Yonatans talk on how all developments that are happing on Kaspa now (DK, vProgs, oracles etc) all combine to create Real Time Decentralised internet money flows.
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What happened with Yonatan Sompolinsky at the Binance Awards is honestly hard to ignore.
He won the Independent Researcher category. The community voted for him. His contribution to blockchain research is undeniable. His follow-up post addressing Binance pulled in almost 3 million views.
And yet at the actual ceremony… he was completely left out.
No mention. No acknowledgement. The award was handed to the runner-up as if the real winner didn’t exist.
Binance hasn’t responded to him, hasn’t clarified the situation, hasn’t even shown the basic respect of addressing a message from the person who actually won their award.
At this point it feels clear: Binance cares about one thing - the flow of money. The rest, including independent researchers who push the industry forward, seems secondary at best.
You don’t have to be a Kaspa supporter to see how wrong this is.
Crypto was supposed to be about decentralisation, transparency, and giving real builders a voice. What happened here is the opposite.
People will remember this moment because it showed exactly where @binance priorities lie and how easily honest voices get pushed aside when they don’t fit the narrative.
@jasonpizzino Hoping for more than a relief rally, but yes a bounce is on the horizon. Time and technicals will tell if it is more than just a relief rally 🤞🫣
Dear Kaspians, I wanted to share some thoughts about where Kaspa might be heading and I’d love to hear your perspective.
Right now, most developers in the Kaspa ecosystem seem to be focused on rebuilding what already exists elsewhere — staking platforms, lending protocols, DEXes, NFT marketplaces, launchpads. It makes sense; we’re following patterns we know. But sometimes it feels like we’re still trying to attach propellers to a fighter jet that’s designed to break the sound barrier. We’re imitating what worked on slower chains while sitting on an engine that’s capable of something entirely new.
We’re still measuring success in the same old ways — market cap, listings, token launches — because that’s what the industry has taught us to value. But once vProgs arrive, I think the entire model could flip.
Kaspa has the potential to lead a real rebirth of crypto.
Imagine a world where Layer-2s start to feel outdated — where external rollups and bridges look clunky compared to what’s possible natively on a hyper-fast, composable Layer-1. Projects won’t need their own tokens or parallel ecosystems; everything will run directly on KAS, verifiable on the base layer, instantly interoperable by design.
That alone changes the culture. Success might no longer be about who launches the next token or gets listed first, but about which dApps people actually use every day, how much real activity they generate, and how seamlessly they plug into the wider Kaspa environment. Liquidity, computation, and value all flowing through one shared network. That’s when adoption starts to compound.
Once vProgs go live, we could see whole categories of dApps emerge that don’t exist anywhere else (concepts by GPT):
• Instant-settlement trading arenas where micro-bets or predictions resolve in milliseconds with finality on L1.
• Living NFT worlds where tokens evolve dynamically based on data from other vProgs — your Turtle, Punk, or character gains traits as you interact across the network.
• Decentralized social ecosystems where identity, messaging, and value transfer merge seamlessly, censorship-resistant yet private.
• Autonomous DAOs and machine-to-machine systems operating in real time, verified on-chain without delay or external bridges.
All of this running on one layer, with one currency, one shared source of truth.
If Kaspa delivers that, I think we could witness the start of a paradigm shift where other blockchains begin copying this model — the synchronous, ZK-verified, composable L1 architecture — because it simply works better than anything before.
That’s why I keep coming back to the fighter jet analogy. Most of crypto is still busy tuning its propellers — optimizing layer-2s, patching latency, bridging liquidity — while Kaspa is quietly installing its jet engines. Once vProgs ignite, the speed, interoperability, and simplicity could redefine what’s possible.
I’d love to hear how others see this. Could vProgs truly mark that moment when Kaspa’s engines come alive and the network takes off at full speed? What kinds of projects do you think could emerge here that no other chain could support yet — and where might I be wrong, perhaps missing some technical or architectural limitations?
#Kaspa #vprogs @Kaspa_HypeMan@Kaspa_Commons@12StringCara@hashdag@michaelsuttonil@coderofstuff_@fishtuna @TheLoadedLounge @realvijayk
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@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
seems I have found a hidden gem
While the whole market is literally -50%, especially small alts, $MLC is green.
Immense, strange from @MyLovelyPlanet1 token and team seems to be pushing hard.
I need to bet strength, DCAing into $MLC