Benefit from Kadena Mining - select your miner now

The profitability of Kadena mining depends heavily on network activity. As demand increases and network engagement increases, mining difficulty also increases.

The market for Kadena mining hardware has evolved significantly in recent years. Older devices are now technically obsolete and can no longer be used economically. At the same time, there are now very powerful successors with significantly higher efficiency and performance.

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No longer available/ outdated Kadena Miner:

• iBeLink BM-K3 (70 TH/s) - Formerly one of the more powerful Kadena devices, but now technically and economically obsolete.

• iBeLink BM-K1 Max (32 TH/s)

• Goldshell KD Max (40.2 TH/s)

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Current Kadena miners (as of today):

• Bitmain Antminer KA3 — 166 TH/s
• Bitmain Antminer KA3 — 173 TH/s

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These current models offer many times the computing power combined with better energy efficiency and are currently the most economically viable choice for Kadena mining.‍

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Note: If you're looking for an older model like the iBeLink BM-K3, feel free to take a look at the devices at the top of the overview page!

A home miner would be a device designed for quiet, compact operation at home. With Kadena, however, this category hardly plays a role, because Blake2S mining is dominated by powerful industrial ASICs such as the Antminer KA3 - and those are loud, power-hungry devices for continuous operation.

Technically, these industrial devices can also be operated at home, but in practice it usually fails due to noise, waste heat and the electricity bill. Anyone who seriously wants to mine Kadena therefore usually cannot avoid an industrial ASIC - and is thereby faced with the question of location or hosting.

With Kadena miners, two cooling types are basically distinguished: air cooling and hydro cooling (a form of liquid cooling). All of them mine Kadena in the same way, but differ considerably in noise level and required infrastructure.

In practice, the common Blake2S devices are air-cooled: they dissipate their waste heat via powerful built-in fans and form the standard. Hydro miners are quieter and can dissipate more power at the same size, but require suitable cooling infrastructure and are found mainly in larger, professional facilities.

Industrial ASICs for Kadena are loud, because they dissipate their waste heat via powerful fans that run continuously. The noise level is typically in the range of a running vacuum cleaner, which is why an ordinary living space is usually not suitable for them.

Since Kadena mining is dominated by such industrial devices anyway, there are hardly any quiet alternatives for the living area. Anyone who wants to avoid the noise entirely has their device hosted in a data center, where the noise level does not matter.

Yes, a KDA wallet is needed for Kadena mining, because the mined coins are paid out to it. You store your receiving address in the mining pool so that the rewards reach the right destination. Common Kadena wallets are, for example, the Koala Wallet or X-Wallet.

A peculiarity with Kadena: addresses exist per chain (0-19) and have the format "k:" followed by the public key. Therefore make sure that the payout address entered in the pool and the chosen chain match the receiving address of your wallet - otherwise the payouts will not end up where you expect them.

Several established mining pools are available for Kadena. Among the best known are F2Pool, DxPool and Antpool. They mostly pay out under the PPS model and differ above all in fees, payout model and minimum payout.

A Kadena peculiarity: since addresses exist per chain (0-19), the correct payout chain must be stored with the pool. Which pool is suitable depends on your requirements; fees and terms change constantly, which is why a current comparison directly with the respective pool is worthwhile before making a choice.

There is no single best Kadena mining pool. Which one is right for you depends on the fee, payout model, minimum payout and pool size - and on the pool supporting the payout chain (0-19) that suits you.

Good starting points for getting started are established KDA pools such as F2Pool, DxPool and Antpool. It is best to compare the pools under consideration directly against the criteria mentioned and to check the up-to-date fees with the respective provider, since the terms change constantly.

Technically, solo mining is possible with Kadena - here you mine alone against the entire network instead of pooling your power in a pool. If you find a block, you receive the full reward; however, the probability of doing so with a single device is very low.

Since computing power in Kadena is distributed across many parallel chains and the network hashrate is high, solo mining with small hardware leads to long phases with no earnings at all. For nearly all miners, a pool is therefore the more sensible approach, because it delivers regular, predictable payouts.

Kadena mining is power-intensive. Electricity consumption is by far the largest ongoing cost factor; a single industrial ASIC runs around the clock and continuously draws several kilowatts of power. Common air-cooled Blake2S devices are roughly in the range of about 3 to 3.5 kW - the widely used Antminer KA3, for example, around 3.2 kW.

How high the consumption is exactly depends on the respective device and its efficiency. This is precisely why a low electricity price is the most important lever for profitability, and precisely why mining is often done at sites with cheap energy.

No, Kadena (KDA) does not have a halving like Bitcoin. Instead of abruptly halving the block reward at a fixed block height, Kadena uses a continuously declining emission curve: the issuance of new KDA decreases gradually instead of halving every four years.

For miners this means there is no single cutoff date at which the block reward suddenly halves. The reward currently stands at around 0.95 KDA per block and slowly decreases over time; according to the emission schedule, rewards will be paid out until the year 2139. For profitability, the KDA price, the difficulty and your electricity price are therefore far more important in the short term than the emission curve.

