Kaspa’s ecosystem continues to expand with the release of Rusty Kaspa v1.1.0, while developers advance covenant tooling ahead of the upcoming hard fork. At the same time, new Layer-2 infrastructure, stablecoins, oracle systems, and experimental applications—from messaging platforms to AI assistants—emerge.
Kaspa development, across core and third-party ecosystem applications, is in full force - at the likes of which we've never seen before. DAGKNIGHT developmentment is finally in testing, covenant and zk R&D is expanding, and a wave of new apps are finally coming to fruition as we all march towards Kaspa’s Real-Time Decentralization vision.
This week, we gain foresight and a vision of what real money and Bitcoin was meant to be: real-time, decentralized, unforgeable costliness, i.e., “Real-Time Decentralization." Moreover, we cover how Kaspa is targeting two aggressive 2026 hard forks. Lastly, the Covenants++ timeline is targerted in May to finalize covenant-based state machines, zk verification, and canonical rollup bridging.
In this edition, we cover how Kaspa is accelerating toward its 2026 covenant-centric hardfork as Silverscript (its first high-level L1 smart contract language) launches on Testnet-12 This is huge! Moreover, KIP-20 is announced enabling scalable stateful covenants and vProgs node reliability advances. Finally, THE Kaspa ecosystem momentum is building rapidly as we past 600M transactions with expanding DeFi, messaging, gaming, and hackathon activity.
