Kaspa is a live proof-of-work blockDAG. GHOSTDAG orders parallel blocks into one payment history.
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Kaspa claims checker
Kaspa claims fail when testnet work, roadmap design, and live mainnet behavior get blended together. Label the claim before repeating it.
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Summary: Describe Kaspa by status: live PoW blockDAG, post-activation Toccata work, roadmap vProgs/native app paths, and research such as DAGKnight. App/project claims are outside this site's status labels unless L1 transaction evidence itself is the point.
Last checked: June 30, 2026. Recheck at emission checkpoints, after new primary sources, or when wallet/app/tooling support changes.
Common claims
Live, roadmap, research, or not yet?
| Claim | Status | Best wording | Source path |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaspa is proof-of-work | Live | Kaspa is a mined proof-of-work network. | rusty-kaspa |
| Kaspa is a blockDAG using GHOSTDAG | Live | Kaspa uses GHOSTDAG to order parallel blocks into one history. | GHOSTDAG page |
| Kaspa is 10 BPS | Live | Kaspa is in the Crescendo-era 10 BPS network. | releases |
| Kaspa already runs at 100 BPS | Research | 10 BPS is live; Kaspa.org places 100 BPS in a proposed 2027 hard-fork/research bucket. | Kaspa.org lore |
| Kaspa payments become irreversible immediately | Wrong | Kaspa has fast inclusion and probabilistic confirmation confidence. | finality page |
| Toccata has activated on mainnet | Live protocol | Toccata v2.0.1 is the current Toccata release; v2.0.0 set activation at DAA 474,165,565. App, wallet, explorer, SDK, and user evidence remain separate checks. | Toccata page |
| TN10 Toccata test means mainnet activation | Testnet only | The tn10-toc2 and tn10-toc3 releases plus Testnet-10 DAA evidence are testnet-only evidence. v2.0.0 set the mainnet activation score. | v2.0.0 activation release |
| TN12 proves mainnet covenants | Testnet only | TN12 evidence is testnet evidence; mainnet claims need the activation score and mainnet evidence. | status |
| Kaspa has mature native smart contracts | Not yet | Kaspa's programmability route runs through Toccata and later vProgs; mature native DeFi is not live. | smart-contract status |
| July 2026 is a sudden emission cliff | Misleading | Kaspa emission steps down monthly; quote the monetary-policy schedule instead of a one-day cliff. | tokenomics |
| DAGKnight is current mainnet consensus | Research | DAGKnight is a future consensus direction. Current mainnet behavior uses GHOSTDAG. | dagknight branch |
| vProgs have shipped as production app infrastructure | Roadmap | vProgs are roadmap architecture and early framework work. Mature live Kaspa-native app-layer claims need shipped product evidence. | vprogs repo |
| Argent proves Kaspa smart contracts are production-ready | Research | Argent is experimental actor-style frontend work for Silverscript covenant contracts. It is research/tooling evidence. Audit, stable ABI, transaction-builder, production, and activation claims need separate evidence. | Argent repo |
| Native DeFi has shipped as a mature Kaspa L1 product layer | Roadmap | Kaskad/Igra-style L2 lending can be ecosystem DeFi context, but native Kaspa L1 DeFi still depends on future app primitives, wallets, liquidity, custody, risk controls, and users. | app layer |
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Copyable answers
Toccata activated at DAA 474,165,565. Treat TN10/TN12 evidence as testnet evidence; use mainnet DAA and upgraded-node behavior for the mainnet label.
Kaspa has fast inclusion and increasing confirmation confidence. Irreversibility still depends on confirmation depth and risk tolerance.
Use monthly step-down wording: 27.5 KAS/sec from May 8, 25.9565436 from June 7, and 24.49971475 from July 7.
Do not use market listings, app demos, or project tools as evidence that L1 rules have activated.
Use releases, code, KIPs, docs, research, and observable network evidence before changing a live-status claim.