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@KaspaBuilders $Sompi been holding strong on @kasplex L2. Deserves more recognition in these rankings.

📊 KRC20 Weekly Market Overview — May 4, 2026 A NEW KING? Igra Dethroned NACHO at #1. The Ecosystem Will Never Be the Same 👇 This week marks the single most historic shift in #KRC20 rankings since their inception. For the first time ever, $NACHO is NOT #1. Igra Network's $IGRA — an EVM-compatible L2 token on Kaspa's BlockDAG — just launched into the top position with an $8M market cap, dwarfing everything beneath it. Meanwhile, NACHO corrects hard. KASPY bleeds. And a new meme token just did +190%. The old order just got disrupted 👇 👑 The New #1 — A Paradigm Shift 🆕 $IGRA @Igra_Labs — #1 | MC: $8.05M (Igra L2) 🔥🔥🔥 An EVM-compatible Layer 2 token built as a based ZK rollup on Kaspa's BlockDAG — developed by former DAGLabs engineers who helped ship Kaspa's original mainnet. This is not a meme token. This is infrastructure. $IGRA serves as the governance and security token for the Igra Network, with attester staking, DAO governance, and a Sigma Prime-audited smart contract layer running 3,000+ TPS. MC: $8.05M — more than 2.5x $NACHO. This isn't just a new entry. This is a statement that the Kaspa ecosystem has evolved beyond meme tokens into real programmable infrastructure. 🔥 Weekly Strength 🟢 KDAO @KaspaDAO — NEW at #20 | MC: $18K +190.9% (7D) 🔥🔥 Brand new KRC20 entry with a near-triple. Community governance token gaining traction. MC still tiny at $18K — ground floor territory. 🟢 HUMPY @HumpyKaspa +60.0% (7D) | MC: $59K | Rank #15 SIXTH consecutive green week. +196% in the last 24H alone. HUMPY has literally never printed a red week since entering the Top 20. The longest unbroken green streak in KRC20 history. At this point it's not a question of IF it'll cool down — it's WHEN. 🟢 BURTLE @burtle_on_kaspa +34.4% (7D) | MC: $98K | Rank #12 Back with another massive green week after last week's -0.7%. Two of the last three weeks above +30%. BURTLE keeps delivering explosive bounces. MC holding just under $100K. 🟢 $ZEAL @ZealousSwap +3.6% (7D) | MC: $2.14M Third consecutive green week (+3.4% → +14.5% → +3.6%). Decelerating but still green. MC hovering just above $2.1M — consistently building higher. The most disciplined blue chip recovery on the board. ⚖️ Consolidation / Neutral 🟡 BMT @BTC_Maxi_Tears — #5 | MC: $427K (L2) Dropped from #4 → #5 due to IGRA's entrance. But the token itself is stable — ninth week holding the top tier. The Kasplex L2 anchor endures. 🟡 BTCAS @BTCaspa — #9 | MC: $151K | 0.0% (7D) Third consecutive flat week. Rock-solid post-+348% consolidation. Not giving back anything. Patience play. 🟡 KROAK @kroakONkaspa — #16 | -0.7% (7D) Essentially flat. Neutral. 🟡 BOMO @Bomocrypto — #17 | 0.0% (7D) Dead flat. Holding position. 🔻 The Correction Wave 🔴 $NACHO @NachotheKat -22.6% (7D) | MC: $3.22M | Rank #1 → #2 📉📉 The most significant decline since the post-rally correction began. $NACHO lost the #1 crown for the first time EVER — dethroned by IGRA's infrastructure narrative. MC dropped from $3.36M → $3.22M. After two green weeks, the king is bleeding again. But perspective matters: $3.2M is still massive, and NACHO remains the undisputed #1 among KRC20 native tokens. 🔴 $KASPY @kaspy_io -6.3% (7D) | MC: $734K | Rank #3 → #4 Second red week in a row (-14.9% → -6.3%). Decelerating decline but still no bottom signal. The $1M milestone dream keeps fading. Dropped from #3 → #4 due to IGRA entry. 🔴 KASPER @KasperCoin -7.2% (7D) | Rank #5 → #6 The persistent bleeder. Red again. The weakest blue chip continues its months-long underperformance. No catalyst, no floor, no narrative. 