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I’ve now launched the Kaspa Privacy Initiative. It’s an independent, community-led effort to explore optional privacy for native KAS. And judging by the response to my previous post, there’s clearly a lot of interest in making this happen. I’m not a cryptographer or Kaspa core developer. My role is initiator / project steward: to get the ball moving, organize the research, bring the right people together and keep pushing toward something concrete. I also use AI extensively for research, documentation and prototyping. I think that can dramatically accelerate the work, but security-critical architecture and code will still need review from people with deep Kaspa, ZK and privacy expertise. What I felt was missing was an open place where the community could work together toward a privacy protocol for native KAS that is not built around a new token, a company or personal gain. No new token. No custodian. No predetermined architecture. We’re starting by figuring out what can already be built with Toccata, what may require vProgs, and what architecture can eventually give native KAS strong optional privacy with permissionless exits. Everything is open from day one. If you understand Kaspa, ZK, privacy systems, wallets, security or simply see flaws in our assumptions, I want you involved. GitHub 👇 github.com/olafweller/kas…

Olaf Weller @WellerOlaf

3 weeks ago

I may have found my next rabbit hole: Optional privacy for native KAS. No new token. No custodian. Just exploring whether a trustless shielded KAS protocol can be built on Kaspa. More soon. 👀

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If $KAS can close this month above 4.2 cents this month it will be a break above the range that we have been stuck in for months, on a monthly and quarterly chart. I think if $KAS can do that, then we might have hope for a reversal.

@RasterlyRock $KAS is the endgame of cryptocurrency. Thank you all for playing.

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🟧

@Gemini talked about Kaspa #Kaspa kaspa:native for 20+ minutes their livestream (around 1:29:00 or the 52:25 remaining in the video) 👍 They want to learn more, and bring somebody on to explain it in laymen’s terms! They want people to repost and tag who they should bring on. @hashdag @michaelsuttonil are probably the most knowledgeable. But, I think the best connector with newbies would be @KaspaSilver Make your voice be heard! And obviously, I’d like to make an appearance on the show as well :)

Gemini @Gemini

2 months ago

MORNING MOTION: Zcash on a GENERATIONAL run !!?? $500 BILLION enters crypto and everyone wants the next 100x x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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That's a really good question, but it's hard to answer in a single tweet because our mission is quite extensive, and it requires a lot of background knowledge to really understand what sets Kaspa apart. Currently, a lot of people see Kaspa as “Bitcoin’s crazy little brother” that improves time-to-finality by leveraging the benefits of DAG-based consensus protocols without accepting their traditional drawbacks, such as decreased decentralization or a limited validator set. This perception is somewhat accurate, but it falls short of conveying the full picture, because Kaspa’s vision extends far beyond just trying to be a better Bitcoin. Anyone willing to study Kaspa and its broader vision will discover similarities to nearly all major existing DLT designs: from Bitcoin, to Ethereum, to Solana, Sui, Celestia, and beyond. My personal view is that “research” in the DLT space is approaching a point of convergence. We increasingly understand how to push distributed systems close to the limits of what physics permits. The frontier is no longer only about raw throughput or faster finality. The attention is shifting toward game theory, incentives, sequencing, MEV, alignment, and how to build systems where the economic incentives of users, builders, miners, validators, applications, and infrastructure providers do not work against each other. That is why debates like based rollups versus arbitrary sequencing, shared sequencing, MEV mitigation, proposer-builder separation, and execution-layer incentives matter so much. These are not niche technical details. They determine whether a network can remain neutral, decentralized, and aligned while scaling to global usage. And this is where I think Kaspa is pushing the boundaries in a very important way. Kaspa is not merely trying to be “fast.” The goal is to build an L1 where speed, decentralization, security, and incentives are aligned at the base layer. A system that does not scale by hiding complexity behind trusted committees, privileged sequencers, centralized validator sets, or opaque coordination mechanisms, but instead tries to preserve the spirit of proof-of-work while extending what an L1 can realistically do. Because Kaspa arrived later than many other major projects, it does not carry the same degree of technological debt. It can absorb lessons from Bitcoin, Ethereum, rollups, modular blockchains, high-throughput monolithic chains, DAG research, MEV research, and the broader history of decentralized systems, and combine those lessons into something more optimal. To me, that is what Kaspa is building: not just a faster blockchain, but a more incentive-aligned decentralized infrastructure layer. But this also creates a different challenge. Kaspa’s biggest problem today is not its technology. It is the lack of centralized coordination around communicating the vision. And because Kaspa is a grass-roots movement, that responsibility does not belong to a marketing department, or a single leadership team. It belongs to the community. That also means the community has a different role to play. There will always be holders who are mainly interested in price, and that is completely fine. But there also need to be people who are here because they want to use the technology to build a different future. People who care about the architecture, the incentives, the open questions, the trade-offs, and the long-term trajectory of decentralized infrastructure. I am one of those people. I am not interested in DLTs merely as a way to generate wealth. I am interested in them because I believe they can change the trajectory of humanity as a whole. For that reason, I want to use this opportunity to announce a regular community hangout where we discuss the current state of development, the open questions, and where we can align our vision together. The first session will be on Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. We will talk about the vProgs framework, how the codebase works, what sets Kaspa apart, where we improve on existing solutions, and what still needs to be done. The goal is for this to become a regular, possibly bi-weekly, event where we as a community come together to discuss the future and understand the technology. Eventually, we can invite people from other projects as well, but the main focus at the beginning will be explaining and communicating how things work under the hood. There is still a lot of work to be done, and I do not want to waste precious time. So the first sessions may feel a little improvised, but we can improve as we go. The important thing is that we start. So mark the date: Tuesday, June 9th, 2026.

