[ANN] KulaSwap is open — DEX · CDP · veKULA

KulaSwap is open
The full DeFi stack — DEX, CDP borrowing, vote-escrow staking, and a cross-chain bridge — live on PRANA, an EVM Proof-of-Work compute chain. First-party, open source, fair launch. This post is the complete how-to.

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▚ First: get onto PRANA
KulaSwap runs on PRANA, our EVM Proof-of-Work compute chain (the chain is the pool — hashing and useful AI-work share one reward). Any EVM wallet works:
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In MetaMask → Add Network: name PRANA, RPC https://rpc.prana.melek.salon, Chain ID 712217, symbol PRANA, explorer https://pranascan.soapbox.community. (Or the one-click button on https://witness.melek.salon/dev)
Get a little PRANA for gas — mine it (https://witness.melek.salon/mine) or ask in the community.
Go to https://kula.money → Connect — it switches you to PRANA automatically.

▚ How to SWAP
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Open the Swap tab on kula.money.
Pick the token you pay and the one you want.
Enter an amount — rate + price impact show.
Swap → approve the token if asked → confirm in your wallet. Non-custodial; you sign every step.

▚ How to PROVIDE LIQUIDITY (earn KULA)
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Open the Pool tab, pick a pair (e.g. KULA / WPRANA), deposit equal value on both sides.
Approve + confirm — you get LP tokens.
Stake them in the matching Farm / gauge to earn KULA (and MWALI once its emissions are on).

▚ How to BORROW (CDP → mMELEK)
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Open Borrow, deposit KULA as collateral.
Borrow mMELEK against it — an over-collateralized debt note, not a pegged stablecoin. Stay under the max so a price move can't liquidate you.
Repay any time to unlock your KULA.

▚ How to STAKE (veKULA)
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Open Stake, choose how much KULA to lock and for how long (up to 4 years — longer = more weight).
Confirm → you get veKULA: vote gauge weights (where KULA emissions flow) and boost your own LP rewards. Weight decays toward the unlock.

▚ How to BRIDGE VKBT / CURE from Hive-Engine
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On Hive-Engine, send your VKBT or CURE to @kula-bridge.
Put your PRANA 0x… address in the memo.
The bridge confirms the lock and mints you wVKBT / wCURE on PRANA, 1:1. To exit, burn the wrapped token and the original is released.

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▚ THE TOKENS — what each is, how to get, how to use

KULA — the DeFi/reward token (ERC-20, emission-only, cap 11M). Get: provide liquidity (gauges pay LPs in KULA) or swap for it. Use: CDP collateral to borrow mMELEK, liquidity, or lock for veKULA. (the vaporwave island — the Kula Ring's trade voyage.)
MWALI — the Proof-of-Liquidity token, minted to liquidity suppliers. Where KULA is the reward flowing out, MWALI is the liquidity claim flowing the other way — the two circle like the armbands + necklaces of the Trobriand Kula Ring. (Design; emissions are being switched on — it is NOT paying yet, and we won't pretend it is. The white mwali shell.)
APIS — the MELEK-Engine's fee/utility coin (the engine is our Hive-Engine, so APIS is our BEE). Get: lock wMELEK and mine APIS over time. Use: pay engine fees — it's burned in use, the annual sacrifice of the god Apis, the sacred bull.
VKBT — the Van Kush Beauty Token from Hive-Engine (the coat of arms). Get here: bridge it → wVKBT, 1:1. Use: trade + LP on kula.money.
CURE — the Curator Rewards Token (the caduceus): the more you hold, the more your curation returns. Get here: bridge it → wCURE, 1:1.

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▚ Where to trade
Live pairs on https://kula.money: wVKBT / KULA · wCURE / KULA · wVKBT / wCURE · KULA / WPRANA. APIS + MWALI pairs are being added.

▚ Build on PRANA
Standard EVM — MetaMask, ethers/viem, Hardhat, Foundry all work. Deploy contracts, make your own token, read every deployed address + ABI at https://witness.melek.salon/dev.

▚ Open source

KulaSwap DEX: https://github.com/HinduTempleCoins/KULASwap
PRANA chain: https://github.com/HinduTempleCoins/PRANA
MELEK chain: https://github.com/HinduTempleCoins/melek-chain
All repos: https://github.com/HinduTempleCoins

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Disclaimer: KULA, MWALI, APIS, MELEK and PRANA are fair-launch community projects — no premine, no presale, no team/ICO allocation. Nothing here is a solicitation to invest or financial advice; markets are new, thin, and volatile. mMELEK is an over-collateralized debt note, not a pegged stablecoin. MWALI is not yet emitting. Verify everything on-chain and in the open-source repos.

Thread updated as features go live — reply with questions and we'll answer.