Why Kadena
Kadena’s Chainweb solution, as suggested by the name, is a previously unexplored scaling concept that enables parallel block processing across multiple PoW chains that are braided together into what is a web of chains.
Chainweb value add to the scalability debate is not merely the increase in block processing but rather its ability to do so whilst retaining all aspects of Satoshi vision of security and trustlessness, altering only the architecture in so far as braiding multiple chains together.
PoW has presented the most viable case for achieving security and trustlessness in the current landscape but its technical implementations concede compromises to scalability.
This bottleneck is best defined by the trilemma, the inability of any current solution to address all three elements; scalability, security and decentralisation.
Chainweb’s parallelisation and ability to scale a PoW chain, whilst preserving the other two tenets of the trilemma, achieves a previously untapped set of scalable outcomes. Chainweb’s unique parallel chain binding architecture provides a fundamental advantage over classic PoW chains – making scalability a non issue .
The unique design which is able to braid hundreds of individually mineable chains into its network not only immediately elevates block production through parallel processing but also further lends itself to two major efficiencies:
More efficient usage of global hashrate
Maintaining confirmation latency despite the added complexity of Chainweb architecture