Scott

[BSCN @BSCNews]

Kaspa's Toccata hard fork is live on mainnet

kaspa:native just hard forked. Toccata activated on mainnet today, the biggest upgrade in Kaspa's history.

It turns a high-speed payments chain into a programmable Layer 1: native tokens, covenants, and zero-knowledge proof verification at the base layer.

Toccata lays the groundwork, it doesn't ship the apps. The race now is what gets built on top.

[s c a p e ‎. 𐤊 @ScapeSquad]

HAPPY $KAS TOCCATA DAY 🎉

[Kaspa Kii @KaspaKii]

A follow-on to the post-quantum signature work on Kaspa. We've now reached past signatures to the harder half of the problem and have a first result on testnet 10.

The PQ UTXO-commitment accumulator:

In plain terms: protecting your coins has two halves. One is the signature that proves you authorised a spend, we showed the NIST post-quantum signatures (ML-DSA, SLH-DSA, Falcon) can be checked on Kaspa. The other half is the ledger's running summary of who owns what. Kaspa builds that summary with MuHash, which isn't quantum-safe, and it's the harder half to fix.

This experiment swaps that summary for a quantum-safe one, a hash tree and shows two things on testnet. First, you can prove a change to it (a coin spent, a coin created) and have Kaspa's nodes check that proof. Second, for one specific update we hardcoded in advance, the summary advanced only when a valid proof of that update was presented and the network rejected both a faked proof and an attempt to divert the coin elsewhere. (It does not yet accept arbitrary updates that's the next, harder step.)

It's a feasibility experiment, not a finished feature. It isn't in consensus, proving one update is slow (~25 min on a basic laptop), the transition is pre-wired rather than general, and we're not claiming to have replaced MuHash. Just showing the harder half is reachable with the same tools that handled the signatures.

The detail, for those who want it:

Why MuHash is the hard part: it commits to the UTXO set with cheap incremental updates (add = a multiply, remove = a divide). But its security reduces to a discrete-log-style assumption, and Shor's algorithm breaks discrete log so the speed comes from structure that isn't post-quantum. The conservative swap is a hash-based Merkle tree: quantum-safe on SHA-256 alone, but you lose the cheap updates.

ZK closes that gap. We model the UTXO set as a 256-deep sparse Merkle tree and prove one transition remove the spent coin's leaf, add the created coin's leaf, old root → new root , entirely in hash operations, in a zkVM. Nodes verify that update succinctly, with cost independent of the set's size while proving stays expensive (~25 min), which is exactly the open systems problem.

We also enforce it as on-chain state, for one transition. The root is committed in a covenant's state; spending it requires (1) the single output to be the pre-committed successor state, and (2) a valid transition proof for the (R_old → R_new) the redeem commits both checked on-chain. On TN10 the advance confirmed: the covenant forced the coin to the successor and required the proof. A coin sent to the wrong successor was rejected by the covenant's destination check; a tampered proof was rejected by the ZK verifier two independent gates, two distinct failures.

Honest scope, plainly: the successor is pre-chosen the redeem hardcodes the next state's address and the journal. So the proof's new root and the destination's new root are equal by construction, not cross-checked on-chain (both sit inside hashes). This enforces one fixed transition, not a covenant that accepts any valid successor, that needs more machinery. The leaves are abstract too, so this proves the mechanism, not an update to Kaspa's live UTXO set. Residual assumptions are symmetric-primitive: SHA-256 under Grover, plus Fiat-Shamir soundness in the QROM not discrete log. The verification path has no pairing, no lattice, no Shor-breakable assumption. Not a MuHash replacement; doing this at block-rate in consensus is wide open.

On TN10: Accumulator transition verified: bfcad4dd0561706dd3e423a991ddb8406de1d3e16547ed9ba441dd4f659d6a34

State advanced (R_old → R_new) 0a34fb1c3e40b26d1e546bbb7ea3710f779c0d2e2285f8a7fec977ca01e93da8

This is the lattice/ZK lane, now reaching toward the commitment layer.

Some notes:

"No conjecture?" → We avoid Shor-breakable assumptions. Residual: SHA-256/Grover + Fiat-Shamir-in-QROM heuristic, a much better PQ footing than discrete log, not zero assumptions.