🔴 KANGO @KANGO_ON_KAS -15.6% (7D) | Rank #7 → #8 📉 Last week's 0.6% green was a false start. Hard reversal back into double-digit decline. The most structurally damaged token in the Top 10. 🔴 $SLOW @slowlikebtc -16.2% (7D) | MC: $146K | Rank #8 → #10 Second consecutive red week and accelerating (-11.2% → -16.2%). The 5-week green streak feels like ancient history now. Real selling pressure. 🔴 KONAN @konanofkaspa -14.3% (7D) | Rank #11 Third red week in four. The directionless chop continues. Permanently stuck between recovery and decline. 🔴 KREX @KrexToken -4.3% (7D) | Rank #12 → #13 Second red week in a row. The legendary green streak (6 of 7 weeks) is now firmly over. Profit-taking after the extended run. 🔴 PPKAS @PPKAS_space -0.3% (7D) | Rank #6 → #7 Mild red. Neither recovering nor crashing. Stuck in no-man's land. 🔴 PACMAN @pacmankas — #19 | -1.6% (7D) Slight decline. Bottom-of-list positioning. 🏗️ Multi-Layer Ecosystem Update — A Third L2 Has Arrived For the first time, THREE different Layer 2 platforms are represented in the Top 20: Igra Network (Based ZK Rollup):🔹 $IGRA @Igra_Labs — #1 | MC: $8.05M 👑 🔹 SPUDZ (SPUDVERSE) — #19 | MC: $18K (Igra L2 token) Kasplex (zkEVM L2):🔹 BMT @BTC_Maxi_Tears — #5 | MC: $427K 🔹 AXEL @AxelOnKas — #17 | MC: $28K 🔹 FIRST @FIRSTKASPA — #18 | MC: $28K 🔹 SHITE @Kaspa_is_Shite — dropped off Top 20 The Kaspa ecosystem now has THREE active layers: KRC20 (L1), Kasplex (L2), and Igra (L2). This is no longer a simple meme token leaderboard — it's a multi-layered programmable economy. 📉 Dropped Off Top 20: SHITE @Kaspa_is_Shite, KASLOT @kaslottoken 🧠 What This Structure Tells Us IGRA at #1 with $8M MC is a watershed moment — the market is signaling that infrastructure > memes for capital allocation $NACHO losing #1 doesn't mean it's dead — it means the ecosystem has grown BEYOND a single narrative Three L2 platforms coexisting (Igra, Kasplex, KRC20) proves the Kaspa ecosystem is maturing rapidly $ZEAL's steady 3-week climb toward $2.1M is the most reliable blue chip trend HUMPY's 6-week unbroken streak defies all micro-cap logic BURTLE's +34% bounce shows its recurring V-reversal pattern is tradeable Broad weakness across established KRC20 tokens suggests capital is rotating into L2 infrastructure plays The NACHO/IGRA dynamic creates a fascinating new narrative: community meme king vs infrastructure protocol This isn't just a weekly market update — this is the birth of a new era for the Kaspa token ecosystem. The programmable future has arrived, and the market is pricing it in. 🎯 Tokens To Watch Next Week 👀 $IGRA @Igra_Labs — Can the new #1 hold $8M MC? 👀 $NACHO @NachotheKat — Recovery from -22.6%? Still the native KRC20 king 👀 $ZEAL @ZealousSwap — 3-week green streak — approaching $2.2M ATH 👀 BURTLE @burtle_on_kaspa — +34% bounce — follow-through? 👀 HUMPY @HumpyKaspa — 6-week streak — when does gravity win? 👀 KDAO — +190% debut — continuation or fade? 💬 Community Poll: What's the most significant development this week? A) IGRA taking #1 — infrastructure wins B) NACHO losing the crown — end of an era? C) Three L2 platforms coexisting — ecosystem maturity D) HUMPY's 6-week streak — micro-cap legend E) ZEAL's steady climb — the safe play F) Something else entirely Drop your pick 👇 🔁 Repost if you track KRC20 weekly ➕ Follow for structured Kaspa ecosystem analysis every week #KRC20 #Kaspa #KAS #IGRA #IgraNetwork #KasplexL2 #Kasplex #Altcoins #CryptoTwitter #CryptoAnalysis #KaspaEcosystem #Web3 #OnChain #Layer2 #BlockDAG #CryptoWeekly #DeFi #SmartContracts #ZKRollup

