Kaspa's New Security Tool Simulates Real Attacks on Contracts Kaspa (@kaspaunchained) $KAS ecosystem's Kaspero Labs (@KasperoLabs) has released kaspa-redteam to help developers identify weaknesses in SilverScript contracts. Unlike basic code checks, the tool signs hostile transactions and evaluates them against rusty-kaspa consensus rules. It reports cases where consensus accepts a transaction that an attack expected to fail. Developers can then replay the exact transaction and investigate the vulnerability.

Kaspa's block reward is set to fall to 1.94454365 KAS from 2.06017223 KAS around November 4, one of 12 monthly steps that halve its issuance every year. Bitcoin's reward halves once every 210,000 blocks, roughly every four years. @kaspaunchained

Kaspa's (@kaspaunchained) fair launch left the network without a traditional corporate treasury or venture-backed development budget. From community grants to major protocol upgrades, here's how the project funded its roadmap. Read more:

Kaspa’s (@kaspaunchained) Toccata hard fork is pushing the network beyond simple payments. The upgrade adds native Layer-1 covenants, ZK proof verification, transaction introspection, and KRC-20 support. So, what does Toccata actually change for Kaspa? Read the full breakdown 👇

Kaspa's Toccata upgrade is seeing real use seven weeks after activation Seven weeks after Kaspa's Toccata hard fork, the upgrade's new machinery is in visible use. Kaspalytics counts 1,196 covenant-creating transactions in the past 24 hours, with over 2,700 covenant outputs created, programmable spending rules now running natively on kaspa:native L1. The ZK side is earlier-stage: just 9 ZK precompile transactions in the same window, split between Groth16 and R0Succinct proof verifications. The clearest adoption signal sits on layer 2. Igra, the EVM-compatible L2 anchored to Kaspa, logged around 54,000 transactions in 24 hours, dwarfing every other protocol on the network, with KRC inscriptions a distant second near 1,900. Miners have moved on cleanly too: 86% of recent blocks come from node version 2.0.1, the post-Toccata release, suggesting the consensus change has settled without a lingering split.

Kaspa's Toccata hard fork is live on mainnet kaspa:native just hard forked. Toccata activated on mainnet today, the biggest upgrade in Kaspa's history. It turns a high-speed payments chain into a programmable Layer 1: native tokens, covenants, and zero-knowledge proof verification at the base layer. Toccata lays the groundwork, it doesn't ship the apps. The race now is what gets built on top.

Kaspa miners stay put after the latest block reward cut Kaspa’s block reward dropped from 2.06 to 1.94 $KAS on Wednesday, a 5.6% cut. The network trims rewards a little each month, halving them over a year, and the next step to 1.84 KAS comes in about 29 days. Hashrate, the network’s total mining power, briefly dipped to about 265 PH/s earlier today before climbing back to around 363 PH/s. That puts it within 1% of Tuesday’s level, before the cut.

Kaspa now has one shared playbook for its native tokens Three standards for building on $KAS were recently finalized in #Kaspa’s# official standards repository. KCC-1 sets a common format for covenant apps, the base-layer feature that controls how coins can be spent. KCC-2 defines who can sign off on an action, and KCC-20 covers fungible tokens. With one format, wallets, apps, and block explorers all read tokens the same way. Every token balance sits inside a coin output on the base layer. Core developer Michael Sutton (@michaelsuttonil) co-authored all three.

What Kaspa's Toccata fork actually unlocks The kaspa:native upgrade adds covenants, programmable rules attached directly to transactions, enabling vaults, escrow, and smart wallets without giving up proof-of-work or BlockDAG speed. KRC-20 tokens now live natively in consensus rules instead of inscription workarounds. New ZK opcodes let rollups and bridges anchor to Kaspa, with two EVM-compatible Layer 2s already building on top.