Kaspa Weekly #11 - A week after Crescendo, New Wallet, $10,000 Marketing Fund   GM Kaspians! Welcome to the eleventh release of Kaspa Weekly! It's been a week since the Crescendo upgrade activated already, time sure does go fast! Today we'll talk about the after effects of Crescendo, such as the ability for home miners to solo mine now, we'll tell you about Igra Labs' presence on ETHDenver and tell you about a new wallet in the ecosystem from the authors of Kasway, Atomik Wallet. Lastly, we'll share an opportunity to get your Kaspa marketing initiative funded. Below you'll find a short summary 🚀 The Crescendo Week 📷 Igra Labs at ETHDam 💳 Atomik Wallet 🏦 The $10,000 marketing fund The Crescendo Week 🚀   It's been a week since the Crescendo upgrade activated, and the network appears to be running properly. The increase in block production rate has brought some benefits, that might not be visible at first sight. One of those benefits is the ability for home miners to solo mine. Previously, at 1 BPS it was very hard for a home miner possessing a small hashrate to mine on their own confidently, as hitting a block was rare, because of the competition. Now, that 10 times more blocks are produced per seconds, in theory home miners have 10 times as many chances to hit a block. Sure, the reward is 10 times smaller as well, but this allows them to mine with confidence and significantly higher chances of getting a reward, instead of relying on a mining pool that shares their profits. If you're thinking about transitioning to solo mining yourself, check out the Kaspa Solo Mining Simulator developed by coderofstuff to check how the hard fork could impact your earnings. After entering the necessary information, you will get a snapshot of your expected mining output. Igra Labs at ETHDam 📷 This past Friday, folks over from Igra Labs have attended the ETHDam event. Even better, they (more specifically, Pavel Emdin) moderated a panel titled "Rollup Architecture and Comparative Analysis of Sequencer Approaches". The speakers include people from teams over at 0xBow, Aztec Labs or Citrea. We couldn't find any recording at the time of writing, if you'd like to watch the panel, be on the lookout on Igra's X Account. Atomik Wallet 💳 Say hello to a yet another solution to store your precious Kaspa coins. Atomik Wallet is developed by the same people that have worked on Kasway, which we talked about in our fifth release. It's a multi-platform wallet, originally made because of technical issues when integrating Kaspium in Kasway. The wallet focuses on beginner friendly UI and UX, which allows non technical users to use the wallet without any problems. It's still under heavy development, therefore some features might not be available yet. You can view the progress and the wallet's source code (yes! it's open source!) on their GitHub. The $10,000 marketing fund 🏦 On May 9th, one of Kaspa's Ambassadors, Luke has shared that a Kaspa community member has committed $10,000 USDT to fund a marketing initiative for Kaspa. The way these funds get spend will be decided by the community. The community quickly flooded the Discord channel with their thoughts and ideas on how to best use these funds to benefit Kaspa. If you have an idea yourself or you'd like to read the full announcement, it's available on the #votes-and-funding-discussions channel on the Kaspa discord server. That's it for this release! We hope you've enjoyed it! As always, thank you for reading and see you next week! 👋 Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #8 - Crescendo LIVE, Kaspa Commons, The Deepdive   Hey Kaspians! Welcome to the tenth release of Kaspa Weekly! This anniversary release is released on the exact same day as one of Kaspa's most important events happened, the long awaited and highly anticipated Crescendo Hard Fork activation, which of course we will cover in this newsletter. On top of that, we'll tell you about a new community-centric Kaspa focused channel on X, Kaspa Commons and talk about the first episode of Shai's The Deepdive. Here's a short summary: 🚀 Crescendo LIVE on Mainnet 🌎 Kaspa Commons 🎬 The Kaspa Deepdive Crescendo LIVE on Mainnet 🚀 You heard that right! The Crescendo Upgrade is officially here! Around the originally estimated time (15:00 UTC, May 5th) all nodes running the latest version of Rusty Kaspa got greeted with the legendary message, "Crescendo 1 bps -> 10 bps", after which the network started adjusting to produce 10 blocks per second. The upgrade went extremely smoothly and no downtime occurred.  Of course, the community did not stay indifferent of this event, countdowns and parties in various places were hosted. Starting with X, the weekly Blockchain Banter hosted by Levendi and Chris was moved a couple hours back so that it happened around the hard fork activation date. In total, nearly 2,000 listeners tuned in! If you'd like to listen to the final countdown, you can view the replay here, and skip to 59:55. Next up, Kaspa Silver hosted a watch party on Youtube, 2 minutes from the activation time, almost 1,300 viewers were there! Skip to 1:28:30 to see the exact moment the hard fork went live! On top of that, people on Kaspa's Discord server gathered to celebrate this breath taking moment together. But keep in mind, Crescendo does not only reduce the block time from 1 second to 100 milliseconds. It also brings other amazing additions to the network, such as enabling payloads for transactions. None of this would have been possible without the over 2 years effort from core developers. Congratulations! Below you'll find a picture of Michael Sutton (taken by Yonatan Sompolinsky himself) watching the network after the upgrade activated, must've been a stressful moment haha And of course, we couldn't not share the exact moment in which the activation happened. Kaspa Commons 🌎 Volunteered, managed by Chad Ballantyne (also knows as Rhubarbarian), and the team at Rhubarb Media, Kaspa Commons is a new channel that focuses on real world impacts of Kaspa, because Kaspa isn't just the technology and upgrades, it's also how these innovations impact everyday life.  