Sharing below quick thoughts on development funding models and sustainability, and on the next grant request, with the hopes that my incentive biases do not contaminate my thought process too much: DAGKNIGHT (DK) was an academic effort by Sutton and myself, conceived on the New Year of Trees,¹ and released…

Crypto winters are warm for projects with character. Last month Michal Sutton and I published the DAGKNIGHT protocol (DK), which to the best of our knowledge is the first POW consensus protocol that is responsive to the network’s actual (*adversarial) latency while being resilient to 49% byzantine attackers. …

This is a concrete version of a longer post which I started writing but had too much spare time so didn’t complete yet. Context: One of Kaspa’s core devs, Michael Sutton, suggested a plan to order-of-magnitude enhance Kaspad full-node performance by refactoring the codebase and rewriting it in Rustlang. (https://discord.com/channels/599153230659846165/844142778232864809/993245032670842991) …

This post assumes reader context on the crash of the Kaspa network in the course of the last 48 hours, and provides some additional notes and perspective. (1) To simplify logic and debugging, and since the gamenet concept didn’t really catch air, I removed the random block reward and replaced…

First and foremost I wanted to thank you all for joining and forming this community, for the interest, excitement, and involvement around the project. Seeing my PhD obsession — POW DAG consensus — realize itself into a live network and a spontaneous community is thrilling yet humbling. Thank you, Todah! …

tldr launch Kaspa in gamenet mode, a research oriented experimental network inject deliberate fragility into Kaspa launch via random semi-scarce monetary policy construct battlefield for reward-based and MEV-based reorgs as community matures and hashrate grows, go full scarcity mode, transition from game- to main- net mode, rendering early (gamenet) stage…

Don’t trust, terrify! The “don’t trust, verify!” slogan is beyond my comprehension. I board airplanes without verifying anything about the pilot or the aircraft; I visit restaurants and foolishly eat — without verifying what will be transmitted to my blood; I take medicines without verifying the supply chain. …

A personal take Fun fact: Many Bitcoiners believe that Bitcoin’s 10-minute block time is not too slow and that having a fast block rate is not useful.

DAGlabs is a for-profit entity whose business model is based on mining Kaspa. DAGlabs is additionally funding many core Kaspa devs and researchers. Fair launch Kaspa contains no premine or founders’ rewards. At the same time, Kaspa is neither attempting nor pretending to be a “fair launch” coin, as the term “fair”…