Kaspa KAS
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CM Profile: Kaspa
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about KAS, and what we have not.
- Measured
- Selling $100,000 on Kraken's order book lost 0.55%, on 29 October 2026.
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold KAS. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 29 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: exchange depth on Kraken, trading volume, reported supply and price are all within their usual range.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What it actually costs to sell KAS
Selling $100,000 of KAS into each exchange’s resting bids, measured against the mid price:
| Exchange | Lost | Got back | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraken KAS/USD | 0.55% | $99,453 | 2026-10-29 |
Exchange figures need an account there (and KYC, a permitted country, the tokens already deposited), are before trading fees, and are never averaged with the on-chain figure. Binance is not included: it refuses requests from the region our servers are in. How this is measured →
Watch this number instead of remembering it. A free account keeps KAS on a list, records where it stood the day you added it, and emails you if selling it on these exchanges gets materially harder — one message, not a series. The measurement itself stays public; the account is for being told when it moves without you looking.
What Kaspa is
Kaspa launched in 2021 with no pre-mine, no token sale and no allocation to founders or investors — an unusually clean start, and one drawn directly from Bitcoin's. Its research lineage is genuine: it implements GHOSTDAG, work developed by Yonatan Sompolinsky, whose earlier paper on chain selection was cited in Ethereum's own design.
The idea addresses a specific limitation of proof of work. Normally, when two miners find blocks at nearly the same moment, one is discarded and the effort wasted — which is why block times cannot be reduced very far without weakening security. Kaspa instead keeps both, arranging blocks into a graph rather than a single chain and ordering them afterwards. Blocks can therefore be produced far more frequently without the usual penalty.
Its limitations are the ones that come with being a base layer and little else. It began as a payments and settlement network without smart contract capability, so the application ecosystem taken for granted elsewhere largely does not exist. Early emission is high by design and declines on a smooth schedule. And a fair launch, while a real virtue, says nothing about whether the network attracts use — the honest measure of that is transaction demand rather than distribution history.
What Kaspa can do
Selling $100,000 on Kraken lost 0.55% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 29 October 2026
Anyone can send KAS to any address. The network produces 10 blocks a second, and its site calls a transfer practically instant. Why a payment cannot be undone →
Sources: Kaspa: lore, Kaspa: hold · checked 2 October 2026
Kaspa pays nothing for being held. It is a proof-of-work network: every coin in circulation has been mined, with no premine, insider allocation or pre-sale.
Source: Kaspa: lore · checked 2 October 2026
What a coin can do is not a reason to buy it or to sell it. Each answer names its source and the day we read it; where we could not source one, the row is left out. How these are written · Every coin we have written up
About the asset
Kaspa has no token contract — it is the native asset of its own chain, not a token issued on someone else's.
Price change
Kaspa data synced 67s ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell KAS.