Kaspa Community Erupts Over Futures, VC Moves & Price Fears

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

So first up, the macro mood. Crypto just went through a proper washing machine cycle. Global market cap is sitting around three point one trillion, down a bit over five percent on the day, and people are arguing whether this is the start of a full-blown bear… or just a brutal liquidity drought while QT does its thing and everyone waits for the next round of money-printing. You’ve got folks talking repos, car repossessions, government shutdowns and rate cuts… and then ending with, “or crypto dies… lol.” Classic.

Zooming into Kaspa price sentiment, it’s messy but kinda resilient. We saw longs getting liquidated around just over four cents, people joking about “three cents before thirty” and even under-a-penny dream entries… but at the same time others point out KAS is still trading in sats well above its early-November low and “ascension path is intact.” It’s very “I’m cooked, but I’m also working 50 hours a week so future-me can buy a stupidly big KAS bag.” Pain now, hopium later.

Big theme today: war on exchanges and derivatives. There’s a lot of salt about Binance futures listing without spot, MEXC getting called a “scam exchange,” and the feeling that CEX futures “suck the life out of the coin.” You’ve got people fantasizing about delisting all futures, making a PoW-powered Kaspa-only exchange, no other coins, no leverage, just pure spot KAS. Is it realistic? Maybe not… but it shows how done people are with being exit liquidity for perps.

Then there’s the VC and side-project drama. Stuff like Kaskad aiming for an eighteen-million dollar seed, earlier Kaspa-adjacent tokens and KRC20 memes that mooned then died, and new “pump and dump” fears. Some see experiments like Kaskad as useful infra and decentralized oracle work… others see “token first, business model later” and want no part of it. Add in frustration that shiny VC toys like MegaETH and friends hoover up attention while Kaspa feels “overlooked and sidelined,” and yeah, the chip on the shoulder is real.

But it’s not all doom. There’s quiet builder energy underneath: hype around a “game-changing” vProg talk, a Windows installer for Kasia already working internally, and one wholesome mission: install Kaspium on one new device – your friend, your barber, your butcher – and send them a single Kaspa. Tiny actions, real adoption.

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