A collaborative group of experienced researchers, writers, communications experts and ambassadors will be formed with a mission to spotlight the benefits, people and the adoption journey of Kaspa. On their X account they already shared multiple posts about Kaspa's Adoption, and of course about the Crescendo Upgrade 😎 If you'd like to check them out, you can find them under the @Kaspa_Commons handle on X. The Kaspa Deepdive 🎬 In our last release we've talked about Shai's upcoming show, the Kaspa Deepdive focusing on explaining various aspects of Kaspa, and why it's a uniquely powerful cryptocurrency. On Monday, just 21 hours shy of the hard fork activation (notice how many things happened right around that date 👀) Shai announced the first episode on his X account. This episode focuses on three important consequences of high blocks per second. The mining decentralization, internet-fast transaction confirmation, and multi-leader consensus. [At the time of writing] the video already gathered over 2,000 views on YouTube, and you can find it here. Great job Shai! We're excited to see more content from the Kaspa Deepdive 😉 That's it for this release! Time goes fast, and we dropped 10 releases of Kaspa Weekly already, and we're excited for the future! We hope you enjoyed it! As always, thank you for reading and see you next week! 👋 The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions. Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #9 - Crescendo Countdown, Kaspa's Use Cases, The Deepdive   Hello Kaspians! Welcome to the ninth release of Kaspa Weekly! Due to the easter holidays. less things happened in the ecosystem last week. Because of that, this release will be shorter, nevertheless most certainly not a boring one! Today, we'll continue our Crescendo Upgrade Activation countdown and share some insights about how many nodes already upgraded to the latest version of Rusty Kaspa, talk about Kaspa's Use Cases and tell you about Shai Wyborski's new show, the Kaspa Deepdive. Below you'll find a short summary. 🚀 Crescendo in less than 7 days 🛍️ Kaspa's Use Cases 🎬 The Kaspa Deepdive Crescendo in less than 7 days 🚀 You heard that right! One of the most anticipated upgrades is coming to Kaspa in less than seven days! At the time of writing, approximately 582,000 blocks remain until activation, which translates to around 6 days and 17 hours. The projected activation time is May 5th at 3PM UTC. If you still don't know what the Crescendo upgrade brings to Kaspa, this post by Michael Sutton is a good read. One of Rusty Kaspa's developers, coderofstuff shared that 90% of blocks on mainnet came from nodes running the crescendo-upgrade version, v1.0.0, this means at the time of writing, over 90% of the network's hashrate supports the upgrade, and the remaining operators such as f2pool, WhalePool and Mara Holdings are in the process of upgrading. A day before the hard fork happens, nodes running the version v1.0.0 will not connect to nodes that run the older version due to the protocol version update. Kaspa's Use Cases 🛍️ Kastle's Kaspa Mondays recently talked about the mystical phrase of "Is Kaspa the Future?" Alongside other topics, they talked about Kaspa's Use Cases, the ecosystem, the challenges and uncertainties. If you'd like to read more, check out their article! Today on Kaspa Weekly, we'll talk about the use cases. Real-World Applications Kaspa is the perfect candidate for everyday transactions, from grocery shopping, paying a friend for a cup of coffee to sending money worldwide without any restrictions. One of the biggest drawbacks when using traditional cryptocurrencies are the slow transaction confirmation times and high fees. Kaspa's high throughput, fast confirmation times and insanely cheap transaction fees make it the perfect candidate for everyday use. Institutional and Financial Applications Trading often requires near-instant execution times on a huge amount of transactions every single minute, scalability is key. Services like lending platforms or exchanges share similar requirements, low latency and instant settlement is a necessity. Yet again, Kaspa makes the perfect choice here. Despite no support for smart contracts for use cases like decentralized finance platforms on Layer 1, the upcoming Layer 2 solutions from teams at Igra Labs and Kasplex will soon open these doors and enable DeFi on Kaspa. The Kaspa Deepdive 🎬 One of GhostDAG's co-authors, Shai Wyborski announced his new show, the Kaspa Deepdive. As the name suggests, the show will focus on explaining various aspects of Kaspa (there you go, yet another resource to learn more about the amazing tech behind the world's most best cryptocurrency 😉). The first episode is not out yet, but if you'd like to watch couple-minute long snippets from it, you can find it on The Deepdive YouTube Channel. Personally, we really enjoyed the snippets, and we're excited to see the whole episode live soon 😎. That's it for this release! We hope you've enjoyed it! As always, thank you for reading and see you next week! 