Lead story / Sep 11, 2026
Max143672, IzioDev and explorer builder supertypo have been arguing over a node change still under review that would let wallets and explorers fetch spendable coins in pages. Michael Sutt...
Money is good at moving. It is much worse at remembering why. A banknote does not know whether it is rent, a deposit, a ticket or payment for completed work. Once it changes hands, the ag...
When a coffee, a game item, or a $2 transfer to a friend can show dollars in and dollars out, the checkout looks finished. There is no ticker for a chain token and no warning that the use...
Ori Newman announced on 30 August 2026 that the SilverScript v1 release candidate is available after extensive review, testing, and standardization. He asked developers to test existing a...
Ori Newman merged a SilverScript lock-domain fix into master on 19 August 2026, then described the bug in public. He said tx.time had been treated as seconds even though Kaspa consensus m...
KaspaKaha is using an in-progress automated market maker to test whether the new draft fungible-token convention can support real DeFi composition. On August 23 the builder said a full AM...
Aglovale spent a post-quantum vault on Kaspa testnet-10 by checking a hash-based signature inside ordinary script. He posted the proof of concept to Kaspa Core R&D on August 27 and pushed...
KaChat has opened a public desktop test of its Kaspa-based messaging and wallet application. The builder warned users to expect bugs but described the build as stable enough for broader t...
Igra Labs says Tangem wallet version 6.1.3 can connect to the Igra application ecosystem through WalletConnect, giving Tangem users a hardware-backed route into Kaspa-native decentralised...
KaspaCom has opened a public testnet interface for agents and wallets to analyse KCC20 markets, prepare trades and follow settlement without handing private keys to its backend. The relea...
Kaspa developers have published the first three Kaspa Calls for Conventions as drafts, moving covenant interoperability from a general objective into specifications that wallets, indexers...
Michael Sutton merged Argent onto the SilverScript revision it now has to emit. He opened the pull request on 14 August 2026, left it up for a couple of days, and merged it to Argent mast...
Ori Newman merged a type-and-evaluation audit into SilverScript master on 16 August 2026. The pull request closes gaps between declared types and what the compiler and VM actually accept,...
KaChat is extending its payment privacy model to the receiving side. The team says version 4.0 will let updated users share a pool of unused Kaspa addresses with their contacts, so a paym...
A missing decision path in the Kaspa DAGKnight implementation now has a concrete pull request. On July 27, coderofstuff opened PR 1081 against the dagknight branch, adding the tie-breakin...
Not every useful Kaspa builder update lands first in the core R&D channel. The local-first SilverScript Studio releases are a clean external companion to the July-August Silverscript synt...
Late July produced one of the cleaner post-Toccata design threads in the channel: how to let someone borrow a UTXO once without turning that permission into a reusable hot key. On July 30...
The ZK script path got one concrete post-Toccata upgrade in early August: rusty-kaspa gained a dynamic-image-id Groth16 verifier fragment. Ori Newman opened and later merged PR 1067, titl...
Two days after Toccata activation, the R&D channel turned to a wallet and explorer problem that always appears once arbitrary scripts become real: how does software understand a public co...
The strongest application-layer signal after Toccata is not another abstract token thread. It is Michael Sutton using Argent to force the design questions into working multi-contract shap...
After Toccata activation, the R&D channel stopped treating fungible-token and ABI talk as free-floating design chat. The concrete move was a new repo and process surface: kaspanet/kccs, d...
July and early August moved Silverscript from post-Toccata cleanup into an explicit push toward a v1 surface. The channel did not treat this as quiet polish. Ori Newman posted breaking-ch...
Toccata crossed from scheduled hard fork to live mainnet on June 30. The cleanest public line came from coderofstuff in the Kaspa Core R&D channel: "Toccata is Live!" The surrounding mess...
The strongest post-activation design debate in the R&D channel is not about hype around native assets. It is about how covenant tokens should actually be recognized, transferred, and rece...
The other serious post-Toccata discussion centered on fees, mempool policy, and how much control node operators should expose through configuration. The public Toccata guide already makes...
