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
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Block size limit
The most a block may hold, its transactions included.
- 200 kB
- 200,000 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.
- 20,000,000
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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.
- 69 days and 10 hours
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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.
- 1,000,000 blocks
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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
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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.
- 100 validators
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Minimum commission
The lowest commission a validator may charge on its delegators' rewards.
- 5%
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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.
- 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
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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 9,500 of 10,000 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 KAVA
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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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Deposit period
How long a proposal has to reach its minimum deposit. One that doesn't is dropped without a vote.
- 14 days
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Voting period
How long voting on a proposal lasts.
- 7 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.
- 20%
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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
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%
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Lowest inflation
The lowest the yearly inflation may go.
- 0%
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Highest inflation
The highest the yearly inflation may go.
- 0%
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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.
- 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
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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
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
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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
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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
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.