A few days ago I sold all of my $ETH for $KAS, here is why👇🏼
1) $KAS solves the Trilemma being the fastest PoW, fully scalable layer-1, decentralized with no sacrifice on security for speed.
2) $KAS is decentralized, $ETH is centralized. No potential regulatory threat.
3) $KAS can multiply in price much more than $ETH can in this bull market.
4) $KAS is much faster than $ETH.
5) $KAS is scalable on the mainnet, $ETH is scalable only with layer-2s.
Be sure to follow @KaspaCurrency if you like the sound of $KAS. and myself if you like the $KAS content ~> @travladd
Heidi Reichinnek bricht Interview ab, weil sie keine Antworten auf die Frage der Speicherung von erneuerbaren Energien hat.
Danach fordert sie den Journalisten auf, den Teil rauszuschneiden und der Pressesprecher greift ein.
Das ist die Fraktionsvorsitzende der Linken. 😂
Was damals noch unbestätigt war, wird jetzt durch Recherchen des Wall Street Journal untermauert!
EZB-Präsidentin Christine Lagarde soll persönlich interveniert haben, um die nahezu fertige MiCA-Zulassung von Binance über Griechenland zu verhindern.
Binance hatte die Pressemitteilung bereits vorbereitet und CEO Richard Teng plante ein Treffen mit dem griechischen Premierminister.
Das verrückte an der Geschichte: Die EZB vergibt selbst keine MiCA-Lizenzen. Der Fall wirft daher erhebliche Fragen zum politischen Einfluss auf nationale Aufsichtsbehörden auf. Hintergrund sollen unter anderem Bedenken wegen der Compliance-Vergangenheit von Binance gewesen sein.
It is now possible to write readable Smart Contracts on Kaspa!
@Kaspaunchained announced the launch of Silverscript v1, a high-level smart contract language designed to streamline the development of complex, stateful applications on the Kaspa ledger.
The language removes the technical overhead of raw opcodes, reducing thousand-line implementations into 60-line, human- and AI-readable scripts.
This aims to foster faster innovation in UTXO-based finance.
The release marks the conclusion of an eight-month development cycle alongside the Toccata framework, providing developers with the tools to build sophisticated token mechanisms and layered abstractions.
"This completes the journey we started eight months ago with Toccata — it's finally possible to write human- (and AI-) readable smart contracts on Kaspa," core developer @OriNewman stated.
Worth noting that the KCC20 standard is still not live yet.
Wenn das Volk nicht mehr wählt, wie ARD, ZDF und Talkshow-Prominenz es vorschreiben, fällt die Maske. Dann wünscht sich ein Star-Schauspieler gleich das Aussterben eines ganzen Bundeslandes. Nicht weil es dort keine Demokratie gäbe – sondern weil sie zum ersten Mal anders ausgeht, als es den Betreuten passt.
Das ist kein Demokratieschutz. Das ist Verachtung für Millionen Bürger, die es wagen, selbst zu entscheiden.
Echte Demokratie heißt: Das Volk wählt. Nicht die Fernsehprominenz.
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$KAS : Review 📜
What if proof-of-work was never actually slow, and the only thing holding it back was the decision to throw away every block that arrived at the same time as another?
Meet Kaspa, a blockDAG network that orders parallel blocks instead of discarding them, running at ten blocks per second on Bitcoin's security model. It launched with no premine, no ICO, no venture allocation, and the company that built it dissolved itself at launch. Every coin in circulation was mined in the open.
Let's explore the cleanest launch in crypto and the network built on it. 👇
⚪ Kaspa at a Glance
Marketplace Insight: Kaspa's tokenomics are arguably the cleanest of any project in this series, with a genuine fair launch, a hard cap, and 96% already mined, and its consensus derives from peer-reviewed research whose lineage runs into Ethereum's own whitepaper. Toccata shipped on schedule in June, bringing covenants and zero-knowledge verification to Layer 1, and the tooling has moved fast since, with SilverScript reaching a v1 release candidate and a conventions track standardizing how tokens will work across wallets and indexers. The clean contrast is between architecture and adoption. Kaspa has built genuine capacity, and covenant usage is compounding quickly from a small base, but the network still runs far below what it was engineered to handle.