Igra had three separate updates around the Toccata window: exit limits were raised, agentic bridging was shown live, and a new architecture name, Multitude, was teased as Kaspa entered th...
KOmarkets is one of the cleaner examples of a builder trying to translate Toccata into a product claim. The pitch is not generic programmability. It is prediction-market settlement on Kas...
The Imperial College AI Agent Hackathon story is not core R&D, but it is useful ecosystem coverage because it puts Kaspa developers in front of builders outside the usual crypto loop duri...
Kaspa Kii posted a dense technical update on June 25: three post-quantum signature schemes were verified inside a zkVM, compressed into succinct proofs, and checked on Kaspa testnet with...
Maksim Biriukov posted a Kaspa testnet-10 transaction on June 24 and described it as the first post-quantum signature to land on a live Kaspa network. It is an experimental research resul...
Igra Labs issued upgrade instructions to Orchestra node operators and attesters on June 23, directing them to begin moving mainnet deployments from v2.3 to v3.0 ahead of Toccata. Igra's r...
Michael Sutton merged saefstroem's ZK SDK pull request into rusty-kaspa on June 23. The R&D channel line was short: "Merged the long awaited ZK SDK PR by @saefstroem". GitHub records PR 9...
The Federal Register notice published on June 12, 2026 is dry by design. It is a request for comment on reporting forms, not an enforcement action, market ruling, or stablecoin approval....
Toccata activated on Kaspa mainnet on 30 June 2026 at DAA score 474,165,565. Rusty Kaspa v2.0.1 remains the latest stable release checked on 8 September. The original pre-activation check...
wearelegion posted a short merge batch in the R&D channel on June 18, linking four vprogs pull requests: the broad settlement integration branch, the batch-aggregator split, an SMT tombst...
saefstroem followed up on the ZK SDK pull request on June 20, saying the SDK had been updated to accommodate the latest feedback from Michael Sutton, Maxim, and IzioDev. This is PR 953 in...
Tangem has answered one of the more persistent Kaspa wallet questions: dynamic address support is on its radar, but the company says Kaspa needs a separate implementation path rather than...
Stroem Finance has put a clear cross-chain idea in front of the Kaspa ecosystem: atomic swaps between Kaspa, Igra and Ethereum. Igra Labs described the project as “Stroem finance unveiled...
A widely shared Kaspa mining post says HumPool is shutting down its pool services on June 27 and currently represents about 105 PH, or roughly 26% of Kaspa network hashrate. HumPool's own...
Kaspa’s post-Toccata fee discussion has a useful tension in it: the minimum standard feerate is increasing sharply, but real user fees are still tiny in absolute terms. Michael Sutton sai...
Igra Labs has two separate infrastructure updates worth grouping together: attester restaking is now accepted, and node operators are being warned about a required June 23 update with ful...
smartgoo flagged the Kaspa Python SDK 2.0 line this week, linking the v2.0.0 changelog, the v2.0.1 patch, the PyPI page, the docs, and the issue tracker. The SDK now sits on top of rusty-...
Michael Sutton has opened a new experimental compiler project called Argent, a high-level frontend for Silverscript covenant contracts. Silverscript lets developers write individual coven...
Silverscript PR 131 changes how the compiler handles output-state validation. The breaking part is narrow: validateOutputStateWithTemplate no longer accepts a fresh inline state object di...
Toccata is now active on mainnet; it activated on 30 June 2026. Rusty Kaspa v2.0.1 remains the latest stable release checked on 8 September. This article records the maintenance release p...
A new research implementation called Kurrent entered the R&D chat with an Eltoo-inspired latest-state channel design for Kaspa. The core idea is payment-channel-style state that mostly ch...
Maxim's getseqcommitlaneproof RPC has now been merged into Rusty Kaspa. Sutton announced the merge on June 14, linking PR 961 and tagging Maxim and wearelegion. (PR 961) The new endpoint...
Sutton also merged PR 990, adding the rocknroll development database scanner crate and an smtprunescan binary for read-only consensus database inspection. (PR 990) The scanner is aimed at...
