News and Updates
Kaspa's Third Anniversary: What it Means for the Cypherpunks Movement
Today marks the third anniversary of Kaspa, and while three years marks a significant achievement - the desire to create something like Kaspa has been a pursuit for decades (and perhaps a century). Let's look at what Kaspa has accomplished thus far.
Unveiling the “Crescendo” Hard-Fork roadmap — 10BPS and more
In this post, an outline of the tentative roadmap for the upcoming hard-fork, hereby named the Crescendo Hard-Fork, is explained: what it will likely include, and the process of deploying it.
KASmedia's Wallet Guide for Hot and Cold KAS Storage
Fri Aug 16 2024
Jennifer GhelardiniIn the rapidly evolving world of cryptocurrency, finding the right wallet to store your assets securely is crucial. As the popularity of Kaspa continues to grow, understanding the various types of crypto wallets available for this unique cryptocurrency becomes essential.
Kaspa Token Projects Part One
Thu Jul 04 2024
Jennifer GhelardiniIt's a thrilling phase in the Kaspa universe, marked by the Rust migration and the birth of Kasplex; it is the time in its life cycle when project teams are looking to build their projects on Kasplex. Projects range from more serious projects, like mental health applications, to meme coin projects and everything in between. This article series will highlight these projects being built on Kasplex.
Introducing Kasplex and its Launch: Series One
Thu Jul 04 2024
Jennifer GhelardiniKasplex launched its Closed Beta for users with technical backgrounds on Kaspa Testnet 11 (TN11) on May 24, 2024. Kasplex is compatible with Go and Rust nodes but optimized at 10 BPS. As of June 17, 2...
Dr. Sompolinsky's Talk - "It is Possible"
Tue Jun 11 2024
Jennifer GhelardiniThe official Kaspa YouTube channel recently posted Part Three of the February 22, 2024, Israel Kaspa meetup, where founder Dr. Yonatan Sompolinsky discussed subjects such as anti-parallelism, MEV, and oracles in decentralized finance (DeFi). The talk was given in Hebrew and translated by Eyal Yablonka and Arnon Lauden. The video was produced and edited by KASMedia’s own Rhubarbian.
Data and Analytics
Bullish Signals Ahead: Capital Inflows and Macroeconomic Trends Ignite a New Round of Accumulation for Kaspa
Tue Oct 01 2024
Shay ShaoKaspa enters a bullish accumulation phase as capital inflows rise and macro trends align. Discover key metrics supporting future price appreciation in our latest review.
Capital Inflow and Resilience: Kaspa's Response to the Federal Reserve's Rate Cut
Fri Sep 20 2024
Shay ShaoFollowing the Federal Reserve's 50 basis point rate cut, Kaspa showcases resilience with strong post-crash recovery and renewed investor interest, positioning itself for future growth amid market volatility.
Kaspa Market Outshining Bitcoin with Resilience and Growth Potential Amid Market Turbulence
Fri Sep 13 2024
Shay ShaoKaspa is currently demonstrating remarkable resilience and growth potential in the volatile cryptocurrency market, particularly when compared to Bitcoin. Despite Bitcoin struggling below its Short-Term Holder (STH) Realized Price for much of the past month, Kaspa has managed to stay above this critical support level, reflecting its relative strength and stability.
Riding the Wave of Renewed Investor Interest and Global Liquidity Surge
Fri Sep 06 2024
Shay ShaoKaspa's recent trading volume tripled following its Binance Live debut, indicating strong and sustained market interest. This persistent volume suggests ongoing market engagement, attracting more participants and signaling potential future price action. Currently, Kaspa's price is below the Short-Term Holders (STH) Realized Price, offering a strategic buying opportunity for value-seeking investors.
Kaspa Network Sees Volume Surge and Stability After Binance Live Success
Tue Aug 27 2024
Shay ShaoKaspa Network has shown significant boost in market activity following the success of its first Binance Live episode, which garnered 82,000 views. This event catalyzed a nearly fourfold increase in daily trading volumes, from 300 million UTXO to 1.2 billion UTXO, reflecting growing market interest.
