Honest talking..
I haven’t seen such a great and strong community as #Kaspa community since my long years in crypto market, I saw many coins and projects launched and got hyped and all of them now disappeared!!
$KAS is with no doubt so different it doesn’t look like any project!
since many (~4) asked me about the zcash bug - - - earlier this year I had this convo with a zcash core dev:
zk: it's weird that kaspa is pruning past records
me: why does it need to keep 'em?
zk: the whole point of ledgers is to prove correctness of all state transitions
me: the whole point of ledgers is to provide focal points for the consensus state
zk: the whole point...
me: hmm then why did you come work in zcash? you know the Sprout->Sapling counterfeiting bug
zk: Turnstile guarantees that the counterfeit could have been very limited
me: true but you still cannot prove or even reason about correct state transitions besides the total supply cap
zk: that's actually a good point
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the most hardcore cryptography coin is shifting away from correctness proofs to practical-enough proofs. I believe this is a step in the right+practical direction, yet the paradigm shift should not go unnoticed - -cryptography is giving way to consensus.
if you came to zcash for cryptographic integrity, reconsider. there are many good reasons to root for zcash prospering. zcash is serving a more important role than bitcoin, whose utility for the original mission is by now blurry. cryptographic integrity is/should not be one of those reasons.
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BTW the bug should definitely have been exploited. I don't know the personal values of Taylor Hornby, and I shouldn't be required to make the effort to learn them. I only know that if I found such an exploit, it wouldn't take me more than a few minutes to tempt myself into printing a longint amount of ZEC and deciding later what to do with it.
I wouldn't necessarily use it to exit the pool immediately and corrupt the supply, I'd wait to see if some portion of the broken pool does not seem to migrate on time (probably lost funds), in which case I would not think twice before claiming the funds myself.
you could argue that no harm done, and you might be right, but then again you are here -- in zcash / in crypto -- for its consensus dynamics, the ability to coordinate interests and convictions across different trust zones around some shared asset; not for some pristine mathematical integrity.
Kaspa Activates Toccata Hard Fork...
@Kaspaunchained officially launches the Toccata Hard Fork release, with mainnet activation scheduled for June 30, 2026, at DAA score 474,165,565.
This consensus-changing upgrade introduces native L1 covenant support and transaction introspection, allowing for expressive stateful contracts on $KAS.
The update also features the OpZkPrecompile for trustless L1 ZK proof verification and partitioned sequencing commitments to scale-based ZK applications.
Toccata feels like one of the most important upgrades Kaspa has had so far.
It's not about chasing short term price moves. It's about making the network faster, more efficient, and better prepared for real world adoption at scale.
The market can do whatever it wants in the short term, but strong technology tends to win over time.
If Toccata delivers as expected, it could be another big step forward for Kaspa's long term growth.
One upgrade at a time, the foundation keeps getting stronger. 🚀
#Kaspa $KAS
**Official Toccata Release — Mainnet Hardfork Activation Included** (Links in reply)
We’re excited to announce the official Kaspa release containing the **Toccata Hardfork** activation logic.
Toccata is scheduled to activate on mainnet at DAA score `474,165,565`, expected around **June 30, 2026, 16:15 UTC**.
This is a consensus-changing upgrade. All node operators, miners, pools, exchanges, indexers, wallets, and infrastructure providers must upgrade before activation to remain compatible with the network.
Toccata introduces a major expansion of Kaspa L1 capabilities, including:
• **Native L1 covenant support** through transaction introspection, allowing for more expressive contracts, including stateful contracts
• **Covenant IDs**, providing stable covenant lineage across UTXO transitions, so covenant instances can preserve continuity as their state moves from one UTXO to the next
• **ZK proof verification on L1** via `OpZkPrecompile`, enabling to trustlessly offload computation off-chain.
• **Partitioned sequencing commitments**, improving support for based ZK applications by making lane-local proving scale with relevant activity rather than global throughput
Please upgrade as soon as possible and verify your nodes are running the new release well before the activation DAA score.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to designing, implementing, reviewing, and testing Toccata.
$KAS Mainnet Toccata Release - v2.0.0 is here! Activation on June 30th at 11AM EST.
Expect multiple videos to come out about running Kaspa nodes with this new update on windows, linux, and mac.
Kaspa Toccata mainnet process update:
Today we plan to publish the v1.3.0 mainnet pre-release, without activation, for 1–2 days of broader network sanity testing.
Assuming everything looks good, the following release will be v2.0.0, with activation planned for June 30, 4 weeks from today
The kaspa community has been loud.
We've been listening👂
Now we're making it official!
If you want @kaspaunchained on Cypherock, here's your one shot to be counted.
Fill the form. Share it with every Kaspa holder you know.
This isn't forever open.
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The only reason I’m still here in crypto is because of Kaspa. It gives each and every one of us hope.
In a world full of garbage and scams Kaspa stands out as what it is - an incredible technological marvel that’s also fair launch.
It’s everything that Bitcoin was supposed to be before the flood of scams and proof of stake crap that has flooded the space.
Kaspa cannot fail — if it does the very ethos and spirit of what Bitcoin and crypto was supposed to be will die with it.
$KAS