@KaspaBuilders Heya wondering if you'd love to take a look @Sompi_kas~ $Sompi is currently the #1 market cap leader among all Layer 2s💚

@mookdog2001 @KasSigner More people should support builders actually shipping open source work.

I'm tired of $kas followers not being generous with the ecosystem. I donated 5000 kas to @KasSigner. How about you? Prove that you believe and donate to great projects. Don't just think someone else will. kaspa:qqz0xdq9tu92hgraa89rcmae23f8h09zzzsy4f4agvasmsw3958cza0mv7x86

@KaspaTeacher There's genuinely nothing else like it.

This is the chart of the greatest crypto to ever exist. If I leave this project, where am I going to go? There’s only trash. Stocks are boring and centralized, and they are not money.

@BankQuote This is the kind of content the ecosystem needs more of clear, deep, and honest.

Kaspa did not begin as another attempt to make a “faster blockchain.” It began as an attack on one of the oldest inefficiencies inside Nakamoto consensus: the waste of honest time. Bitcoin solved decentralized money by forcing the network into a linear sequence. One block after another. One winner. Everyone else who found a valid block too close to the same moment gets pushed into the orphan/stale category. That design is secure, but it embeds a hard tradeoff: faster blocks mean more honest miner collision and more security leakage into latency. Kaspa’s origin is the rejection of that bottleneck. Yonatan Sompolinsky’s research path moved through GHOST, PHANTOM, and eventually GHOSTDAG. The core idea was not to abandon Proof-of-Work, but to stop forcing it into a narrow linear pipe. If honest miners produce valid blocks in parallel, those blocks should not become waste. They should be included, ordered, and converted into ledger progression. That is the birth of Kaspa: not a blockchain with better marketing, but a blockDAG that generalizes Nakamoto consensus. Kaspa accepts that propagation delay is real. Blocks collide. Miners discover valid work at overlapping times. The question is whether the protocol treats that overlap as failure or usable structure. Bitcoin mostly discards it. Kaspa keeps it, orders it, and turns parallelism into throughput. When Kaspa launched on November 7, 2021, it was raw infrastructure: a fair-launched, no-premine, no-ICO Proof-of-Work network using kHeavyHash, UTXO accounting, and GHOSTDAG ordering. No corporate allocation, no VC treasury, no privileged access committee. It entered the world the hard way: mined into existence. Early Kaspa was experimental, but not unserious. It was the live deployment of an academic answer to linear-chain waste. It had to prove that theory could survive real miners, latency, nodes, storage growth, and exchange infrastructure without becoming unordered noise. And it did not stay a whitepaper curiosity. Kaspa evolved into the Rusty Kaspa era, where the production stack became faster, cleaner, and more durable. Crescendo pushed mainnet to 10 blocks per second, turning Kaspa into a live high-frequency PoW settlement engine. Ten BPS is not just “more blocks.” It is a different relationship to time: the ledger updates closer to network propagation speed while preserving Proof-of-Work as the physical cost anchor. That is why Kaspa is misunderstood when viewed only through TPS. The deeper point is not capacity alone. Kaspa reduces the impedance between distributed mining and ledger finality. It lets Proof-of-Work breathe across parallel topology instead of forcing every miner through a single-file checkpoint. Rusty Kaspa v1.1.0 shows how far it has come. GetVirtualChainFromBlockV2 gives integrators a cleaner RPC surface for virtual-chain progression and accepted transaction context, so wallets, explorers, indexers, and exchanges no longer need fragile async stitching to understand what the DAG accepted. The IBD and pruning improvements matter too. A fast network cannot only be fast when everything is synced. It must recover cleanly while the live network keeps moving. Pruning-aware catchup, trusted body syncing, compressed header parent data, and on-demand higher-level relation stores make speed survivable in production. Kaspa is entering the next phase: programmable settlement without turning the base layer into a bloated global computer. DAGKnight pushes toward latency-responsive consensus. Covenant++ opens constrained UTXO-level programmability. vProgs point toward sovereign verifiable programs, where computation happens offchain and is proven back to L1. Kaspa began as a rebellion against wasted Proof-of-Work time. It became a fair-launched blockDAG monetary network. Now it is becoming a high-frequency settlement substrate with a path toward covenants, ZK verification, and sovereign application logic.

@michaelsuttonil @p4bpj @KaspaMobile @Max143672 @OriNewman @coderofstuff_ This is why the architecture matters. ZK verification that actually fits in PoW blocks.

