Kaspa’s 150M TX stress test shocks the community

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

First up, it’s all about that six-cent zone. KAS has been grinding its way back up, with people quoting roughly twenty percent gains on the day and around forty to fifty percent on the week, sitting near six cents and even showing up as a top gainer for two days straight. That’s pushed Kaspa’s rank from the low seventies toward the top fifty on some trackers, and even got it back into the “trending” section for the first time in years. Of course, classic Discord: half the chat is yelling “dead cat bounce” and “0.062 is the top,” while the other half is screaming “wen 1 dollar” and dreaming of ten bucks and beyond.

Underneath the memes, there’s a real flex on the tech side. One dev walked through a recent stress test where their bot pushed the network toward roughly one hundred fifty million transactions in a day, after a KRC-20 launch already did over twenty million transactions in twenty-four hours on layer one. They’re calling it “ground-breaking for a proof-of-work chain,” powered by that ten-basis-point upgrade, and comparing it to laying fiber in the 90s that only gets used decades later. Folks are talking about hammering their own nodes with transaction batches every few milliseconds and hitting mempool limits – very “weaponized autism,” very on-brand.

On the infrastructure front, people are loving a new explorer at Kaspa dot stream. It lets you see miner breakdowns, and someone pointed out that around ten percent of the hash is coming from solo miners – with the hope that number climbs once price’s solidly back above ten cents. That ties into a broader DeFi nerdfest: talk of oracle-less AMM lending markets, and even a plan to “solve the DeFi trilemma” on Kaspa using a spectral-graph price feed on top of the BlockDAG, with a DCLOB later on.

Zooming out, the macro brain-dump is strong. One big post laid out how global crypto is sitting around three point two trillion dollars, up roughly three and a half percent on the day, and argued that when the Fed eases – with about an eighty-percent chance penciled in and an announcement eyed for December tenth – plus any Ukraine peace progress, liquidity and risk appetite could go wild again. People expect Bitcoin to rip first, then see money rotate into alts through 2026, with some hoping Kaspa proves it’s in its “own cycle” after only retracing around eighty-two percent versus the usual ninety-percent altcoin nukes.

And finally, future-tech hopium is alive. There’s a whole thread about vProgs, DagKnight testnet and SDKs potentially landing sometime around next year on testnet, with mainnet changes much further out – but the market usually front-runs that anyway, right? One dev is grinding on a non-“slop” Kaspa social app while waiting to hear back from the foundation on funding, and the chat’s convinced that once vProgs go live, there’ll be a wave of meme “IQ tests”… and a few genuinely good projects that survive.

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