Hackathon Hype vs Peak FUD in Kaspa?

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

First up… there’s real builder energy: people said the community is organizing a Hackathon, and the prize pool floating around in chat was two hundred thousand KAS. The vibe was basically: “stop doom-posting… go BUILD,” and folks sounded genuinely hyped that this could bring value both inside the ecosystem and outward to new eyes.

Next highlight: vProgs talk came back hard. Multiple people mentioned they’d heard it’s being worked on, and the conversation instantly turned into the big debate: does vProgs actually unlock new possibilities… or is it “just another step that retail won’t understand”? There was a whole back-and-forth on throughput too — folks joked about “ten BPS,” while others were talking more like twenty to twenty-five BPS as a next step, plus some concerns about hardware being a bottleneck. And the big question: if vProgs lands, do existing builders actually migrate from L2 setups… or do they stay comfy where they are?

Third: user experience pain. People complained K-Wallet is annoying, and someone said bluntly: “we need a new maintainer,” with a side-eye that the last time the community tried something like that, they “got scammed.” On top of that, “wen tap-to-pay?” popped up again… and the closest thing to an answer was basically “one day.” Also, someone shared a very real-feeling friction moment: it cost them three dollars and fifty-three cents in TRON fees to convert one hundred eighteen dollars of USDT into Kaspa… and they were like, “either I’m bad at crypto, or non-Kaspa crypto sucks.”

And last, the mood check: sentiment was… rough. People kept repeating that it’s been down-only for months, even “almost two years,” with “FUD at max levels.” But it wasn’t all doom — you still had believers saying they’re buying more weekly, and one person straight-up said they’re planning to buy ten K dollars worth next week. So yeah… battered, but not broken.

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