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Crypto is a long game and not for the faint of heart. Too many people looking to get rich quick.
I first brought Bitcoin at $200, didn't know what I held and sold them at $600 feeling like a champ. Got back in the game during Covid and ran $5000 up to a peak of $260,000.
Lost $150k in a day trading leverage, got hacked lost the rest with Luna and a bunch of shit coins and nfts But learnt a lot of hard lessons.
Don't trade leverage unless you can afford to lose it. Balance your portfolio
Learn risk management,
Luck can make you rich but not keep you rich.
Bet on tech and innovation.
Kaspa is the trilemma solving endgame of Satoshi's vision and the future of he crypto space.
Going all in on the Kaspa eco system.
Lock the f'ck in and don't give up.
Hit the follow for all things $kas related
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JUST IN: Kaspa completes testnet proof of concept for private $KAS transactions
Developer Olaf Weller says TN10 tests confirmed transaction ordering, zero-knowledge proof execution and settlement on Layer 1, though the privacy system remains under development and has not been independently audited.
Russ𐤊 retweeted
kaspa:native wasn’t on my work calendar today BUT Zero-knowledge proofs were. I work at a large bank in the USA as a senior IT director.
Look at the meeting title: “Zero-Knowledge Proofs: Privacy Without Compromise.”
Kaspa can verify ZK proofs on L1. Now imagine an AI agent proving it’s authorized to make a payment without exposing everything about the person behind it.
I’m not saying my bank is using Kaspa. I’m asking @hashdag @michaelsuttonil and KII @KaspaKii who’s building that use case on $KAS?
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Hello Kaspians! 💚
@ChadBallantyne graphics have arrived, and they look absolutely amazing! I immediately started looking for the best quote to print and apply the rally car livery designed by @rhubarbmedia
Honestly, the prices gave me a fright 😂 Some companies quoted as much as €3,500, and the lowest quote I could find was €1,420.
Chad even offered to organise a fundraiser for the livery, but asking for donations has never come easily to me. So I bought a vinyl cutter out of my own pocket and started cutting Chad’s designs myself! 💪
I’ll cut as much of the artwork as possible in vinyl. When I get to the parts that need digital printing, I’ll decide whether to outsource them or buy the printer myself 😂 Every quote I’ve received would cover buying the machine, doing the job myself, and still leave me with money to spare!
If any Kaspian owns a business and would like their company logo on the Kaspa Rally Car, get in touch with me!
As I cut each piece and apply it to the car, I’ll take photos and share the progress here on X.
@rock_the_kaspa is already on the car! 🤘💚
Big hugs, Kaspians!
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Vitalik’s new “cryptographic world computer” thesis makes an important point that extends far beyond Ethereum: the future of blockchain probably isn’t putting more computation directly on-chain. It is separating ordering, execution and verification so each can happen where it makes the most sense.
That is where Kaspa starts becoming extremely interesting.
Kaspa does not need to become a giant replicated computer where every node executes every application instruction. Its more natural role may be providing the decentralized ordering and settlement substrate underneath an enormous amount of computation happening elsewhere.
Toccata already pushes Kaspa in this direction. Covenants allow UTXOs to become persistent state machines. Covenant IDs preserve application lineage. Silverscript makes those transitions programmable. Argent is exploring how independently stateful actors can interact atomically. And vProgs takes the architecture further: applications can submit operations into Kaspa’s ordered environment, execute computation outside consensus, generate cryptographic proofs, and ultimately settle verified state transitions back to L1.
The distinction matters.
Instead of forcing the entire world computer into consensus, Kaspa can make consensus responsible for the things decentralized consensus is uniquely valuable for: ordering, timestamping, ownership, state commitments and final settlement.
Computation can then become massively parallel.
Different applications can maintain different state domains. Independent UTXOs can progress simultaneously. Expensive execution can happen off-chain. Proofs compress that computation into something L1 can verify.
The emerging architecture looks less like “Kaspa with smart contracts” and more like a cryptographic coordination fabric.
Ethereum appears to be moving away from the original idea of the blockchain executing everything toward a system that orders, verifies and settles increasingly external computation.
Kaspa may be approaching the same destination from the opposite direction: starting with an extremely fast decentralized PoW clock, then progressively attaching programmable state and verifiable computation around it.
The world computer may ultimately be less of a computer than a world-scale system for proving who did what, in what order, and whether the resulting state is valid.
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When you really start to understand the benefits Real Time Decentralisation (RTD) unlocks, you begin to understand Kaspa isn’t just a better (insert network here) it’s discovering a whole new frontier.
Study $KAS
Russ𐤊 retweeted
another week of devs building things faster than intern can explain them.
back by popular demand, another dev roundup.
