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Permissioned ledger

Chiliz Chain ticker CHZ

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  • 5 reviewed developments
  • 40 cited sources

Summary

Proof of Staked Authority in the Parlia engine of ccv2-geth, a fork of BNB Smart Chain's client, which is itself a go-ethereum fork. A capped set of main validators (13 in 2026) produces blocks about every 3 seconds. The set is refreshed each 28,800-block epoch (about a day) from approved validators ranked by staked CHZ, and delegators add CHZ to a validator's pool. Since the Snake8 hard fork of October 2025 each block's producer is drawn at random in proportion to the CHZ staked on it, with a floor of 1/(2N) per validator. Validator owners vote on governance proposals with power set by delegated stake and a two-thirds quorum. Chiliz's docs say this design gives short block times and low fees at the expense of decentralization, and describe finality as probabilistic. 12348102526

Design

System
Permissioned ledgerChiliz Chain (chain ID 88888) runs its own validator set and consensus; it does not post data to or settle on another chain. Anyone can hold CHZ, send transactions, deploy contracts and delegate stake, but a validator joins only after the existing validators approve it in a governance vote, so this profile uses the permissioned class. The current network, launched in May 2023 as Chiliz Chain 2.0, replaced the Chiliz Legacy Chain, whose Fan Tokens were migrated by September 2023. CHZ and other tokens reach other chains only through bridges and token-transfer contracts.
Settlement family
Ethereum / EVM
Scarce resource
Stake (proof of stake)
State model
Accounts
Finality
Probabilistic
Who makes blocks
Main validators are the highest-staked members of the approved set; candidate validators wait on standby. Joining needs a running node, at least 10 million CHZ staked and approval by a governance vote of existing validators. The docs list Allnodes, Animoca Brands, Ankr, Cointelegraph, Exaion, InfStones, Luganodes, Mercado Bitcoin, Meria, OKX, Paribu, Paris Saint-Germain and Socios.com as main validators and K League as a candidate. Documented penalties are loss of an epoch's rewards for missed blocks and a four-epoch jail for extended downtime.
Fork choice
Parlia gives a block signed by the validator whose turn it is a difficulty of 2 and any other validator's block a difficulty of 1, and the client keeps the branch with the greater total difficulty. The client also carries its upstream's vote-based finality (the Plato fork), under which justified blocks would win first, but it is not active on mainnet: the client reports the genesis block as the finalized head while that fork is off.

Qualifications

Tradeoffs

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Emphasizes
Scalability
Gives up
Decentralization of block production. A capped set of 13 main validators, each needing 10 million CHZ and approval by a vote of the existing validators, produces every block. Chiliz's own documentation says proof of staked authority brings short block times and reduced transaction costs at the expense of decentralization. The validator list names the Chiliz Group's own Socios.com among the main validators.Security is not listed as an emphasis: blocks are final only in a probabilistic sense because vote-based finality is off, the validator penalty page and the published client and staking contract code penalize downtime only although the white paper mentions stake slashing for misbehaviour, and in May 2024 a coordinated client release rolled back 37 blocks after a failed hard fork. Readers who count the approval vote and the named institutional operators as a security design may reasonably disagree.
Full node at home
Unknown 67The validator guide asks for a dedicated server with at least 2 CPU cores, 4 GB of RAM, an SSD with 300 GB free and 10 Gbps of bandwidth, and validators run full-sync archive nodes. The general node guide, which runs the ccv2-geth Docker image, gives no hardware figures and offers a Chiliz-hosted snapshot to speed up syncing, which means trusting that snapshot. The CPU, memory and disk figures fit a home machine but the bandwidth figure does not, and the current chain size was not measured.
Throughput claims
  • Theoretical peak: 400 tx/s 24Theoretical peak; not comparable across chains or with observed load.The Chiliz Group's white paper says blocks average about 3 seconds, allowing up to about this rate under normal conditions.Issuer statement in a regulatory white paper, with no stated method, measurement window, transaction mix, gas assumptions or hardware. Not an observed rate: no mainnet window was measured in this review, and actual activity can be far below it. Chiliz's technical documentation and client releases give no throughput figure, so the white paper is the only source for this number.
Headline figures are not comparable across chains. A theoretical peak is never a like-for-like number.

