Kaspa surges as vProgs hype and node growth erupt

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

So first up… Kaspa finally moved. After what everyone’s calling a two-year bear grind, price chat went from “we’re so dead” to “holy god candle” in one day. Folks were watching it climb from just over three cents to the mid four-cent range, talking about plus ten, plus fifteen, almost plus twenty percent on the day, and joking that Kaspa is now “officially a memecoin” because of how hard it pumped. Bears instantly flipped to bulls, but plenty of people are still calling it a dead-cat bounce or bull trap, so vibes are equal parts hype and paranoia.

Next big thread: the new tech narrative around vProgs. Kaspa L2? People basically pronounced it dead and moved on. Now it’s all “vProgs” – short for virtual programs – with Sparkle apparently being folded into that effort, led by Aspect and crew, funded by KSPR. The community’s already memeing it as “gay frogs” hosting dApps and carrying whatever VM you want. On the surface it’s jokes, but underneath there’s a real belief that vProgs could turn Kaspa into a “house of all finance.”

On the infrastructure side, there was quiet but strong optimism. People are testing the Kaslens app, calling it a promising Kaspa app with a heatmap and orderbook stats scheduled for next week. And node count came up: the number of public nodes has almost doubled in a month, up to about nine hundred twelve. That’s one of those “no headline, big signal” things – it screams real network growth to the nerds in the room.

Then you’ve got the defensive tech talk. Some were worried that Ethereum, Bitcoin, or others will just lift Kaspa’s ideas – DAGKnight and related research – and bolt them onto bigger chains. Adam Back was quoted as saying they’d grab what they want for Bitcoin, and people pointed out how ETH adapted Ghost before. The suggestion? Change Kaspa’s licensing so it’s copyrighted now, open-source later, to protect a potential ten-billion-plus market cap while still sharing the science.

And finally, the whale and conviction chatter. One message called out that if the top wallet really is Wintermute, it would be their first non-meme coin with around five percent of supply – either a massive whale or some big partnership down the line, in their eyes, though everyone admits it’s just speculation. At the same time, you’ve got someone’s dad renting out his house, living with his parents, and stacking roughly eighty thousand euro worth of KAS because he believes more than “any of you guys,” plus people insisting that buying under four cents is “stealing” and dreaming of one- to four-dollar Kaspa over the next five to ten years.

So yeah… classic Kaspa day: a big green candle, new tech memes, low-key infrastructure wins, paranoia about getting copied, and completely unhinged conviction from the community.

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