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Regulatory

Crypto, Finally Legal! Major Crypto Bills Pass: What Does This Mean For Kaspa?

This past week brought crypto to center stage as the U.S. government hosted Crypto Week (July 14–18, 2025), a historic moment that marked a sincere push toward establishing clear digital asset regulations. While Kaspa remains a decentralized and international project with no known headquarters, these developments signal growing global momentum toward broader crypto adoption. 

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Opinion

Proof-of-Work: The Most Useful Of Them All

Proof-of-work is the most useful technology ever created, from creating the hardest form of money to securing the future of cyberspace and international Space Force Systems. Learn why, along with other Kaspa updates, in the new Weekly Knight.

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Let Freedom Ring: Kaspian Freedom Updates

Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! Kaspa is Freedom! Read about the latest updates on Kaspa and how the community is upholding the fundamental principles behind the cypherpunk movement.

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Opinion

The Deets: Why Binance is Taking So Long, and Who is Behind Wallet #2?

Welcome to the new addition of the Weekly Knight, where we dive into the latest ecosystem updates and exciting developments. Why is Binance taking so long to list KAS? And who is the second largest holder of KAS? We cover this and other news of the previous week.

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Weekly Knight

Move Over: Kaspa Will be a Top Five Coin

Kaspa will one day be a top five coin by market capitalization and the news from the past week points to how and why. See our most recent article on Kaspa news and its future.

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Protocols

Launches, Test Networks, and Audits Galore

Last week, we saw a significant number of new Kaspa ecosystem updates, including protocol audit reports and the launch of new test networks. In this report, we examine the technological impact that these new launches will have on Kaspa and its community. This is a testament to Kaspa's potential to become the ultimate world sequencer for all L1s and L2s one day.

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The Weekly Knight: Highlighting Kaspa's Youtube Community

Mon Jun 09 2025

Jennifer Ghelardini

Check out the news for all things Kaspa this week! In addition to our weekly updates, we are celebrating a YouTube appreciation week, where we highlight Kaspa Youtube Channels you might not already be familiar with: from the XXIM Podcast, to Scape Invest, to Kaspa Wojak, to Kat Daddy Krypto, to The Money and I Channel, and so on.

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Testnets

The Weekly Knight: So Many Testnets! We are Inevitable!

So many incredible testnets are launching, from Kasplex to Igra Labs to Kaspa Finance to Zealous Swaps. Eventually, we won't be able to keep up with Kaspa's ecosystem launches. Read all about them here!

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The Weekly Knight: SEC News, ZET-EX, and Igra Presents

Tue May 27 2025

Jennifer Ghelardini

A new Weekly Knight! This week, we cover the new and approved Kaspa Ecosystem Foundation (KEF) website, a talk given by Igra Labs at ETHDam III, SEC Chair Paul Atkins' request for digital asset clarity, ZET-EX by Kaspa Kim, and more layer-one speed testing.

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The Weekly Knight: The Fastest Layer One in the World?

This week in the news, we find out who holds the title of the fastest layer one in the world. The results aren't surprising! Moreover, we cover new institutional partners and media events. It's never a dull week in the world of Kaspa!

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A Knight for Glory: Quantum Resistance, ETH Denver, and Crescendo Responses

Mon May 12 2025

Jennifer Ghelardini

Another Kaspa week! In this series, we cover followup responses to Kaspa's Crescendo upgrade, new institutional partnerships, Igra Labs at ETH Denver, and new Kaspa-related podcast episodes.

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Crescendo

The Crescendo, Kaspian Litras, and Faceless Faces

Another week of the Weekly Knight! This week we discuss the long-awaited release of the Crescendo hard fork upgrade, Yonatan's most recent articles, the possibility of faceless faces, renaming KAS' smallest unit to Litras, and more!

Bitcoin
Events

Bitcoin Vegas 2025: We Hope to See You There!

Fri May 02 2025

Nicholas Sismil

Fellow Kaspians, we will be heading to Bitcoin Vegas 2025. Join us and say hello! The even will take place between May 27–29, 2025, featuring groundbreaking keynotes, panels, and fireside chats with the boldest voices shaping the future of money, freedom, and digital innovation.

