David 𐤊

[Kaspa Calls @KaspaCalls]

Kaspa community, follow my train of thought:

* Gemini suddenly mentions Kaspa out of nowhere after years.

* Gemini is owned by the Winklevoss Twins.

* The Winklevoss Twins are the reason why ZEC pumped into the Top 10 out of nowhere after years, after the company "Cypherpunk Technologys" announced a major investment in ZEC. They hold 2% of the supply and 18% of the ZEC hashrate.

* Sompolinsky and the ZEC core devs know each other very well. In January 2026, it was even reported that Sompolinsky met with the ZEC team.

* Wallet 1 hasn't bought anything since the Gemini post.

* The Winklevoss Twins have an investment company called "Cypherpunk". Besides ZEC, there is actually no project that is more "Cypherpunk" than Kaspa. Kaspa would fit in perfectly there. Also Bitgo is integrating Kaspa. This is infrastructure which is needed for such companies to hold and use Kaspa.

* Coinbase enabled Kaspa perps without ever having listed spot. The Coinbase CEO and the Winklevoss Twins know each other very well. It could be possible that perps get deactivated if Coinbase expects a strong move for Kaspa (up or down).

In my opinion, the theory that Wallet 1 belongs to the Winklevoss Twins is the most realistic one I've heard so far (more so than market makers or some random funds).

Additionally, I'm suddenly seeing X accounts interacting with KAS that have never interacted with KAS before. That's exactly how it started with ZEC, too.

This is just my theory, but something is happening with Kaspa in the background right now.

[coderofstuff @coderofstuff_]

Toccata is Live! 🎉

[Michael Sutton @michaelsuttonil]

Here we go again: rehearsing a major hardfork on testnet 10, this time crescendoing into Toccata

Activation is scheduled for tomorrow May 18, 16:00 UTC.

Existing TN10 miners/operators should upgrade now. In a few hours upgraded p2p nodes will stop connecting to non-upgraded nodes as we enter the 24h pre-activation window.

Let’s make the mainnet activation boring by making the TN10 rehearsal as mainnet-real-world as possible

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 CFTC Chair Mike Selig says today's crypto Clarity Act vote brings US closer to becoming "the crypto capital of the world."

"America will remain the global hub for crypto innovation for years to come."

[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

[Kaspa Kii @KaspaKii]

WarpCore on Kaspa TESTING UPDATE:
The only and most comprehensive full stack banking / financial rails on an L1 PoW.
We have completed the following tests:
286 transaction type tests to run using various scenarios:

1. ✅ CBDC Full Issuance Workflow
Token registration → minting → reserve attestation → Islamic instruments
2. ✅ Multilateral Netting Cycle
Multi-participant obligations → gross/net calculations → settlement
3. ✅ Credit Facility Lifecycle
Draw → repay → exceed limits → full lifecycle management
4. ✅ Nostro/Vostro Account Operations
Multi-currency positions → payments → funding → position reporting
5. ✅ Liquidity Pool Participation
Contributions → withdrawals → returns → multi-participant pooling
6. ✅ FX Forward Trading
Quote → forward rates → netting → PvP settlement → T+2
7. ✅ Multi-Currency Netting
Parallel netting across EUR, USD, GBP currencies
8. ✅ Islamic Finance Instruments
Murabaha (cost-plus) → Ijara (lease) → Musharaka (profit-share) → Sukuk (bonds)
9. ✅ Herstatt Risk Exposure
Settlement risk monitoring → high/medium/low categorization
10. ✅ Concurrent Transactions
Parallel settlement operations → fund conservation
11. ✅ T+2 Settlement Workflow
Trade date → T+1 confirmation → T+2 execution
12. ✅ Batch Payment Processing
100-item batch → success rate tracking
13. ✅ Treasury Operations
Multi-currency positions → USD equivalency → revaluation
14. ✅ Settlement Failure Recovery
Failure → retry logic → recovery verification
15. ✅ End-to-End Cross-Layer Settlement
CBDC mint → liquidity allocation → FX trading → netting → nostro settlement

Transaction Scenarios Covered
Payment Operations
✅ Single payments
✅ Batch payments (100+ items)
✅ Multi-currency payments
✅ Concurrent transactions
✅ Failed payments with recovery
Netting Operations
✅ Bilateral netting
✅ Multilateral netting (3+ parties)
✅ Multi-currency netting
✅ Gross/net calculations
✅ Netting settlement
Credit Operations
✅ Credit draw
✅ Credit repayment (partial, full)
✅ Exceeded limits
✅ Credit facility lifecycle
✅ Facility expiry
FX Operations
✅ FX quotes (bid/ask spreads)
✅ Forward rates
✅ NDF fixing
✅ PvP settlement
✅ Settlement risk (Herstatt)
✅ T+2 workflows
✅ Multi-currency trading
Liquidity Operations
✅ Pool contributions
✅ Pool withdrawals
✅ Share calculations
✅ Return distribution
✅ Multi-participant pooling
CBDC Operations
✅ Token issuance
✅ Supply minting
✅ Supply burning
✅ Reserve attestation
✅ Murabaha financing
✅ Ijara leasing
✅ Musharaka partnerships
✅ Sukuk instruments
Account Operations
✅ Nostro account management
✅ Vostro account tracking
✅ Multi-currency positions
✅ Balance updates
✅ Position reporting
Risk Operations
✅ Herstatt settlement risk
✅ Risk categorization
✅ Exposure monitoring
✅ Risk recovery
Cross-Layer Operations
✅ CBDC → Liquidity flow
✅ Liquidity → FX flow
✅ FX → Settlement flow
✅ End-to-end workflows

