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Argent & SilverScript: Kaspa Covenant Toolchain Explained
How SilverScript compiles Kaspa covenants and Argent adds portable artifacts, multi-actor transactions, and cross-app linking — with honest boundaries.
Read →Kaspa Blackjack Payout: Natural 3:2 and Fee Reserves
How Kaspa Arena Blackjack encodes natural 3:2 payouts, liveness bonds, and fee reserves in on-chain covenants. Public mainnet beta mechanics explained.
Read →Kaspa Wallet Encryption: Session Locking & Age in Desk
How Kaspa Desk encrypts your wallet at rest with age, locks browser sessions, and zeroes keys — honest trade-offs included.
Read →Recover a Kaspa Vault Without the Website — Open-Source CLI Guide
Learn how to recover a Kaspa Safe vault using the open-source vaultctl CLI and offline keyfile decryptor, even when the service is down.
Read →Kaspa Browser Wallet Security: The Signer Boundary Explained
How non-custodial Kaspa apps keep client-side crypto keys safe — rebuild-before-sign, exact output verification, and why backend proposals are untrusted input.
Read →Room to Game: A Kaspa UTXO Game State Machine for Blackjack
How a Kaspa UTXO game state machine turns blackjack hands into verifiable on-chain covenant transitions — Room, JOIN, deal, play, settle.
Read →Kaspa Payment Confirmations: BlockDAG Events to Webhooks
How Kaspa payment confirmations work in a BlockDAG — from unique HD address to UTXO observation, blue-score threshold, and idempotent business webhook.
Read →Kaspa Social dApp: Images, Moderation, Tips & Indexing
How a Kaspa social dApp splits on-chain text from hosted images, runs $0 moderation, connects KAS tips to posts, and keeps the index rebuildable.
Read →BitGo Integrates Kaspa Custody as KAS Declines
BitGo now offers institutional-grade KAS custody. What the integration means for holders, miners, and the self-custody debate amid a falling market.
Read →Kaspa HD Wallet Derivation and Gap Scanning Explained
How a single encrypted seed derives service-specific keys in a Kaspa wallet, and how restore scanning finds activity without a server-side secret.
Read →Kaspa Marketplace Moderation, Search & Reputation
How Kaspa Forge moderates listings with AI, powers FTS5 search, builds opt-in seller reputation from on-chain outcomes, and keeps escrow funds independent of marketplace metadata.
Read →Crypto Rental Deposit on Kaspa: How It Works
How Kaspa Deposit locks KAS in a covenant for rental collateral — non-custodial, auto-return, dispute-ready. Technical deep-dive.
Read →Provably Fair Kaspa Blackjack: Merkle Decks & ZK Proofs
How Kaspa Arena Blackjack builds a shuffle, commits to a 52-card Merkle tree and proves fairness with a zero-knowledge receipt—step by step.
Read →Provably Fair Blackjack: Math, Not Casino Trust
Provably fair blackjack on Kaspa lets you verify the committed deck, revealed cards, legal moves and final payout—instead of trusting a casino backend.
Read →Kaspa WASM Byte Parity: Proving Browser and Native Builds Match
How deterministic Rust WASM parity guarantees that a browser-built Kaspa transaction is identical to a native one — and why covenants depend on it.
Read →Kaspa Developer Portal Launches with SDKs and Live Examples
Kaspa.org/build is live with WASM SDK, Rust crates, browser demos, and Docker node setup — plus Toccata covenants progress on testnet.
Read →Quantum Threat to Blockchain: What It Means for Kaspa
Dr. Shai Wyborski explains the quantum threat to blockchain signatures and why Kaspa's BlockDAG may offer more room for post-quantum migration.
Read →Stopping Selective Abort in Kaspa Dice: Commit-Reveal & Fee Dominance
How commit-reveal and a fee-rate dominance invariant prevent selective abort in an on-chain dice protocol built on Kaspa covenants.
Read →KCC20 Spec Author Finds Mint Bug in His Own Draft
A three-byte fix closed a mint-without-signature flaw in the KCC20 token spec before anyone shipped on it. What it means for Kaspa covenants.
Read →KBRD Envelopes & BIP340 Signatures on Kaspa Boards
How Kaspa Boards encode and sign on-chain posts using KBRD envelopes and BIP340 signatures. A deep dive into the Kaspa on-chain data protocol.
Read →How the Kaspa Forge Non-Custodial Stack Fits Together
A technical deep-dive into the five layers of the Kaspa Forge non-custodial platform — browser-held keys, WASM core, covenant money, server, and node.
