We've just crossed $2,000,0000 TVL on Kaskad Thank you for your support! Remember: 13D, 5H remaining before the end of our first Epoch, after what those who've kept their supply & borrow positions on Kaskad will get to claim their first KSKD allocation. Iygwg* *If you grow we grow

I just released the new version of #MyKAI 1-click-node for non-tech users. It is Toccata ready and does a lot of the heavy lifting for you when it comes to your local settings. Strenghten the $KAS network and join the 40-50 #Kaspa noderunners using this daily. Download it here: mykai.dev/

AMA ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 STREETGEMCALLS X @KaspaSilver Join us Monday, June 8, live on Telegram for an engaging session with @KaspaSilver look forward to see you there (DYOR) 📆 Date: June 8 2026 ⏰ Time: 9: 30PM UTC 📍 Venue: t.me/streetgemlounge 🎙 Speaker: @KaspaSilver 🎙 Host: Dave(Whale)🐋 🏆 Rewards: kaspa:native

That's a really good question, but it's hard to answer in a single tweet because our mission is quite extensive, and it requires a lot of background knowledge to really understand what sets Kaspa apart. Currently, a lot of people see Kaspa as “Bitcoin’s crazy little brother” that improves time-to-finality by leveraging the benefits of DAG-based consensus protocols without accepting their traditional drawbacks, such as decreased decentralization or a limited validator set. This perception is somewhat accurate, but it falls short of conveying the full picture, because Kaspa’s vision extends far beyond just trying to be a better Bitcoin. Anyone willing to study Kaspa and its broader vision will discover similarities to nearly all major existing DLT designs: from Bitcoin, to Ethereum, to Solana, Sui, Celestia, and beyond. My personal view is that “research” in the DLT space is approaching a point of convergence. We increasingly understand how to push distributed systems close to the limits of what physics permits. The frontier is no longer only about raw throughput or faster finality. The attention is shifting toward game theory, incentives, sequencing, MEV, alignment, and how to build systems where the economic incentives of users, builders, miners, validators, applications, and infrastructure providers do not work against each other. That is why debates like based rollups versus arbitrary sequencing, shared sequencing, MEV mitigation, proposer-builder separation, and execution-layer incentives matter so much. These are not niche technical details. They determine whether a network can remain neutral, decentralized, and aligned while scaling to global usage. And this is where I think Kaspa is pushing the boundaries in a very important way. Kaspa is not merely trying to be “fast.” The goal is to build an L1 where speed, decentralization, security, and incentives are aligned at the base layer. A system that does not scale by hiding complexity behind trusted committees, privileged sequencers, centralized validator sets, or opaque coordination mechanisms, but instead tries to preserve the spirit of proof-of-work while extending what an L1 can realistically do. Because Kaspa arrived later than many other major projects, it does not carry the same degree of technological debt. It can absorb lessons from Bitcoin, Ethereum, rollups, modular blockchains, high-throughput monolithic chains, DAG research, MEV research, and the broader history of decentralized systems, and combine those lessons into something more optimal. To me, that is what Kaspa is building: not just a faster blockchain, but a more incentive-aligned decentralized infrastructure layer. But this also creates a different challenge. Kaspa’s biggest problem today is not its technology. It is the lack of centralized coordination around communicating the vision. And because Kaspa is a grass-roots movement, that responsibility does not belong to a marketing department, or a single leadership team. It belongs to the community. That also means the community has a different role to play. There will always be holders who are mainly interested in price, and that is completely fine. But there also need to be people who are here because they want to use the technology to build a different future. People who care about the architecture, the incentives, the open questions, the trade-offs, and the long-term trajectory of decentralized infrastructure. I am one of those people. I am not interested in DLTs merely as a way to generate wealth. I am interested in them because I believe they can change the trajectory of humanity as a whole. For that reason, I want to use this opportunity to announce a regular community hangout where we discuss the current state of development, the open questions, and where we can align our vision together. The first session will be on Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. We will talk about the vProgs framework, how the codebase works, what sets Kaspa apart, where we improve on existing solutions, and what still needs to be done. The goal is for this to become a regular, possibly bi-weekly, event where we as a community come together to discuss the future and understand the technology. Eventually, we can invite people from other projects as well, but the main focus at the beginning will be explaining and communicating how things work under the hood. There is still a lot of work to be done, and I do not want to waste precious time. So the first sessions may feel a little improvised, but we can improve as we go. The important thing is that we start. So mark the date: Tuesday, June 9th, 2026.

