Kaspa Mainnet Surges Past 1,700 TPS

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

First up: throughput fireworks. A bunch of tinkerers ran coordinated spam tests and pushed serious numbers. We saw “about 500k transactions in a little over 4,200 seconds” on mainnet—roughly 119 TPS—for a fee tab of just 8.5 KAS. Later, people cranked things harder: testnet bursts hit around 2,133 TPS in 60 seconds, and then came the big moment—mainnet surges with ~344k transactions in 200 seconds, a sustained ~1,718 TPS, with brief peaks claiming ~3,000 to 3,080 TPS (not sustained). Mempool chatter said “near 100% capacity,” kas.fyi’s live view lagged, and some browsers tapped out trying to render the flood. One tester estimated it cost about 3 KAS per minute to run the blast. And yes, an ambitious goal was floated: “200 million transactions in 24 hours” for roughly 3.4k KAS… complete with talk of a “spamfund” to route fees to miners and a few folks offering to chip in.

Second: smart contracts… provoked a full-on philosophy brawl. One voice claimed “Kasplex and Igra canceled,” others pushed back, and the debate veered into L1 vs. L2 design, Turing-complete contracts versus Bitcoin-style scripts, and decentralization trade-offs. There was even a rumored spec drop—“48 GB RAM and 1 TB” mentioned for a “Kasplex lite node”—prompting worries about who can realistically participate. Takeaway? No consensus. Some say “SC launch won’t move price,” others warn you don’t want to be offsides if it does.

Third: macro winds. The community tracked the U.S. Fed’s decision obsessively. Result? A 25 bps rate cut. Reactions ranged from “LFG” to “nothing burger.” Some expect more cuts ahead; others felt it was already priced in. Traders reported whipsaw liquidations, and the mood flipped between “green market” and “we’re stable… we’re stable” every few minutes. Classic FOMC-day whiplash.

Finally, sentiment. Plenty of gallows humor—“are we rich yet?” and “lambo… gone!”—but the throughput demo genuinely lifted spirits. The vibe by the end: if we can publicly show sustained four-figure TPS on mainnet—and make it visible without the dashboards choking—that’s a story the wider world can’t ignore.

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