Whales Move, K-Social Grows, Sentiment Shifts

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

First up, K-Social was the main “actually useful” topic cutting through all the noise. People were swapping practical tips and small gotchas like: if you’re using it, make sure you create at least five UTXOs, because otherwise things can feel slow. And there was some real product-nerd energy around posting and sharing — folks pointed out there’s no “new post” button and you use /submit instead, plus a whole mini-thread about fixing link formats with UUID-style URLs for cleaner SEO and sharing. The big pain point: “opengraph” previews not behaving right for social submissions, especially when hashtags are involved… so they adjusted links and comment-sharing to avoid the “wrong preview image” issue. Basically: K-Social talk wasn’t hype — it was people actively figuring out workflows.

Second highlight: wallet watching and whale talk got spicy. One person called out “Wallet 1” buying heavily for about 30 days, with “Wallet 8” also flagged as interesting. The headline number tossed around was 129 million KAS bought over the last 30 days, and they noticed a “big buy over Christmas.” On the flip side, someone mentioned a “Bybit whale” getting wrecked for almost 9 million KAS. No extra context given… but yeah, that combo definitely stirred emotions.

Third: ecosystem tools and trust drama. There was a pretty clear split between people who won’t touch anything they consider sketchy, and folks who’ll try new stuff if it’s open-source. “Kasplex is closed source. No thanks,” came up, while “Kloak” got both dunked on for the name and praised for being open-source and “native.” And the hackathon chatter had names flying around — especially “Igra,” with the classic Discord duality of “hope they do a good job” versus “it’ll fail.”

And finally… sentiment was rough. You had “price is down 5 percent,” “down 9 percent,” and someone calling out 0.045 as the vibe-check number. People joked about needing a pump in the next three weeks, taxes forcing small sells, and there was also a lot of side-eye toward January 15th as a possible “big catalyst”… with the immediate follow-up being, “no… but maybe.”

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