How on-chain voting works
Miners state their preference in every block they mine: the ForkState field at the start of the header — the flag this page parses — carries one optional vote for the next fork.
- Vote. For 119 hours (14,280 blocks) each new block can add one vote to its chain's running total.
- Count. In the final hour (120 blocks) the chains average their totals with their neighbors, converging on a single network-wide result.
- Decide. If at least two-thirds of the voting blocks signaled support, the new rules apply from the first block of the next epoch; otherwise the current rules stay and voting starts over.
Upgrades therefore activate only when a supermajority of hashrate backs them, not on a deadline set by developers. For the full story, read Kadena — on-chain voting for miners by KDA Community Edition.
Fork epoch timeline
Fork vote support this epoch
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Waiting for first cut…
Current fork number
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across all chains
Votes this epoch
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avg per chain
Epoch progress
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of 14,400 blocks
Next decision
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at the epoch boundary