🇵🇹 Já somos 6 Nodes em Portugal. Rumo aos 10! 💪 #KAS #TOCCATA kaspa:native

Running a $KAS node with one click So sick decor as well ngl

Mind-blowning : a fresh Toccata mainnet node on #Kaspa just synced to tip in 42 minutes flat. Toccata = $KAS 's massive hard fork upgrade that just dropped L1 programmability (covenants ZK verification support enhanced sequencing) while keeping the insane high-block-rate PoW BlockDAG engine that makes Kaspa legendary. Check the terminal logs: • ~20 TPS • Eating 8–16 blocks at a time • 1,292 transactions processed in 10 seconds , it's black magic compared to the slow-moving chains we’re used to.

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Toccata mainnet node synced in 42 minutes. What kind of black magic is this??

I'm one of the first 6 $KAS 2.0.0 nodes.

The Toccata release is finally out! The hardfork will activate on mainnet on June 30, 2026 at roughly 1615UTC. 24hrs before activation, updated nodes will disconnect non-updated nodes. Please make sure your node is updated before then. Release: github.com/kaspanet/rusty-ka… Upgrade guide: github.com/kaspanet/rusty-ka… Pools, exchanges and everyone else that needs to update please make sure you check out the release. We need to make sure all ecosystem participants are aware and upgrade in time if they want to adopt the fork.

**Official Toccata Release — Mainnet Hardfork Activation Included** (Links in reply) We’re excited to announce the official Kaspa release containing the **Toccata Hardfork** activation logic. Toccata is scheduled to activate on mainnet at DAA score `474,165,565`, expected around **June 30, 2026, 16:15 UTC**. This is a consensus-changing upgrade. All node operators, miners, pools, exchanges, indexers, wallets, and infrastructure providers must upgrade before activation to remain compatible with the network. Toccata introduces a major expansion of Kaspa L1 capabilities, including: • **Native L1 covenant support** through transaction introspection, allowing for more expressive contracts, including stateful contracts • **Covenant IDs**, providing stable covenant lineage across UTXO transitions, so covenant instances can preserve continuity as their state moves from one UTXO to the next • **ZK proof verification on L1** via `OpZkPrecompile`, enabling to trustlessly offload computation off-chain. • **Partitioned sequencing commitments**, improving support for based ZK applications by making lane-local proving scale with relevant activity rather than global throughput Please upgrade as soon as possible and verify your nodes are running the new release well before the activation DAA score. Thank you to everyone who contributed to designing, implementing, reviewing, and testing Toccata.

Support #KUDOS to go to the Imperial College London! kaspa:qrryda035xkx02l7yg7lx65ct89zk6ku2greszt475rvn80z6ydkyy9q3zl8r There is also a big fundraiser on the Kaspa Discord in support of this effort, that is to be announced soon. (tomorrow?)

Video on how to set up a pre release #Toccata $KAS node for Mac users. It is so simple to do we should have 10,000 nodes running… @IzioDev -Download the software for Mac at the link in Michael’s tweet -Open the folder. Copy the file path for Kaspad -Paste it in a terminal window, press space, then type “- - utxoindex” (no space between the two dashes). -Press enter and let it run. Use a mini pc or something without a display that can run 24/7. I am using an M1 Mac Mini.