Normal transactions are dominated by sig cost (1000 compute gram per sig, where 500k is the compute mass block limit -> max 500 sigs per block). Compute mass also counts byte size (1 gram per byte), so 500 sigs are unrealistic, hence the known ~300 txs per block number. It assumes 300 1:2 txs (1 in, 2 outs) with minimal size. Increasing the block *byte-size* limit (aka transient mass) from 125kb to 250kb means that you are still constrained with 300 typical txs but they can carry more data (eg in their payload) a stark proof on the other hand, costs 250 sigops + ~225kb in size. so compute mass is at least 250*1000 + 225kb = 475kg ~< 500kg compute mass limit and raw size is, as said, 225kb so it’s still bellow the transient mass limit

Toccata consensus feature freeze is finally here after a heroic last-mile push by kas core devs. Aiming to reset TN12 tonight, or tomorrow at the latest. Genesis update: + 0x6b617370612d746573746e6574 // kaspa-testnet - 12, 2 // TN12, Launch 2 + 0x544f4343415441 // TOCCATA + 12, 3 // TN12, Launch 3

@ExTriage @kaspaunchained @Kaspa_Commons @Revolut Time for @Revolut to notice.

🚀 Help us get Revolut’s attention! We want to see Kaspa (KAS) listed on Revolut — one of the fastest and most innovative PoW cryptocurrencies out there. 👉 Like, repost, and share this flyer so it reaches @RevolutApp! The stronger the community, the louder the message. Let’s make it happen. #ListKaspa #Kaspa #Crypto #Revolut

Bitcoin just crossed $80K. That’s a clear market signal. Momentum is back and the next rotation is starting. Kaspa has the speed, strong PoW fundamentals, and real scalability to stand out. BTC moved first. Now watch what follows. #BTC #Kaspa

@KastleWallet Shipping Android immediately while fighting the good fight on iOS. Perfect strategy.

@dxbcrypto121 Vision and execution is rare. Kaspa has both Stay patient.

Woke up this morning feeling positive! ☀️ The dream is alive and the vision is clearer than ever. To the kaspa:native family: stay focused, stay patient, and keep building toward that future we all believe in. Together, we aren't just following a chart; we’re part of a movement. 💎🚀 #Kaspa #KAS #CryptoCommunity #IHaveADream

@parker2017 Kaspa needs more resources like this really appreciate your efforts

I'm grateful for the feedback on Kaspa Explained so far. I’ve taken some of it, left some of it, and I’m genuinely glad a few people felt the site filled a gap they couldn’t easily find elsewhere. That gap is the reason I made it. Most people outside the daily crypto trenches still do not have a clear first-principles way to understand what crypto is actually good for. I include myself in that, yes, still, albeit I’ve come a long way. I’ve had to keep measuring, correcting, and rebuilding my own understanding. The average person still tends to think crypto is mostly scams, while the average crypto person often swings the other way and talks like crypto is the next version of the entire internet, ready to replace everything. Both views miss something important. Crypto is not useful for everything. It is not magic. It does not replace courts, trust, institutions, databases, legal systems, or the real world. But it is also not nothing. There are specific things crypto can do unusually well: credible shared state, open settlement, self-custody, programmable money, neutral coordination, censorship resistance, and markets or systems where no single party should control the ledger. That is why I added two new pages to Kaspa Explained: one on what crypto is actually good for, and one on why Kaspa matters inside that frame. kaspaexplained.com/what-crypto-is… kaspaexplained.com/why-kaspa-matt… My hope is that more people can enter crypto through resources like this, and that Kaspa can be one of the clearest entry points. Not because Kaspa is everything. Not because crypto fixes the world. But because Kaspa sits at the intersection of some ideas worth taking seriously: Proof of Work, high-throughput blockDAG design, credible shared state, fast settlement, and open coordination. The question I keep coming back to is simple: where is the resource that starts from first principles, explains what crypto can and cannot do, then shows why Kaspa matters inside that frame? That is the direction I want Kaspa Explained to move in. What is crypto actually for? Where does it fail? Where does it matter? And why does Kaspa deserve attention if you care about Proof of Work, speed, credible shared state, and open coordination? @michaelsuttonil and @hashdag are among the most interesting people I’ve come across in this space. But one thing still feels missing: who is translating what people like them are saying into language that 99% of us can actually understand? Who is making it legible to people outside the core technical circles? Who is giving non-crypto-native people a way to notice what is actually being built here? This update is a step in that direction. Consider it a v1, much like Kaspa’s original Go implementation. It is open to interpretation, open to feedback from the broader crypto and Kaspa communities, and meant to evolve. The goal is not to make a static monument. The goal is to build a living resource that helps people understand crypto more honestly: what it can do, what it cannot do, and why Kaspa may matter in the next serious phase of this industry. I want to help push crypto toward an era where it is respected, not because we overstate it, but because we explain it clearly. And I think the Kaspa community can be an important part of that, if we choose to be. kaspaexplained.com

@KasSigner Builders going crazy.

