Changelog

Kaspa upgrade tracker

What has shipped, what's next, and where each upgrade is up to.

Last checked 2 November 2026. Planned items have no confirmed dates unless shown.

Coming up

Date TBA

DAGKnight In development

Parameterless consensus replacing GHOSTDAG. Implementation in review on a dedicated branch; a testnet has been proposed. Read the explainer.

Planned

Higher block rates Roadmap

Roadmaps discuss stepping up from 10 BPS, with 100 BPS as a longer-term target.

Research

vProgs Research

Off-chain programs verified on Kaspa with zero-knowledge proofs.

Monthly

Block reward reduction

Every month the reward drops by about 5.6%, halving over a year. Next step: 4 November 2026. See the schedule.

Date	Upgrade	What changed
Aug 2026	DAGKnight tie-breaking PR	Tie-breaking rule for DAGKnight's rank search opened for code review on the `dagknight` branch.
Jun 2026	Toccata hard fork	Native L1 covenants, native assets and zero-knowledge proof verification. Scheduled for 30 June 2026 at DAA score 474,165,565.
May 2025	Crescendo hard fork	Block rate raised from 1 to 10 BPS, with per-block rewards scaled to keep emission on schedule.
2024	KRC-20 launch	Kasplex launches the KRC-20 token standard.
2023–24	Rust node (rusty-kaspa)	Kaspa's full node rewritten in Rust, replacing the original Go implementation and laying the groundwork for higher block rates.
Nov 2021	Mainnet launch	Kaspa launches as a fair-launch proof-of-work blockDAG, with no premine or pre-sale, running GHOSTDAG.