Kaspa

Kaspa is an open-source blockchain project.

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Tom Dolam

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Kaspa

Kaspa is an ancient Aramaic word for “silver” and “money.”Kaspa aims to become the most resilient, robust and fastest PoW BlockDAG in the world.

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WALLETS

KASPA WEB/MOBILE WALLET

Kaspa Web Wallet is the most user-friendly and secure wallet available on the market today. The simple and easy-to-use interface makes it easy for you to send and receive payments.

DESKTOP WALLET - KDX

KDX process manager provides zero-effort installation and configuration of the Kaspa full-node software and the Kaspa Wallet when running in a desktop operating system environment.

KASPA COMMAND LINE WALLET

The Kaspa Wallet command-line interface builds on top of Kaspa Wallet framework. This command-line wallet is compatible with KDX

What is Kaspa?

The story of Kaspa

Kaspa is a proof-of-work cryptocurrency which implements the GHOSTDAG protocol. Unlike traditional blockchains, GHOSTDAG does not orphan blocks created in parallel, rather allows them to coexist and orders them in consensus. Whereby our blockchain is actually a blockDAG; you can see GHOSTDAG in action in a real time blockDAG visualizer). This generalization of Nakamoto consensus allows for secure operation while maintaining very high block rates (currently one block per second, aiming for 10/sec, dreaming of 100/sec) and minuscule confirmation times dominated by internet latency (cf. chapter 6 of the the paper for some initial benchmarks). The Kaspa implementation includes a lot of cool features and subprotocols including Reachability to query the DAG's topology, Block data pruning (with near-future plans for block header pruning), SPV proofs, and later subnetwork support which will make future implementation of layer 2 solutions much easier.

Kaspa is a community project, completely open source, no central governance, no biz model. Think Bitcoin, Litecoin, Monero, Grin, Kaspa. The mainnet was openly launched without premining or any other preallocation of coins.

Sounds interesting, how can I engage the Kaspa community?

The central hub of the community is currently the Discord server. Other than that you are welcome to join our Telegram channel and subreddit. Please also follow this Twitter account.

What kind of Hashing algorithm does Kaspa use?

Kaspa uses a modified version of HeavyHash. HeavyHash sandwhiches a matrix multiplication step between two "standard" hashes (e.g. keccak). The matrix multiplication phase is designed such that it would be efficient to calculate on specially designed photonic based devices in the future. The hash was chosen by the community in an open discussion a day before the mainnet has launched.

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