PR 1021 was merged on June 15, adding Roth support for generating transactions that target user lanes. (PR 1021) The change adds an lps option to generate transactions against a runtime u...
Sutton approved PR 935 on June 14 and then merged it, changing the consensus-client CovenantBinding inner type. (PR 935) The PR changes kaspaconsensusclient::CovenantBinding so it wraps a...
Manyfestation opened Silverscript PR 130 to support covenant state-transition decoding by producing state-tracking markers at compile time. (Silverscript PR 130) The PR records bytecode o...
Maxim opened PR 1051 to remove the malachite production dependency from Rusty Kaspa, saying the LGPL-3.0 license was blocking consensus-core from becoming nostd compatible. (PR 1051) The...
IzioDev described a practical problem from helping an integrator verify balance integrity on very large addresses, where the input is a public key set plus announced balance snapshots suc...
Networks use different methods to verify current state and manage old block data. Comparing them requires separating archival storage, node synchronization, consensus validation and the a...
The first thread after the previous cut-off was not about adding more surface area. IzioDev pushed for reducing scope and keeping the next work isolated, saying a large PR with extras lik...
The ZK SDK discussion became much sharper than the earlier "API shape" thread. Sutton said the most important part of the SDK is the implementation of committogroth16, while finalizewithp...
The biggest line in the channel was also the simplest. After Michael Sutton marked Rusty Kaspa PR 1000 ready for merge, coderofstuff posted: "TOCCATA IS MERGED!!!" (PR 1000) The remaining...
IzioDev posted the Toccata pre-activation pre-release, v1.3.0-toc.5, describing it as a real-mainnet sanity test for different node histories, pruning states, upgrade paths, and operator...
The final activation release followed quickly. coderofstuff opened Rusty Kaspa PR 1044 for the activation logic, rebased it, and someone235 later marked it merged. (PR 1044) someone235 th...
The most substantial design discussion after merge was about tx.gas, lanes, and whether a high-gas transaction can cheaply crowd out a low-throughput lane. dimdumon raised the concern tha...
Silverscript also picked up concrete pre-release work. saefstroem asked why compilecheckdatasigcall simply dropped all arguments and pushed OpTrue when Kaspa does not have that opcode; so...
The ZK tooling work continued in parallel. saefstroem retargeted the ZK SDK PR against master, and Sutton asked whether the SDK should expose lower-level Groth16 builder APIs for non-Risc...
Post-release cleanup was not only consensus work. coderofstuff raised process debt around semver practices, work tracking, old open PRs, missing issue links, and PR descriptions that make...
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. May 28-June 1, 2026. The final TN10 ZK-hardening activation appears to have gone through without drama. Michael Su...
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. May 13-May 27, 2026. Toccata moved into what looks like the final hardening loop before mainnet. Michael Sutton sa...
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. May 1-May 13, 2026. The first hours after TN12 relaunch 3 were noisy, but not broken. Michael Sutton told node ope...
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. Apr 22-May 1, 2026. Michael Sutton posted the relaunch notice on May 1: "TN12 Relaunch 3" is live. The reset inclu...
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. Apr 12-22, 2026. The biggest merge of the month dropped on April 20. Michael Sutton approved and merged PR 943 by...
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. Apr 5-12, 2026. zlnck shared his first concrete implementation plan for lane-limited block selection under KIP-21....
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. Mar 28 - Apr 4, 2026. Rossku963 noticed TN12 blocks were being produced empty while the mempool reported over 1,40...
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. Mar 25-27, 2026. Sutton noticed the Build Linux Release step in CI was taking 75 minutes. (flag) He pointed to PR...
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. Mar 18 - 24, 2026. Two weeks after the v1.1.0 stable release, coderofstuff sampled the last 1,000 mainnet blocks....
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. Mar 7 - 17, 2026. Manyfestation opened a pull request adding a Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) crate and extended the...
Kaspa ($KAS) core R&D - what developers discussed, debated, and shipped. Feb 23 - Mar 6, 2026. Rusty Kaspa v1.1.0 went stable on March 4. Sutton had been preparing the release for a few d...
