Chainweb

Chainweb is a public, proof-of-work blockchain that improves upon Bitcoin’s design by enabling infinite scaling without compromising security or efficiency. Chainweb’s most notable feature is that instead of being a single blockchain like Bitcoin, it is many independent blockchains that can communicate with each other and run in parallel.

We believe strongly in the work started by Bitcoin. In fact, our advisor Dr. Stuart Haber is one of the most cited authors in Satoshi Nakamoto’s renowned 2008 Bitcoin whitepaper. But we also believe there’s a great deal of room to improve.

Kadena’s blockchain contains proofs from two previously valid chains. The idea of braiding two chains together for increased security pre-dates Kadena, but we’ve taken the concept several steps further with Chainweb, braiding together more and more Bitcoin-like chains to increase scalability and security.

In 2020, we forked the Kadena network from 10 chains to 20 chains, proving that it's possible to scale Bitcoin to any size. And we’re just getting started. With Chainweb, we could scale to more than 50,000 chains.