Kaspa Privacy Initiative — Development Update Following my conversation with @michaelsuttonil, we set out to test whether Kaspa's Based Apps and KIP-21 could provide the foundation for a shielded native KAS protocol. The feasibility PoC on TN10 is now complete! Across PRs #31–33, we've demonstrated: ✅ Real Kaspa L1 lane ordering ✅ Execution with cryptographic ZK proofs ✅ Proof-based settlement accepted by Kaspa ✅ Rejection of deliberately omitted operations ✅ State reconstruction and successful native KAS withdrawal after executor downtime This is a significant step forward. Rather than building our own transaction-ordering infrastructure, we can potentially build on capabilities already available in Kaspa. We've also added a new design principle in PR #34: future protocol upgrades should preserve users' access to their funds and aim to enable privacy-preserving migration between versions. Now comes the part we've been working towards: actual financial privacy. Our next milestone is a shielded payment cycle: Alice deposits native test-KAS, privately pays Bob, and Bob withdraws native test-KAS. We'll begin by designing the private notes, commitments, nullifiers and ZK proof rules needed to make that possible. The Based App PoC demonstrates technical feasibility within its tested scope. It is not yet a privacy protocol, an independently audited system or a final architecture decision. But we're moving from proving the infrastructure to building the privacy layer itself. All research remains open source. Technical feedback and contributions are welcome! github.com/olafweller/kaspa-…

Kaspa's network produced 8,641,144 blocks in the 10 days to Oct 12, or 863,991 a day. At that pace it would match all 971,082 blocks Bitcoin has produced since 2009 in under 27 hours. @kaspaunchained

KCC-20 has advanced to Last Call: github.com/kaspanet/kccs/blo… A companion reference implementation by @manyfest_, written in Argent together with its pinned generated Silverscript, underwent an extensive manual review and AI-assisted audit by Michael Sutton, covering KCC-20 conformance, implementation correctness, and edge cases. It is now open for final public battle testing. We encourage developers and security-minded reviewers to try to break it, probe edge cases, and report any implementation bugs or discrepancies with the spec. Argent contracts: github.com/argent-lang/kcc20… Generated Silverscript: github.com/argent-lang/kcc20…

I finally wrote a book that covers vprogs, and in particular tic-tac-toe implemented as a vprog on testnet-10. It follows the game down to the machinery underneath, with diagrams and appendices for the details. Welcome to explore it and ask questions: biryukovmaxim.github.io/vpro…

kaspa is programmable high-frequency proof of work. i think high frequency is all the rage so to speak. it makes it a continuous composition of highly responsive mini programs