I decided to publish a v0 of the toccata dev book nonetheless. The writing style is a bit too AI-ish for my taste, but the content, emphasis, and ideas are by yours truly.
Made a big effort to keep it 100% accurate despite the writing speed, but you (or your llm) should read it with a grain of salt and a critical eye.
Any feedback is welcome. Happy Kaspa Toccata day, and may it all go well and smoothly 🤞
https://t.co/hf3IEWcxWF
Will Fable 5 be nerfed when it returns?
BridgeBench has every benchmark from the original June 12 Fable 5.
The moment access is restored, we are rerunning everything.
If the returning Fable 5 scores lower than the original, you will see it here first.
Independent benchmarks exist for exactly this moment.
It is humbling to consider that if we harness just 1 millionth of the Sun’s power for AI, that will be much more than a million times the intelligence of all of humanity
The biggest coordination failures in history aren’t Prisoner’s Dilemmas. Words from Kaspa founder @hashdag
They’re Stag Hunts..
No one wants to defect. Everyone wants the stag. The only problem: no one knows if the others will show up.
What if a mechanism could make showing up binding, atomic, and trustless?
That’s what Kaspa’s stack is actually building toward.
RTD for real-time settlement. vProgs for programmable execution. Coordination Markets for binding, conditional, multi-party commitment no leader required.
The intendo: a cryptographic conditional commitment. “I will contribute X if enough others do the same.”
Threshold met → atomic execution. Everyone acts at once.
Threshold not met → commitments dissolve. No one loses anything.
No first-mover disadvantage. No exposure risk. No trusted third party.
The internet gave us costless expression at global scale. Polls, petitions, likes — all cheap talk.
The missing layer was never better communication.
It was binding intent.
$KAS isn’t just money. It might be the first unit of account that doubles as a unit of accountability.
You can’t vote without staking. You can’t stake without being held to it.
The ballot is the bond. The vote is the contract.
🫎@Themooseisloos5 has presented this very nicely and special courtesy to him 👇🏻
Thanks for the #Kaspa community to make @hashdag video one of the most viewed on Oxford Youtube channel organically. This is great and gives me confidence to place him on more major (non-crypto) stages to tell the social-economic advocacy which is ground for #Kaspa.
I do think adoption of one technology (over another one) is a value proposition, as necessarily there is a tradeoff (i.e. privacy vs efficiency vs fairness). So again, though every industrial giant @VitalikButerin@cz_binance inevitably will have some touch on philosophical thoughts ("degen communism lol"), I do (in a biased way) think that @hashdag's thought is a bit deeper.
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Meanwhile, it may be worthwhile to think if #staghunt is exclusively solved by #Kaspa. At this moment, the answer is no, since coordination market may be provided by anyone else as well. It requires us to better understand #RTD and explain how #Kaspa is the only protocol that combines the "PoW hardcore camp" and the "Real-Time" camp and achieves both at the same time.
That will be my topic of speech at @festival_web3 this year.