Taught my 13 y/o son recently about saving his energy in Kaspa, starting him with a small amount to spark curiosity. Today, he added to his savingsâa proud moment. Documenting this milestone as part of his Kaspa journey toward financial awareness and independence. $KAS
In the light of the current demand, we're increasing max iKAS supply to 30M.
Risks parameters are preserved and maintained voluntarily low, until liquidity & market volatility improve.
Soft scale, safe scale!
For suppliers -> still $850,000 in stablecoins available for you to borrow.
Oh, and yes, a new UI ugrade that includes dark mode is coming on mainnet and currently live on testnet đ
âTHE WEIGHT OF PROOFâ
Money is born when verification outweighs trust. Every great monetary asset reaches a point where belief becomes irrelevant.
What matters is that anyone, anywhere, can independently verify the truth.
The road to becoming money is paved with skepticism. Question everything. Audit everything. Challenge everything. If the network emerges stronger every time, you're witnessing the birth of monetary credibility.
Don't Trust. Verify.âïžđ€
$kas #kaspa
$Kas #Kaspa #Toccata
I was fortunate enough to witness the process behind this upgrade up close.
Half a year ago, the only thing we knew was that Kaspa had to become programmable, ASAP. This notion matured into a surprisingly complete and elegant solution in a very short period of time.
Building a development framework is a massive task, so the first attempts were to harness KIP-16's ZK verification opcodes to tap into existing ZK development frameworks, but we did not find a good enough fit.
One weekend Ori sat down with some leftover tokens, and Silverscript came out the other side.
The project grew quickly, and the compiler now enables a wide range of applications to be written and deployed directly on Kaspa in a high-level language (thanks to KIP-17 and KIP-20).
KIP-21 deserves its own post, but it allows for complex ZK-based applications and is a fundamental component of the full vProgs solution.
Together, all these turn Kaspa into an impressively expressive programmable money layer. From simple vaults, through basic contracts to complex multi-contract applications, alongside privacy apps and scalable batch-proving-based applications.
Toccata is the outcome of pure R&D -- deep research and hardcore development, done fast and in parallel (how fitting).
Thereâs still much work to be done to make the new capabilities more approachable, but itâs hard to understate the power, elegance, and completeness of what the best money layer in the world will soon allow us to express.
@michaelsuttonil@Max143672@OriNewman@IzioDev - Watching you guys work has been a masterclass. Thank you.
Toccata Update for KBeam Beta Testers đ
There was a short delay as we had to adapt KBeam to the upcoming Toccata changes.
The implementation is already complete!
New beta builds have been uploaded for review in the Play Store and App Store. Public test approval can take a bit (especially on Google Play).
Want earlier access (Android) ? Just send us an email to [email protected] â weâll add you directly to the Internal Test Track.
Thank you for your patience! â€ïž
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.
Are you ready?! The long awaited Toccata hard fork is a major upgrade for Kaspa, scheduled for 30th June 2026. You can think of it as a level-up that transforms Kaspa from a high-speed POW payment network into a more powerful, versatile platform.
The Toccata fork marks a shift for $KAS from fast payments to programmable platform. Toccata introduces programmability, which allows developers to build complex applications directly on the Kaspa network. Via Covenants, an upgrade the Bitcoin community discusses since many years without any real steps forward, enables smart contract-like logic, meaning the network can now handle more than just simple coin transfers.
With Silverscript, Kaspa introduces a new compiler that makes it easier for devs to write the logic for these new programmable features. And it doesn't stop there! On top of that, the zk (zero-knowledge) infrastructure and the vProgs system are next on line to fully complete the shift to make Kaspa the ultimate layer for everything.
⥠âWhat does it mean for $KASBTC? âĄ
For us, it also marks a major shift for our HUB21 development initiative. With Toccata we're undergoing a transition from simple Telegram bots to more advanced developments, benefitting both KasBTC holders as well as the overall Kaspa space, as we're also building developments everyone can use.
Three developments are already in progress. One exclusively for the KasBTC community, one for the entire KRC721 NFT space and a third for the entire Kaspa fam. But all of them can benefit $KASBTC holders đ
Let the level-up season begin and the teal glow flow your veins!
