Builders Take Over – Is vProgs Kaspa’s Killer App?

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

First up… a big chunk of the chat was basically screaming “BUILDERS, BUILDERS, BUILDERS.” People were pushing the idea that hackathon registration and dev participation is the real scoreboard right now — even “more important than a Binance or Coinbase listing” in their eyes. There was also some practical hustle talk: if you’ve got a real X account with reach, post about the hackathon and consider paying for boosts — stuff like three to five thousand views for 50 euros came up. Underneath the noise, the vibe was: don’t inflate stats, but do amplify real momentum.

Next highlight: the vProgs / “vFrogs” rabbit hole went DEEP. A bunch of folks were correcting misconceptions and trying to get everyone on the same mental model: execution happens off-chain, and Kaspa nodes basically just see proofs. They argued that worries like “higher node requirements,” “new attack surface,” and “storage nightmares” were overblown — because only a tiny commitment state hits L1, not an entire smart contract state. Translation: they were hyped that programmability can exist without turning the chain into some bloated on-chain computer.

That led straight into a spicy ecosystem debate: some people were dunking on “same old” L2/EVM approaches — there was chatter that Sparkle is basically dead in the water waiting on zk proofs, and that Aspect & co are working on vFrogs now. The “killer app” theme kept popping up: lots of folks think ONLY vProgs can be the thing that truly shocks the market, not another familiar L2 playbook.

Third: there was a mini-roadmap moment. Someone casually dropped that a covenant hard fork is on the horizon, with testnet in around three months and mainnet a couple months after that — framed as a way to keep builders busy while vProgs continues marching forward. People even floated the idea of community funding for dev work… but admitted it’s probably a tough ask “right now.”

And finally, on price mood without price claims: people were like, “why are we green… is there news?” and the only “news” anyone could point to was BoJ CPI coming in lower than expected, plus a whole macro spiral about rate hikes, yen carry trade, and the classic QT-versus-QE confusion.

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