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Updates

The Weekly Knight: The Deepive, DaVinci, Crypto Spaces and the Crescendo

Tue Apr 29 2025

Jennifer Ghelardini

Another week of the Weekly Knight! This week we mostly saw updates within the social media realm of Kaspa, from Shai's Deepdrive to Kaspa Silver. Most importantly, we are all gearing up for the largely anticipated Crescendo upgrade.

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Moral Relativism, Solving the L2 Blockchain Trilemma, and Institutional Updates

This week we cover additional Kaspa talks from the Hong Kong Web3 festival, including Junny's talk on moral relativism in crypto, and Michael Sutton's talk on the technical features of the crescendo upgrade and L2 integration for based roll-ups. Also, we provide this week’s news on the most recent institutional updates and media coverage.

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News

The Weekly Knight: A Hong Kong Wrap-up, New Faces, and Institutional Updates

This week in the news, we cover more events from the Hong Kong Web3 Festival, including talks from Michael Sutton and Hans Moog - a new face of the Kaspa Family, focusing on ZK roll-up research. Moreover, KAS received new exchange listings and media coverage.

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Updates

The Weekly Knight: Kaspa must Bitcoinize and Internet Chaos Resistance

A new article series of The Weekly Knight. "Kaspa must Bitcoinize!" Also, how Internet Chaos Resistance makes Kaspa the most secure form of money.

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Weekly

This Week in the News: Dworks, Boxing, Nodes, The SEC, and Meetups

Mon Mar 31 2025

Jennifer Ghelardini

A new weekly news article for the week of March 24th. This Week in the News: A new unit of account for Kaspa: Dworks, KEF sponsoring Boxing and a Hong Kong event, a new Kaspa nodes analytics platform, and the SEC's framework for proof-of-work assets.

Opinion

MADE IN AMERICA: Why Kaspa Deserves the American Stamp of Approval

Thu Mar 06 2025

Jennifer Ghelardini

As the fastest proof-of-work network, Kaspa upholds the movement's foundational principles and ensures that decentralized finance can scale to global adoption and implementation. This fulfills the original vision of an open and permissionless monetary system—one that echoes the American spirit of freedom and technical innovation.

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Chainge Finance Offering Fiat-Onramps for Kaspa

Thu Jan 09 2025

Nicholas Sismil

The number of wallet providers and applications supporting Kaspa continues to grow and expand daily, with even more providers adding Kaspa to their shortlists. Unified non-custodial wallet and online DeFi (decentralized finance) application, Change, now offers KAS purchases via fiat on-ramp.

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Anniversary

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.

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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.

Product Review

KASmedia's Wallet Guide for Hot and Cold KAS Storage

Fri Aug 16 2024

Jennifer Ghelardini

In 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.

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Kaspa Token Projects Part One

Thu Jul 04 2024

Jennifer Ghelardini

It'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.

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Introducing Kasplex and its Launch: Series One

Thu Jul 04 2024

Jennifer Ghelardini

Kasplex 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...

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Dr. Sompolinsky's Talk - "It is Possible"

Tue Jun 11 2024

Jennifer Ghelardini

The 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.

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Kaspa at Next Block Expo 2024

Fri May 31 2024

Jennifer Ghelardini

The Next Block Expo (NBX), the Blockchain Festival of Europe, took place in Warsaw, Poland, May 15-16, 2024, and hosted over 2,000 participants for a weekend of networking and learning with Web3 founders, developers, and enthusiasts from all over the world.

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Yonatan Sompolinsky's Interview with Dr. Martin Heisboeck

Wed May 22 2024

Jennifer Ghelardini

Earlier this month on May 9, 2024, Head of Institutional Research at Uphold, Dr. Martin Heisboeck interviewed Kaspa founder Dr. Yonatan Sompolinsky in the Uphold Institutional x Kaspa webinar. This discussion occurred ahead of the Rusty Kaspa upgrade that went live on May 13, 2024.

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The Silver Standard: Rusty Kaspa Ushers in a New Era of Innovation

Sun May 12 2024

Jennifer Ghelardini

Kaspa is pushing new boundaries of innovation, both as a saleable form of money (as a new digital silver standard) and as an exceptional layer-one blockdag. This article discusses the launch of Rusty Kaspa, its features, and what it means for Kaspa moving forward.

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Interview

An Interview with CryptoPumpz: A True Heavyweight in the Kaspa Community

Mon Jul 21 2025

Jennifer Ghelardini
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