Scaling layers

No scaling layer recorded in this profile.

Capabilities

Capabilities of Chiliz Chain: how each one is provided, or its research status
CapabilityHow it is providedNotes and sources
Account abstractionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Atomic swapsUnknownNo hash-time-locked or other trust-minimized swap mechanism deployed on Chiliz Chain was found in the reviewed sources. Smart contracts could host one, but none was reviewed.
Authenticated data publicationBuilt into the protocolLimited scopeBlob transactions, enabled by the Cancun upgrade on 30 June 2026: a transaction records the versioned hash of each blob's KZG commitment, the client's data-availability check requires a recent block's blob sidecars to be present and to match those commitments under KZG proofs, and nodes keep blob data available so readers can fetch it and check it. Limited: the client keeps blobs for about 18 days, whether anyone publishes data this way was not measured, and there is no update mechanism. 112728
Light clientsUnknownNo light client that checks Chiliz validator signatures was found in the reviewed docs; developers are pointed to shared public RPC providers or to running their own node. 14
Native staking or delegationStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
On-chain governanceStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Parallel executionStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Payment or state channelsUnknownNo payment or state channel layer anchored to Chiliz Chain was found in the reviewed sources.
Programmable spendingNative (protocol or core-team software) Earlier definitionChiliz Chain runs the EVM inherited through its go-ethereum lineage, so spend conditions are smart contracts; the docs recommend Solidity up to 0.8.30 targeting the Prague rules. The governance record lists an October 2023 decision disabling a whitelist mechanism, and the Chiliz Group's white paper describes the chain as open for any third party to deploy applications. 121224
Protocol-verified messagingStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Reversible transfers or recoveryUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition. The changelog says the Pectra upgrade of 30 June 2026 lets ordinary accounts delegate to contract code, which wallets can use for recovery features, but no deployed delay or recovery module was verified. 11
RollupsUnknownNo rollup or validium anchored to Chiliz Chain was found in the reviewed sources; absence was not verified, so the cell stays unknown.
Shielded transfersStructured assessment pendingNot yet assessed for any chain.
Signed partial offersUnknownNot yet assessed under this row's current definition.
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How this feature is provided
Built into the protocol, core-team software or independent software says where a feature lives and who can change it. These are implementation layers, not quality: core-team software is not closer to the protocol than independent software.
Structured assessment pending
The shared review has not assessed this feature for any chain yet (Account abstraction, Native staking or delegation, On-chain governance, Parallel execution, Protocol-verified messaging and Shielded transfers). That does not mean it is absent, and a chain’s profile may already describe it.
Unknown
The review has not established this for this chain under the current definition; the note beside it says why. Unknown is not absent and not a low score. A feature reads “Not present” only when a source shows it is absent.
Earlier definition
Payment or state channels, Programmable spending and Rollups keep the earlier definition until the next fact-check. There, “Native” does not separate the protocol from core-team software, “Ecosystem software” does not say who publishes it, and “Partial” does not say which layer.
Reading across rows
The list of capabilities is incomplete. Do not read these rows as a chain leading or lagging overall.