1 / KCC20
@manyfest_ says the reference implementation is mostly done. a few touch-ups remain, and they want more devs to review it. getting there, but not finalized yet.
teapawt.org/manyfest_/status/21010…
2 / Argent
@IzioDev shared a template, working examples and a video walkthrough for building Kaspa L1 apps. something to actually build from after all the explaining we’ve been doing.
teapawt.org/IzioDev/status/2100178…
3 / DAGKnight
kaspa’s next consensus protocol remains in development.
github.com/kaspanet/rusty-ka…
4 / vProgs
@Max143672 has been busy. intern is doing his best to keep up.
github.com/kaspanet/vprogs/p…
5 / x402
@elldeeone released a test release for letting apps and AI agents pay for API requests in KAS. available to try on tn10.
teapawt.org/elldeeone/status/20993…
credit to everyone doing the work. intern mostly just opens tabs.
i’ve spent the last few months bringing native Kaspa payments to x402.
tldr: x402 is an open, chain agnostic payment protocol built around the long existing HTTP 402 code. kaspa-x402 intends to bring native KAS into that shared standard.
i keep seeing people use “x402” to mean anything built around the HTTP 402 response code. HTTP 402 has existed for decades, and anyone can hang their own payment flow off it.
x402 refers to a specific open protocol built on top of that code. it standardises how a server requests payment, how a client authorises it, and how the payment is verified and settled.
it can be used for paid APIs, AI agents buying data or tools, and MCP servers charging per call. kaspa-x402 adds native KAS to the existing x402 v2 flow.
there are two payment paths:
- exact for a normal one off KAS payment, with an optional KIP10 additive mode
- batch-settlement for small or repeated payments, where the client funds a SilverScript covenant once and signs a fixed charge voucher for each request
the longer term goal is to contribute the Kaspa support upstream into the wider x402 project, so Kaspa works within the same standard being adopted elsewhere.
i’m looking for humans and agents to go through it deeply before the final v1 release. read the code, build against it, test the assumptions and try to break it. if you find something, pls let me know.
code: github.com/elldeeone/kaspa-x…
upstream x402: github.com/x402-foundation/x…
docs: kaspa-x402.org
TN gateway: demo.kaspa-x402.org
discussion: kas-smiths.org/t/kaspa-x402-…
Russ𐤊 retweeted
Neoxa Exchange has listed kaspa:native from @kaspaunchained with a $USDT trading pair.
Kaspa is a Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency built on BlockDAG technology, designed for fast confirmations, high throughput, and decentralized operation.
Trade kaspa:native/$USDT on Neoxa Exchange:
neoxa.exchange/trade/KAS_USD…
🤖 Made with AI
Russ𐤊 retweeted
As we were sketching out game ideas, one kept coming back: a game played on the real #kaspa BlockDAG, live.
To get there, we first had to see the DAG in 3D. So we built it 👉 graph.kaspaarcade.com
@michaelsuttonil suggested this once. The idea never left our heads. kaspa:native
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Thank you Tyler for being a part of #Kaspa's decentralized marketing team
Russ𐤊 retweeted
KCC20 as it stands today:
#KCC20 is not a finished token standard.
It is a draft convention.
That distinction matters.
On 20 August 2026 the first three Kaspa Calls for Conventions merged: • KCC-0001 — how covenant state, entrypoints and templates are laid out • KCC-0002 — who is allowed to authorise a spend • KCC-0020 — a fungible token built on those two
Status on all three:
Draft. A KCC is an agreement that wallets, indexers, and apps can converge on.
It is not a hard fork. Nodes do not have to speak it.
What KCC-0020 actually specifies right now:
• a shared state shape: amount, owner, owner scheme, borrow settings, an extension digest
• a transfer interface wallets can implement once
• owner can be a pubkey, a script hash, or another covenant ID
• “borrowed receive” so you can top up an existing token UTXO instead of spawning a new one every time
• leader/delegator flow so multi-input transfers stay coherent
What it does not finish:
• mint / burn as a full issuance spec
• token metadata (that is a separate open draft, KCC-0021)
• an accepted, frozen standard
Repo: github.com/kaspanet/kccs
Discussion: the Kas-Smiths thread linked from the spec.
Read it. Challenge it. This is the window before it hardens.
#Kaspa #KCC20
Russ𐤊 retweeted
1/10
Kaspa is joining the global payment standard for the internet.
x402 founded by Coinbase and Cloudflare,
now a Linux Foundation project is becoming the default way AI agents pay for APIs and data.
This week, a kaspa:native binding is ready for upstream submission.
Here's why it matters. 🧵
🤖 Made with AI
Russ𐤊 retweeted
160,000 Plus covenants LIVE on #Kaspa mainnet.