👋 The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions. Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #8 - Crescendo, Dubai Meetup, Most Tweeted Altcoin   GM Kaspians! Welcome to the eighth release of Kaspa Weekly! In this one, we'll continue our countdown to the Crescendo Upgrade Mainnet Activation, mention Kaspa's growing activity on X, talk about Juliano and his speech to the Kaspa Community, share recordings from the Web3 Festival we talked about two weeks ago and let you know about the up-and-coming Kaspa Meetup in Dubai. Below you'll find a short summary. 🚀 Crescendo in 13 days 👑 Kaspa the Most Tweeted Altcoin this Monday 👊 Juliano's speech to the Kaspa Community 🎥 Web3 Festival Recordings 🗓️ Kaspa Dubai Meetup Crescendo in 13 days 🚀 The long anticipated Crescendo upgrade, bringing various features to Kaspa's mainnet, including the most awaited shift to 10 blocks per second is coming in approximately 13 days!  If you still somehow don't know what Crescendo is, and what benefits it brings to Kaspa, this post by Michael Sutton is a good read. According to coderofstuff, around 51% of the network's blocks are mined with nodes that run Rusty Kaspa v1.0.0 (which includes the Crescendo Upgrade code) and some pools are working on the transition, which should bring the hashrate support to around 85% in the near future. Kaspa the Most Tweeted Altcoin this Monday 👑 Today Altcoin Scanner posted a chart showing the top 10 coins that had the most tweets written about them in the last 24 hours. The ranking is based on the number of mentions. Kaspa took first place, overtaking NAKA by nearly twice the amount of posts. Yet again, this shows the strength of Kaspa's community. 🔥 Juliano's speech to the Kaspa Community 👊 Juliano shared a video in which he speaks to the Kaspa Community. He talks about what drives him, makes him a real champion, and of course why Kaspa is the only chain that is fast enough to keep up! In 10 days, he will enter the European Championship in Limoges, best of luck to him! Web3 Festival Recordings 🎥 Two weeks ago, we've talked about the Web3 Festival, and the Kaspa-related events surrounding it. Recently, recordings of them were shared publicly on X. You can view the recordings of speeches by Monica Forman, Yonatan Sompolinsky, Michael Sutton, as well as panels including attendees from Kasplex, Igra Labs, KASmedia, CoinEx, and others on Kaspa Ecosystem Foundation's Youtube Channel. Most certainly a good watch! Kaspa Dubai Meetup 🗓️ Andrew, one of Kaspa's Ambassadors will be hosting a Kaspa Meetup in Dubai on May 3rd at 7PM, until 9PM. The location is yet to be announced, as it is dependent on how many people will RSVP. If you're interested and would like to attend, send a DM to the UAE Kaspa Ambassador either on X on Telegram before the 27th of April.  The event in Dubai isn't the only one. Kaspa Ambassadors from various countries will organize and host events surrounding the Crescendo Upgrade. Follow Kaspa on X to learn about them as they're announced, we'll let you know about them as well 😉 That's it for this week! Despite being a short one, we hope you've enjoyed it! Thank you for reading and see you next week! 👋 The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions. Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #7 - Kaspa in Space, Kasplex L2, Quarters to Kaspa   Hey Kaspians! Welcome to the seventh release of Kaspa Weekly! Today, we'll mention some community projects such as Kaspa Orbital Node Initiative (take a wild guess on who's doing it) and the Kaspa Change-O-Matic. We'll drop you some updates that Kaspador shared about Kasplex's upcoming Layer 2. Finally, we'll tell you about a brand new weekly series by Kastle, Kaspa Mondays. Here's a brief summary of what we'll be covering today 🚀 Kaspa in Space - the Orbital Node Initiative 🪙 Quarters to Kaspa - the Kaspa Change-O-Matic 🔗 Kasplex Layer 2 Updates 🗓️ Kaspa Mondays  Kaspa in Space - the Orbital Node Initiative 🚀 You guessed it, yet again the Kaspa Industrial Initiative is making the headlines in Kaspa Weekly. This time, they've announced the Kaspa Orbital Node Initiative.  The KONI mission aims to deploy a compact Kaspa Node into the Low Earth Orbit, specially designed to draw tiny power and fit in a small form factor. Its goal is to add resilience, geopolitical neutrality and decentralization to Kaspa via network snapshots from the orbit. The node will orbit around 550 kilometers over earth, and will be launched via a ride share. It will utilize open-source ground networks like SatNOGS to operate and communicate. This will be the first blockDAG node in space. At the moment, KII is in talks with the launch provider, while working on design in the meantime. The next step will be hardware prototyping. It's estimated to be launched in 2026 and the mission will last around 24 months or more. Quarters to Kaspa - the Kaspa Change-O-Matic 🪙 Kaspa's insane speed and low transaction fees can be utilized in various ways. Arnon Lauden came up with an idea to create the Kaspa Change-O-Matic.  