10h ago
$KAS : 158M txs/day.
$KDA : Team shut down, -99%.
PoW didn’t die, it evolved.
🧵👇
1/ Bitcoin proved decentralization.
Ethereum proved programmability.
Kaspa proved speed, without compromise.
A pure Proof-of-Work Layer-1 that processes parallel blocks in real time.
Here’s the story of the fastest PoW blockchain alive.
2/ Kaspa is a Layer-1 blockchain built on the GHOSTDAG protocol.
Instead of adding blocks one by one,
it processes many blocks simultaneously.
That’s the power of a BlockDAG
(A directed acyclic graph for parallel validation.)
3/ Result?
→ 10 blocks per second
→ 1-second visibility, ~10s finality
→ PoW-level security
→ Fully decentralized
Kaspa achieves what Bitcoin can’t, speed without centralization.
4/ The mastermind behind it:
Dr. Yonatan Sompolinsky, Harvard researcher & co-inventor of GHOSTDAG.
He spent a decade studying how to scale PoW
without breaking Satoshi’s vision.
5/ It all began in 2013, when Sompolinsky and Aviv Zohar published the GHOST paper.
A concept later cited by Ethereum, Polkadot, Avalanche, and Cardano.
Kaspa is that research - live and running.
6/ Mainnet launched on Nov 7, 2021
🟢 No ICO
🟢 No pre-mine
🟢 No VC allocation
Just open code, open mining, and an organic, community-driven start.
8/ What makes Kaspa stand out:
✅ Solves the blockchain trilemma.
✅ Processes 10–100× more transactions than Bitcoin.
✅ Fair launch → no centralized control.
✅ Energy-efficient PoW.
✅ Transparent, verifiable codebase.
9/ Milestones that shaped the journey 👇
2013 : GHOST protocol invented
2018 : DAGLabs founded (backed by Polychain)
Nov 2021 : Mainnet launch
May 2025 : Crescendo upgrade → 10 BPS
Oct 2025 : 158M transactions/day (PoW record)
10/ 2025 developments 👇
→ KRC-20 token boom
→ Band Protocol partnerships
→ Kasia wallet & chat app live
→ DAGKNIGHT upgrade teased (30,000 TPS goal)
→ Smart contracts & L2s in final testing
Kaspa is quietly building..
11/ Even amid delistings and dips (~$0.053),
whales accumulated $8M+ in $KAS.
Community sentiment remains strong,
calling Kaspa “the last pure PoW chain.”
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