SUDO @Ed_L_P

5 months ago

Hey @hus_qy I'm very curious of something. How would you answer the question #1 "What are they building?" What is your opinion on what Kaspa is building?

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@coderofstuff_ @Classicxbt congratulations! and thank you to everyone involved for your hard work! LFG $KAS. LET THE STAG HUNT BEGIN

Update: Testnet 10 underwent the Toccata hardfork about 30mins ago and everything’s still running like clockwork. Transition was smooth and seamless. This seamlessness is the standard that kaspa devs set. It’s easy to take it for granted so I want to take this moment to recognize the effort and due diligence that went into making this happen @michaelsuttonil @OriNewman @Max143672 @IzioDev @FreshAir08 @manyfest_ @hus_qy (and sorry if I missed anyone) Mainnet HF soon

Michael Sutton @michaelsuttonil

5 months ago

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

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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

Ori Newman @OriNewman

5 months ago

The Toccata hardfork stack is now ready, and we’re entering the final stage before mainnet activation: a full hardfork activation on Testnet-10. The scheduled activation point is: May 18, 2026, 16:00 UTC DAA Score: 467_579_632 Everyone is welcome to join and mine on testnet,

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- hard forks don’t mean app breakage. especially with programmability, backward compatibility is a core requirement. existing apps/contracts should keep working as-is unless there’s some truly exceptional reason otherwise. - kaspa is still evolving, but not toward endless L1 forks. the zk-apps/vprogs vector should let the L1 converge into a versatile base surface while most future app innovation happens above it. the dk/100bps vector is also converging toward “perfect PoW properties”, so to speak, so it has a natural end horizon rather than an endless upgrade loop.

why I’m personally excited about Kaspa’s upcoming Toccata covenants - for the first time, I can build creative, complex apps directly over infrastructure I helped design and build - we designed under architectural constraints, but the result came out surprisingly expressive and powerful - Silverscript is cool as hell - I can literally open a *.sil file and write a complex contract that will be fully verified on Kaspa L1 - (nottoself: create a 10-minute video showing the building of such an app e2e) - I can design my own vaults and safeguards, and manage funds securely without risking a heart attack each time I touch a wallet - covenant ids, contract templates, and inter-covenant communication (ICC) feel like a new set of axioms, or a new algebra to work with and discover - sig verify from stack / sighash anyone-can-pay + covenant ids can allow interesting shared-state covenants (requires a non-consensus miner policy; kudos to @maxibitcat for pushing this line of thinking) - complex contract systems can be deployed in one spk hash. no storage rent, no deployment tax; users pay only the transient mass for tx data as they use it - as I’ve mentioned in the past, this becomes especially interesting for AI/agentic environments, where bots could cheaply create one-time agreements between themselves - I didn’t even mention based apps yet. That’s a whole vertical that isn’t ready for exploration yet, but will be very soon

Wonderful job on the Kaspa website! $KAS

Luke Dunshea @elldeeone

6 months ago

Kaspa.org 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

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@BitcoinPulseX @grok @grok i am the most random choice

@cryptojack continently not including kaspa makes you a clown 🤡

i am not sure how true this is, but i would't be surprised. $KAS has the possibility of having a DEX built on it with instant confirmations after Toccata hard fork. Tier 1 Exchanges are scared of $KAS success. STUDY $KAS

alan ⚡💵 @0xalank

6 months ago

Unfortunately I was part of the group laid off from @coinbase today. My whole tenure was protecting U.S. retail from tokens with actual utility like $XMR, $KAS, and quai-network:native. Instead we focused on listing pristine crypto assets like $RAVE, $USELESS, $FARTCOIN, and

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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

@KaspaKii

@Gr8erGoodMining i’m sure the guy who traded his btc for pizza is really happy about that decision too : p

@Grayscale @5apere4ude $KAS

@coughdropsh the decline by nofx