**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.
@IOHK_Charles wants to burn his own chain.. 🔥@VitalikButerin is copying Kaspa's DAG tech ..
While they perform on stages and cry on YouTube...
Kaspa devs just quietly delivered 10 years of math 👇
All exposed in the song 🎵🔊
$KAS #Kaspa#Toccata#ADA#ETH
@fernycerouno@CasetaBosque Son varios factores, entre ellas esta la que mencionaste. Pero la más fuerte es parar el acercamiento de OTAN a fronteras rusas. Empezando por Crimea, Rusia no se podía permitir que Crimea sea ucraniana, es un lugar estratégicamente militar.
Hay que estudiar primero la historia.
@fernycerouno@CasetaBosque Desde la tranquilidad de tu casa es fácil opinar. Se te olvido decir "a la pequeña Ucrania y sus aliados. "
Hay métodos más radicales para terminar ese conflicto, pero Rusia no eligió ese camino. Hay otros países que si han implementado métodos radicales.
@Juanitorrres@CasetaBosque No lloró, tengo critero propio y me gusta ver las dos caras de la moneda, no solo una. No permitas que te inunden el cerebro de m... Pensar, investigar y hacer tus propias conclusiones aún no esta prohibido, No deje que te llenen el cerebro de m..., no importa en que tema.
🚨A question to all Bitcoiners🚨
Do you see value in a fair launched, fixed supply, proof-of-work, instant finality - PLATFORM? 🤔
You see, Bitcoin is not a platform. You can send Bitcoin back and forth between users, but that’s it. Nothing else can be done. So what’s an example of a platform?
Ethereum.
Ethereum saw value in becoming a platform by allowing programmable decentralized applications built on the protocol.
The problem? 😳
While proof-of-work was decentralized and secure, transactions to settle those applications were expensive and slow. Thus, Ethreum shifted to proof-of stake and became an infinite supplied, pre-allocated, centralized protocol.
You may be asking: “What’s this got to do with Bitcoin?”
Kaspa 💚
#Kaspa is doing what Ethereum dreamed of doing (before switching to proof-of-stake). Kaspa is fair launched, fixed in supply, proof-of-work, has L2 smart contracts, and upcoming L1 Covenants and vProgs 👀
Studying and adopting Kaspa isn’t necessarily ditching #Bitcoin - it’s a whole new thing that’s aligned with Satoshi’s vision.
Satoshi wanted to cut the middleman out of money. Fine, awesome…
But why stop there?
Why not cut the middleman out of everything?
The realm of possibilities are endless when you build applications on Kaspa.
@Cheshire_Sam@pineiro_munoz@CasetaBosque Soy atontao, pero se el idioma, y conozco gente de ambos bandos, y conozco casos de familias enemigas por el conflicto. No opinó lo que no se, trata de viajar un poco y conocer el mundo, y deja de opinar lo que no sabes desde un zofa. Deja de mirar TV)
I built OpenSilver because Kaspa’s covenant ecosystem is going to need more than theory.
It is going to need open-source tooling, reusable patterns, public review, and a development surface that builders can actually understand without starting from zero every time.
OpenSilver is an open-source toolkit for building covenant-based applications on Kaspa. For non-technical people, think of it like a public library of reusable “rules for money.” Instead of an app needing a company, custodian, or middleman to decide when funds move, a covenant can lock KAS inside a transaction with conditions attached. Funds can release after a deadline, require multiple approvals, stream over time, recover through backup keys, execute escrow logic, support swaps, or interact with verification systems. OpenSilver collects these kinds of patterns into one shared library so builders can use, inspect, improve, and standardize them in public.
For developers, the important part is that OpenSilver is not trying to turn Kaspa into an Ethereum clone. It is built around Kaspa’s UTXO model and SilverScript covenant logic, meaning enforcement happens through transaction constraints rather than a global account-based smart contract VM. The repo includes patterns for ownership, multisig, timelocks, vaults, escrow, vesting, dead man switches, social recovery, HTLC-style atomic swaps, streaming payments, payroll and freelance flows, token-related KRC patterns, and early ZK-aware structures. The goal is to make Kaspa’s post-Toccata programmable surface easier to reason about, test, reuse, and integrate.
