Kava is a crypto project that aims to provide collateralized debt position on any crypto currency asset. Before now we have some project that has come forth to do almost the same but while such project are limited by scope, in theory, Java happens to be the first defi lending platform thatis promising to integrate multiple blockchains and practically it has brought in Ripple already and Veri soon Bitcoin will come in. But how far and how soon would it be able to meet these goal? Only time will tell.
Kava has dual token that serves different purposes. One is USDX which is going to be used as the collateral in the defi ecosystem and the other is kava which will serve as the utility token for voting and governance participation.
The project makes use of a special form of proof of stake called Tendermint which utilizes the Byzantine fault tolerance mechanism.