Kaspa Community on Edge as ZK Testnet Buzz Builds

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

First up… the vibe was HEAVY doom-and-gloom for a lot of people. You had long-time holders talking about being down 60% to 80%, and the classic “Kaspa’s dead” loop running nonstop. One line that kept getting repeated was basically, “Kaspa still ain’t above five cents,” and people were comparing it to BTC moves like, “BTC up, KAS down… BTC down, KAS down.” But under the complaining, you could still feel a core group hanging on because of fundamentals and cheap, fast transfers.

Now the actual substance: dev talk picked up. The biggest concrete nugget was “ZK on testnet Friday… devs are cooking,” and that immediately spun into the usual “wen moon?” energy. Right after that, the conversation jumped to timelines and expectations: people throwing around “testnet this year,” and others debating whether vProgs is near-term or more like “Q3 testnet” and maybe even way later for mainnet.

The second big technical drama was the Igra debate. Someone said Igra went “closed mainnet,” and that cracked open a serious argument: does it actually help Kaspa, or does it fragment liquidity and dev focus like past ecosystem splits? The miner angle came up too—folks asked what miners even get from Igra, and the blunt answer floating around was “very low.” It turned into this bigger tug-of-war: “build stablecoins on Layer 1” versus “Layer 2 stuff is a distraction.”

There was also a mini political/regulatory freak-out: people claimed the Senate might cancel the “Clarity” bill, and that Coinbase and others submitted about “130” changes to delay it. The mood on that was basically: “If this is true… rip our bags.”

And finally, the community tried to snap out of the slump with a marketing idea: sponsoring an esports team. They were tossing around CS:GO and even dreaming about big names wearing a Kaspa shirt. The funniest part? They reminisced about a past sponsorship-style setup costing like $100 a day for a main streamer, and $20 a day for others… and everyone was like, “Wait… that’s actually not insane.”

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