GM Kaspians! Welcome to the second release of Kaspa Weekly! Today, we've got some exciting news for you, from even more options to store your precious coins to Kaspa's appearance on yet another event, here's a more detailed list of what we'll be covering today.

Crescendo on Testnet 10 🥳

March 6th, 6:13PM, it's so silent you can hear your heart beating. Everyone is waiting for the highly anticipated transition to 10 blocks per second. You watch the countdown, 3…2…1, and a big message appears on your screen. From now on, the network produces 10 blocks per second. Everything went as planned, the transition was successful, marking a pivotal milestone in the Kaspa history.

This was most certainly a very stressful event for our amazing Rusty Kaspa developers, Michael Sutton, coderofstuff, Ori Newman, to name a few. However, it's not just the core developers, it's also the community that ran their testnet nodes and over 70 different miners that mined blocks on the test network, truly shows how strong the Kaspa community is!

The Tales of Igra Labs 🏔

In our last release, we've mentioned that Igra Labs is building a programmable layer on top of the Kaspa Blockchain, let's dive deeper into that.

The story begins late January, when Igra Labs created their social accounts and announced their mission in the official Kaspa Discord. Their goal was to create an EVM-compatible Layer 2 on Kaspa with a canonical bridge, a fast probabilistic finality and support for high throughput (3000 transactions per second and more), aiming to be the first based ZK rollup on Kaspa. With blockchain industry veterans and people involved in Kaspa's creation (DAGLabs alumni), the team meant business. The name Igra, comes from the word Rooftop in Aramaic, which symbolized their vision of creating a unifying layer under which various, decentralized systems can operate together smoothly.

Technically speaking, they're creating a ZK rollup with atomic composability, which utilizes Kaspa's DAG as a decentralized sequencer. All of that is secured by Kaspa's hash power of over 1 EH/s, which ensures network security. EVM compatibility makes migrating existing products from other networks significantly easier, and it also provides a low entry barrier for people already familiar with development on Ethereum or similar chains. They plan to implement mechanisms to protect against MEV.

Looking further ahead, they want to leverage Kaspa's planned support for synchronous atomic composability and allow various virtual machine systems to operate with each other. For example, Solana VM, Move or WASM interacting with each other seamlessly across different Layer 2's.

They plan to launch an invite-only devnet by the end of March, and the mainnet launch will follow a few months after.

Best Blockchain Innovation 🏆

In our last release, we've talked about Kaspa's presence at Crypto Expo Europe, which most certainly did not go unnoticed with things like Kaspa-branded napkins or coffee cups. 

One of the exposition's 2025 awards went to Kaspa, titled the Best Blockchain Innovation. Without a doubt, this is a well deserved award considering all of Kaspa's features (MENTION KASPA ELEVEN) like the revolutionary Phantom GhostDAG consensus, good energy efficiency compared to traditional blockchains and an efficient pruning strategy!

(Kudos to Kaspador for the picture 😉)

Kaspa on Next Block Expo in Warsaw 🇵🇱

One of Kaspa's Ambassadors, Maja, will be attending the Next Block Expo event happening in Warsaw. She will be speaking about the features of Kaspa, and how the Kaspa Tech (DLT) will benefit the planet via enterprise market use-case, most certainly a good speech to listen to!

However, that's not everything 👀. Kaspa is a nominee for the Pioneering Crypto Technologies Award, competing with OnlyBestMiners, Kryptonim and Green Mining DAO, the winner will be announced on March 20th at 5:30 PM. Personally, we think the winner is obvious 😉

New Kaspa Wallets 🏦

Say hello to two more non-custodial solutions to store your precious Kaspa, Kastle and Kaspian. Let's dive deeper into each of them.

Kastle 🏰

Kastle is your gateway to Kaspa. With an intuitive and user-friendly design and a quick setup, this wallet is most certainly a good way to get started in the Kaspa world. It's created by the folks over at Forbole. With Kaspa Name System (KNS) support and an upcoming KRC20 integration, it's your place for everything Kaspa.

Kaspian 🤖

Kaspian is the most compact way to use your Kaspa elegantly. Built by KaffinPX and iMalFect, the wallet is focused on security by reducing dependencies to the minimum, while featuring a built-in provider API for easy integration in DApps.

Summary 📜

Ten blocks per second, the blockchain innovation award, and new wallets. This most certainly was an exciting week for Kaspa. Thank you for reading this week's release of Kaspa Weekly, see you next week! 👋

The information presented in this newsletter is for informational and educational purposes only. This is not an advertisement or investment advice. Conduct your own research and perform appropriate due diligence before making any investment decisions.

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