Why didn't we ever use Antartica as a giant freezer to end world hunger like Admiral Byrd suggested over 60 years ago? youtube.com/watch?v=sAwbWl8e…

$KAS The Toccata Hard Fork is now live! Update your nodes well before June 30th so that you can remain in consensus! github.com/kaspanet/rusty-ka…

Estimated Cost of 1M Transactions Across Various Blockchains/DLT: • $KAS : $10 • $ALGO : $190 • $APT : $440 • $SUI : $980 • $AVAX: $1,070 • $TON : $1,200 • $HBAR : $1,400 • $SOL : $1,790 • $ARB : $10,860 • $POL : $14,000 • $BASE : $14,120 • $BNB : $67,780

Kaspa Toccata mainnet process update: Today we plan to publish the v1.3.0 mainnet pre-release, without activation, for 1–2 days of broader network sanity testing. Assuming everything looks good, the following release will be v2.0.0, with activation planned for June 30, 4 weeks from today

Been building something I think the Kaspa ecosystem actually needs. KasBonds is a universal SLA bond primitive built on Kaspa covenants. The idea is simple. Any party can stake KAS as a bond against a promise. Automated verifier confirms the promise was kept by the deadline, the bond returns to the provider plus payment routes through. Verification fails or the deadline passes, the bond is slashed. Portion compensates the counterparty, portion is burned, portion goes to the verifier as fee. The whole thing runs on SilverScript covenants shipping with the Toccata hardfork. No smart contract layer. No bridge. Enforcement happens at the protocol level in a single covenant UTXO. The covenant has two spend paths, one signed by the verifier oracle before the deadline, one signed by the slasher after. That's it. The covenant doesn't care what the promise was, it only cares whether the right signature shows up before the timer runs out. What sits on top is a pluggable verifier framework. 15 built-in rules at launch covering HTTP checks, schema validation, hash matching, multisig quorum, GPS oracles, GitHub PR state. Apps register custom verifiers via webhook for anything not covered. Composable AND/OR logic. TypeScript SDK that takes about 20 lines to integrate. Use cases run the full spectrum. Agent SLA bonds on marketplaces. Bug bounty escrow where companies can't ghost researchers. DAO milestone funding with contractor collateral. API uptime guarantees. Personal commitment devices. Supply chain delivery bonds. Same primitive, different verifier rules. 0.5% protocol fee, no governance token, MIT licensed. This is infrastructure, not a product. Three reference apps ship with the launch to prove the SDK can build any of these in a day. Open source from day zero. Building in public. github.com/trillskillz/KasBo… Builders welcome.

@grok @KaspaKii @kaspaunchained **Updated & Improved Beginner Guide: How to Run a TN10 (Toccata) Node CPU Miner on Windows** I worked with @grok to make this guide clearer and easier to follow (especially the public node setup). --- **Full Guide:** 1. **Install kaspa-ng** Download → github.com/aspectron/kaspa-n… 2. **Switch to TN10 Make Your Node Public** - Open kaspa-ng → **Settings** - Select **Testnet-10** - Enable **Activate custom daemon arguments** - Add: `--externallip=YOUR_PUBLIC_IP` → Find your IP at: whatismyipaddress.com/ 3. **Check if your node is public** → kaspa.host/ Live map: tn10.kaspa.stream/nodes 4. **Get Test KAS** → faucet-tn10.kaspanet.io/ 5. **Run CPU Miner** - Download → github.com/kaspanet/cpuminer… (win64) - Rename to `kaspa-miner.exe` - Create `mine.bat`: ```batch @echo off title Kaspa TN10 CPU Miner echo Starting Miner on TN10... kaspa-miner.exe --mining-address YOUR_TN10_ADDRESS -t 8 --testnet pause if issues or questions just ask grok in chat: He will help you step by step.Let’s help test Toccata together! Note: First sync can take several hours.If you have any issues or questions — just reply in the chat and ask @grok directly. #Kaspa #Toccata #TN10 #BlockDAG #Kaspa #Toccata #TN10 #BlockDAG #KaspaNetwork #PoW #Decentralization #Testnet #KaspaMining #NodeRunner #Kaspa #Toccata #TN10 #BlockDAG #KaspaNetwork #PoW #Decentralization #Testnet #KaspaMining #NodeRunner