What is it? This vending-machine-lookalike turns coins into Kaspa! Yep, you heard that right. Insert coins, show a QR code with your Kaspa wallet address and get the equivalent in the so-called digital silver 😎 If you'd like to learn more about this project, and view the first working prototype, check out Arnon's X Post, in which he shared a video of the machine's functionality. Kasplex Layer 2 Updates 🔗 Kaspador recently shared some updates regarding the progress on Kasplex's Layer 2. According to his post, the public testnet is around the corner, and that the mainnet won't take months to launch. The documentation, GitHub and APIs are ready, and a new website is coming for Kasplex next week. The blockchain explorer link will be shared before the public testnet launches.  Looks like some fun times are about to come, thanks for the leak Kaspador 😉 Kaspa Mondays 🗓️ Say hello to Kaspa Mondays! It's a brand new weekly series, written by the folks over at Kastle Wallet. It focuses on explaining Kaspa, its technology and how it works in the simplest way possible. It's most certainly an another good way to expand your knowledge about the revolutionary tech behind Kaspa. They already published two articles. The first one focuses on the general topic of "What is Kaspa?". They explain why Kaspa was created and what problems it solves. The second article breaks down about Kaspa's blockDAG, the GHOSTDAG consensus protocol, and how they benefit the network. Make sure to add Kaspa Mondays to your weekly reading list alongside Kaspa Weekly 😉 That's it for this week! Thank you for reading and see you next week! 👋 The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions. Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #6 - WSC2025, Gigawatt Stablecoin, Web3 Festival   GM Kaspians! Welcome to the sixth release of Kaspa Weekly! Today we'll tell you more about the speech that Yonatan Sompolinsky will deliver on the Web3 Scholars Conference at the Web3 Festival, tell you more about KII's Gigawatt Stablecoin, show you the detailed schedule for Kaspa's Side Event, again at the Web3 Festival in Hong Kong, and tell you about Kaspa's win in the Ultimate Crypto Tournament on X. Here's a short summary 🧠 Yonatan Sompolinsky at WSC2025 🔋 The Gigawatt Stablecoin 🍕 The Kaspa Side Event at Web3 Festival 👑 Kaspa wins the Ultimate Crypto Tournament on X Yonatan Sompolinsky @ WSC2025 🧠 Yonatan Sompolinsky will attend and speak at the Web3 Scholars Conference 2025. Yonatan will speak about DAGKNIGHT and its importance to 2025 crypto. It's likely he will also talk about his recent research regarding a mechanism design approach to MEV-resistant sequencing.  Alongside Yonatan, other important figures in the cryptocurrency world will attend and speak at the conference such as Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, the CEO of EigenLabs Sreeram Kannan, or Zhong Shao, CertiK's President. If you'd like to learn more about the speakers, check out this post on X. To find more details on what Yonatan and other speakers will be talking about, take a look at DRK_Lab's account on X. Still haven't had enough of Yonatan? Good news! He will speak at 2 more presentations at Web3 Festival. The Gigawatt Stablecoin 🔋 We've said this many times before, and we'll say it again. The Kaspa Industrial Initiative is working on amazing things! This time, they shared more information about one of their many projects, the Gigawatt Stablecoin, more specifically its Regulatory Oracle System. As per their post, It's a decentralized compliance framework that enables the Gigawatt Stable Coin to maintain regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions while preserving its core principles of decentralization and censorship resistance To learn more about the Gigawatt Stablecoin, check out their recent post on X. The Kaspa Side Event at Web3 Festival 🍕 In our last release, we've mentioned that Kaspa will attend the Web3 Festival, above you can find the whole, detailed schedule of the event and we'll tell you more about some of the most exciting events that will happen 👀 KEF's Head of Business Development, Evie Yan will open the event with a welcome speech, after which KEF's Director of Communication will present a speech titled Making an Impact in a Decentralized World: Lessons from the Kaspa Ecosystem. Shortly after, two keynotes will be presented by Yonatan Sompolinsky, and Michael Sutton respectively, and then a shared space with people from ex-IOTA foundation and Delphinus Lab will happen regarding the exploration of optimal ZK Technologies for UTXO-Based Layer 1 protocols. Next, spaces from Kasplex and Igra Labs will happen. And finally, at 11:30 AM, a 30 minute space regarding Proof of Work Based RWA will take place, featuring a Bitcoin Magazine partner, CoinEX's Head of Strategy and chief-level officers at Galaxy Digital and HashPower, as well as Chris Wolf (also known as Wolfie), Kaspa's "unofficial" BD director, and the founder of KasMedia. Personally, we're really excited about this one, definitely not one to be missed! Kaspa wins the Ultimate Crypto Tournament on X 👑 After beating Bitcoin Cash, Tron, Solana, Algorand, ICP and finally Litecoin, Kaspa won the community vote-based Ultimate Cryptocurrency Tournament. At the final stage, Kaspa got almost 30 thousand votes, compared to Litecoin's 19 thousand, showing yet again how strong the community is. Cheers to Kaspa! You can view the whole tournament's bracket here, and see the winner announcement here  Aaand that's it for this week! Thank you for reading and see you next week! 👋 The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions. Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #5 - 10 BPS Countdown, Web3 Festival, Learning Resources   Hello Kaspians! Welcome to the fifth release of Kaspa Weekly! Today we'll tell you when the Crescendo upgrade is going to be activated on mainnet and share some learning resources if you're looking to get started on your technical Kaspa journey. We'll introduce you to Juliano Anago, a Muay Thaï fighter brought to Kaspa via Julien (Kaspa France Ambassador), and sponsored by KEF, and introduce you to two new projects in the ecosystem. Finally, we'll tell you about the Web3 Festival in Hong Kong, which will be full of various keynotes by Kaspa Developers. Below is a short summary of what we'll be covering. 👨‍💻 Crescendo Upgrade Activation ℹ️ Kaspa - Where do I begin? 🥊 Juliano Anago - sponsored by KEF 🔗 KasNodes - Monitor Kaspa Nodes 🏦 KasWay - a new way to accept payments with Kaspa as a merchant 🌍 Kaspa at Web3 Festival Crescendo Upgrade Activation 👨‍💻 On March 27th, Michael Sutton announced on X that Rusty Kaspa version 1.0.0 will be released on March 31st, and that it has the Crescendo activation hardcoded at DAA score of 110165000, which translates to approximately May 5th at 3PM UTC. This upgrade is amongst one of the most anticipated upgrades by the Kaspa Community, because it changes the block production rate from 1 block per second to 10 blocks per second, allowing for significantly higher throughput and confirmation times. Feeling impatient? You can view the live countdown at kas.live, as well as on the official Kaspa website. Kaspa - Where do I begin? ℹ️ coderofstuff has curated a list of resources that will help you learn the technical aspects of Kaspa. From understanding how GhostDAG works to more advanced topics like the Prunality of the GhostDAG protocol. It's a great way to learn more about the revolutionary tech, which Kaspa houses and contribute to it in the future. Meet Juliano Anago 🥊  Meet Juliano Anago, a professional Muay Thaï Fighter and the Founder and Head Coach of the Jungle Gym Academy. He was introduced to Kaspa by Julien, one of Kaspa Ambassadors. The Kaspa Ecosystem Foundation decided to sponsor him, as he prepares for the biggest challenge of his career: the European Championship in Limoges on April 26th, 2025. Good luck Juliano, we wish you the win 😉. KasNodes - Track Kaspa Nodes 🔗 Luke Dunshea (also known as Elldee), one of Kaspa's Ambassadors recently announced KasNodes. It's a hub for everything related to Kaspa Nodes. The dashboard will provide various information including Active public node statistics Node version distribution and adoption rates Network growth over time Network ASN distribution and ranking Geographic distribution, coverage, rankings (by country and region) Easy-to-follow setup guides If you'd like to learn more, check out Luke's thread on X. You can check the product out at kasnodes.com. Great job Luke! KasWay - an easy way to accept Kaspa payments 🏦 Allow us to introduce you to KasWay, a Kaspa-powered PoS (Point of Sale) dApp. It's an easy and clean way to accept payments as a Kaspa merchant, with future plans for stablecoin and smart contract support (upon Sparkle release). You can check it out and learn more about it on their website. Kaspa at Web3 Festival 🌍 In one of our previous releases, we've talked about Kaspa at Crypto Expo Europe in Romania. This time, Kaspa will appear at the Web3 Festival in Hong Kong. It's not just another event, this time core developers and community projects like Kasplex and Igra Labs will attend. Get ready for keynotes hosted by Yonatan Sompolinsky, Michael Sutton, Monica Forman, Kasplex, Igra Labs and more! The event will happen on April 8th, and you can learn more about it on the thread the Kaspa Ecosystem Foundation posted on X. And that's it for this week! Thanks for reading and see you next week! 😉 Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #4 - Kaspa Merchants Interviews, Kaspa Quiz, AMA with a Kaspa Ambassador   Hi Kaspians! The fourth release of Kaspa Weekly is here, marking a month in Kaspa covered by us! Today, we'll tell you about mining pools, which ran tests on Crescendo, mention the upcoming interviews with Kaspa Merchants, talk about the Kaspa Quiz, and mention the interview with Luke who is a Kaspa Ambassador. Oh, and of course we couldn't forget about a yet another update from the Igra Labs team! You can read the list below 🧠 Kaspa Quiz, and how you can test your knowledge about Kaspa 📜 Crescendo Report, miners that ran tests on Crescendo 📹 Kaspa Accepted Here - Interviews 🎙 AMA with Luke, Kaspa's Global Ambassador 🔗 Igra Labs' tech explainer video 👀 KII and potential EVM developments Kaspa Quiz - Test your Kaspa Knowledge! 🧠 One of the community members, vyte a website allowing you to test your knowledge about Kaspa. For now, it Incorporates basic questions about tech, the community, etc, like “What does DAG stand for? Or questions about various community initiatives, like KII or KEF.  