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Kaspa Explained STP

Explore how Kaspa payments, parallel blocks, and spending rules work through interactive explanations.

How Kaspa works

See why honest miners find parallel blocks and how ordering resolves conflicting payments.

Using KAS

Understand wallets, payment outputs, fees, change, and what a transaction explorer can establish.

Kaspa’s tradeoffs and risks

Inspect Kaspa’s security assumptions, operating costs, and unresolved questions without price predictions.

Mining and KAS supply

Explore mining share and variance, then inspect issuance, costs, and node participation.

Build on Kaspa

Explore covenant rules and find current integration, compiler, and application-model documentation.

Kaspa network and tooling status

Dated primary-source evidence for Kaspa activation, releases, prototypes, and network readings.

Kaspa’s origins

A concise research and launch history with primary references.

Kaspa protocol specifications

Find protocol changes and application conventions without confusing document status with activation.

Books by Moose

Read Carnot Local, Brownian Global and The Instrument by Moose, preserved in full.

Sources and method

Inspect the sources, model boundaries, and independence of Kaspa Explained.

Kaspa Playground

Bring Testnet-10 tKAS, then see Kaspa’s rules: parallel blocks, double spends, UTXOs, mining share, covenants.

Your Kaspa wallet

Connect Kasware or Kastle to see KAS, tokens, and KNS domains for the address in this tab.

Door 1 · New to crypto

Kaspa is digital cash that does not need a bank. Miners spend energy so nobody can rewrite a payment for free. That is proof of work. The rest of this page is what that means, and what it does not mean.

Door 2 · Knows crypto, not Kaspa

Kaspa is still proof of work. Parallel honest blocks are kept and ordered. Speed is not a new security story. Compare it to the chain you already know, then check what is actually live.

Door 3 · Knows Kaspa

Skip the pitch. Check dated status, live versus research, and the tradeoffs. If a claim has no source, it is not intel.

Door 4 · Thinks they know

Price is not a protocol. A live rule is not an app. A repository is not production. Compare Kaspa to the rest of crypto with labels, not vibes.

Moonboy

Price predictions and detailed chart analysis are not intel. Kaspa is a network.

Best practices

Honest Kaspa sources: Kaspa Silver, books, Kas Smiths, Aviv Zohar, Q&A, and Core R&D recaps.

Explore

kaspa.stream for ordinary people: a live explorer of blocks and payments. Plus the graph inspector.

Help

Questions go to Kaspa Discord. Dedicated rooms exist. Browse, then ask.

Node

Run a Testnet-10 rusty-kaspa node and mine tKAS today. CPU first. Do not point mainnet hardware at testnet by accident.

X handles

Kaspa X accounts from the master file. Core is not a legal title. DYOR.

How programmable money works

Explore redemption, collateral, and conditional payouts. See what code enforces and where people still matter.

Testnet applications

Fund, use, and inspect small contracts on Kaspa Testnet-10 from your browser.

A KAS economy · Sprout Harbor

Build a greenhouse, hire Pip, trade the harvest and deliver food. Follow wages, payments and transaction flights through a small economy on Kaspa Testnet-10.

Wrap lab

Wrap native test KAS or inspect a trusted-oracle test-asset bridge from Ethereum Sepolia to Kaspa Testnet-10.

PegLab

A Testnet-10 teaching covenant that looks like a dollar and then fails in public. Not USD. Tiny pool. Will depeg.

What backs a stablecoin?

Explore cash, Treasury reserves, and redemption queues.

Borrowing against crypto

Change collateral prices and inspect the liquidation threshold.

How prediction payouts work

Follow Yes and No claims backed by one pool of collateral.