KAS (KAS)

$KAS holder breakdown as of today: retail holds 53.9% (14.73B), whales 27.8% (7.60B), exchanges 17.8% (4.87B) Last 24h: exchanges -0.29%, whales -0.15%, retail +0.17%. Supply shifting from exchanges and whales into retail wallets. https://t.co/QKGruc0rnM

People laugh at $KAS flipping $ETH. Here’s why they might be wrong 🧵

Hot take: $KAS might be the most underrated PoW coin in the space. Fast finality. Scalable blockDAG. Active devs. No VC dump pressure. It's not trying to be Ethereum. It's not trying to be Bitcoin. It's doing its own thing — and doing it well. That alone deserves more attention than it gets. #KASPA #KAS #BlockDAG

Incase you missed it on last nights Blockchain Banter; @Seb28_7 the founder of @KasMaporg has created a one click solution for running a Kaspa node! 🔥 Thanks to him the friction point for non techy people to spin up a Kaspa node has been removed! You can give it a go at https://t.co/bt8kb3L0DF Running as many Kaspa nodes at different locations across the globe is so important for decentralisation and the more that get turned on and made public, the more outsiders can see what a thriving ecosystem Kaspa has! $KAS #Kaspa

Miner fees should rise only to the extent Toccata increases real demand for L1 blockspace, covenant usage, and proof anchored settlement, not because the fork artificially manufactures congestion. The whole point is to expand what Kaspa can settle without turning the base layer into a fee extraction machine. For tier 1 exchanges, this is less about slowing adoption and more about introducing a new technical surface they will need to understand, but if Kaspa keeps the monetary layer clean while making programmability and zk verification structurally sound, it actually strengthens the long term case for serious infrastructure players rather than weakening it.

Toccata is not Kaspa “adding smart contracts” so it can cosplay as Ethereum. That is the wrong frame entirely. What Toccata is doing is far more disciplined: extending Kaspa’s execution surface without corrupting the base layer into a bloated global computer. The architecture is converging around two distinct paths. One is native L1 covenant programmability, where richer script logic and covenant IDs let UTXOs carry stricter conditions, lineage, and composable constraints directly inside Kaspa’s settlement model. The other is the based zk path, where computation happens offchain but inherits Kaspa’s ordering and settlement guarantees instead of depending on an external sequencer cartel. That distinction is everything. This is not VM maximalism. It is constrained programmability with architectural hygiene. The real technical hinge is not the opcodes by themselves. It is sequencing. KIP 16 gives Kaspa a proof verification surface. KIP 17 expands covenant expressiveness. But KIP 21 is the deeper move, because

Calling all NFT artists in Kaspa Space and the whole NFT universe! 👩‍🚀✨ The upcoming NFT Studio isn't a launchpad - it's the ultimate prep suite for your creative flow. We’re focused on the heavy lifting: build complex collections with ease using our ERC721 and KRC721 export presets, plus seamless Pinata upload mechanics. Artists can focus on creative parts instead hustling with json files and finding out what a CID is 😅 No blockchain interaction, no minting or deploy - just pure, clean art preparation. Final testing on export optimization for massive collections is locked in just now. 🎨✨ And when your collection is ready you can deploy at your favourite NFT site like @KaspaCom or probably soonish also @kaspot_raffles on @Igra_Labs (or any other ERC721 or KRC721 capable NFT deploy pages) #Kaspa #KAS #KASMO #Kasmonauts #NFT #Art #Studio #Webapp DYOR, NFA, LFG!

$KAS payments coming to @Fryd_HQ 🍗 Set a reminder: https://t.co/epoq1nA2ch

Incase you missed it on last nights Blockchain Banter; @Seb28_7 the founder of @KasMaporg has created a one click solution for running a Kaspa node! 🔥 Thanks to him the friction point for non techy people to spin up a Kaspa node has been removed! You can give it a go at https://t.co/bt8kb3L0DF Running as many Kaspa nodes at different locations across the globe is so important for decentralisation and the more that get turned on and made public, the more outsiders can see what a thriving ecosystem Kaspa has! $KAS #Kaspa