All 286 tests executed sequentially
Zero test failures
100% pass rate

#kaspa #warpcore #xrp #kii #poweredbyKaspa

[Kaspa Class @KaspaClass]

📢 Great $KAS news!
Kaspa can be clearly considered as a Digital Commodity following the SEC clarification on how federal securities laws apply to crypto assets – 17 March 2026

[Mark @markchadwickx]

Most people don't understand how big the last 48 hours have been for crypto.

• The Federal Reserve just gave Kraken access to its core payment rails - the same system used by JPMorgan and Goldman.

• The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange just invested in OKX and joined its board.

The most powerful financial infrastructure in the world is no longer attacking crypto.

It’s integrating it.

For years Jamie Dimon called Bitcoin a “fraud.”
For years Larry Fink dismissed crypto entirely.

But they were loading up at $3K–$20K.

Fast forward a few years and Bitcoin ripped to ~$126K.

Now apply that to the whole industry, especially utility Alts that will benefit from regulatory Clarity.

This is the part where people will say "I could have bought Amazon at..." - only this time it's Crypto.

Position accordingly. HODL.

[Zealous Swap @ZealousSwap]

USDC and USDT are now live on @kasplex L2.

Bridged in via Kurve. Verified and live on Zealous Swap.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

CRYPTO MARKET JUST SECURED ITS BIGGEST WIN OF 2026

The SEC has changed the rules, which forced Wall Street to need $2 million in capital to hold $1 million in stablecoins.

TradFi broker dealers must follow capital rules. When they hold an asset, they must set aside capital based on how risky regulators think that asset is.

Stablecoins were being treated with a 100% haircut. That means if a broker dealer held $1M in stablecoins, regulators treated that entire $1M as unusable for capital purposes. To stay compliant, the firm effectively had to keep another $1M of its own capital locked up.

So holding $1M in stablecoins locked up about $2M of balance sheet capacity. That made stablecoins inefficient and unattractive for regulated institutions.

Now, the SEC clarified the haircut should be 2%, similar to money market funds.

Now firms only need to set aside a small buffer instead of freezing the full amount. This is a major shift.

Broker dealers can now hold stablecoins without damaging their capital ratios.

They can use stablecoins for settlement, collateral transfers, tokenized treasuries, and other on chain transactions without a massive capital penalty.

And this is where crypto benefits.

If stablecoins are balance sheet friendly, institutions can actually integrate them into daily operations. More usage means more demand.

More demand strengthens the role of stablecoins as core financial infrastructure. Stablecoins are the bridge between traditional finance and crypto markets.

Wall Street can hold and use them efficiently, adoption accelerates. And it'll lower the biggest barrier that was keeping stablecoins out of institutional finance.

[Classic @Classicxbt]

NEWS:

Michael Sutton confirms Kaspa is aiming for a hard fork on May 5th, 2026, introducing native assets and laying the groundwork for future programmable features on mainnet. 🤞

[Lucky @LLuciano_BTC]

Market rotation will happen, and $KAS will be the front-runner. ✅

NFA.

[Hans Moog @hus_qy]

Have you ever looked at different DLT projects and realized they're all converging on the same ideas, just with different terminology?

And have you ever wondered what would happen if you forced all DLT projects to have a baby, where each could only contribute their most powerful ideas?

You'd be surprised by the overlap - how non-unique many projects actually are - and how few genuinely good ideas exist. Often they sound almost trivial once you strip away the noise.

The problem is that fundamental breakthroughs get buried under layers of unnecessary complexity - the inevitable result of gradually expanding a protocol's capabilities as research progresses.

With Kaspa, we have the benefit of being late. In fact, we're so late that we arrive at the party when almost all the research has already been done. We can skip the archaeology and just make that perfect baby - making the final breakthrough on our quest for perfection.

Today we are open-sourcing our vprogs framework: https://t.co/eCvvSAyt1n

A post-Amdahl execution engine that enables inter-block parallelism and linear scaling beyond boundaries traditionally assumed to be possible in the context of DLT execution.

By deeply understanding causal actors and domains, we eliminate almost all logic and instead encode behavior in dependencies and relational properties of a generic type framework.

This allows us to transparently map hardware resources to workload - achieving linear scalability.

The design principles:

- No fsync / WAL flush boundaries
- No mutexes / locks
- Versioned append-only data with efficient rollbacks
- Maximal parallelism - even inter-block - breaking through Amdahl's law
- No wasted CPU cycles on speculative execution

This repo is still heavily WIP with rough edges (we don't even prune state yet). But the goal of this repository is to create a concrete instantiation of all existing research directions condensed into a singular, maximally performant type framework that gets away with almost no logic.

