Kaspa Stuck at 8¢ as Smart Contract Delays Drag

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

First up: price vibes. Kaspa hovered around about eight cents, with folks noting a one point six percent daily move and calling it the “8-cent party.” But the mood? Mixed to gloomy. Plenty of jokes about “stable downtrend,” talk of five cents or even lower, and a lot of “it’s jover” energy. The chorus today wasn’t “wen moon,” it was more “why didn’t we pump when everything else did?” Some blamed tighter correlation with BTC/ETH and ongoing miner selling, with one comment pointing to a large pool holding “about 20 percent.” Net-net: the room felt tired, a little cynical, but still watching support like hawks.

Second: smart contracts. Multiple voices said SCs are delayed… again. The community called out “announcements about announcements,” frustration with shifting dates—like a mention that August 31 came and went—and overall poor communication from builders. The result is impatience, jokes about “bait,” and a creeping fear that timelines keep slipping. Love a good countdown that never ends, right? The hope remains they still land before end of year, but confidence clearly took a dent today.

Third: Kasia progress. There is some builder bright spot: Kasia on iPhone is in internal testing. That perked ears up, alongside chatter from devs juggling Rusty Kaspa work and iOS builds. It’s scrappy—people talking about needing a Mac mini, test devices, maybe opening an address for community support—but it signals momentum. Even the skeptics admitted they’ve got friends trying Kasia for encrypted chatter. Adoption talk beats price doom, any day.

Fourth: tap-to-pay tease. A project called Knexous made the rounds, pitched as “crypto’s first NFC payment system” with zero fees and no Visa/Mastercard—“just Kaspa.” It’s clearly a teaser—details thin, lots of questions—but it sparked a heated thread about real-world payments, merchant readers, and whether adoption beats listings. If this moves from tease to demo, expect the conversation to shift fast. For now, it’s cautious curiosity.

Fifth: wallet security chatter. Users roasted one hardware wallet over blind signing on Kaspa; one dev said they modified the firmware to show the destination address, and the vendor reportedly marked the fix as “low priority.” The takeaway landed hard: use hardware wallets wisely, verify what you sign, and celebrate open-source tinkering when vendors lag.

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