⚪ Mission
Kaspa exists to prove that proof-of-work's limitations were architectural rather than fundamental. The founding argument is that Bitcoin's constraints, slow confirmations and low throughput, came from insisting a single chain must extend one block at a time, discarding everything produced in parallel as waste. GHOSTDAG orders those parallel blocks instead, which means the network can run far faster without lowering the security bar or pushing mining toward centralization. The goal is real-time decentralization: Bitcoin's trust model at a speed people can actually transact at.
🔵 A Brief History
Kaspa's intellectual lineage predates the project by nearly a decade. Yonatan Sompolinsky, researching under Professor Aviv Zohar at Hebrew University, published the GHOST protocol paper in 2013, work cited directly in the Ethereum whitepaper. That research line continued through SPECTRE and PHANTOM and eventually into GHOSTDAG, the consensus protocol Kaspa runs today, with Sompolinsky later moving to Harvard as a postdoctoral researcher on the MEV research team.
The implementation came through DAGLabs, an R&D company Sompolinsky founded with funding from Polychain Capital. What happened next is genuinely rare: rather than retaining an allocation or a governance role, DAGLabs was dissolved around the November 7, 2021 mainnet launch, transitioning the project entirely to a community-led model. The launch itself carried no premine, no ICO, no presale, and no insider or venture allocation.
The years since have been methodical engineering. The node software was rewritten entirely from Go into Rust, improving performance and reducing attack surface. The Crescendo hard fork activated on May 5, 2025, raising the block rate from one to ten per second while proportionally reducing block rewards so per-second emission stayed constant, and bringing KIP-9 storage-mass pricing with it. Toccata followed on June 30, 2026, introducing native covenants, Covenant IDs, zero-knowledge proof verification, and partitioned sequencing, moving Kaspa from a pure payments network toward programmability.
The months since have gone into making that programmability usable. SilverScript, the higher-level language compiling to Kaspa Script, reached a v1 release candidate at the end of August after a timelock bug fix and a type audit. A Kaspa Calls for Conventions track opened to standardize covenant interoperability across wallets and indexers, with builders testing a fungible-token convention against a testnet AMM. KaChat 4.0 shipped in late August as the first major consumer application expansion. DAGKnight, a successor consensus protocol with latency-adaptive ordering, has a dedicated testnet proposed and a late-Q3 target.
🔵 Ecosystem Narrative
The organizing idea is that parallel work should be ordered rather than wasted, and everything follows from that one architectural choice.
➛ GHOSTDAG consensus. Parallel blocks coexist and are ordered by the protocol rather than orphaned, so virtually no mining work is discarded, which is what allows high block rates without the centralization pressure that normally accompanies them.
➛ Peer-reviewed foundations. The consensus derives from published academic research at Hebrew University and Harvard, with the GHOST paper cited in Ethereum's whitepaper, giving the protocol a theoretical grounding most chains substitute with a marketing document.
➛ The Toccata upgrade, live. Native covenants, Covenant IDs, zero-knowledge proof verification, and partitioned sequencing activated on Layer 1 in June 2026, with SilverScript reaching a v1 release candidate to make covenants writable by ordinary developers rather than only protocol researchers.
➛ Consumer and DeFi applications. KaChat 4.0 shipped in late August with desktop and web support, Tangem hardware wallet integration, and KaPosts, an on-chain social layer tied to KNS identities, while Igra, a Kaspa-native L2, has become the busiest lane in daily activity snapshots at roughly 54,000 transactions in a sampled day.
➛ Mining decentralization. High block rates and the kHeavyHash algorithm make solo mining viable at lower hashrates, which is a structural argument for decentralization rather than an aspirational one.
➛ Smooth emission. Rewards decline monthly on a chromatic schedule based on the twelve-note musical scale rather than through halving cliffs, avoiding the abrupt miner revenue shocks that periodically destabilize other proof-of-work networks.
⚪ Token Utilities
$KAS is monetary rather than a fee-and-governance token.
➛ Mining rewards: miners earn KAS for securing the network, on a smoothly declining monthly emission against a fixed maximum supply.
➛ Transaction fees: paid in KAS for settlement on the network, with fees kept low by high throughput and KIP-9 storage-mass pricing.
➛ Settlement medium: the network's purpose is fast, final payment, so the token's primary utility is being used as money rather than as a claim on protocol revenue.
➛ Covenant and application layer: following Toccata, KAS underpins covenant transactions, zero-knowledge verification, and the token conventions being standardized for DeFi.
⚪ Key Features
➛ BlockDAG architecture ordering parallel blocks instead of discarding them.
➛ Ten blocks per second on a pure proof-of-work security model.