We gave it a try and got 18 out of 20 questions correct, Check it out yourself and let’s see what score you get! Mining pools testing Crescendo 📜 Some of the most influential mining pools that support Kaspa have tested their pools work with Crescendo, confirming they are able to mine blocks properly in TN11/TN10. It's important to perform such tests to ensure a smooth transition when Kaspa hard forks in late April. The image you see above shows the hashrate spread on mainnet, that represent roughly ~85% of mainnet hashrate. We invite everyone else who has not done so to test your pool or exchange in Testnet 10. You can find instructions on how to join the testnet here. Interviews with Kaspa Merchants 📹 Say hello to a brand new series of Kaspa interviews! Starting next week, Kaspa Accepted Here will interview business owners from around the globe that chose to accept Kaspa as a payment method. The show will be hosted by Rhubarbarian, and the first interview will feature Daniel from Auto Souta Service in Portugal, and it will be posted on Kaspa's Youtube Channel. AMA With Luke 🎙 Luke (also known as elldee), one of Kaspa’s first Ambassadors, was on an AMA talking about various topics like Kaspa's Adoption, branding, the community, real world use and more. The interview was hosted by Cryptopumpz, and you can view the recording of it here. Definitely worth the watch! Yet another Igra Labs Update 😎 On March 22nd, Igra Labs posted a minute-long tech explainer video on their X account in which they break down Igra's basic building blocks. They also showcase the live system which executes the complete transaction lifecycle. Make sure to give it a watch if you haven't already! KII and potential EVM developments 👀 In our last release, we've talked about KII and what they're working on. Well, it turns out that's not everything they're doing behind the scenes 👀, one of the people behind the Kaspa Industrial Initiative has dropped a tweet sharing about EVM design research the team is working on. That's it for this week! As always, thank you for reading and see you next week! 👋   The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions. Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #3 - Industrial Initiative, Kasplex ZkEVM, New KEF Grantee, AMM DEX   Hello Kaspians! It's time for the third release of Kaspa Weekly! Today, we'll tell you what the Kaspa Industrial Initiative (KII) is working on, share some sneak peeks from Zealous Swap, and introduce the new Kaspa Ecosystem Foundation Grantee - Eliott, and tell you about the Layer 2 Kasplex is building. Here's a summary of we will be covering today. 💼 The Kaspa Industrial Initiative and what they're working on 🔗 The Kasplex ZkEVM 🧠 Kaspa Ecosystem's Foundation New Grantee 🛍 Zealous Swap, Kaspa's first DEX 👩‍💻 Kastle Wallet Ledger and KRC20 Support Kaspa Industrial Initiative 💼 The Kaspa Industrial Initiative aims to unlock new levels of transparency, speed, and security for industrial and enterprise applications. Despite not sharing many updates recently, they've been working on a lot of stuff behind the scenes 👀. To mention a few: - a CRM system to manage 3rd parties and partners, - mapping key US stakeholders located in DC for a visit, SEC submission drafts papers- payments institution licensing research for both Warpcore / Gigawatt, - calls to set up a speaking slot at COP30 in Brazil - regulatory / monetary policy / economic modelling around stablecoins for whitepaper and architecture They are laying the groundwork (meetings, lobbying, pitches) for when smart contracts are ready, and they can then help plug it all into Tradfi, DeFi, IoT and DePIN markets with Powered by Kaspa solutions. Kasplex ZkEVM 🔗 Last week we've talked about the Layer 2 Igra Labs is building, but they're not the only ones building a Layer 2 in the space.  Kasplex, the people behind KRC-20 are building a zero-knowledge, EVM compatible Layer 2 that operates as a based ZK rollup, leveraging Kaspa's consensus sequencing to provide programmability and complex logical zones, while maintaining its high throughput and security. If you're curious about the details, Kaspador explained the details in a presentation. Recently, they've announced that a devnet is live, and that a public testnet will go live at a later date. If you'd like to experiment with their devnet, they provided a registration form in one of their twitter posts. KEF's New Grantee 🧠 Allow us to tell you more about Eliott Méa, he's a Master of Sciences in Pure Mathematics from ETH Zürich. His experience is very broad, spanning programming, statistical modeling, and mathematical finance. Matter of fact, he's already contributed to Kaspa before. His M.Sc. thesis was written under the guidance of Yonatan Sompolinsky about Oracle designs for robust estimation. On March 12, KEF announced that Eliott will join as a researcher, being the second grantee after FreshAir08. Eliott's research will focus on three main areas. He will develop a more accurate and up-to-date model of oracles in DeFi, investigate existing failure points in oracles and analyze how they're being manipulated by MEV strategies. He will also design a solution to the oracle problem to improve security, efficiency, and reliability in blockchain systems. (source) Recently, he was chosen to speak at the Web3 Amsterdam conference to explain how Kaspa generalizes the Nakamoto Consensus. Zealous Swap 🛍 The folks over at Zealous Swap are building the first AMM DEX, which will be launched on the Igra Labs L2, it's still in the development phase, but we've got a chance to test it. Everything works smoothly, and the UI is simple, and intuitive.  To learn more about what they're building, you can read their whitepaper and the post by Kaspa Daily, which dive deeper into the mission and technical details. Thanks to the team for letting us a take a look at the application, we're excited to see it live! (psst! At the end of the newsletter, we've shared a couple of screenshots from the dapp 😉) Kastle Wallet Updates 🏰 The version 2.7.0 of Kastle was released this week, packing a bunch of amazing features! Foremost, they added a Ledger integration. At the moment, it only supports Kaspa, but support for KRC-20 tokens is coming soon. Secondly, alongside regular transfer operations, the wallet now supports minting and deploying KRC-20 tokens. You can view the full changelog for more details. Summary 📜 The incredible things KII is working on behind the scenes, another Kaspa Layer 2 and the first AMM DEX, quite an exciting week!. Thank you for reading this week's release of Kaspa Weekly, and as always, see you next week! 