share of the minimum deposit the proposer must put up when submitting a proposal.
- None
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Smallest top-up
The smallest deposit anyone may add to a proposal, as a share of the minimum deposit.
- 1%
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Deposit period
How long a proposal has to reach its minimum deposit. One that doesn't is dropped without a vote.
- 2 days
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Voting period
How long voting on a proposal lasts.
- 2 days
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Quorum
The share of all staked tokens that must vote, whatever the option, for the result to count. Below it, the proposal fails.
- 33.4%
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Pass threshold
The share of Yes needed to pass, counting every vote except Abstain.
- 50%
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Veto threshold
If at least this share of the votes is No with Veto, the proposal fails whatever the other votes.
- 33.4%
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Deposit burned on veto
Whether a vetoed proposal's deposit is burned rather than paid back: the penalty for spam or harmful proposals.
- Yes
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Deposit burned without quorum
Whether a proposal's deposit is burned when too few vote for the result to count.
- No
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Cancel penalty
The share of a proposal's deposit burned when its proposer withdraws it during the vote.
- 50%
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Expedited deposit
The deposit an expedited proposal needs: a fast-tracked vote with a shorter voting period and a higher threshold.
- 2,000 BAND
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Expedited voting period
How long an expedited vote lasts. One that doesn't pass in time becomes a regular proposal, and the vote goes on.
- 1 day
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Expedited pass threshold
The share of Yes an expedited proposal needs to pass.
- 66.7%
Inflation
How new BAND is minted to pay stakers.
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Inflation now
The yearly rate at which new tokens are minted now. It moves a little every block towards its target.
- 16.21%
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Lowest inflation
The lowest the yearly inflation may go.
- 7%
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Highest inflation
The highest the yearly inflation may go.
- 20%
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Target staked share
The share of all tokens the chain aims to have staked. Inflation rises while less is staked and falls while more is.
- 67%
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Inflation change a year
The most the inflation can move in a year towards its target.
- 13%
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Blocks a year
The number of blocks the mint takes a year to have; it mints each block's share of the yearly inflation on that basis, so faster blocks mint more in a year.
- 31,557,600 blocks
- Takes a block every 1 s
Distribution
How rewards are shared out before they reach validators and delegators.
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Community tax
The share of every reward, minted tokens and fees alike, kept for the community pool, which governance spends.
- 2%
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Rewards to another address
Whether a delegator may have its rewards paid to another address than the one it staked from.
- Allowed
Fees
The least a transaction may pay.
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Minimum gas price
The lowest gas price any transaction may offer, set for the whole network by governance. A transaction's fee is its gas times its price.
- 0.0025 uband per gas
- A 200,000-gas transaction pays at least 0.0005 BAND
Transactions
Limits on what one transaction may carry.
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Memo length
The longest memo a transaction may carry: the note exchanges use to tell their customers' deposits apart.
- 512 characters
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Signatures per transaction
The most signatures one transaction may carry, multisig signers included.
- 7 signatures
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Gas per transaction byte
Gas charged for each byte of a transaction, on top of what it does.
- 10
Oracle
Band's data requests: how many validators answer each one, and what an oracle that stops answering costs.
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Oracle reward share
The share of block rewards set aside for validators whose oracle is active. A validator whose oracle is deactivated loses it.
- 70%
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Oracle deactivation
How long a validator's oracle stays deactivated after it misses a report. The validator must then activate it again.
- 1 minute
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Validators per request
The most validators one data request may ask to report.
- 16 validators
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Data sources per request
The most data sources one request's oracle script may call.
- 16
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Sampling tries
How many times the chain draws validators for a request before it gives up.
- 3
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Request expiry
How many blocks a request waits for its reports before it expires.
- 100 blocks
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Request data size
The most data one request may send to its oracle script.
- 512 bytes
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Report size
The most data one validator's report may hold.
- 512 bytes
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Script gas
Gas charged to run an oracle script, before the gas for each validator asked.
- 50,000
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Gas per validator asked
Gas charged for each validator a request asks to report.
- 0
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Requests from other chains
Whether other chains may send data requests over IBC.
- On
Price feeds
How validators submit prices, and how a symbol becomes a supported feed.
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Supported feeds
The most symbols that can be supported feeds at once: the ones with the most signal from stakers.
- 300 feeds
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Signal needed
The staked signal a symbol needs to become a supported feed; its update interval shortens with each further step of this size.
- 1,000 BAND
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Shortest interval
The most often a feed's price is due, for the symbols with the most signal.
- 1 minute
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Longest interval
The least often a feed's price is due.
- 1 hour
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Price quorum
The share of validator power whose prices a feed needs before its price is set.
- 30%
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Grace period
How late a validator's price may be after its interval before it counts as missed.
- 1 minute
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Submission cooldown
How long a validator must wait between two prices for the same feed.
- 30 seconds
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Allowed clock difference
How far a price's timestamp may be from the block's time.
- 1 minute
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Smallest deviation
The smallest price move that makes a feed due early, for the feeds with the most signal.
- 0.5%
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Largest deviation
The price move that makes a feed due early, for the feeds with the least signal.
- 30%
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Feed list update
How often the list of supported feeds is drawn up again.
- 86,400 blocks
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Symbols per signal
The most symbols one staker's signal may name.
- 25
Threshold signing
The groups of validators that sign Band's data together for other chains (TSS).
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Signing reward share
The share of block rewards paid to the current signing group's members.
- 1%
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Fee per signer
What a signing request pays each member that signs it.
- 0.000001 BAND
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Inactive member penalty
How long a member that misses a signing is kept out of the group.
- 1 minute
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Shortest group change
The least time a change to a new signing group may take.
- 1 day
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Longest group change
The most time a change to a new signing group may take.
- 7 days
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Group size limit
The most members a signing group may have.
- 20 members
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Group creation period
How many blocks a new group has to form.
- 43,200 blocks
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Signing period
How many blocks members have to sign a request.
- 100 blocks
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Signing attempts
How many times a request is tried with other members before it fails.
- 5
Recent changes
Values that changed since BitBasic began reading them on Nov 7, 2026, by a governance vote or an upgrade. Each is dated when it was first read, and counted once a second reading agrees.
No value has changed since Nov 7, 2026.