First consensus-enforced state machine on Kaspa L1. TN12. Three air-gapped devices. Three roles. Three state transitions. One covenant. A supply chain traced on-chain: Manufactured → Shipped → Delivered. Each step signed by a different participant on a $15 chip that never touches the internet. The script enforces who can sign at each stage, verifies the covenant recreates itself with the correct next-state amount, and checks SPK continuity, all at consensus level. No indexer. No middleware. No oracle. No smart contract VM. The state machine IS the script. Amount encodes state. Introspection enforces transitions. Consensus validates everything. State 0→1 (manufacturer): 71810c1e...f0977176 State 1→2 (shipper): e7ca1975...fe74fe47 State 2→done (receiver): 785777a6...9869efc8 #KaspaTN12 · #Toccata · #KasSigner #OpenSource 𝘐𝘯𝘒𝘢𝘴𝘞𝘦𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘵😎🤟🏼

@KASNetzwerk @kaspaunchained @hashdag @KaspaRising @Kaspa_Girl @KaspaQueeen @moecrypto33 @JensIllgner @marcfriedrich @KryptoWolfGER @bitcoin2go People chase price action. Smart money watches execution and fundamentals.

DU SCHAUST AUF DEN PREIS – UND VERPASST DAS WICHTIGE👀⬇️ Viele bewerten Krypto nach einem einfachen Muster: Steigt der Preis, gilt ein Projekt als stark; fällt er, wird seine Relevanz infrage gestellt. Diese Perspektive ist nachvollziehbar, greift jedoch zu kurz, weil sie das Ergebnis betrachtet, nicht die zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen. Langfristiger Wert entsteht nicht durch kurzfristige Aufmerksamkeit, sondern durch die Struktur eines Netzwerks. Entscheidend ist, ob ein System einen realen Zweck erfüllt, ob es mit wachsender Nutzung skalieren kann und ob es dabei für eine breite Teilnehmerschaft zugänglich bleibt. Sobald einer dieser Aspekte vernachlässigt wird, treten früher oder später Einschränkungen auf. Gerade bei der Skalierung zeigt sich häufig ein Zielkonflikt. Viele Projekte erreichen höhere Leistungsfähigkeit, indem sie die technischen Anforderungen erhöhen oder zusätzliche Ebenen einführen. Das kann kurzfristig funktionieren, führt jedoch oft dazu, dass die Teilnahme komplexer wird und sich die Kontrolle auf weniger Akteure konzentriert. Vor diesem Hintergrund lohnt es sich, Projekte nicht nur danach zu beurteilen, was sie leisten, sondern wie sie diese Leistung erbringen. Die zugrunde liegende Architektur, das Verhalten unter realer Belastung und die Frage, ob ein Netzwerk auch bei steigender Nutzung offen und zugänglich bleibt, sind entscheidend für seine langfristige Entwicklung.💯 Kaspa ist in diesem Zusammenhang interessant, weil es einen anderen Ansatz verfolgt. Anstatt bestehende Modelle schrittweise zu erweitern, wird versucht, Skalierung und Dezentralisierung von Beginn an gemeinsam zu denken. Ob sich dieser Ansatz durchsetzt, lässt sich heute nicht abschließend beurteilen, doch genau solche konzeptionellen Unterschiede prägen langfristig, welche Systeme Bestand haben. Der Markt erkennt diese Zusammenhänge häufig erst verzögert. Für diejenigen, die tiefer hinschauen, ergibt sich daraus jedoch eine andere Perspektive auf Bewertung und Timing. Die entscheidende Frage ist daher nicht nur, wie sich ein Preis entwickelt, sondern worauf diese Entwicklung basiert. ⚡ WAS DENKT DU? Preis ODER langfristige Projekt-Entwicklung❓ #Kaspa #KAS #Crypto #Krypto #Bitcoin #Web3 #KRC20