Read →Dynamic Groth16 Image IDs Merge Into Rusty Kaspa
PR #1067 brings dynamic-image-id Groth16 verification to rusty-kaspa, plus a Silverscript g16.verify builtin. What it means for ZK composability on Kaspa.
Read →Provably Fair Kaspa Dice: Two-Seed Commit-Reveal Explained
How a two-seed commit-reveal protocol makes on-chain Kaspa dice provably fair — no ZK, no Merkle, just BLAKE3 and three transactions per bet.
Read →How to Use Kaspa Escrow for a P2P Deal
Learn how to use Kaspa escrow to buy with KAS safely or sell for KAS safely. Step-by-step non-custodial flow from funding to dispute resolution.
Read →Kaspa Wallet Theft Protection: Withdrawal Delay & Alarm Key
How owner-chosen delays and an independent alarm key protect KAS from instant theft — the on-chain mechanics behind Kaspa Safe vaults.
Read →Ravencoin Faces 4-Day Rollback After Block Flaw Exploit
Two mining pools are rebuilding Ravencoin's chain after a critical flaw let attackers add invalid blocks. What PoW miners and self-custody users should learn.
Read →Encrypted Kaspa Wallet Sync: How Profile Mirror Works
Learn how Kaspa Forge encrypts and syncs your Desk wallet across devices using ciphertext-only cloud storage — the server never sees your keys.
Read →How to Buy and Sell With KAS on Kaspa Marketplace
Step-by-step technical guide to listing, chatting, escrow funding, and settlement on the live Kaspa Marketplace. Spend KAS safely without platform custody.
Read →Kaspa Collateral Contract: Claims, Refunds & Timeouts
Every path your KAS can take inside a Kaspa Deposit covenant — from automatic return to dispute, arbitration, and emergency timeout.
Read →Kaspa Forge: Guide to Non-Custodial Services for KAS
What is Kaspa Forge? Compare Safe, Escrow, Market, Deposit, Arena and Boards, understand the security model, and choose the right KAS service. Start with Desk.
Read →Kaspa Forge: Four On-Chain Tools, One Server, Zero Custody
How Kaspa Forge runs Safe, Escrow, Deposit, and Marketplace on a single Rust process with one encrypted profile — and why that matters for non-custodial design.
Read →Argent: Actor-Based Covenant Language for Kaspa Compiles to SilverScript
Michael Sutton releases Argent, a covenant language compiling to auditable SilverScript, alongside Kas-Smiths standards coordination and the Actor Model framework for Kaspa.
Read →First Post-Quantum Signature Runs on Kaspa Testnet-10
A researcher executed the first XMSS post-quantum signature on a live Kaspa testnet via Toccata covenants — a concrete PQ readiness milestone for the protocol.
Read →Kaspa Forge Key Security: .Age Encryption and Session Locks
How Kaspa Forge encrypts your Desk profile with age, locks browser sessions, and lets you recover keys without any server.
Read →Kaspa Safe Deposits: Each UTXO Becomes Its Own Covenant Lock
How Kaspa Safe turns every vault deposit into an independent on-chain contract instance — and why the UTXO model makes multi-deposit vaults secure.
Read →Kaspa Wallet UTXO: HD Addresses, Coin Selection & Restore
How non-custodial Kaspa wallets track unspent outputs across HD-derived addresses — multi-input spending, balance aggregation, and gap-scan restore.
Read →Kaspa Kii Initiative Links PoW Mining to Desert Renewable Energy
How Kaspa Industrial Initiative partners with Dii Desert Energy to source climate-neutral power for proof-of-work mining in North Africa and the Middle East.
Read →Kaspa Covenant State Machines: Logic on Immutable UTXOs
How Kaspa covenants encode state inside UTXOs to build vaults, escrow and time-locks — the state-machine pattern behind Kaspa Forge tools.
Read →Kaspa's Smooth Chromatic Emission: Reward Drops to 2.45 KAS
Kaspa's monthly 5.6% emission cut lowers the block reward to 2.45 KAS on Aug 5. Analysis for miners and self-custody holders.
Read →Kaspa BlockDAG and MEV Resistance Explained
How Kaspa's parallel block creation creates natural resistance to maximal extractable value, and what solutions are planned post-DAGKnight.
Read →Kaspa Marketplace: On-Chain Escrow Behind Every Listing
How Kaspa Forge turns P2P listings into covenant-backed escrow deals — from draft to dispute — with no middleman holding funds.