The accumulator and ZK-Merkle-update are standard; the demonstration is a PQ-secure commitment with on-chain-verified, on-chain-gated updates running against Kaspa's deployed opcode. Engineering feasibility, not a new primitive.

On-chain we enforce (a) the output is the pre-committed successor and (b) a valid proof for the committed journal exists. The two roots are equal by construction (we wrote the same R_new into both, publicly verifiable), not cross-checked on-chain, both are inside hashes. Making the covenant accept ANY valid successor (extract/verify R_new trustlessly) is the next step.

So it's just an anchored proof dressed up as a state machine? → The advance is more than the anchor: the covenant forces the coin to the successor state AND requires the proof — wrong destination and tampered proof each fail, at different layers. It's ONE pre-wired hop, not a general machine, we say that plainly.

Verification cost is independent of the UTXO-set size; proving stays ~25 min (the open systems problem). We don't claim O(1).

MuHash isn't weak because it's homomorphic. → Yes, and this post says so: weak because its security reduces to discrete log, which Shor breaks. The homomorphism is just why updates are cheap.

If you managed to get this far, we hope you found this interesting.

[Michael Sutton @michaelsuttonil]

why I’m personally excited about Kaspa’s upcoming Toccata covenants

- for the first time, I can build creative, complex apps directly over infrastructure I helped design and build
- we designed under architectural constraints, but the result came out surprisingly expressive and powerful
- Silverscript is cool as hell
- I can literally open a *.sil file and write a complex contract that will be fully verified on Kaspa L1
- (nottoself: create a 10-minute video showing the building of such an app e2e)
- I can design my own vaults and safeguards, and manage funds securely without risking a heart attack each time I touch a wallet
- covenant ids, contract templates, and inter-covenant communication (ICC) feel like a new set of axioms, or a new algebra to work with and discover
- sig verify from stack / sighash anyone-can-pay + covenant ids can allow interesting shared-state covenants (requires a non-consensus miner policy; kudos to @maxibitcat for pushing this line of thinking)
- complex contract systems can be deployed in one spk hash. no storage rent, no deployment tax; users pay only the transient mass for tx data as they use it
- as I’ve mentioned in the past, this becomes especially interesting for AI/agentic environments, where bots could cheaply create one-time agreements between themselves
- I didn’t even mention based apps yet. That’s a whole vertical that isn’t ready for exploration yet, but will be very soon

[Kaspa Kii @KaspaKii]

Today Kii have completed our main flagship projects which will all be running directly on the L1. Now just the final security hardening and migration to enterprise servers. June is going to be a blast!

And we have a few surprises in store!

Kaspa is an incredible platform to develop on and is only going to get even better.

#kaspa #thinkKaspa #KaspainEnterprise

[s c a p e ‎. 𐤊 @ScapeSquad]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

$KAS BIGGEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Yonatan Sompolinsky @OxfordUnion

Make sure you like, comment & share!!

[Lockr @getlockrapp]

🔐 Lockr Chat: True Web3 secure messaging

Your wallet address stores access keys — verified directly by Kaspa's blockDAG.

End-to-end AES-256 encryption ensures messages stay private before they ever leave your device. Zero-knowledge from start to finish.
#kaspa @ScapeSquad

[Lockr @getlockrapp]

Encryption strength matters 🔐
Lockr Chat uses AES-256 encryption + zero-knowledge privacy — messages and PDFs are encrypted before they ever leave your device.

would you rather subscribe by fiat (easy) or go wallet-only (anonymous)?
@ScapeSquad @kaspaunchained @xximpod
#Kaspa

[𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙚𝙆𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙖𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𐤊 @TrueKaspaBeliev]

To understand Kaspa deeply, one must first understand the great lie of modern money (and Proof of Stake).

The lie says:
"Value can be created from nothing."

Banks print money from thin air.

PoS networks grant interest to those who already have money, in a closed loop requiring no effort.

But Physics is unforgiving. In our universe, there are no free lunches.

The Law of Conservation of Energy states:
You cannot create something from nothing.

​Kaspa is Physics' rebellion against Economics.

​It is based on a principle called Unforgeable Costliness.

To create Kaspa, one must burn energy (electricity/computation).

Why is this critical?
Because Energy is the only thing in the universe that cannot be faked.

You can fake a smile, you can fake a corporate balance sheet, you can fake an election promise.

But you cannot fake a Joule of energy. You either spent it, or you didn't.