➛ A fair launch with no premine, ICO, presale, or venture allocation.
➛ A fixed 28.7 billion maximum supply with roughly 96% already mined.
➛ Peer-reviewed consensus research with a lineage into Ethereum's own whitepaper.
➛ Native L1 covenants and zero-knowledge verification since Toccata.
🔵 Meet the Team
Kaspa has no company, no foundation with a treasury, and no executive team. Its contributors are researchers and developers working on an open-source protocol, which is unusual enough to be the defining fact about its structure.
▶️ Core Members:
➛ Dr. Yonatan Sompolinsky [ @hashdag ] - Founder | A postdoctoral researcher at Harvard on the MEV research team, whose 2013 GHOST protocol paper is cited in the Ethereum whitepaper. His research line, developed under Professor Aviv Zohar at Hebrew University, runs through SPECTRE and PHANTOM into the GHOSTDAG protocol Kaspa uses today. Few founders in crypto have a comparable academic contribution to the field itself.
➛ Shai Wyborski [ @DesheShai ] - Researcher and GHOSTDAG co-author | A cryptography researcher who co-authored the GHOSTDAG protocol paper, meaning the consensus running the network was designed by people still actively maintaining it rather than handed off after publication.
➛ Elichai Turkel - Core Developer | Served as DAGLabs' applied cryptographer during development and is also a Bitcoin Core contributor, a meaningful credential for a project whose entire pitch is improving on Bitcoin's architecture without weakening its guarantees.
➛ Michael Sutton, Ori Newman, and Mike Zak - Core Developers | The engineering core behind the Rust rewrite and the Crescendo and Toccata implementations, with Newman still merging fixes into the SilverScript compiler as recently as August 2026.
➛ Anton Yemelyanov - Core Developer and Smart Contracts | Leads the smart contract and covenant workstream, the layer that turns Toccata from a protocol capability into something developers can actually build against.
➛ Chris Wolf, known as Wolfie [ @Kaspa_HypeMan ] - Chris Wolf, known as Wolfie - Business Development and Listings | With no company to employ a BD department, Wolfie took on exchange outreach himself, adopting the title because listing desks wanted a named contact, and has spent years in conversations across venues including MEXC, Gate, KuCoin, Bitget, and Kraken. A crypto veteran who mined Bitcoin early and found Kaspa near the fair launch, he is the connective tissue between a distributed holder base and rooms that would otherwise have nobody to call. That a treasury-less project sustains this function on volunteer effort says a lot about the community behind it.
🔵 Ratings
➛ Use Case: ★★★★⯪ (4.5/5). Kaspa leads the category it created and has delivered on every technical promise it made. It took proof-of-work from one block per second to ten while preserving mining decentralization, backed by peer-reviewed research rather than assertion, and validated across billions of transactions without congestion or fee spikes. Toccata shipped on schedule, bringing native covenants, Covenant IDs, and zero-knowledge verification to Layer 1, and the tooling followed immediately with SilverScript nearing v1 and a conventions track standardizing tokens across wallets and indexers. Covenant activity has grown 15-fold since launch, KaChat 4.0 has brought on-chain social and payments to desktop and mobile, and Igra is running tens of thousands of daily L2 transactions. The 0.5-point deduction is that the ecosystem is young, with programmability only months old and network utilization still well below the capacity the architecture provides.
➛ Tokenomics: ★★★★⯪ (4.5/5). This is among the cleanest supply structures in crypto, full stop. A genuine fair launch with no premine, no ICO, no presale, and no insider or venture allocation, meaning every coin in existence was mined in the open. A hard maximum supply of 28.7 billion with roughly 96% already mined, so there is no unlock overhang, no vesting cliff, and no treasury capable of dumping. Emissions decline smoothly month by month rather than through halving cliffs, avoiding the miner revenue shocks that destabilize other proof-of-work networks, and DAGLabs dissolved rather than retaining a position. The 0.5-point deduction is that KAS has no burn mechanism or fee capture beyond mining rewards, so value accrual depends entirely on the network being adopted as money.
➛ Audits: ★★★★ (4/5). Kaspa's security foundations are unusually strong and sit largely outside the conventional audit framework. The consensus protocol is peer-reviewed academic research from Hebrew University and Harvard rather than an internal specification, with its co-author still maintaining the network. The node software was deliberately rewritten from Go into Rust to reduce attack surface, a Bitcoin Core contributor serves as a core developer, and the network has run since November 2021 across two major hard forks without a protocol-level exploit. Development is fully open source with public code review, and the SilverScript timelock bug found and fixed in August demonstrates that review process working. The 1-point deduction is that no named third-party security audit or verified security score is published, and the covenant and zero-knowledge surface introduced by Toccata is new enough that formal external review would meaningfully strengthen confidence.
