- Name
- Kardashev Research
- Ticker
- KARDASHEV
- Chain
- Solana
- This site
- Unofficial fan project
Kardashev
A fan-made companion to the Solana token Kardashev Research ($KARDASHEV), and a field guide to the idea in its name: measuring a civilization by the energy it can command.
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01Token identity
A community companion, not an official channel.
This site is made by enthusiasts. It lists the public identifiers of the token, explains the idea its name points to, and tells the story of the astrophysicist that idea is named after.
The name Kardashev Research is also used by a proposed nonprofit research institute announced on X in late September 2026. This site is not part of it and does not speak for it. What has been said in public is collected, with attribution, on the Public record page.
- Name
- Kardashev Research
- Ticker
- KARDASHEV
- Chain
- Solana
- Mint
- 5wW9mhbwq1HTFh341iimpmrqBB4mfxdXiYhdYBL7hUnp
- Token program
- Token-2022
- Supply
- On the order of 985 million
- First seen
- Around 26 September 2026
- Trades on
- PumpSwap
- Market data
- Not shown. Market cap, liquidity and holder counts move quickly, so this site does not display them.
02The idea in the name
In 1964 Nikolai Kardashev sorted hypothetical civilizations by one thing: the power they can command.
Drag through the window to climb from humanity today to a planet, a star and a whole galaxy.
Humanity today
You are here
We run on a small share of the sunlight that reaches Earth. Published estimates put humanity near 0.73 on Carl Sagan’s decimal version of the scale.
Power compared with humanity today
Humanity today
On Sagan’s decimal scale, each step of 0.1 means ten times more power.
- Humanity todayYou are here
- We run on a small share of the sunlight that reaches Earth. Published estimates put humanity near 0.73 on Carl Sagan’s decimal version of the scale.
- Type I · planetaryA planet’s worth
- Power on the scale of a whole planet. Today this is usually read as using about as much energy as all the sunlight reaching it. In Kardashev’s 1964 paper, Type I was simply Earth’s own level at the time.
- Type II · stellarA star’s worth
- A civilization able to harness the energy radiated by its own star. In 1960 Freeman Dyson suggested that such a civilization might give itself away by glowing in infrared.
- Type III · galacticA galaxy’s worth
- Power on the scale of its own galaxy: roughly the light of all its stars.
An illustration, not a simulation. Distances and sizes are not to scale. Levels use Carl Sagan’s decimal version of Kardashev’s 1964 scale.
Planetary
In Kardashev’s 1964 paper: a “technological level close to the level presently attained on the earth”. In other words, Earth’s own power use at the time.
Read more TYPE IIStellar
A civilization able to harness the energy radiated by its own star.
Read more TYPE IIIGalactic
A civilization in possession of energy on the scale of its own galaxy.
Read moreToday Type I is usually read as using all the sunlight that reaches a planet: thousands of times more than humanity uses now. That is why some sources say we are not yet Type I, while in Kardashev’s own paper Earth was the reference point. The Scale explains both.
03The scientist
Nikolai Kardashev, 1932–2019
A Soviet and Russian radio astronomer. He predicted that radio recombination lines of hydrogen should be observable (1959), co-proposed very-long-baseline interferometry in the 1960s, and led RadioAstron, the space radio telescope launched in 2011. The scale is the part of his work most people know; most of his career went into radio astronomy, its theory and its instruments.
04Black hole
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Controls and the real physics05Go to the source
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Chats run by enthusiasts, like this site. Not official channels of anyone named on the Public record page.
Check everything yourself.
Read announcements where they are made, not on fan pages. The account that uses the Kardashev Research name on X is @Kardashev_AI. Look the mint up on a block explorer before you trust any address, including the one on this site.