​The Untold Angle:
Kaspa as a Historical Battery 🔋
​Think of Kaspa not as a currency, but as a Battery.

When a miner runs a machine, they take energy from the present (electricity, wind, solar) and "compress" it into a digital block.

This energy doesn't disappear.

It transforms into Security.

It transforms into Truth.

When you hold 1,000 KAS, you are effectively holding "frozen energy" invested in the past to protect your ledger entry.

​The difference between Bitcoin and Kaspa in this context is like the difference between a Leaking Battery and a Superconductor.

Because Bitcoin is slow and discards orphan blocks, it wastes a portion of the energy invested in it.

Kaspa, thanks to the DAG, utilizes nearly 100% of the invested energy to secure the network.

It is history's most efficient thermodynamic machine for converting Electricity into Trust.

in 50 years, when historians look back, they will see that Kaspa was the moment humanity discovered how to store the value of its labor forever.

It is the dam that stops the Entropy (chaos) of the economy.

In a normal economy, your money melts (inflation).

The energy you invested in work "leaks" out.

In Kaspa, the wall of energy (Hashrate) protects your time from erosion.

​This is not just an algorithm.

It is a Time Capsule, hermetically sealed by the laws of physics themselves.
​⚡⏳🔒

#Kaspa #KAS #Thermodynamics #EnergyMoney #Entropy #PhysicsOfMoney #ProofOfWork #UnforgeableCostliness #ConservationOfEnergy #Truth

[Kaspa Kii @KaspaKii]

GeoSeal

Proof of Place. Proof of Existence. Built on Kaspa.

Enterprises don’t need more location data.
They need verifiable truth about the physical world.

GeoSeal provides cryptographic Proof of Place and Proof of Existence for people, assets, and key events, anchored immutably on Kaspa.

It proves in a way that cannot be rewritten later that:

• a person was present
• an asset existed
• an event occurred

at a specific place, within defined bounds, at a specific time.

GeoSeal is not tracking.

It produces intentional, event-based attestations only when invoked.

This distinction is critical for enterprise and regulatory use.

Why this matters

• CBAM requires proof of where production actually occurred
• Logistics requires provable chain-of-custody events
• RWA requires proof that assets exist in the real world
• Energy & infrastructure require verifiable on-site events

Without proof of existence at location, digital records cannot be trusted.

Proof of Existence is the missing layer

GeoSeal does not just prove presence.
It proves existence at location.
That nuance is critical.

For example:

• proving a facility exists where claimed (CBAM)
• proving a container existed at a port (logistics)
• proving infrastructure assets exist for RWA issuance
• proving yield-producing assets are physically present and operational

Without proof of existence, digital representations of physical assets fail under scrutiny.

Enterprise use cases:

CBAM & Trade Compliance

Proof that production capacity and processing occurred at regulated locations, within compliant time windows
- without exposing sensitive site data.

Logistics & Shipping
Proof that containers, cargo, and custody events occurred at specific ports, depots, and handover points - verifiable years later.

Real-World Assets (RWA)
Proof that assets exist at minting, inspection, transfer, and yield reporting
- providing physical grounding for digital instruments.

Energy & Infrastructure
Proof that inspections, maintenance, and operational events occurred on-site
- replacing attestations with evidence.

GeoSeal in the Kii stack:
GeoSeal is a foundational component of Kii's enterprise architecture.

It underpins:

• real-world asset recording
• regulatory compliance workflows
• logistics and chain-of-custody
• infrastructure verification
• yield-producing physical assets

Without verifiable Proof of Place and Proof of Existence, none of this scales safely.

GeoSeal provides cryptographic Proof of Place and Proof of Existence for people, assets, and key events - designed for enterprise, built for regulation, and anchored on Kaspa.

No central authority.
No mutable logs.
No trust assumptions.

GeoSeal is Proof of Place and Proof of Existence - enterprise-grade, regulation-ready, and built on Kaspa.

#Kaspa

[𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙚𝙆𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙖𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𐤊 @TrueKaspaBeliev]

For thousands of years, money worked in "Batches."

A salary comes once a month.

An electricity bill is paid once every two months.

A Bitcoin block is mined once every 10 minutes.

Our lives are continuous (we breathe constantly, consume power constantly), but our money is "discrete"—it moves in jumps.

Why?
Because of technological limitations.

