L2 Chaos & 200M TX Test — Kaspa Faces a Turning Point

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

First up: throughput stunts. A community member says they’re gearing up to push “two hundred million” transactions across twenty-four hours this Sunday, after previously spiking the network to five thousand five hundred eighty-four TPS in a 35-minute run. Another watcher noted Kaspalytics recorded about “four point eight thousand TPS” during that burst, with roughly one hundred fifty thousand UTXOs involved.

Second: L2 turbulence and token counts. Several folks pressed on why some KRC-20 holder numbers ballooned overnight. The answer making the rounds: TBDAI distributions and address “airdrops,” plus chatter that TBDAI itself would go live when the IGRA L2 launches. Meanwhile, one user reported a bridge transfer stuck for “seven days,” allegedly due to the China holiday; another pointed out only “eleven million KAS” sit bridged on Kasplex with weak DEX volumes, and a few went as far as predicting Kasplex could become “obsolete” if IGRA delivers.

Third: smart contracts are out… but the honeymoon’s complicated. Some praised the extra activity—one quip said SCs bumped average TPS “to twenty”—yet others panned the rollout with “Kasplsx sucks,” “dump again,” and argued it should’ve been delayed. The vibe: tech is there, usage must follow.

Fourth: real-world rails & censorship-resistant chat. Builders keep pushing merchant adoption—there’s active work on a Tap-to-Pay Kaspa terminal and broader “physical PoS” focus. On the comms side, Kasia came up repeatedly: people noted KNS is already in Kasia, and reminded you can run it locally with your own node to sidestep app-store gatekeeping. Not flashy, but very on-brand for Kaspa.

Fifth: vibes check. Price talk skewed gloomy—calls of “downtrend almost a year,” jokes about “it’s joever,” and one miner saying a KS5 sold for “one hundred fifty bucks,” which many took as a sentiment tell. Still, beneath the doom, you hear the die-hards: “money goes from impatient to patient,” “buying more today,” and “long term only up.”

Quick wrap: today’s energy clustered around performance flexes on L1, frustration with today’s L2 UX, and heads-down building for payments and private comms. The mood? Tired but stubborn—bearish banter on price, bullish conviction on utility. If the “two hundred million” stress test happens, expect throughput chatter to dominate tomorrow’s feed.

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