Kaspa Stuck or Just Getting Started?

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

First up: dev progress talk, with a side of “WHERE’S THE TIMELINE?” People were pointing at a little color-code map: v-progs in red, KIP sixteen in orange, KIP seventeen in pink… and the big takeaway was that both KIPs are on testnet twelve. The vibe though? “Cool… but what does that mean for when?” One person summed it up as: “No timeline… testnet this year,” and the chat basically debated whether “this year” is reassuring… or just painfully vague.

Second highlight: sentiment was dominated by the “time capitulation” mood. Folks kept saying price has been basically the same for about 3 months, and someone called out one hundred and four days of nothing. The spicy part wasn’t even price targets… it was the feeling of boredom and grind. Add to that people stressing about Kaspa sitting around rank ninety-ish on CoinGecko, with some doom-posting about slipping out of the top one hundred. And on the relative side, multiple messages pointed to Kaspa versus Bitcoin looking “cooked,” with claims it’s the lowest it’s been in months… even “years.”

Third: marketing drama on X. There was a real argument over whether Kaspa’s issue is marketing execution, or “zero use case” perception. People complained the KasMedia X account got “neutered” and basically redirected to an X search for “kaspa,” while others said kaspa-unchained became the unofficial account but didn’t pull the same attention. And a mini-controversy: some think the official account reads like AI-generated posts, with dev Ori Newman’s name getting mentioned in that context.

Fourth: a serious adoption debate broke out around stables and rails. The community wrestled with “If we want DeFi, we need stables,” but also pushed back hard with “Tron is USDT,” and that stablecoin rail dominance is about integration and influence, not just tech. One genuinely interesting tech nugget: someone claimed Kaspa layer one can verify ZK proofs on testnet, and could take in ZK stacks as long as they precompile to Groth. Also spotted: a mention of Elliot Mea’s layer two, a “Decentralized Arbitrage Network” with oracle and lending angles, supposedly getting the greenlight to launch.

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