Moving gold is hard.

Banking transfers are expensive.

So, we pile it up and send it all at once.

​Kaspa broke the vessel.

​With the vision of 10 blocks per second (and eventually 100), Kaspa does something the human brain struggles to grasp:
It makes the "Block" disappear.
When something happens 100 times a second, it stops feeling like "drops" and becomes a "stream."

Just like in movies, we don't see individual pictures but smooth motion (because it runs at 24 frames per second), Kaspa turns money into smooth motion.

​Why does this change the world?
It opens the door to a completely new type of economy:
Streaming Money.

​Think about the near future:
​You don't pay Netflix a monthly subscription whether you watched or not.

You pay 0.0001 KAS for every second the screen is on.

Stop watching?
The payment stops instantly.

​Charging your EV?
Money flows from the car's wallet to the charger's wallet in real-time, electron for coin.

​Working as a freelancer?
You don't wait for "Net + 60" payment terms.

The money enters your account every minute you type.

​Kaspa is the only currency that can technologically support this.

Bitcoin is too slow;
Solana collapses under the load.

Only the fast, stable DAG allows money to behave like water:
flowing everywhere, in any amount, instantly and continuously.

​The old world moves rocks.

Kaspa built an aqueduct of liquid gold.
​💧💰

[sovereign @sovereign_kas]

In the past 1.5 years, #Kaspa has dropped 80%.

Let’s revisit what has happened since then:

1. @krakenfx and @HuobiGlobal officially listed $KAS

2. Crescendo was a major success and the hard fork went from 1 -> 10 Blocks per second. The entire codebase was rewritten in Rust

3. $KAS hit a record 158M transactions in 24 hours with a peak TPS of 5584

4. the vProgs yellow paper was released

5. @kasplex launched their EVM L2 & @Igra_Labs will be launching their L2 very soon

6. the Cambrian explosion of apps like @kasiamessaging @KaspaCom @KSocialNetwork

$KAS has accomplished more than any other crypto in the past 1.5 years

study $KAS

[Pumpolinsky @pumpolinsky]

Let's see how big the $KAS community Really is!!
Just like, Repost and comment whatever you want.
Let's how much engagement this post gets.

[𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙚𝙆𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙖𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𐤊 @TrueKaspaBeliev]

Let’s talk about Kaspa’s algorithm, kHeavyHash.

Why was it chosen?
It wasn’t random.

The vision of Yonatan Sompolinsky and the team went far beyond today’s graphic cards or tomorrow’s ASIC machines.

​They looked ahead at the wall Moore's Law is about to hit.

Silicon chips are getting too hot.

They are reaching their physical limits.

The future of computing is not in electricity;
it is in Light (Photonics).

Optical computers, which process information using laser beams instead of electrons, are the holy grail of technology.

They consume a fraction of the power and work at light speed.

​Here is the insane twist:
Kaspa is the first (and only significant) currency designed to be "Native" to Optical Computing.

The kHeavyHash algorithm is naturally compatible with how optical processors work (Matrix Multiplication).

This means that in a decade, while Bitcoin is still burning entire power plants to cool down old calculation machines, Kaspa could run on cold, radically efficient, green light chips.

​What is the world missing?
The world sees a coin for 2024.

The founders built infrastructure for 2040.

Kaspa is not just "digital cash."

It is the bridge connecting the old economy (Electricity) to the new economy (Light).

When the era of Photonic Computing arrives, Kaspa won't need to "adapt."

It is already there, waiting.

​This isn't just "energy efficiency."

It is Evolutionary Alignment with the future of humanity.

[Classic @Classicxbt]

Lately, multiple Proof of Stake chains have been racing to lower their block times in an attempt to catch up with Kaspa.

However, $SUI recently experienced multi-hour outages, $APT faced the same issues. $HYPE also suffered outages.

Kaspa? Flawless since the 100 ms upgrade.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

In 2024 during the last peak EVERYONE I knew was getting into crypto.

Literally at peak I was at an event with a group of newbies telling them "This market can go to shit, you don't know how bad it can get".

They shrugged it off.

1 year and -90% later here's what happened

Outside of 1 guy , every person I knew who was getting in then and "considering going crypto full time" is now FULLY out and intentionally ignoring crypto.

