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KAVA $0.06784 down 0.06% Market cap $73.5M

Kava parameters

40 rules in 9 groups, as the chain itself states them, read every hour

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.
kava_2222-10
Block size limit
The most a block may hold, its transactions included.
200 kB
200,000 bytes
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.
20,000,000
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.
69 days and 10 hours
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.
1,000,000 blocks
Validator key type
The kind of key validators sign blocks with.
ed25519

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
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.
100 validators
Minimum commission
The lowest commission a validator may charge on its delegators' rewards.
5%
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
Historical entries
How many recent blocks' validator sets the chain keeps, so other chains can check its blocks (IBC light clients).
10,000 blocks
Staking token
The token staked on the chain, by the name of its smallest unit.
ukava
1 KAVA is 1,000,000 ukava

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.
10,000 blocks
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 9,500 of 10,000 blocks
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
Downtime slash
The share of a validator's stake, its delegators' included, burned when it is jailed for downtime.
0.01%
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 KAVA
Deposit on submitting
The share of the minimum deposit the proposer must put up when submitting a proposal.
None
Deposit period
How long a proposal has to reach its minimum deposit. One that doesn't is dropped without a vote.
14 days
Voting period
How long voting on a proposal lasts.
7 days
Quorum
The share of all staked tokens that must vote, whatever the option, for the result to count. Below it, the proposal fails.
20%
Pass threshold
The share of Yes needed to pass, counting every vote except Abstain.
50%
Veto threshold
If at least this share of the votes is No with Veto, the proposal fails whatever the other votes.
33.4%
Deposit burned on veto
Whether a vetoed proposal's deposit is burned rather than paid back: the penalty for spam or harmful proposals.
Yes
Deposit burned without quorum
Whether a proposal's deposit is burned when too few vote for the result to count.
No

Inflation

How new KAVA 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.
0%
Lowest inflation
The lowest the yearly inflation may go.
0%
Highest inflation
The highest the yearly inflation may go.
0%
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%
Inflation change a year
The most the inflation can move in a year towards its target.
13%
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.
5,256,000 blocks
Takes a block every 6 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.
None
Rewards to another address
Whether a delegator may have its rewards paid to another address than the one it staked from.
Allowed

Fees

What a transaction on Kava's EVM side pays at least.

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EVM base fee
Whether the EVM side charges a base fee that rises and falls with demand (as Ethereum does), on top of the tip.
Off
EVM minimum gas price
The lowest gas price an EVM transaction may offer.
None

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
Signatures per transaction
The most signatures one transaction may carry, multisig signers included.
7 signatures
Gas per transaction byte
Gas charged for each byte of a transaction, on top of what it does.
10

Staking rewards

Kava mints nothing: its community pool pays stakers a fixed amount every second instead.

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Rewards a second
What the community pool pays out to all stakers together each second, shared by stake. As more is staked, each token earns less.
0.317098 KAVA a second
About 10.01M KAVA a year

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.