Before I wrap up this "What is #HASH?" series and actually start doing the work, I wanted to talk about the thing that started all of this: the name.
Funny enough, the name came long before the mission.
Last year, during a rare lull in work, I found myself with something I don't get much of these days: time. Time to think. Time to walk. Time to let ideas bounce around my head without immediately needing to do something with them.
I knew I wanted to create something. I just didn't know what.
The problem was I had no concept, no mission, no roadmap. Just the feeling that there was something worth building. So I worked backwards and started with the name.
For weeks I turned over every #Kaspa related idea I could think of. Technical terms. Protocol jargon. Community references. Inside jokes. Anything that might have enough gravity to pull a bigger idea in behind it. Nothing stuck.
Part of the problem is that I'm not a developer, a cryptographer, or someone who spends their evenings staring at screens full of code. I'm a writer. A commentator. So eventually I stopped thinking about the protocol and started thinking about the people behind it.
And once you're thinking about the people behind Kaspa, it's pretty hard not to end up thinking about Yonatan.
Now, anyone who follows Kaspa knows he isn't particularly interested in personality cults or hero worship. That's one of the things I respect about him. So I wasn't looking to name something after the man. But his handle kept rattling around in my head: HashDag.
And then it hit me.
HASH.
Simple. Clean. Memorable.
At that point I still had no clue what HASH would become. The name had arrived before the idea. But there was something about it that refused to leave, so I let it sit. And over time it mutated. There were plenty of terrible ideas along the way. Half-baked schemes. Concepts that sounded brilliant at 2am and ridiculous by breakfast. But eventually the pieces started falling into place.
I realized the thing didn't need was another project (at least not from me). It needed more visibility. More participation. More people willing to carry the signal.
As I started building around that idea, I kept coming back to the name. And the more I looked at it, the more it seemed to connect everything.
- To hash is to mine and secure the network.
- To hash things out is to collaborate, discuss, and work together.
- Hashtags are how ideas spread and something becomes viral.
HASH is a nod to HashDag and the developers building the protocol. It's a nod to miners securing it. It's a nod to marketers trying to make it visible.
There isn't one meaning. There are dozens.
And then the final piece arrived: HASH-athons.
I love a good play on words, and that was the moment it all clicked. Community-driven marketing events built around action instead of discussion. That's when the name stopped being a name and became an identity. Because that's ultimately what I want HASH to represent. Not a project. Not a company. Not a brand. A mindset.
A reminder that every one of us can contribute through mining, marketing, conversation, creativity, and action.
The NFTs are almost ready, and they'll mark the beginning of Phase One. I'll start sharing more of the collection, the artwork, the whitepaper, and the finer details soon.
But after that comes the part I'm most excited about. The reason HASH exists in the first place.
The action. The noise. The proof of work.
The chance to show what a coordinated Kaspa community can actually do when it decides to move together.
Are you ready?
#onđ€
Tomorrow it's finally time for the first community hangout!
Kaspa Under the Hood: Setting the Stage for vProgs
Grab a beer, coffee, tea, or whatever keeps you going, and join us for the first regular Kaspa community hangout.
We will start with a high-level presentation of the upcoming vProgs architecture and Kaspaâs next stages of development. Since the architecture is extensive, this first session is meant to set the stage for future deep dives.
The presentation is meant to be accessible to people with different technical backgrounds. We will take things step by step, build up the necessary context, and gradually develop a shared understanding of Kaspaâs architecture, trade-offs, and long-term vision.
After that, we will move into a relaxed open discussion where people can ask questions, share ideas, and talk about anything interesting: Kaspa, decentralized infrastructure, incentives, technology, philosophy, or the future of humanity.
Bring your ideas and questions, grab a drink, and join the conversation!
https://t.co/dDIudhbwCG
âDon't Trust. Verify."
Not the influencers.âšNot the headlines.âšNot the institutions.âšNot even this post.
Verify the code.âšVerify the blocks.âšVerify the network.
That's the Kaspa ethos.
Trust is fragile.âšVerification is forever.
That's why Kaspa is open, decentralized, and auditable by anyone, anywhere, at any time.
⥠#Kaspa #DontTrustVerify $Kas