Whether Kadena mining is worthwhile in 2026 depends above all on the KDA price, the network difficulty and your electricity price. Kadena is still technically fully mineable, but the margins have become considerably tighter due to the price that fell after the project's wind-down and the increased network computing power.

Anyone who has access to cheap electricity and efficient hardware can mine profitably under suitable conditions; with expensive household electricity the calculation quickly tips into the red. On top of this, with Kadena there is the increased uncertainty following the withdrawal of the core team, which belongs in your own risk assessment. The most reliable approach is to calculate your own scenario in advance with a current mining calculator.

This cannot be answered across the board, because the earnings depend directly on the electricity price, the KDA price, the efficiency of the hardware and the current difficulty. The same device can turn a profit under favorable conditions and make a loss when electricity costs are high.

Realistically, you should not expect to get rich quickly, but rather treat it as an investment that pays off over months - in Kadena's case additionally taking into account the increased coin risk following the project's wind-down. Anyone who wants to know what their specific setup could bring in is best off determining this with an up-to-date mining calculator.

This depends entirely on the computing power of your device relative to the entire network; there is no fixed daily amount. The higher your miner's hashrate and the lower the difficulty, the more KDA accumulate per day.

Since the network fluctuates and the price changes constantly, the daily earnings shift continuously. How much your specific hardware brings in can only be estimated with a current mining calculator that takes hashrate, electricity costs and the up-to-date KDA price into account.

Yes, with a mining calculator you can estimate in advance what you can earn with a particular Kadena miner. You enter the device's hashrate, its power consumption and your electricity price, and the calculator determines the approximate daily or monthly earnings based on the current KDA price and the network difficulty.

A good starting point is AsicMinerValue, which shows the up-to-date profitability for the common ASIC models. Since price and difficulty change constantly, this is always only a snapshot - recalculate your scenario shortly before buying.

Kadena mining at home is technically possible, but it is economically worthwhile only under certain conditions. The biggest lever is the electricity price, and ordinary household electricity in Germany is usually too expensive for the continuous operation of the loud, power-hungry Blake2S industrial ASICs to reliably pay off.

It looks different when cheap or self-generated electricity is available: anyone who owns a photovoltaic system and would otherwise only feed surplus solar power into the grid for a few cents can instead put it into mining - then home operation pays off much more readily; how this looks in detail is shown in our article on crypto mining with solar power. In addition, the waste heat can be used for heating.

The main arguments against home operation are noise and waste heat in the living environment. Anyone aiming for high quantities or maximum profitability is usually better off with hosting in a data center.

Yes, a Kadena miner converts practically all of the electrical energy it draws into heat - the same waste heat that has to be elaborately removed in large facilities can in principle be used for heating at home. The device warms the room and produces KDA on the side.

It becomes economically interesting above all when electricity is cheap anyway or comes from your own photovoltaic system: the energy used then not only heats but also recovers part of the electricity costs through the mining earnings. Because of the high noise level of industrial Kadena devices, a quieter location such as a basement, garage or workshop is more suitable for this.

The difficulty is the measure by which the Kadena network controls how hard it is to find a block. It adjusts automatically to the total computing power in the network, so that blocks are created at the intended pace - in Kadena's case across the parallel chains.

When more miners with more computing power join, the difficulty rises; when miners withdraw, it falls. For the individual this means: the higher the difficulty, the smaller your own share of the rewards - a factor that feeds directly into the question of whether mining is worthwhile.

Kadena miners can be hosted in specialized data centers instead of running them at home. With hosting, your device is located at a professional site with cheap electricity, suitable cooling and a stable connection, while you remain the owner of the device.

Cryptohall24 offers exactly this hosting: you buy the miner, we take care of setup, power supply and ongoing operation. This solves the typical problems of home operation such as noise, heat and high electricity costs and makes the calculation more predictable. What matters when choosing a hoster is something we summarize in the mining hosting guide.

In general we can host powerful industrial ASICs; at some sites and for smaller quantities these are in practice mainly devices from Bitmain and MicroBT (Whatsminer). For Kadena, the Antminer KA3 is suitable. Very low-power niche ASICs (for example in the range of around 1.5 kW), on the other hand, we usually do not take into hosting.

Whether your specific device fits into hosting is something we are happy to clarify on a case-by-case basis. Compact home devices for living spaces are intended for home operation anyway - we are happy to sell and explain them, but we do not host them.

Yes, Kadena mining is legal in Germany. For tax purposes it is usually classified as a commercial activity, because it is carried out regularly and with the intention of making a profit; accordingly, the earnings are generally taxable.

At the same time, operating costs such as electricity, hosting and the hardware can be claimed for tax purposes. Since the details depend on the individual case, the specific tax treatment should be clarified with a tax advisor. This information is a general overview and not tax advice.

A Kadena miner can only mine cryptocurrencies that use the same algorithm, Blake2S. Coins with different algorithms such as Bitcoin or Litecoin cannot be mined with it.

The reason lies in the specialization of the ASIC hardware: it is permanently designed for a single computing task and cannot be repurposed. Anyone who wants to mine a different coin with its own algorithm needs the matching hardware for it.