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Kava

DeFi for Crypto.

Reference implementation of Kava, a blockchain for cross-chain DeFi. Built using the cosmos-sdk.

Mainnet

The current recommended version of the software for mainnet is v0.15.1. The master branch of this repository often contains considerable development work since the last mainnet release and is not runnable on mainnet.

Installation

git checkout v0.15.1
make install

Upgrade

The scheduled mainnet upgrade to kava-9 took place on January 19th, 2022 at 15:00 UTC. The current version of Kava for kava-9 is v0.16.1.

The canonical genesis file can be found here

The canonical genesis file hash is

jq -S -c -M '' genesis.json | shasum -a 256
5c688df5ae6cba9c9e5a9bab045eb367dd54ce9b7f5fab78cf3e636cf2e2b793  -

For additional information about upgrades:

Validator Guide

Use this guide to set up a mainnet validator. Note that this is a minimal guide and does not cover more advanced topics like sentry node architecture and double signing protection. It is strongly recommended that any parties considering validating do additional research. If you have questions, please join the active conversation in the #validators thread of the Kava Discord Channel.

Testnet

For further information on joining the testnet, head over to the testnet repo.

License

Copyright © Kava Labs, Inc. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache v2 License.