vProgs breakthrough sparks major Kaspa debate

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

First big one: on-chain ZK and vProgs are getting REAL. Someone spotted that Kaspa-J already has on-chain zero-knowledge verification implemented and just waiting to be merged, and that the whole vProgs infrastructure is actively being wired into the core codebase. This isn’t “someday, maybe” anymore, it’s literally in the code… just not production-ready yet. Folks are joking that Hans Moog will move it over “thoon,” and there’s this quiet confidence that if the launch goes smoothly, devs will migrate.

That ties straight into the second theme: vProgs versus Layer-2 drama. A bunch of people are seriously skeptical that an EVM layer like Igra will magically pull in outside devs. They worry it just “steals fees” and dev attention from Layer-1, while fragmentation makes users park money on a riskier second layer. In their view, vProgs on L1 are the real magnet, because external devs would basically be forced to use them if they want Kaspa’s base-layer security. When KIP-16 came up, some folks straight-up said it made them smile at their screen and even get emotional, because it feels like Kaspa is actually building the hard stuff on L1 instead of waiting around for yet another generic L2.

Third highlight: a deep dive into fee markets and long-term security. Msutton and Doppelganger’s convo got passed around: fee markets only really kick in when demand is near capacity, around two thousand transactions per second, and no chain has kept that up yet—Solana sits closer to about one thousand. So just assuming “we’ll be fine once we’re congested” feels shaky. People calculated that right now Kaspa is paying miners roughly one hundred sixty-eight thousand dollars a day, and when price was around sixteen cents it was closer to 2 million a day… all mainly from emissions, not fees. Real fee pressure probably starts closer to three thousand TPS, and there was talk about LSZ-style ideas to bridge the “medium-usage” phase. Opinion is split between “congestion will save us” and “we need a Plan B.”

On the builder side, vibes are actually pretty wholesome. One community member crowned themselves “Kaspa Historian,” endorsed by MS, and is compiling docs, pain-points, and dev explanations into a GitHub so people stop asking the same questions and can find info easily. And the big feel-good moment: Izio confirmed he’s getting funded to work full-time on Kaspa Layer-1 as a core dev for an entire year. The chat exploded with congrats, jokes about him “translating from dev to retard,” and a lot of gratitude that someone who already knows the codebase deeply can now focus on it.

And yeah… price feelings are all over the place. You’ve got people stressing about dropping out of the top 50 and asking if anything near-term can help the chart, others insisting “price is irrelevant right now, I just keep buying,” and the resident doom-posters spamming “Kaspa is going to zero” while secretly refusing to sell. Someone summed it up perfectly: “I’m a real Kaspian, make it as painful and long-lasting as possible… tease me forever.” That’s the mood—tired, a bit salty, but still here.

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