New & Noteworthy

2026-03-04

• rusty-kaspa v1.1.0 released (GitHub link)
• Kaspa Python SDK v1.1.0 released (GitHub link)

2026-02-27:

• DAG Knight development goes public in rusty-kaspa GitHub branch dagknight (coderofstuff on telegram).

2026-02-25:

• Igra Labs L2 whitelisted mainnet goes live at DAA score 366020000 (@Igra_Labs on X).
• Kaskad dApp goes live on Igra L2 Galleon testnet (@AppKaskad on X).

2026-02-24:

• KIP-21 Partitioned sequencing commitment with O(activity) proving introduced by Michael Sutton (GitHub link)

2026-02-23:

• Covenant declarations proposal for SilverScript released (GitHub link).
• Kaspa KII shares infographic detailing OliveChain - a tree-to-bottle provenance system built on Kaspa (@KaspaKii on X).

2026-02-22:

• An app to play poker on Kaspa is in progress, launch planned within 2 weeks (@samirannkas on X).

2026-02-20:

• Kaskad releases whitepaper (@AppKaskad on X).
• Yonatan Sompolinsky states two potential HFs in 2026 - covenant++ in May and DK/BPS in Q3 (@hashdag on X).

2026-02-19:

• Maxim Buryikov publishes ZK Covenant Rollup mdbook, assembled during his efforts to POC ZK on Kaspa.

2026-02-17:

• Igra Labs shares audit results from Sigma Prime (@Igra_Labs on X).

2026-02-16:

• Yonatan Sompolinsky publishes In which it was never my choice to hold the fire we found on Medium (link).
• Kaspador reports USDT & USDC coming to Kasplex L2 mainnet this month (@Kaspador on X).

2026-02-15:

• KaChat Kasia messenging app launches public iOS beta (@KaChat_ on X).

2026-02-11:

• Michael Sutton announces KIP-20 Covenant IDs (GitHub PR).

2026-02-10:

• Ori Newman announces SilverScript, “Kaspa’s first high level smart contract language and compiler” (@OriNewman on X).

2026-02-09:

• Testnet 12 reset announced by Michael Sutton. Testnet 12 relaunches with covenant IDs, ZK building blocks, and more. Discord link to announcement here.

2026-02-08:

• Rusty-Kaspa v1.1.0 release candidate 3 (RC3) released (GitHub link).
• Rumors of core dev team targeting a May 5 hardfork to bring covenant functionality (and some vprog foundations) to mainnet (@terah4d5 on X).

2026-02-06:

• KIP-16, ZK precompiles, merged into testnet 12 branch (@saefstrom on X).

2026-02-05:

• Michael Sutton announces upcoming TN12 reset including features covenant ids, seqcommit, based covenants, zk precompiles, and silverscript (@michaelsuttonil on X).
• Igra L2 Galleon testnet launches on Kaspa mainnet (@Igra_Labs on X).

2026-02-03:

• Stroem Finance announced StroemNet testnet goes live Feb 20th (@stroemfinance on X).

2026-02-02:

• Kaspa listed on Aster DEX with up to 75x margin (@Aster_DEX on X).
• Dymension launches a Kaspa <-> Etherem bridge (link).

2026-01-30:

• Igra Labs announces partnership with Hyperlane, bringing USDC.e, USDT.e, wETH.e to Igra’s L2 at launch @Igra_Labs on X. This partnership includes core Kaspa ecosystem partners @AppKaskad, @ZealousSwap,@KaspaCom and @Kaspa_KAT.

2026-01-29:

• Igra Labs releases Node V2 for community operators @Igra_Labs on X.
• CoderOfStuff shares an update on DAGKnight development @coderofstuff on X.
• Ori Newman teases SilverScript @OriNewman on X.

2026-01-27:

• Kaspa Kinesis Transport Protocol (KKTP) by @KodinglsFun continues, resulting in KKTP IETF draft and minKasWasm JS wrapper around Kaspa WASM32 SDK (tweet).

2026-01-26:

• Kii releases additional detail on Eigenflow, including the [full paper]:(https://zenodo.org/records/18379248) EIGENFLOW: Optimal Market Making on Directed Acyclic Graph Blockchains @KaspaKii on X.

2026-01-25:

• KasMap (or at least I just found out about KasMap today).
• Kaspa Kii teases EigenFlow.

2026-01-23:

• Regarding cov++ timeline: “~40-50 days to fully-featured mainnet-ready testnet. A timeline will be announced as soon as possible” (@michaelsuttonil on X).

2026-01-21:

• Kaspa VProgs repository made public on GitHub (GitHub link). Hans Moog shares introductory post (@hus_qy on X).

2026-01-20:

• Rusty-Kaspa release candidate v1.1.0rc2 released (GitHub link).
• Kaspa Python SDK moved to kaspanet/kaspa-python-sdk GitHub repository (GitHub link).
• Kii announces GeoSeal, Proof of Place & Proof of Existence, anchored on Kaspa (@KaspaKii on X).
• Kaspa Payments Gateway for WooCommerce announced (Reddit link)
• Aporia Exchange releases sneak peak of their order book DEX on Kaspa (@AporiaExchange on X)

2026-01-19:

• Kaskad announces incoming partnership with MEXC (@AppKaskad on X).

2026-01-18:

• Stroem Finance releases Atomic Swaps Litepaper (@stroemfinance on X).

2026-01-16:

• “$KAS can now verify any #Groth16 proof generated by any proof system supporting this algorithm” (@saefstrom on X).

2026-01-15:

• Rusty-Kaspa release candidate v1.1.0rc1 released (GitHub link).

2026-01-14:

• Igra Labs L2 closed mainnet launched (@Igra_Labs on X).