---
title: "BLAKE-256"
description: "The original BLAKE with 14 rounds and a SHA-3 finalist. Decred hashes blocks and transactions and addresses with it"
canonical_url: "https://hashes.agntn.dev/algorithms/blake256"
---
# BLAKE-256

> The original BLAKE with 14 rounds and a SHA-3 finalist. Decred hashes blocks and transactions and addresses with it

<algorithm-facts name="blake256">



</algorithm-facts>

The BLAKE that lost the SHA-3 competition to Keccak and then got a second life in Decred, which hashes its blocks, transactions and addresses with it. Not BLAKE2, not BLAKE3, and the digests have nothing in common.

```ts
create("blake256").hash("").digest;
// "716f6e863f744b9ac22c97ec7b76ea5f5908bc5b2f67c61510bfc4751384ea7a"
```

14 rounds, as the final submission specified. No HMAC mode.


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