Read →Kaspa Transaction Lifecycle: From Browser to Confirmation
How a non-custodial Kaspa wallet discovers UTXOs, builds transactions in WASM, signs in the browser, and gets confirmed in the blockDAG.
Read →Kaspa Covenant Standards: Kas-Smiths, KCCs, and Argent Language
Michael Sutton launches Kas-Smiths forum, KCC convention process, and Argent — a new actor-based language for Kaspa covenant applications after Toccata.
Read →Crypto Inheritance Without Lawyers: How Kaspa Safe Works
How Kaspa Safe's dead-man switch uses checkin timers, DAA score, and keyless paths to pass KAS to heirs — without custodians or lawyers.
Read →Kaspa Python SDK 2.0.1: Production Release With Covenant Fixes
The Kaspa Python SDK reaches stable status with covenant-binding fixes, a new seq-commit lane proof RPC, and SMT sync events for post-Toccata builders.
Read →Kaspa Covenant Security: How feeBudget Caps Prevent Fee Griefing
How the feeBudget parameter caps economic loss on every keyless covenant spending path — the math, the 16-of-17 rule, and how Kaspa Forge enforces it in production.
Read →Kaspa Covenant Keyless Paths: Why Some Transactions Need No Signature
How Kaspa covenants encode rules on-chain so keyless paths move funds without signatures — enabling trustless vaults and escrow without middlemen.
Read →Kaspa Escrow Fees: How Covenants Enforce Service Charges On-Chain
How Kaspa Escrow encodes service fees, anti-bypass invariants, and fee budgets directly in the on-chain covenant — no middleman discretion.
Read →Kaspa Deposit: Time-Locked Collateral Without a New Contract
How Kaspa Deposit reuses the escrow covenant with inverted roles to build non-custodial, time-locked deposits on the Kaspa BlockDAG.
Read →Kaspa Forge WASM Core: One Rust Crate for Browser and Server
How Kaspa Forge compiles one Rust codebase into browser WASM and a server binary — keeping vault and escrow contract logic perfectly in sync.
Read →Igra Multitude Turns Kaspa Into Infrastructure for Sovereign EVM Finance Chains
Igra Labs launches Multitude on Kaspa, letting finance teams deploy dedicated EVM chains with PoW ordering and no centralized sequencer. What it means for KAS holders and miners.
Read →Cross-Chain Payment Verification in Kaspa Escrow
How Kaspa Escrow auto-verifies counterparty crypto payments across Tron, Ethereum, Bitcoin and more — advisory checks in P2P OTC deal flow.
Read →Kaspa Escrow E2E Chat: Messages Anchored on the BlockDAG
How Kaspa Escrow's Kasia protocol encrypts deal messages with ECIES and anchors them to the BlockDAG — keys, media handling, and dispute reveals.
Read →Kaspa Covenant Time-Locks: DAA Score as a Programmable Clock
How Kaspa covenants use DAA score and UTXO age for time-locks — withdrawal delays, inheritance timers, dispute windows, and heartbeats.
Read →Kaspa Non-Custodial Recovery: Three Paths Without the Server
What happens if a crypto service disappears? Here's how Kaspa Forge's three independent recovery paths protect your KAS — no server required.
Read →Kaspa Transaction Fees: UTXO Pricing, Mempool Policy and Covenant Guards
How Kaspa calculates fees per UTXO, how the mempool handles pending transactions, and why covenant contracts cap the fee budget on every keyless path.
Read →Kaspa Boards Is Live: Post, Tip and Talk on the BlockDAG
Meet KaspaForge Boards: accountless BlockDAG conversations with images, quote threads and KAS tips. No platform fee — only the Kaspa network.
Read →Kaspa Escrow Disputes: Chat Key Reveal, AI Forensics & Arbitration
How Kaspa Escrow coordinates dispute resolution — E2E chat key reveal, AI forensics, non-binding verdicts, and binding human arbitration — without anyone holding your funds.
Read →Kaspa Covenant Security: Single-Input Invariant Explained
How Kaspa Forge closes multi-UTXO drain attacks across 17 covenant entrypoints with a one-line script check and a fee griefing cap.
Read →Kaspa L2 EVM Benchmark: 200x Cheaper Than Ethereum
Merlin's compatibility tool confirms Kasplex and Igra run 66 EVM operations identically to Ethereum Sepolia at a fraction of the cost — with caveats.
Read →Accepting Kaspa Payments Without Custody: HD xpub and UTXO Watching
How to accept KAS per-order without holding private keys — HD xpub derivation, UTXO polling, and partial-payment handling in production.