Definitions, schema version and review history

Ecosystem & custody

Ecosystem products for Chiliz Chain
Product typeStatusNotes and sources
Automated market makersThinKayen Finance, FanX ProtocolChiliz's contract page says the Kayen Finance and FanX teams created contracts for their own decentralized exchanges, and DeFiLlama lists both as Chiliz exchanges alongside a few smaller venues. Kayen describes itself as a DeFi ecosystem built for Chiliz Chain and Fan Tokens. Operators, audits and liquidity depth were not reviewed; DeFiLlama lists no audits for either. 203132 As of Sep 29, 2026.
Issuer-native stablecoinsThinBRZ (Transfero, Brazilian real)Chiliz's October 2024 announcement, which quotes Transfero's chief executive, says BRZ would be integrated on Chiliz Chain, and its docs list a BRZ contract with no bridge. Transfero's current BRZ page does not list Chiliz Chain among its networks, so issuer confirmation is missing. The USDT and USDC here are bridged in through Chainport; neither Tether's nor Circle's own network list includes Chiliz Chain. The docs also list AUSD0 via Stargate; its issuer link was not confirmed. 181930343536 As of Sep 29, 2026.
Algorithmic stablecoinsUnknownAlgorithmic or hybrid stablecoins on Chiliz Chain were not reviewed. As of Sep 29, 2026.
BridgesFirst-partyChiliz Bridge: Ethereum bridge for CHZ (Chiliz), Chiliz Bridge: omnichain transfers over LayerZero (Chiliz), Chainport (Dcentralab)Chiliz runs an Ethereum bridge that locks ERC-20 CHZ on Ethereum and releases native CHZ from a handler contract on Chiliz Chain, and since April 2026 an omnichain bridge to Base and Solana built on LayerZero, whose endpoint contracts the docs list. Dcentralab's Chainport moves CHZ as wrapped CHZ and brings in bridged USDT and USDC. Chiliz's token list also shows CHZ and PEPPER contracts on Robinhood Chain. Risk: The reviewed docs do not say who signs or relays Ethereum bridge transfers, and no bridge audit was reviewed. LayerZero transfers depend on the verifier set Chiliz configured, which Chiliz calls a multi-verifier setup, and Chainport's trust model was not assessed. A bridged token is only as sound as the bridge that minted it. 1718202129 As of Sep 29, 2026.
Block explorersFirst-partyChiliz Block Explorer (scan.chiliz.com, Blockscout), Chiliscan (Routescan)Chiliz's docs list both explorers and recommend Chiliscan. The Chiliz Block Explorer runs Blockscout software on a Chiliz domain; Chiliscan's footer says it is built by Team Routescan and powered by Chiliz. Who runs the Blockscout servers was not confirmed, and no explorer independent of Chiliz was reviewed. Explorer data is provider-indexed, not consensus. 141633 As of Sep 29, 2026.
Hardware walletsThinLedger through MetaMask, Trezor through MetaMask or RabbySee custody rows: Chiliz documents Ledger signing through MetaMask, Trezor's Chiliz page lists third-party wallet apps, and neither vendor's own wallet code lists the Chiliz Chain network. 15383940 As of Sep 29, 2026.

Hardware-wallet custody

Hardware-wallet custody for Chiliz Chain
Device makerStatusWhat users can and cannot do
LedgerThrough an intermediaryMetaMask set to Chiliz Chain, with the Ledger device signing (Chiliz's hardware-wallet and staking guides)Same as native: UnknownCan: Import a Ledger account into MetaMask on Chiliz Chain Mainnet and approve CHZ transfers on the device, per Chiliz's hardware-wallet guide
Can: Stake CHZ from a Ledger through MetaMask and Chiliz's staking app, per Chiliz's staking guide
Cannot: Find Chiliz Chain (chain ID 88888) in Ledger's published Ledger Wallet currency list (@ledgerhq/cryptoassets 13.56.0)
Cannot: See the CHZ ticker on the device while signing; Chiliz's guide says only MetaMask shows itLedger's Chiliz page (modified 2024-12-19) invites users to add a Chiliz account in Ledger Live but does not say which network it covers; CHZ also exists as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum, while Ledger's currency list has no Chiliz Chain entry. 9153738 As of Sep 29, 2026.
TrezorThrough an intermediaryMetaMask or Rabby, which Trezor's Chiliz page names among compatible wallet apps; Chiliz's guide documents MetaMaskSame as native: UnknownCan: Use a Trezor Safe 3, 5 or 7 with the third-party wallet apps listed on Trezor's Chiliz page, which names Chiliz among the supported networks
Cannot: Add Chiliz Chain in Trezor Suite: the Ethereum-family network list in Trezor Suite's current source code has no Chiliz Chain entry (chain ID 88888)Trezor's Chiliz page also says users can manage Chiliz in Trezor Suite and lists Base, Ethereum, Chiliz and Solana as networks without matching networks to apps. Inference: the Suite claim covers CHZ on the networks Suite supports, not native CHZ on Chiliz Chain. 153940 As of Sep 29, 2026.