A Resilient Outlook Amidst Distribution Dynamics
Mon Aug 19 2024
Shay ShaoThe Kaspa market has exhibited strong resilience, rebounding robustly after a recent global market dip. Trading between $0.16 and $0.17, Kaspa maintains crucial support above the 200-day moving average (200DMA), fostering a bullish sentiment. Overall, Kaspa is well-positioned for potential future gains, making it a cryptocurrency to watch closely.
Interviews
An interview with KASPY: Kaspa's Favorite Three-Legged Cat
We spoke to the founder, Kaspy Kaptain, covering details about Kaspy the real cat, future project plans, and the vision of KRC20s. Please see the interview below.
An Interview with BURT: Kaspa's Main Moon Martian
KASmedia spoke to BURT himself to understand the BURT KRC20 and its projects, his intergalactic mission, and what Kaspa means to him as a whole.
An Interview with KONAN: A Top KRC20 Kaspa Meme Coin
KASmedia is starting a new article series interviewing the most decentralized fair-launched meme coin projects within the Kaspa ecosystem. Kaspa represents fair money and fair technology, so it's only right to support meme coins of the people and for the people. For this article, we interview the founder of KONAN on what the coin represents for its community and Kaspa.
A KASmedia Interview
KASmedia had the pleasure of interviewing Luke, the Kaspa Global Ambassador, Kaspa archival node operator, and crypto miner, known on X.com (Twitter) as @elldeeone. We caught up with him after his travels on the Kaspa World Tour to discuss the events and the Kaspa Ambassador program.
A Nacho Kat Interview
Thu Sep 19 2024
Jennifer GhelardiniAhead of the Kasplex mainnet launch on September 15, 2024, the KASmedia team was able to interview the popular KRC20 project, Nacho the Kat, also known as Nacho Wyborski, named after Kaspa core research Shai Wyborski's beloved black cat, Nacho. KRC20 is a token standard allowing developers to build fungible tokens on Kaspa, built by Kasplex, touted as the first protocol for the Kaspa Ecosystem.
Kaspa Miner Series: An Interview with Goldshell
On September 9, 2023, KASmedia was fortunate to interview members of the Goldshell team as part of our mining interview series. Founded in 2017, Goldshell is a crypto miner manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, with additional offices in Hangzhou, Hong Kong, and Singapore. According to their website, Goldshell is available in 130+ countries, with over fifty global partners, and over 40,000 registered users.
Kaspa Theory
Security of BlockDAGs (Understanding GHOSTDAG Chapter 1D, post 4)
Wed Oct 09 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) We are finally set to define the security of a blockDAG protocol. It turns out th...
Honesty Vs. Rationality (Understanding GHOSTDAG Chapter 1D, post 3)
Sun Oct 06 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) So far, we mostly assumed that a majority of the miners is honest. That is, that t...
HeavyHash is not "broken"
Sat Sep 28 2024
Shai (Deshe) WyborskiFINAL UPDATE Toni decided to respond to this post with his on-brand oblivious aggressiveness. As you can see in the comments, the “discussion” quickly devolved to open threats, culminating in an expl...
The BlockDAG Paradigm (Understanding GHOSTDAG, Chapter 1D, Post 2)
Thu Sep 12 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) The blockChain paradigm reduces designing a proof-of-work consensus protocol to im...
Understanding GHOSTDAG, Exercises for Chapter 1D
Thu Sep 12 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) 1. A strong connectivity component in a directed graph is a set of vertices such ...
Understanding GHOSTDAG, Exercises for Chapter 1C
Tue Sep 10 2024
Shai (Deshe) Wyborski(This post is part of the Understanding GHOSTDAG [https://kasmedia.com/article/understanding-ghostdag-intro] series) 1. * Prove that no chain selection rule can satisfy the first attempt at defin...
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