Kaspa Stress Test Surges Past 170k TX – What’s Next?

Hey, welcome to Kaspa Daily Pulse – here’s what the Kaspa community’s been buzzing about today.

First up: a grassroots mainnet stress test lit up the network. A community dev tweaked the “Rotschild” spam tool to make parameters easier, switch from the CLI wallet to a private-key flow, and even teased a future “compound” function. The goal? Push Kaspa past 300-plus TPS and study real fee-market dynamics. In practice, they ran a “small” test of ~100k transactions… then kept going: past 170k, 220k, aiming toward half a million. Reported throughput hovered around ~120 to ~150 TPS on mainnet with roughly 500 UTXOs, while earlier testnet runs hit around 3 thousand TPS with ~2 thousand UTXOs. The wild part: fees. One tester said ~3–4 KAS covered roughly 170k–220k transactions, and the whole half-million push would cost about 8.5 KAS. The takeaway: spamming is cheap, UTXO management matters, and there’s headroom left—someone estimated the network was only ~10% loaded during the run.

On the flip side, whale anxiety resurfaced. Multiple posts claimed a familiar big wallet “dumped” around 200 million KAS over two days, with two cited addresses totaling about 213 million—and speculation that the entity once held near a billion and could still have 500 million-plus. No confirmations, just a lot of side-eye and “somehow still down” vibes. Classic overhang fear… and classic community resilience.

Meanwhile, tools and apps were a mini-subplot. Kasia’s staging build came up a lot—migration to IndexedDB, some folks stuck on loading screens, others testing live viewers. There were quips about Chrome being the bottleneck during high-TPS tests, plus a fun sighting: the Kaspa-NG web wallet handling ~120 TPS “from the user’s perspective.” It felt like builders tinkering in public, even as they roasted each other in chat.

Market mood? A cocktail of gallows humor and stubborn conviction. People begged for that elusive “10 cents,” joked about rank 49, tossed end-of-month guesses like twelve cents, and argued trading rules: stop-losses, DCA, or just zen HODLing. Macro crept in too—lots of chatter about the FOMC meeting and a possible 25-basis-point cut, with hopes (and eye-rolls) about how risk assets might react. Will that move the needle for KAS… or is it just more noise?

Finally, there’s mounting impatience around smart contracts. Some tossed out dates—“the 30th,” “the 31st,” “tomorrow” —and others suggested Kasplex might be waiting for “better market conditions.” Net effect: expectations are high, patience is thin, and people want a concrete launch window.

That’s it for today’s pulse. Let’s see what tomorrow brings. Catch you then.