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PRANA Blockchain

PRANA is a proof-of-work blockchain using the Etchash algorithm, launched without a premine. It is the compute half of a two-chain ecosystem whose social half is MELEK.

Purpose

PRANA exists to produce and account for compute. The stated design intent is that an AI system operating on the social chain needs processing capacity, and that a proof-of-work chain is a way to organise and pay for it — hence the framing "mine the compute the people own."

Parameters

Chain ID: 712217
Algorithm: Etchash (Dagger-Hashimoto family)
Block interval: approximately 11 seconds
Block reward: 2 PRANA, paid to the miner
Client: CoreGeth
No premine

Because the reward is a coinbase issuance rather than a transaction, it does not appear as a transfer in a block's transaction list. It can be confirmed by reading a miner's balance across successive blocks.

Ecosystem

PRANA hosts an EVM environment. KulaSwap runs as its decentralised exchange, and wrapped Hive-Engine assets — notably VKBT and CURE — are bridged onto it under multisignature custody, which is what connects the MELEK side to outside value.