Kaspa（KAS）Research

Kaspa is a proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrency that implements the GHOSTDAG protocol. Unlike traditional blockchains, GHOSTDAG does not isolate blocks created in parallel but allows them to coexist and order them by consensus. Kaspa blockchain is actually a blockDAG. This generalization of Nakamoto’s consensus allows for secure operation while maintaining a very high block rate (currently one block per second, targeting 10 blocks/second, dreaming of 100 blocks/second) and a very small confirmation time dominated by Internet latency. The Kaspa implementation includes many cool features. For example querying the DAG topology for reachability, block data pruning (and more recently block header pruning plans), SPV proof, and later subnetting support, which will make the implementation of future Layer 2 solutions much easier.

Kaspa was conceived by the R&D company DAGLabs through an investment from PolyChain. Nevertheless, Kaspa is a community project, fully open source, with no central governance and no business model. The founder is Yonatan Sompolinsky, a computer postdoc on Harvard’s MEV research team, and Yonatan’s 2013 paper on the Ghost protocol is cited in the Ethereum white paper. Kaspa’s core developers and contributors include Shai Wyborski, a PhD student in cryptography, Michael Sutton, a CS, Mike Zak, CS Undergrad Studies, cryptography researcher Elichai Turkel, and developer Ori Newman – all of whom have contributed significantly to the network’s implementation and stability.

Kaspa development roadmap.
Mobile wallet app under construction; Rust rewrite of Kaspa nearing completion; smart contracts under construction; 2023 white paper, nodes, number of blocks and block-out per second speed, DagKnight consensus research literature, etc. gradually being optimized.

IceRiver Team 3/2/2023

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Kaspa（KAS）Research