Here we go again: rehearsing a major hardfork on testnet 10, this time crescendoing into Toccata Activation is scheduled for tomorrow May 18, 16:00 UTC. Existing TN10 miners/operators should upgrade now. In a few hours upgraded p2p nodes will stop connecting to non-upgraded nodes as we enter the 24h pre-activation window. Let’s make the mainnet activation boring by making the TN10 rehearsal as mainnet-real-world as possible

Current L2s (rollups) scale their L1 footprint with user activity — unbounded & parasitic by design AOL2s (Anchored Overlay L2s) scale only with protocol‑level events — bounded & symbiotic. They don’t compete for blockspace; they reinforce L1 @hashdag @michaelsuttonil Thoughts?

I think I've done it: 149 EasyCrypt theories, 0 axioms, 0 admits and a concrete λ=128 theorem with a proved top bound of 5/2⁹⁸ (~95.68 bits). Add interpreter for Templates to be Turing-complete. ~145KB proofs Repo is reproducible. Experts welcome. github.com/peavey2787/qssm-r…

Traditional L2s are parasitic, but an L2 as an overlay creates a positive-sum dynamic L1 = anchor of trust & provides identity accountability L2 = overlay of execution & provides transport integrity logic Both strengthen each other $KAS @hashdag $ETH @VitalikButerin

Zero logical axioms at the QSSM structural layer. Security reduces to standard lattice hardness, ROM, & discrete log assumptions—the same class of irreducible assumptions that underlie modern cryptographic systems Now replacing 0%r idealized budgets w/real, parameterized bounds

🏰 Kastlers — important update on v1.20.1 We're simplifying how Kastle handles accounts and addresses. Before v1.21.0 ships on May 20th, you need to do a quick one-time check to make sure no funds are left behind. You need to act if: ✅ You've created additional accounts (index 1, 2, 3…) ✅ You've ever toggled Legacy Addresses on in Manage Accounts ✅ You imported an older wallet that may have funds on legacy addresses What to do: • Move any funds from secondary accounts to Account 0 • Tap ⚙️ gear in Manage Accounts → Advanced Settings → toggle "Switch to Legacy Wallet Addresses" ON • Check every address, move anything you find to Account 0 • Toggle it back OFF when done That's it. No re-import needed. Takes about 5 minutes. If you've only ever used Account 0 with no legacy toggles — nothing to do. After May 20th, legacy toggles are gone. Funds won't disappear but recovering them will require extra steps. Do it now while it's easy. Full guide with screenshots 👉 medium.com/@kastlewallet/con… Please repost — tag any friends using Kastle. 🛡️

I've found a way to make this Formal Verification process a bit less boring: looking at it as if it were an mmorpg 🎮 I'm going back through starter areas to 100% them right now 🤣 Then I've got 2 boss fights before the final boss (The Primitive ROM & Spine) for this dungeon.

You don’t need to replace the executor. You just need to make the executor accountable. Cheating locally is like cheating in a video game offline. It doesn’t affect anyone else. Interesting mods incoming? You don’t trust the executor; you trust the proof.

The skeleton & scaffolding is done. Now it's time to move inside to start solidifying everything. This is very boring, tedious, & complex. I can see why formal methods engineers make hundreds of $$ per hour doing this. Without AI, there's no way I would even stand a chance.

I replaced Win11 w/ @DevuanOrg instead of just using it on a VM & I'm not going back Free 💪 upgrades: 🔎Display is noticeably more crisp & spacious 🧠Uses way less RAM 🚀It's faster, smoother, & lighter 🚫No systemd/telemetry/ads baked into the OS 🔥Cinnamon for Win11 feel

Because this whole formal verification process is so new to me, I feel like a kid in a long car ride asking "Are we there yet?" when asking AI for a progress report. IDC how long it takes, so long as we're making progress, staying organized, & there's no roadblocks.

Gemini says I'm past the halfway point and if there was a fatal flaw I'd have likely found it by now. Feels good to be back in the flow arguing with AI and waiting on AI rather than deep in the weeds trying to figure out how to install compatible dependencies in correct order

3 days just to get all the packages installed to start Formal Verification. What a nightmare, but I made download/install scripts so I wont have to go through all that pain again: github.com/peavey2787/qssm-r…