👋 Screenshots from Zealous Swap 😉 The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions. Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #2 - Crescendo LIVE on Testnet, Innovation Award, Igra Labs   GM Kaspians! Welcome to the second release of Kaspa Weekly! Today, we've got some exciting news for you, from even more options to store your precious coins to Kaspa's appearance on yet another event, here's a more detailed list of what we'll be covering today. 👨‍💻 Crescendo upgrade success on Testnet 10 🏔 The tales of the Igra Labs L2 🌎 Kaspa on Next Block Expo in Warsaw 🏆 Kaspa wins the Best Blockchain Innovation Award 📱 Kastle and Kaspian wallets Crescendo on Testnet 10 🥳 March 6th, 6:13PM, it's so silent you can hear your heart beating. Everyone is waiting for the highly anticipated transition to 10 blocks per second. You watch the countdown, 3…2…1, and a big message appears on your screen. From now on, the network produces 10 blocks per second. Everything went as planned, the transition was successful, marking a pivotal milestone in the Kaspa history. This was most certainly a very stressful event for our amazing Rusty Kaspa developers, Michael Sutton, coderofstuff, Ori Newman, to name a few. However, it's not just the core developers, it's also the community that ran their testnet nodes and over 70 different miners that mined blocks on the test network, truly shows how strong the Kaspa community is! The Tales of Igra Labs 🏔 In our last release, we've mentioned that Igra Labs is building a programmable layer on top of the Kaspa Blockchain, let's dive deeper into that. The story begins late January, when Igra Labs created their social accounts and announced their mission in the official Kaspa Discord. Their goal was to create an EVM-compatible Layer 2 on Kaspa with a canonical bridge, a fast probabilistic finality and support for high throughput (3000 transactions per second and more), aiming to be the first based ZK rollup on Kaspa. With blockchain industry veterans and people involved in Kaspa's creation (DAGLabs alumni), the team meant business. The name Igra, comes from the word Rooftop in Aramaic, which symbolized their vision of creating a unifying layer under which various, decentralized systems can operate together smoothly. Technically speaking, they're creating a ZK rollup with atomic composability, which utilizes Kaspa's DAG as a decentralized sequencer. All of that is secured by Kaspa's hash power of over 1 EH/s, which ensures network security. EVM compatibility makes migrating existing products from other networks significantly easier, and it also provides a low entry barrier for people already familiar with development on Ethereum or similar chains. They plan to implement mechanisms to protect against MEV. Looking further ahead, they want to leverage Kaspa's planned support for synchronous atomic composability and allow various virtual machine systems to operate with each other. For example, Solana VM, Move or WASM interacting with each other seamlessly across different Layer 2's. They plan to launch an invite-only devnet by the end of March, and the mainnet launch will follow a few months after. Best Blockchain Innovation 🏆 In our last release, we've talked about Kaspa's presence at Crypto Expo Europe, which most certainly did not go unnoticed with things like Kaspa-branded napkins or coffee cups.  One of the exposition's 2025 awards went to Kaspa, titled the Best Blockchain Innovation. Without a doubt, this is a well deserved award considering all of Kaspa's features (MENTION KASPA ELEVEN) like the revolutionary Phantom GhostDAG consensus, good energy efficiency compared to traditional blockchains and an efficient pruning strategy! (Kudos to Kaspador for the picture 😉) Kaspa on Next Block Expo in Warsaw 🇵🇱 One of Kaspa's Ambassadors, Maja, will be attending the Next Block Expo event happening in Warsaw. She will be speaking about the features of Kaspa, and how the Kaspa Tech (DLT) will benefit the planet via enterprise market use-case, most certainly a good speech to listen to! However, that's not everything 👀. Kaspa is a nominee for the Pioneering Crypto Technologies Award, competing with OnlyBestMiners, Kryptonim and Green Mining DAO, the winner will be announced on March 20th at 5:30 PM. Personally, we think the winner is obvious 😉 New Kaspa Wallets 🏦 Say hello to two more non-custodial solutions to store your precious Kaspa, Kastle and Kaspian. Let's dive deeper into each of them. Kastle 🏰 Kastle is your gateway to Kaspa. With an intuitive and user-friendly design and a quick setup, this wallet is most certainly a good way to get started in the Kaspa world. It's created by the folks over at Forbole. With Kaspa Name System (KNS) support and an upcoming KRC20 integration, it's your place for everything Kaspa. Kaspian 🤖 Kaspian is the most compact way to use your Kaspa elegantly. Built by KaffinPX and iMalFect, the wallet is focused on security by reducing dependencies to the minimum, while featuring a built-in provider API for easy integration in DApps. Summary 📜 Ten blocks per second, the blockchain innovation award, and new wallets. This most certainly was an exciting week for Kaspa. Thank you for reading this week's release of Kaspa Weekly, see you next week! 👋 The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions. Unsubscribe    View in browser  