Public data

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Public-data lookups for Chiliz Chain
LookupStatusWhat it covers and its limits
Address or accountNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
Tokens and assetsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
NFTsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.
TransactionsNot available yetPublic-data lookups for this chain are not built yet.

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Sourced developments

Developments: Reviewed Sep 29, 2026 Next review due Oct 9, 2026, 12:00 UTC.

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Sources

Oldest dated source check: Source checked Sep 29, 2026 Next check due Oct 29, 2026.

All 40 sources were checked in the last 30 days.

  1. About Chiliz Chain (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  2. Differences from Ethereum (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  3. Defining Validators and Delegators (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  4. How to Become a Validator (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  5. About Validator slashing (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  6. Running a Validator node (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  7. Run a Chiliz Chain Node (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  8. Governance (glossary) (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  9. Stake your CHZ (including staking from a Ledger) (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  10. October 2025: Snake8 Hard Fork (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  11. Blockchain code changes (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  12. Governance Proposals & Decisions (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  13. Details on the May 21st outage (Dragon8 hard fork rollback, 2024) (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  14. Connect using RPC (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  15. Use a hardware wallet (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  16. Use a Block Explorer (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  17. Using Chiliz Bridge (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  18. Using Chainport (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  19. Stablecoins on Chiliz Chain (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  20. Smart Contract Addresses (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  21. Token Contract Addresses (CHZ, PEPPER and Fan Tokens on Chiliz Chain, Solana, Base and Robinhood Chain) (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  22. Chiliz Chain Ecosystem (validators, wallets, tools) (external site)Chiliz Chain Docs · retrieved
  23. contracts/Staking.sol (v2-genesis-config master branch: staking system contract, missed-block penalties and jail) (external site)Chiliz (GitHub) · retrieved
  24. Chiliz White Paper, version 1.1 dated 10 October 2025 (CHZ crypto-asset white paper) (external site)The Chiliz Group Limited (Socios.com legal hub) · retrieved
  25. consensus/parlia/parlia.go (master branch) (external site)Chiliz (GitHub) · retrieved
  26. core/forkchoice.go (master branch) (external site)Chiliz (GitHub) · retrieved
  27. core/data_availability.go (master branch): blob sidecar availability and KZG checks (external site)Chiliz (GitHub) · retrieved
  28. params/protocol_params.go (master branch): blob settings and retention period (external site)Chiliz (GitHub) · retrieved
  29. Chiliz brings Fan Tokens to Solana and Base (2026-04-28) (external site)Chiliz blog · retrieved
  30. Chiliz Integrates BRZ Stablecoin (2024-10-16) (external site)Chiliz blog · retrieved
  31. DeFiLlama protocols API (Chiliz entries: Kayen Finance, FanX Protocol and others) (external site)DeFiLlama · retrieved
  32. Kayen Finance Docs: Overview (external site)Kayen Finance · retrieved
  33. Chiliscan: Chiliz (CHZ) Blockchain Explorer (footer: built by Team Routescan, powered by Chiliz) (external site)Routescan · retrieved
  34. BRZ Stablecoin (issuer page and network list) (external site)Transfero · retrieved
  35. USDC contract addresses (external site)Circle · retrieved
  36. Supported Protocols and Integration Guidelines (external site)Tether · retrieved
  37. Chiliz wallet (external site)Ledger · retrieved
  38. @ledgerhq/cryptoassets 13.56.0 currency list (external site)Ledger (npm package via jsDelivr) · retrieved
  39. Safe & secure Chiliz wallet (external site)Trezor · retrieved
  40. Trezor Suite Ethereum-family network config (network-ethereum-suite-common networkConfig.ts, develop branch) (external site)Trezor (trezor-suite GitHub repository) · retrieved

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