There's still room for improvements (zero-copy deserialization, NUMA affinity, etc.) but we're converging toward a system that can eventually no longer be optimized or simplified.

The holy grail of blockchain execution isn't more complex but orders of magnitude less complex than anything that exists today!

I am really looking forward to tell you more about this in the coming weeks (I just ordered a new microphone pre-amp to be able to host regular hangouts where we can discuss and explain how everything works under the hood - let's pray for a fast delivery 😅).

[Kaspa Kii @KaspaKii]

Tomorrow our amazing friends and colleagues @DiiDesertEnergy will present at Masdar, UAE, the key findings from the new Dii Desert Energy 'MENA Energy Outlook 2026 – Renewables, Hydrogen and Energy Storage Insights 2030 report’. It's important to remember that secure, fast and scalable, global information carriers such as Kaspa are a key layer to achieve this energy transition and help open these markets.

#Kaspa

[Kaspa @KASPAglobal]

The Kaspa Roadmap - What's Coming and When

Most crypto roadmaps are vaporware. "Coming soon" means "maybe never." Kaspa's recent track record says otherwise.

Already delivered: Crescendo upgrade (May 2025). Achieved 10 blocks per second with 100ms block times. Activated on schedule. Not delayed. Not broken. Just shipped.

Coming Q1-Q2 2026: Covenants++ hard fork. Three main features: extended covenants for programmable spending rules, ZK proof verifier for trustless L2 integration, miner payload inspection for oracle infrastructure. Mainnet mid-2026 if testing goes smoothly.

This is not the full programmability story. This is scaffolding. It enables L2 teams to integrate cleanly, lets developers experiment with covenants, gives R&D real-world feedback before vProgs ships.

Coming 2026-2027: DAGKnight upgrade. Removes hardcoded consensus parameters, adapts to network conditions in real-time. Targets 100+ blocks per second, enabling 30,000+ transactions per second. This is the "broadband moment" for Kaspa.

Coming 2026-2027: vProgs MVP. Off-chain execution with ZK proof verification, atomic composability through L1 computational DAG, Cairo VM for efficient proving (cost tied to execution steps not program size) . Gradual deployment with working versions that upgrade toward full design.

Also planned: Reverse MEV auctions (miners compete to give users kickbacks instead of extracting value). Oracle voting (decentralized real-world data through miner attestation). ZK bridges for L1-L2 composability.

Timeline credibility matters. The rust rewrite took longer than expected. Crescendo hit its May 2025 deadline. Current R&D under Yoni and Michael's leadership has matured. When they set timelines now, they mean them.

This is not "check back in 5 years." This is iterative mainnet deployment with MVPs that work, learn, improve, upgrade. Real milestones. Real products. Real progress.

Next in The Kaspa Blueprint Series: real-world use cases beyond speculation.

[Kaspa Kii @KaspaKii]

Launching Today:
WarpCore: ISO 20022 In. Kaspa Finality Out.

Today we’re launching WarpCore (Phase 1) in a sandbox environment for financial institutions.

WarpCore acts as a universal adapter:
ISO 20022 ⇄ deterministic Kaspa logic.

Banks keep their existing messaging, controls, and compliance pipelines - while settling verifiable, immutable financial events on Kaspa at incredible speed, without compromising decentralisation. Secured by Proof of Work.

This is not a new rail.
It’s a translation layer.

Legacy systems in.
Cryptographic finality out.

More to come...

#kaspa $kas #xrp #ada #xlm #iso20022

[ELLIPAL @ELLIPAL]

👀 Kaspa fam, we hear you.

$KAS support is coming to ELLIPAL,
and Titan 2.0 will be the first to get it.

Q1 integration in progress —
built secure, air-gapped, and community-driven.

@kaspaunchained @Kaspa_KEF

[Igra Labs @Igra_Labs]

Update from the deck.

Rough seas ahead of El Dorado. V2 hardening is taking longer than expected as more reorg edge cases surface, the kind you only find under real load. We won't dock until the ship is solid.

Galleon release moves to mid January. Better to delay than arrive with holes in the hull.

Meanwhile:
- Attesting Protocol spec, the cornerstone of Igra economy and security, will be published this week for community scrutiny.
- ATAN storage layer shared with Kaspa core devs for internal review.
- Transaction format and entry tx spec open-sourced, wallet teams already building permissionless KAS wrapping.
- Kaswallet open-sourcing this week.

[Bitcoin.com News @BitcoinNews]

Kaspa feels like the continuation of #Bitcoin, explains James Lee.

@KaspaFinance founder @cryptojameslee breaks down the tech during @token2049 — blockDAG architecture, proof-of-work consensus, and 10 blocks per second throughput. 🔽 https://t.co/YwjR1BDhMv

[Kaspa Eco Foundation (KEF) @Kaspa_KEF]

HTX officially announces $KAS (#Kaspa) listing!

Trading goes live December 24th at 17:00 (UTC+8).

Marketing activities that we support will kick off alongside the listing. Stay tuned!