➛ Community: ★★★★★ (5/5). Kaspa's community is the purest example of organic growth in crypto, and the structure explains why. There was no airdrop to farm, no venture backing to court influencers, no foundation marketing budget, and no company to promote it, because DAGLabs dissolved at launch. What grew instead was a global base of miners with real hardware and capital deployed alongside an ideologically committed holder base, and it held through a deep drawdown and years of quiet building. The development itself is community-run: independent contributors opened the DAGKnight testnet proposal, built KaChat and Igra, drive the conventions standards process, and even handle exchange listings without a budget to fund it. Very few projects at any market cap sustain this level of unpaid, distributed contribution across protocol research, application development, and ecosystem work simultaneously.
🔵 Conclusion
Kaspa is what happens when a researcher whose work is cited in Ethereum's own whitepaper decides to fix the thing everyone assumed was permanent about proof-of-work. The blockDAG orders parallel blocks rather than wasting them, GHOSTDAG delivers ten blocks per second on Bitcoin's security model, and the whole thing launched with no premine, no ICO, no venture allocation, and a development company that dissolved itself rather than retain influence. Roughly 96% of a hard-capped supply is already mined, and Toccata has now brought covenants and zero-knowledge verification to Layer 1 on schedule.
The bull case is unusually pure. If proof-of-work settlement matters over decades rather than cycles, Kaspa is the only network that has meaningfully improved the architecture without compromising the trust model, and it did so with a distribution nobody can criticize because there was nothing to criticize. Kaspa spent five years proving the technology works, and it now has the programmability to prove the rest. What comes next is whether the world decides it needs a settlement layer this good.
@ainyrockstar Ich selbst bin 100% davon überzeugt, dass bei jedem Menschen irgendwann mal Karma das alles regelt, obwohl ich mir sicher bin, dass es bei der ganzen Falschheit und Doppelmoral dieser Individuen, massiv Überstunden schieben muss…
GEMINI × KASPA SILVER
Join us live with @KaspaSilver for a conversation about Kaspa, the technology behind the project, and the community around it.
Tomorrow @ 9am ET
Be there or be square🟧
One of Toccata’s building blocks is covenants. They can carry state forward, define how it changes and validate what comes next.
That makes vaults, escrow, native asset logic and issuance policies possible directly on the Kaspa L1.
WSX News: Kaspa (@kaspaunchained) has taken a major step toward programmable Layer 1 applications following the activation of its Toccata hard fork in June 2026.
The upgrade introduced native covenant programming, transaction v1, expanded introspection opcodes, and infrastructure for based ZK applications, allowing application state to be enforced directly on Kaspa’s UTXO layer.
One of the more interesting pieces is the ability to run computation off-chain and return a cryptographic proof to Kaspa for verification, rather than forcing the entire computation onto the base layer.
Partitioned sequencing lanes further allow ZK applications to prove activity related to their own lane instead of processing the network’s entire transaction flow.
That gives Kaspa a new programming model without abandoning its UTXO architecture, opening the door to stateful applications and proof-based systems while keeping the base layer focused on verification and settlement.
“Bitcoin is dead boring to me at this stage.” 👀
Kaspa’s @hashdag shares his take on Bitcoin and where Kaspa, Zcash, and Solana fit into the conversation.
With @VladCostea on @BTCTKVR S17 E36.
Some Muslim “scholar” in a robe just declared that dogs are filthy enemies of the prophet, that angels refuse to enter your house if you own one, and that keeping a pet dog is haram and will get you punished by Allah.
Cool story, bro.
My dogs sleep on my bed, protect my house, make my kids laugh, and have more loyalty in one paw than your entire ideology has in its entire history.
I’ll take muddy paws, wet-nose greetings, and unconditional love over your desert superstitions any day of the week.
Dogs are family.
Your take is trash!
To busy to share stuff live but really excited about this week-long meetup we have going on “somewhere in Europe” like @hashdag says. DK, P2P, vprogs, silver & argent, fascinating ppl, great food, what not. Kaspa has a bright future bcs it has many dreamers with far-reaching vision and execution capabilities behind it. Let me just put it that way.