We believe it’s possible that DeFi, staking, and Web3 projects were merely proof-of-concept products for the future of RWAs, especially the tokenization of bonds (private and public), treasuries, and money market funds. To show what L1s and L2s can do for traditional markets. Traditional finance, in the end, will want a single chain anchored to the physical world like Bitcoin, but as efficient and as fast as Ethereum or Solana. That answer is Kaspa.
When Bach meets Kaspa. Kaspa’s ecosystem accelerated toward mainnet readiness this week as Toccata entered feature freeze, developers demonstrated early ZK and cross-chain functionality on TN12, and a wave of infrastructure, oracle, MEV, payments, and stablecoin integrations signaled expanding programmability and real-world adoption across the network.
Our two heroes this week? Eliott Mea and Luke Dunshea. Eliott released a mathematically rigorous framework for price oracles on Kaspa, and Luke released several Kaspian tooling kits from devnet experiment results to a node resource study, as well as an update for Kaspa’s genesis path for pruned nodes and an updated fork for Liberated Potatoe. Moreover, we saw key third-party development across the Kaspa ecosystem. Read about it here!
Kaspa’s core purpose is two-fold: perfect money and enabling large-scale coordination via “coordination markets.” We cover this and this week’s news, as Kaspa crossed ~95% of its supply, while Kasplex integrated Bridgers (50+ chains) and launched a USDC/KAS pool. Moreover, we saw IGRA DAO assume LP ownership, and developers debated covenant indexing. Read below!
The best way to explain Kaspa? Bitcoin OP_CAT++. Moreover, we recently saw important news about a broader regulatory shift by the SEC toward fraud-focused enforcement, collectively signaling improved institutional viability and structural maturation in crypto markets.
The Kaspa ecosystem is advancing toward its Toccata hard fork, enabling Layer-1 covenants and ZK infrastructure, while parallel developments in tooling, Layer-2 expansion, and ecosystem adoption are still on fire.
Kaspa researcher Hans Moog completed a major milestone by integrating zero-knowledge proving into the vProgs framework. Additionally, we still maintain incredible adoption from many dapp updates.
Kaspa continues to scale rapidly, surpassing one billion transactions, while advancing core protocol upgrades, expanding AI and DeFi infrastructure, and benefiting from the U.S. Clarity Act. One day, these one billion transactions will be one billion users, as this is the first time in history that hard money can build an entire financial system.
Kaspa is accelerating on all fronts—from Oxford Union recognition to a major May hard fork 2026 protocol upgrade. What we are especially excited about is Kaspian's move to the BLAKE3 hashing algorithm, which increases speed while maintaining a future with oPoW.
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.
