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I was fortunate enough to witness the process behind this upgrade up close.
Half a year ago, the only thing we knew was that Kaspa had to become programmable, ASAP. This notion matured into a surprisingly complete and elegant solution in a very short period of time.
Building a development framework is a massive task, so the first attempts were to harness KIP-16's ZK verification opcodes to tap into existing ZK development frameworks, but we did not find a good enough fit.
One weekend Ori sat down with some leftover tokens, and Silverscript came out the other side.
The project grew quickly, and the compiler now enables a wide range of applications to be written and deployed directly on Kaspa in a high-level language (thanks to KIP-17 and KIP-20).
KIP-21 deserves its own post, but it allows for complex ZK-based applications and is a fundamental component of the full vProgs solution.
Together, all these turn Kaspa into an impressively expressive programmable money layer. From simple vaults, through basic contracts to complex multi-contract applications, alongside privacy apps and scalable batch-proving-based applications.
Toccata is the outcome of pure R&D -- deep research and hardcore development, done fast and in parallel (how fitting).
There’s still much work to be done to make the new capabilities more approachable, but it’s hard to understate the power, elegance, and completeness of what the best money layer in the world will soon allow us to express.
@michaelsuttonil@Max143672@OriNewman@IzioDev - Watching you guys work has been a masterclass. Thank you.
This year, the mission remains clear: maximize $KAS accumulation.
We are strictly focused on spot holdings and organic growth—no debt, no leverage, no unnecessary risks. We are currently in the deep research phase, laying the foundation for what’s next. 🧱🚀
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https://t.co/n1qOT2qd7m has been refreshed.
Kaspa has a lot going on, but the main site does not need to put it all at the front door. Its first job is simple: help someone arrive, understand what Kaspa is, and know where to go next.
The previous site accumulated more over time. Pages, explanations, resources, and audiences were added. This version starts smaller, so it can grow with Kaspa from here.
The refresh is not just visual. The wording, structure, and narrative direction all needed attention IMO.
The content traces back to @hashdag’s writing, simplified for a first read. Kaspa is already deep enough. The first read should not make people work harder than necessary.
There are many true ways to talk about Kaspa, but https://t.co/n1qOT2qd7m cannot carry twenty narratives at once. For this version, the strongest one to unify around is real-time decentralisation.
Part of the refresh was also about making the builder path easier to follow. https://t.co/n1qOT2qd7m gives people the overview of what exists, why it matters, and where to go next. https://t.co/FrgQZdNMey gives builders the deeper material, with room for examples, detail, and ongoing improvement.
https://t.co/FrgQZdNMey starts with @IzioDev's work and has the broader goal of bringing important Kaspa L1 builder documentation into one place.
Both repos are public. Pages will be added, wording will change, gaps will be filled, and the work can happen in the open.
Big shoutout to @kasmediadotcom for their support in helping bring this refresh together.
Have a look around. If you see something that can be better, please open an issue or PR.
@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
@kuda_ch@KaspaCom Kaspa n’a pas besoin de bruit pour exister. Sa force réside dans son code et ses fondamentaux, pas dans des memes éphémères qui ne font que distraire de la véritable innovation. L’adoption sérieuse viendra de la scalabilité et du GHOSTDAG, pas de l'image. Restons sur la tech.