Zero-Fee Payments? Kaspa’s Knexous Breaks Ground

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

First up, the big thread everyone kept circling back to: a Kaspa NFC payment terminal called Knexous. The pitch is simple: tap-to-pay, Kaspa-to-Kaspa, and a forever-free basic plan with zero percent transaction fees for small merchants. That means no 3 to 5 percent card tax — just the tiny miner fee you’d pay on a normal wallet transfer. The team stressed “no over-hype,” promising steady weekly progress updates, and clarified it’s a for-profit company aiming at real-world adoption, not a grant-driven side project. Cafés and arcades were floated as early targets; someone even ran the math: a shop doing 400 lattes a day at 24 cents fee savings per drink is roughly 35 thousand dollars a year back to the merchant.

Zooming out, builder energy felt high, but price chatter was… volatile. A bunch of folks vented about exchange games and “waiting on T1 listings,” with theories that some venues shuffle KAS back and forth to whipsaw sentiment. Others shrugged it off as the usual cycle and kept DCA’ing. Net read: jittery, but stubbornly committed.

On the network side, there was a mini-saga around spam ending – someone dropped “AAAAAAND SCRIPT IS OFF,” and the convo drifted into resilience talk. Kasia’s indexer got praise (and some ribbing) for holding up, and one line that got cheers: “Kaspa took the PoW record from BSV,” tossed out in the middle of the spam banter. Details were light, but the pride was loud.

Wallets: a small but meaningful quality-of-life note — “Pretty close, code has been merged” for Ledger Live viewing KAS natively. Trezor still “not for now,” but folks seemed encouraged that Ledger progress landed. It’s incremental, sure, and that’s exactly what people want right now.

And the technical brain-teaser of the day: security budget. One post ran future math: in about 1.5 years, block rewards near 1 KAS per block imply KAS around 30 cents to keep today’s security if fees stay negligible; by roughly 2.5 years and 0.3 KAS per block, either price nears 1 dollar or we need a real fee market — on the order of about 2.5 thousand TPS with a minimum fee floor, as floated by Yonatan. Not a prediction, just a framework the dev-minded were chewing on.

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