The Kadena team declared it will cease all business operations immediately due to unsustainable market conditions, but the Kadena blockchain will remain online under its decentralized proof-of-work model, maintained by independent miners and developers. KDA’s price collapsed over 60% within the week, hitting $0.08, its lowest since mid-2020, erasing nearly five years of gains. The organization plans to release a new binary ensuring autonomous network function, with more than 566 million KDA still allocated for mining rewards until 2139 and 83.7 million locked tokens set to be gradually released by 2029. The shift leaves the network’s future in the hands of its community amid severe investor confidence loss.