The open-source angle is the real point. If Kaspa covenants are going to become serious infrastructure, developers need shared primitives, examples, manifests, CLI tooling, runtime checks, walkthroughs, and public review. Otherwise the ecosystem fragments into isolated scripts, duplicated logic, and avoidable security mistakes. OpenSilver gives builders a common foundation while letting the community audit the logic in the open before serious value depends on it.
It is still early. These patterns are not externally audited yet, and some advanced ZK-facing pieces depend on upstream SilverScript and protocol maturity. But that is exactly why I built it in the open.
OpenSilver is not just code.
It is scaffolding for a native Kaspa application layer.
https://t.co/qCL2BfuWP5
@Cheshire_Sam@pineiro_munoz@CasetaBosque Cuando dices si se hubieran quedado en su país, ya estas mal. La mayoría nunca salió de su tierra que los vio nacer. Mirar y opinar desde afuera es fácil, la realidad es que son gente que los une una misma cultura, idioma y sangre.
@callebtc@NoahOliver1214@stephanlivera Study Kaspa so you can understand BTC lol
Even your PhD isn't a barrier to understanding that we don't know everything; we must always continue learning.
Toccata hardfork activation testing in devnet earlier today showed very promising results with a smooth transition. Truly amazing work guys @michaelsuttonil@OriNewman@Max143672@IzioDev! TN10 hf very soon
@MarcoSalzmann80@Algorand@hedera Este tipo es un monstruo y mi respeto por hacer eso, gano y se negó aceptar ir a los premios, mira la cantidad de view que tuvo, lee y entenderás por la comunidad es tan potente
https://t.co/IQRZquxd9d
@binance,
Thanks for including me in the top 100 blockchain people list, appreciate the signal!
I must decline the Dubai invite though. I do not wish to disrespect, but many of the award voters are avid kaspians who rooted for my kaspa status at least as much as for my research. Let them win or count me out.
Crypto has turned from a euphoric cypherpunk project to a house-friendly casino. You may not be the culprit, but as a top player you hold the lion’s share of the responsibility to correct this, and the October crash your USDe oracle glitch helped trigger adds to what needs to be addressed.
There are three classes of crypto, as @mert put it recently: commercial crypto, casino crypto, cypherpunk crypto. <<Binance should hold a privilege policy for the latter.>> A TBTF CEX should know better and play a different game with hardcore crypto projects.
When binance lists a green frog three weeks post its “launch” but skips a fair-launched-Nakamoto-Consensus-100ms-upgrade-ATH-top-20-the-only-nonbitcoin-marathon-mined project, this is not merely binance rationally calculating; it is also binance molding the market in a way that is alas misaligned with the roots of the movement.
You may feel that kaspa’s sovereign money thesis is boring – that bitcoin is already money and that implementing an internet-speed bitcoin is useless - fine. Wrong but fine. But what’s the thesis for the green frog?
Money is a classic chicken-and-egg product. It is a scam up until one moment before tipping point, “most of the value comes from the value that others place in it.” Considering your resources and influence, I think it's safe to say you can serve as both the egg and the chicken and make it worth your while to push sound attempts towards tipping point.
@cz_binance tweeted recently that “strong projects will be listed.” But binance is part of what defines "strong", it bears responsibility for the market’s compass and impulse and definition of strong. It is not a read-only entity.
Binance listing fees are legit, they are just unfit for category cypherpunk. Kaspa devs and early supporters fairly mined less than half what satoshi and hals mined. We don’t have a 20% ZEC-style founders’ reward or protocol-enforced dev fund; this is not a jab at ZEC and the wonderful @Zooko, who was crashing in my car on a late Thursday back in the low ZEC MC days – if somebody deserves to win it is zooko – but assuming binance is not taking a maxi bet, it should revisit its relationship with hardcore crypto.
We are here through bull and bear, ICOs NFTs XYZs; and we are the source of confidence that restores faith and capital inflow post meme-induced or CEX-induced crashes.
Please fix this.
Thanks again,
hashdag
cc @michaelsuttonil
Exhibit A: Binance Innovation Zone
Exhibit B: 10 bps Nakamoto Consensus
@MarcoSalzmann80@Algorand@hedera Claro que si, siempre DYOR, y dicho esto, estudia l Kaspa, el precio por debajo de los 0.04 es un regalo, el precio de las ballenas esta por los 0.09 más o menos. Yo si lo estudie muy a fondo por eso hablo de el. Antes me gusta mucho hbar, pero kaspa lo cambio todo