What is Kaia?

Kaia is a Layer 1 public blockchain equivalent to Ethereum, designed to facilitate Web3 access through popular messaging superapps in Asia. It employs Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (pBFT) to achieve a transaction capacity of 4,000 transactions per second and a block time of one second, ensuring almost instant transaction finality.

The founding details and native governance model for Kaia are not specified. The technical infrastructure supports a wide range of applications, though specific use cases are not outlined in the description.