Kaspa
Beyond the Block
Kaspa is the fastest, open-source, decentralized & fully scalable Layer-1 in the world.
The world’s first blockDAG – a digital ledger enabling parallel blocks and instant transaction confirmation – built on a robust proof-of-work engine with rapid
single-second block intervals.
Built by industry pioneers, led by the people.
Buy Kaspa quickly & easily
By integrating Topper, Uphold’s fiat-to-crypto onramp on the Kaspa.org site, the Kaspa community is now able to buy $KAS, the native currency of the network, on the site!
Want to explore a Web3 onramp solution?
Check out Topper
Kaspa at a glance
Kaspa is a community project – completely open source with no central governance – following in the ethos of coins like Bitcoin, Litecoin, or Monero. The coin was fair-launched without pre-mining or any other pre-allocation of coins.
Read all the in-depth details on the Kaspa Features page.
Fair Launch Date
November 7, 2021
(no premine, no allocated coins)
Hashing Algorithm
Consensus
Proof of Work, BlockDAG
Supported platforms
OS – Windows, OSX, Linux, Raspberry Pi
TICKER
KAS
Block time
1 second
Circulating Supply
23.39B KAS
MAX SUPPLY
~28.7B
Market Cap
$2.7B
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
Kaspa is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency which implements the GHOSTDAG protocol. Unlike traditional blockchains, GHOSTDAG does not orphan blocks created in parallel, but rather allows them to coexist and orders them in consensus. Whereby Kaspa is actually a blockDAG; you can see GHOSTDAG in action in a real time blockDAG visualizer.
This generalization of Nakamoto consensus allows for secure operation while maintaining very high block rates (currently one block per second, aiming for 32/sec, with visions of 100/sec) and minuscule confirmation times dominated by internet latency (cf. chapter 6 of the research paper for some initial benchmarks).
Get the Latest WALLETS
Choose from these convenient wallet options to hold your KAS coins
Kaspa Web Wallet based on PWA technology is the most user-friendly and secure wallet available on the market today.
KDX process manager provides zero-effort installation and configuration of the Kaspa full-node software and the Kaspa Wallet when running in a desktop operating system environment.
The command line wallet is part of the core kaspa node software bundle and is maintained by the core team.
KasVault is a simple frontend interface for sending and receiving Kaspa with your hardware wallet. Currently only supports Ledger. Check out the usage guide here.
Kaspium mobile WALLETS
DAPPS, SWAPS & 3RD PARTY WALLETS
The Kaspa Project does not maintain or offer any technical support for these apps. Please contact their support teams if you are experiencing any issues.
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KASPA KEY Features
Fastest Transactions
Kaspa’s blockDAG network generates multiple blocks every second for posting transactions to the ledger. Combined with fully confirmed transactions in 10 seconds, this makes Kaspa ideal for everyday transactions.
Instant Confirmation
Kaspa was designed to be hundreds of times faster than Bitcoin, with each Kaspa transaction visible to the network in one second, and each transaction fully confirmed in 10 seconds on average.
Scalability
Kaspa solves the scalability problem with its ability to generate and confirm multiple blocks per second. This comes with no trade-off to security and decentralization as seen with Proof-of-Stake networks.
Efficient Proof-of-Work
Kaspa utilizes the optical-mining ready kHeavyHash algorithm for consensus and security of the network. This algorithm, combined with high-throughput DAG and no-wasted-blocks, makes it less energy intensive than other PoW networks.
Security
Kaspa harnesses an ultra secure block network with no compromise to decentralization. Achieved with pure, stake-less, proof-of-work combined with a revolutionary GhostDAG Consensus mechanism.
BlockDAG
Overcoming the problem of blockchains, Kaspa processes all blocks in parallel linking all side-chains. This leads to a DAG structure that increases the formation of blocks per second drastically, creating a blockDAG.
KASPA SWAPS
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We are a growing community and are always looking for enthusiastic people to join the project. If you are a coder, marketer, vlogger, community manager, enthusiast, or anything else join the Kaspa Discord and say, “hi!”
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PUBLIC DONATIONS ARE WELCOME!
Simple donation through Cryptocurrency Checkout
Manual donations dev-fund-address: kaspa:precqv0krj3r6uyyfa36ga7s0u9jct0v4wg8ctsfde2gkrsgwgw8jgxfzfc98
Mining dev-fund-address: kaspa:pzhh76qc82wzduvsrd9xh4zde9qhp0xc8rl7qu2mvl2e42uvdqt75zrcgpm00
The wallet is managed by 4 members of the community (msutton, Tim, The SheepCat and demisrael) who were publicly voted in to become the Treasurers.