Kaspa Weekly #1 - Crescendo Updates, Kaspa in Romania, Igra Labs   Hello Kaspians! Welcome to the first release of the Kaspa Weekly newsletter! Before we begin, we'd like to thank you for registering, we've reached almost 150 subscribers! Anyway, let us tell you what we'll be mentioning today. 👨‍💻 Progress on the Crescendo network upgrade 📔 Progress on the Igra Labs L2 🌏 Kaspa at the Crypto Expo Europe event in Romania 🧠 Kaspa's Eleven 📱 New Wallet Listing Kaspa Crescendo 👨‍💻 The absolutely amazing Rusty Kaspa developers have made significant progress on the development of the network update recently. Michael Sutton and coderofstuff have recently tested the upgrade activation on a devnet (basically, a local Kaspa test network). Ori Newman is performing code review for the hard fork's activation logic. The timeline that shows planned release and activation dates can be tracked on a website created by Kaspador. Right now, an event called Feature Freeze has happened, which means no further pull requests will be accepted that are related to the network upgrade. Put it simply, all code in regard to the Crescendo upgrade is considered finished, and no new changes or additions will be accepted. The remaining time until the activation will be spent reviewing and testing that code. When testing on the internal devnet, the developers have identified an issue regarding the smoothness of the pruning period transition, which has been fixed already (these guys are fast! 🚀) The ETA for the Testnet 10 node release is Tuesday, March 4, 2025, and the transition is going to happen either on March 6th or March 8th, currently being voted on in the official Kaspa discord server. You can learn more about these recent updates in the discord, or on the latest tweet. Kaspa Layer 2 - Igra Labs 📔 Recently, the developers over at Igra Labs shared plenty of information about how the Kaspa L2 they're building will function, as well as shared some sneak peeks from their testing, which showed the first test transactions on the second layer, they have also posted a thread on X, sharing some technical information, mentioning MEV resistance and security. Kaspa at Crypto Expo Europe 🌏 Kaspians from the around the world have attended the Crypto Expo Europe event, key initiatives in the Kaspa Ecosystem were also there, including the Kaspa Ecosystem Foundation and Kasplex. Kaspa's presence most certainly did not go unnoticed with Kaspa-marked coffee cups and napkins, as well as an on-stage presentation about decentralization. Put it simply, Kaspa was everywhere! Looking for pictures? KEF has made a thread on X with a plethora of photos from the event! We've included some photos at the end of the newsletter as well 👀 Kaspa's Eleven 🧠 Say hello to Kaspa's Eleven. It's an educational series, which aims to break down Kaspa’s infamous Battle Card into bite-sized insights, which you can use in presentations or share on socials. It's a great way to learn about Kaspa's Features. Right now, you can learn about speed and instant confirmations on Kaspa's X profile. New Wallet Listing Kaspa The team over at Xodex is working on a new wallet, which supports Kaspa and KRC20 tokens. Right now, the wallet is in closed beta, and it is a Telegram mini-app with future plans to make it multi-platform. Kaspa Weekly, along with other Kaspians were invited to test it, and let us tell you, the user experience is absolutely amazing! According to their website, the wallet is secured using various techniques, such as sharding or MPC. At the moment, only basic functionality like sending or receiving funds is available. We've got a chance to talk with the team, and they said that they are currently focused on building a secure and user-friendly base and that the other features (that is, trading, and AI powered alpha generation and trade execution, as well as additional networks) will come as the time goes on. The open beta is scheduled to start on the 3rd of March, which will allow them to collect valuable feedback before officially releasing the product to the public. New Kaspa Merchants 🏦 Looking to spend your Kaspa? Say hello to two new merchants that accept it! Rotisserie Chicken in Vilnius Latino Viščiukas MB is the first Latin American Rotisserie Chicken in Vilnius, sounds delicious? Well, it can get even better with the discounts they're offering if you choose to pay with Kaspa, up to 20%! New Kaspa Merch Store BUCKS is more than just an online store. At its core is a marketplace designed to connect users who want to use Kaspa as a payment method. Come to bucks.fyi and discover goods and services, pay with crypto, support entrepreneurs who accept Kaspa, and become part of a new digital economy! Kaspa is 6th Most Posted Altcoin in February on X According to AltsDaddy, Kaspa is the 6th Top Posted Altcoin, this shows how engaged and active the Kaspa community is in sharing the word about the innovative technology and welcoming community behind it. Photos from Crypto Expo Europe Thanks Ashton for providing the photos! ❤️ And that's it for this week's release of Kaspa Weekly! We hope you all had an amazing week and a good read, stay tuned for the second release next week, thank you for reading! The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions. Unsubscribe    View in browser