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 1.17%, on 9 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 9 OctoberNothing we measure moved much this week: 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 | 1.17% | $98,830 | 2026-10-09 |
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 1.17% against the mid price, before trading fees. Check your own amount →
Our own measurement · measured 9 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 3m 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.