Strategy you can stake.
- 0.32% PoS reward
- 5 min block time
- 8 confirmations
- 21,000 transactions per block
- 0.0001 CHESS fee per kB
- Scrypt and PoS
- BEP-20 on BNB Smart Chain
- 2016 first block
Price from CoinGecko,
Start staking in three moves
- Download the wallet ChessCoin Core for Windows, macOS, Linux and Raspberry Pi, or Electrum and the Android app for a light wallet. All wallets
- Load the blockchain Synchronising from scratch takes a while. The blockchain snapshot as zip file gets you there faster. Blockchain snapshot
- Stake and earn 0.32% Keep the Core wallet open and unlocked for staking. Your coins help to create new blocks and earn the reward, with fees of 0.0001 CHESS per kB.
Follow the chain
Explorers, price trackers and the token on BNB Smart Chain.
Play the chess computer
Stockfish is waiting in your browser. You have one move at a time and you cannot take it back. Choose your color and the level, the engine plays the other side.
Latest moves
- Jul 17, 2026Version 1.5.4 released
OpenSSL and Berkeley DB replaced, threading and build cleaned up and security issues fixed.
- May 4, 2026Blockchain snapshot
Bootstrap file with the blockchain synced up to block 2,481,138.
- May 1, 2026New developer
Dennis Simon joins the ChessCoin development.
- 2026Roadmap 2026
The plan up to version 1.5.6: libsecp256k1 and SQLite in 1.5.4, a modern Bitcoin Core base in 1.5.5, BIP-360 with Taproot and fixes for scrypt, IRC, NTP and the wallet KDF in 1.5.6.
Next: ChessCoin AI
ChessCoin032 is about to unveil an AI integration for chess and crypto. Before that, the roadmap 2026 renews the core of the wallet: libsecp256k1 and SQLite in version 1.5.4, a modern Bitcoin Core base in 1.5.5 and Taproot with BIP-360 in 1.5.6.
Pay in real life
With IvendPay you pay with ChessCoin in shops. In October 2022 the first coffee was bought with CHESS.