Ask 100 holders what a covenant actually does, and 99 will change the subject.
That gap is why we built KasStacker — the missing manual for Kaspa's new superpowers, written for ANYONE to understand 🧵
1. One site that explains the whole post-Toccata stack — covenants, Silverscript, Argent, KCC-20 — in plain language FIRST, precision second.
Every fact verified before it's published. Every claim dated. Unknown things say "unverified" instead of pretending.
2. Kaspa quietly became programmable in 2026. Rules enforced by consensus. Tokens no indexer has to babysit. ZK proofs checked on-chain.
But the knowledge lived in scattered repos and Discord threads. Newcomers bounced. Builders guessed.
Now there's one front door.
3. You don't read about covenants here — you attack one.
Play the thief against a real, compiling contract. Press the button. Watch the network reject your steal like a coin that doesn't fit the slot.
60 seconds, and it finally clicks.
4. 🧠 Curious holder → a 6-stop tour, zero jargon, quiz checkpoints
🛠 Builder → zero-to-first-covenant path, every command re-proven DAILY in CI
📊 Data heads → live adoption numbers straight from the chain
🏗 Everyone → the real projects already shipping on this stack
5. The site holds itself to the standard it teaches:
• Nothing published unverified
• Community code compile-checked daily
• Origins always labelled
• No paid placement. Ever.
• Free, no signup, no token, no wallet connect
Just understanding.
6. 🥞 kasstacker.org
🧨Break a covenant: kasstacker.org/learn/try-it
🎓 The tour: kasstacker.org/learn
📊 State of the stack: kasstacker.org/status
🏗 Ecosystem: kasstacker.org/ecosystem
Turn your phone sideways when you get there 😉
None of this exists without the people actually building the stack:
@hashdag — the chain itself
@MichaelSuttonIL — Silverscript + Argent
@OriNewman — the KCC conventions
@manyfest_ — the first third-party Argent contract we've ever verified 🥇
@KaspaCurrency — the network that made rules-on-money real
We just wrote the manual. They wrote the physics.
And to everyone already shipping on it — you're all on the site, verified and live:
@KronTechnology · @KaspaRocket · @ZealousSwap · @KForge_xyz · @KaspaKaha · @KaspaCom · @K0RACLE · @Warda_protocol · @kaspirewallet · @enclavefi · @kascovio
kasstacker.org/ecosystem
Building something on Kaspa covenants?
Listing is free and always will be, verification is the only bar no paid placement, ever.
Suggest your project: github.com/ItsGoonBoyCrypto/…
Russ𐤊 retweeted
I think the problem with crypto gaming is that each game always required another token specific to that game. Ended up just being used to extract from players.
If you want crypto gaming to be a success with a coin use the native L1 like $KAS for everything.
$KAS has the power to BE THE MoE. Stop making new tokens for everything when we have one of the most efficient programmable L1 PoW digital currency in the world.
Tokens should be an exception not a starting point.
Treat $KAS as holding a share of a stock. What you build using $KAS as the foundation supports the project as a whole!
Builders who keep value inside $KAS are aligning their product with the base layer instead of siphoning it into a side token that dies when the marketing cycle ends.
$KAS is never dependent on your single product to stay alive and in demand. If it gets used by tons of different players then you never have to worry about hype fading from $KAS like you do when you build a token for only 1 specific purpose.
Russ𐤊 retweeted
Es spielt am Ende keine Rolle ob Giganten wie Michael Saylor oder Elon Musk Kaspa kaufen
Sie werden es so oder so irgendwann tun weil das Problemlösungspotenzial einfach zu hoch ist
JEDER wird früher oder später Kaspa kaufen weil es zu gut ist um es nicht zu haben
Weil jeder der es nicht kauft langfristig verlieren wird
Weil selbst der vermeintlich beste Wertspeicher Bitcoin langfristig gegenüber Kaspa an Wert verliert
Wenn uns eine Sache der freie Markt vermittelt dann ist es dieser dass es sich bei Kaspa um keinen weiteren gewöhnlichen "Shitcoin" handelt
Wir haben ein Wachstum hingelegt das seines Gleichen sucht
Das nicht ein mal Bitcoin in dieser Zeit geschafft hat
Trotz dessen dass wir die, für solch eine Anlageklasse, vorsichtig gesagt nicht gerade besten äußeren Voraussetzungen hatten
- Hohe Zinsen
- QT
- maximale Konkurrenz innerhalb des Kryptosektors
- Kriege usw.