I will tell them "dude it was hot at peak, now its so dead the prices are amazing:

And they will be like NOPE FUCK YOU and even look down at the fact I still participate in crypto and intentionally find ways to avoid even considering the market.

This is why so few people ever make money here.

They only become active and highly engaged when the market is already hot.

In order to make the legendary gains...You have to be LOCKED IN when the market is dead AF and everyone hates it.

The moment is now. This is what oversold bottoms look like.

When the market is up 20x and all your friends are giving you crypto advice/sharing picks...you'll come back to this post and laugh.

[s c a p e ‎. 𐤊 @ScapeSquad]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

$KAS now enables on-chain verification of Groth16 zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs.

Groth16 advances #Kaspa privacy and decentralization capabilities, allowing developers to build ZK-based applications like confidential transactions directly on the L1.

Welcome to the beginning of the endgame.

[𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙚𝙆𝙖𝙨𝙥𝙖𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𐤊 @TrueKaspaBeliev]

The current financial world relies on trust in people.

The lawyer holds the escrow; the banker approves the loan.

Kaspa replaces people with Covenants.

This is one of the most revolutionary innovations most investors are completely oblivious to.

What does this mean?
Instead of just moving a coin, you can burn "laws" into the coin itself.

​"This coin can only move if two specific people sign."

​"This coin cannot leave the wallet before the year 2030."

​"If this coin tries to go to an unauthorized address—it automatically bounces back to the sender."

​It’s not a clunky, expensive "smart contract" sitting on a server.

It is part of the base protocol.

It transforms Kaspa from a value transfer tool into a tool for risk management and safety.

Banks won't need to build external defense systems; the defense will be hard-coded into the money itself.

Vprogs:
The Lightweight Computing That Beats the Heavy "Cloud" .🧠

​Everyone knows the problem with Ethereum and its peers: every tiny calculation jams the network and spikes fees ("Gas Fees").

Kaspa's solution is Vprogs (Verifiable Programs).

This is a radically different technological approach from anything else on the market.

Instead of running all the logic on the main chain and burdening it, Kaspa allows programs to run where only their verification is recorded.

The Real-World Impact:
Decentralized Exchanges (DEXs), gaming platforms, and settlement systems can run at breakneck speeds without "clogging" the network traffic.

This allows Kaspa to remain fast (10 BPS and beyond) even when the next "Wall Street" is built on top of it.

The world doesn't see it yet, but developers do:
this is the only way to build true scale.

Technological Blindness:
It’s Not an Upgrade, It’s a "New Species" .👽

​It is crucial to understand: Kaspa is not a "Fork" of anything.

It is not an improvement of existing code.

It was written from scratch, in Rust, based on mathematical theories that didn't even exist 5 years ago.

When you look at most projects in the Top 100, you see patched-up 2017 technology.

When you look at Kaspa, you see 2030 technology.

The ability to perform Pruning of old data on the fly, the ability to synchronize millions of nodes without a central manager—these were considered impossible in computer science until Kaspa proved otherwise.

Integration into the Financial Landscape:
The Layer of Absolute Truth .🏛️

​Where does Kaspa fit in?
It isn't trying to replace the bank's Excel sheet.

It’s trying to replace the Vault.

Financial institutions (ETFs, hedge funds, banks) need one thing above all:
Finality.

They need to know that if a transaction went through—it went through.

No rollbacks, no changes, and it happened immediately.

The combination of extreme speed with Covenants makes Kaspa the leading candidate to be the Global Settlement Layer.

Visa and Mastercard can run on top.

Payment apps can run on top.

But when money really needs to move, irreversibly and mathematically secured—it will move on Kaspa.

​Professional Summary:
The world sees a "fast coin."

What the world doesn't see is a completely new financial operating system.

A system that knows how to enforce laws (Covenants), process logic cheaply (Vprogs), and do it all without compromising a millimeter of decentralization.

It’s not just "another alternative."

It is the technological leap we’ve been waiting for since 2009.

​#Kaspa #SpaceEconomy #Interplanetary #Mars #Moon #FutureHumanity

[Mu𐤊esh.𐤊as @DilSeCrypto1]

Another outage, another lesson.
Sui down 🤡

Kaspa keeps producing blocks ⚡ #KAS

[s c a p e ‎. 𐤊 @ScapeSquad]

Hodling $KAS is like...

That is DEEP. Couldn't have described Kaspa any better.