# Kava parameters

The rules Kava runs by, as the chain itself states them: staking, slashing, governance, inflation and the rest. BitBasic reads them from the chain every hour and records each change.

Facts as of 2026-11-07 19:40 UTC, read from the chain by BitBasic.

- Network: Chain ID: kava_2222-10
- Network: Block size limit: 200 kB (200,000 bytes)
- Network: Block gas limit: 20,000,000
- Network: Evidence window: 69 days and 10 hours
- Network: Evidence window in blocks: 1,000,000 blocks
- Network: Validator key type: ed25519
- Staking: Unbonding time: 21 days
- Staking: Active set size: 100 validators
- Staking: Minimum commission: 5%
- Staking: Unbondings at once: 7
- Staking: Historical entries: 10,000 blocks
- Staking: Staking token: ukava (1 KAVA is 1,000,000 ukava)
- Slashing and jailing: Signing window: 10,000 blocks
- Slashing and jailing: Minimum signed: 5% (Jailed after missing more than 9,500 of 10,000 blocks)
- Slashing and jailing: Downtime jail: 10 minutes
- Slashing and jailing: Downtime slash: 0.01%
- Slashing and jailing: Double-sign slash: 5%
- Governance: Minimum deposit: 1,000 KAVA
- Governance: Deposit on submitting: None
- Governance: Deposit period: 14 days
- Governance: Voting period: 7 days
- Governance: Quorum: 20%
- Governance: Pass threshold: 50%
- Governance: Veto threshold: 33.4%
- Governance: Deposit burned on veto: Yes
- Governance: Deposit burned without quorum: No
- Inflation: Inflation now: 0%
- Inflation: Lowest inflation: 0%
- Inflation: Highest inflation: 0%
- Inflation: Target staked share: 67%
- Inflation: Inflation change a year: 13%
- Inflation: Blocks a year: 5,256,000 blocks (Takes a block every 6 s)
- Distribution: Community tax: None
- Distribution: Rewards to another address: Allowed
- Fees: EVM base fee: Off
- Fees: EVM minimum gas price: None
- Transactions: Memo length: 512 characters
- Transactions: Signatures per transaction: 7 signatures
- Transactions: Gas per transaction byte: 10
- Staking rewards: Rewards a second: 0.317098 KAVA a second (About 10.01M KAVA a year)

## Links

- [Web page](https://bitbasic.com/kava/parameters): the same facts, with charts and history
- [Kava network](https://bitbasic.com/kava)
- [JSON API](https://bitbasic.com/api/v1/chains/kava/parameters): the same data, free and without a key
- By: BitBasic (https://bitbasic.com), live staking-network dashboards run by BitNordic