Mich interessiert es nicht ob DU oder Michael Saylor oder Elon Musk oder Coinbase oder wer auch immer Kaspa kaufen wird
Sie wie auch DU werden es früher oder später tun weil sie ansonsten auf der Verliererseite stehen werden
Kaspa ist die logische, evolutionäre Weiterentwicklung auf Bitcoin
Die Welt, die Wirtschaft, dass Leben und Universum laufen nicht in linearen Systemen
Sie agieren Parallel, Simultan genauso wie Kaspa
Die Welt, die Menschen, die Wirtschaft und Ökosysteme benötigen einen Rohstoff der Dezentral, Knapp und durch Energie gesichert innerhalb von Sekunden um die Welt verschickt werden kann ohne die Basisschicht zu verlassen
Am Ende hat sich mir als selbsternannter ehemaliger Bitcoin Maximalist nur eine Frage gestellt:
Willst du recht behalten oder willst du gewinnen?
Der Zug wird so oder so rollen ob DU oder Sie dabei sind oder nicht
kaspa:native
Russ𐤊 retweeted
Listen to a MOOG whenever u get the chance $KAS ;)
A lot of people think what makes Kaspa unique is the technology.
But the technology is really the consequence of a deeper philosophical difference.
Most crypto projects ask: How can we maximize performance without sacrificing decentralization?
Kaspa asks: How can we maximize decentralization without sacrificing performance?
That slight inversion of priorities changes everything.
It changes what the system optimizes for, which tradeoffs are acceptable, and ultimately what kind of threat model matters.
Kaspa and in particular the upcoming DAGKnight fork are built around the idea that a decentralized monetary network should remain resilient even under extreme failure scenarios like global infrastructure disruption, war, or other large-scale breakdowns.
Because fast digital coordination should not force people to choose between trusting a small group of node operators over a small group of banks.
For many applications, that distinction may not matter.
But for the applications where credible neutrality, censorship resistance, and resilience matter most, that ideological edge is the product.
Kaspa does not merely compete at the technological level.
It competes at the philosophical level and the technology is just the downstream consequence of following that philosophy to the end.
Russ𐤊 retweeted
A lot of people think what makes Kaspa unique is the technology.
But the technology is really the consequence of a deeper philosophical difference.
Most crypto projects ask: How can we maximize performance without sacrificing decentralization?
Kaspa asks: How can we maximize decentralization without sacrificing performance?
That slight inversion of priorities changes everything.
It changes what the system optimizes for, which tradeoffs are acceptable, and ultimately what kind of threat model matters.
Kaspa and in particular the upcoming DAGKnight fork are built around the idea that a decentralized monetary network should remain resilient even under extreme failure scenarios like global infrastructure disruption, war, or other large-scale breakdowns.
Because fast digital coordination should not force people to choose between trusting a small group of node operators over a small group of banks.
For many applications, that distinction may not matter.
But for the applications where credible neutrality, censorship resistance, and resilience matter most, that ideological edge is the product.
Kaspa does not merely compete at the technological level.
It competes at the philosophical level and the technology is just the downstream consequence of following that philosophy to the end.
Russ𐤊 retweeted
I've been mentioning DAGKnight often among the post-Toccata upgrades of $KAS, but Argent is another huge one 👀
Argent will take Covenants and turn them into a full-blown application system
@BankQuote has a great post explaining how it works 👀
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🔥 A Solana-born project ranked the blockchains… and Solana didn’t win.
🥇 #1 Kaspa kaspa:native — 72.6
🥈 #2 Solana $SOL — 71.7
🥉 #3 Internet Computer internet-computer:native — 70.9
RUECAT DEX evaluated speed, cost, security, decentralization, ecosystem, uptime & developer activity.
And the winner?
KASPA. 🏆
Not a Kaspa fan page.
Not a Kaspa-sponsored ranking.
RUECAT literally brands itself “by Solana.” Ruecatdex
When the home team runs the scoreboard…
and kaspa:native still takes #1 —
PAY ATTENTION. 👀
kaspa:native #Kaspa #RUECATDEX #Solana #BlockDAG #ProofOfWork #Crypto
Top 10 Blockchains — $RUECAT DEX Overall Score 😺🏆
1. Kaspa $KAS — 72.6/100
2. Solana $SOL — 71.7/100
3. Internet Computer $ICP — 70.9/100
4. Algorand $ALGO — 68.1/100
5. Aptos $APT — 66.8/100
6. NEAR Protocol $NEAR — 66.8/100
7. Sui $SUI — 66.5/100
8. Injective $INJ — 66.1/100
9. Ethereum $ETH — 64.6/100
10. HyperEVM $HYPE — 64.4/100
ruecatdex.com/reviews/blockc…
$KAS $SOL $ICP $ALGO $APT $NEAR $SUI $INJ $ETH $HYPE #Blockchain #TPS #GasFees #Layer1 #Crypto #Web3 #DeFi #RUECATDEX #Altcoins #OnChain
