Kaspa Stress Test Meltdown & L2 Showdown

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

First up: a grassroots stress test had everyone glued to their screens. Community devs pushed transaction load with a goal of “two hundred million in a day,” sharing live stats like “2.08 million transactions in nine hundred sixteen seconds,” “36.79% effective TPS,” and a script averaging ~300 TPS. There were bumps — someone kept using RBF and tanked throughput — but folks still bragged “>16 million tx in the last 24 hours,” with optimistic targets of 150 to 190 million if everything clicked. “At least beat BSV” was the rallying cry.

Second: real node-operator talk. One user measured initial block download around three and a half hours at ten BPS on beefy hardware, while others saw UTXO index corruption errors and odd memory spikes. There was frustration about empty blocks — blamed on Canxium merge mining — “robbing” Kaspa of TPS, plus a suggestion for better block templates. Later, someone noted “look like 10 BPS solved it,” speculating exchanges should bump fees to avoid mempool stalls during surges. Geeky, yes — but it shows where the bottlenecks might be.

Third: vibes versus price. With Bitcoin ripping, chatter fixated on KAS hovering around seven to eight cents — “rank seventy-three” got quoted — and a whole lot of “jover” jokes. Some called the community “weak,” others doubled down with dip-buys and gallows humor. No price predictions here, just the mood on the timeline… mixed, loud, and very online.

Fourth: L2s and smart contracts stirred debate. One camp fretted that a Kasplex L2 could “destroy KAS,” while others outlined plans: zk opcodes “when available,” Igra aiming for L1 sequencing so each L2 action mints an L1 tx, and the old “Sparkle” idea to keep mining integral to an “L1.5.” Meanwhile, a separate thread casually dropped “Ok so we now have smart contracts. What else? Stables, vProg, DagKnight,” with Igra timing floated for Q1 twenty-twenty-six. The community isn’t aligned, but the roadmap talk is very alive.

Fifth: partner and mining gripes. People revisited the Chainge/wKAS fiasco, questioning KEF’s due diligence, and vented about ASIC makers (price cuts, coupons, hosting headaches). It’s the unsexy side of crypto — integrations, vendors, and ops — but it clearly shaped sentiment today.

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