Read →Inside Kaspa Forge HD Key Derivation: HMAC-SHA512 and Domain Separation
How Kaspa Forge derives vault, escrow, wallet, and chat keys from one master seed — HMAC-SHA512 mechanics, domain separation, session security in the browser.
Read →Kaspa Key Derivation Backup: One Seed for All Future Keys
Learn how Kaspa Forge's deterministic key derivation works — one master seed, one .age backup, every vault and deal restored with a gap-scan.
Read →Kaspa BlockDAG & GHOSTDAG: How Parallel Blocks Are Ordered
How Kaspa's GHOSTDAG protocol orders parallel blocks in a BlockDAG — and what it means for fast confirmations, time-lock covenants, and on-chain tooling.
Read →Kaspa Self Custody: PoW + Covenants for Trustless Tools
How proof-of-work settlement and Toccata covenants let Kaspa build self-custodial vaults and escrow — no middleman, no custodian.
Read →Non-Custodial Kaspa Wallet: Browser-Only Keys in Desk
How Kaspa Desk keeps private keys browser-only with WASM, age-encrypted profiles, and HD derivation — a non-custodial Kaspa wallet deep dive.
Read →Kaspa Escrow Contract: Spending Paths Explained
Every spending path in the kaspa escrow contract pays only the buyer or seller — never the platform, not the arbiter. Here is how the on-chain covenant works.
Read →How Kaspa Covenants Work: Programmable Rules on PoW
Learn how Kaspa covenants (Toccata) enforce programmable spending rules on-chain. See how Kaspa Safe and Escrow build vaults and P2P deals on them.
Read →Kaspa Coinbase Rewards: How Miners Get Paid in a BlockDAG
How Kaspa distributes mining rewards when multiple blocks exist in parallel — mergesets, blue classification, and the DAA window explained step by step.
Read →Kaspa Safe Watcher: Off-Chain UTXO Monitoring and Alerts
How Kaspa Safe polls vault UTXOs on a BlockDAG, diffs snapshots, sends multi-channel alerts, and broadcasts keyless transactions — without ever holding a private key.
Read →Kaspa DAA Score, Pruning & Finality Explained
What is the kaspa DAA score, how pruning works in a blockDAG, and why dispute windows in Kaspa Forge count time in DAA — not clock-hours.
Read →Kaspa AI Agent Hackathon Meets Toccata Covenants
Kaspa community approves $25K Imperial College AI hackathon sponsorship as Toccata covenants prepare for June 30 activation — what it means for builders.
Read →Inside Kaspa Safe: Anatomy of an On-Chain Covenant Vault
How Kaspa Safe's covenant vault uses Toccata covenants to enforce withdrawal delays, alarm keys, and inheritance — with honest trade-offs.
Read →Run a Kaspa Node for Your Services: Why We Built Our Own
How Kaspa Forge runs its own kaspad instance, connects via gRPC, and serves vaults, escrow, and payments without trusting third-party APIs.
Read →Kaspa 10 BPS: What 10 Blocks per Second Mean for Payments
Kaspa runs at 10 blocks per second via blockDAG. A practical look at confirmation times, escrow funding, and payment UX — with honest trade-offs.
Read →Kaspalytics Adds Covenant & Script Dashboards for Kaspa
Kaspalytics adds new Covenant and Script tracking to its Kaspa analytics suite, making post-Toccata protocol adoption measurable on-chain.
Read →Kaspa Toccata Node Upgrade Checklist for Operators
Post-activation guide to Toccata: fee-policy changes, one-way DB upgrade, hardware specs, and what happens if you don't upgrade before the deadline.
Read →Robinhood Launches Tokenized Stocks on New Arbitrum L2
Robinhood Chain mainnet brings tokenized equities to DeFi via Arbitrum. Analysis of what this permissioned L2 model means for PoW settlers and self-custody.
Read →Toccata Fork Brings Covenants to Kaspa Mainnet
Kaspa's Toccata upgrade activates native L1 covenants and ZK verification on mainnet. What programmable spending rules mean for self-custody and PoW.
Read →KaspaForge Dice: two committed seeds, one verifiable roll
Kaspa Forge engineering notes and release context.
Read →KaspaForge Arena launch: provably fair blackjack
Kaspa Forge engineering notes and release context.
Read →Agent skills and open tooling
Kaspa Forge engineering notes and release context.
Read →Kaspa Forge key derivation in Desk
Kaspa Forge engineering notes and release context.
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