Kaspa Nodes Surge as Real-Time Vision Ignites Hype

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

First up, decentralization vibes are STRONG. The chat celebrated hitting around one thousand Kaspa nodes, shouting out the “Finnish heroes” for helping push us there. People are salvaging 1-terabyte NVMe drives, talking about turning Raspberry Pi 5s into full nodes, and even dreaming up “node factories” running on Pi clusters. There’s real planning around the future 100-blocks-per-second target too – folks calculated that at max block size, that could mean roughly 1 terabyte of data per day, so the new norm for home nodes might be 1–2TB SSDs. One person summed it up perfectly: “this feels like BTC in 2011.”

Next, big brain energy from Yonatan Sompolinsky’s latest talk. People are still chewing on his line that Kaspa aims to do in real time what Bitcoin does in about an hour when it comes to sampling the majority and accepting transactions. The vision is logic and assets living natively on Layer 1, with miners incentivized to keep this always-on “flywheel network” running – zero latency, automated, real-time decentralization. MEV auctions were called out as critical to stop front-running and protect users, and “real-time decentralization” has basically become the new community buzzphrase.

That rolls right into the vprogs hype arc. People are dreaming of Kaspa-native DeFi: no begging for CEX listings, just DEXs, Uniswap-style liquidity, Aave-style lending, and a “nice bridge of stablecoins” directly on L1. One community member said a Bitfinex manager told them that listing USDT on Kaspa mainly needs big banks to actually use it. Others explained vprogs as letting devs code in their native languages and even imagined other chains effectively becoming Kaspa Layer 2s that all settle value back to KAS. Someone joked that if vprogs were a standalone project with VC backing, it could be a top-10 token by itself.

On the dev side, there was a wholesome boost: Izio shared that he’s getting a KEF grant to work a full year on Kaspa core. The chat spammed congrats, joked about him “adding backdoors for double spending” – purely memes – and he mentioned opening a GitHub issue about not unnecessarily restricting features. The mood there was, “we get to endure him for at least another year,” in the best possible way.

Finally, markets and whales. KAS was quoted around six cents, up almost ten percent on the day, with some degens calling this the “last chance at a nickel” and others betting on a short squeeze up toward the mid-teens of cents before mid-January. At the same time, there’s intense focus on big wallets: Wintermute was said to hold around four and a half percent of the supply, and there’s heated – but unresolved – debate over whether wallet one is Wintermute, some other market-maker, a fund, or something else entirely. What people do agree on is that it doesn’t look like a typical exchange wallet, and that being a top-1,000 holder now means stacking roughly two point five million KAS… which has a lot of folks in chat joking about being broke.

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