rusty-kaspa
Reference implementation
The reference node implementation in Rust. Every consensus change ships here first, and running it is what turns your view of the ledger from borrowed into your own.
Chapter 11 — the directory
Kaspa
projects
Everything below is something somebody built on or for Kaspa: execution layers, wallets, explorers, messaging, payment rails and the places the community writes things down. Each entry gets a website, an X profile where the project publishes one itself, and one plain sentence about what it does.
At a glance
Projects listed31
Categories7
With an X profile12 of 31
Links checked13 August 2026
EndorsementsNone
The directory
What is actually being built
§ 01 — filter, search, then verify
Sorted into seven groups because the differences between them matter more than the total count does. A bridge is not a wallet, and neither is a blog. Filter to the group you need, or search across all of them.
31 of 31
Protocol4
The base layer itself, and the documents that decide what it becomes. Every roadmap claim is checkable here or it is not checkable at all.
Kaspa KIPs
Specifications
Where protocol changes are proposed, argued over and finalised. If an upgrade is not in a KIP or a tagged release, it is a hope with a date attached.
Kaspa Wiki
Documentation
Community documentation covering the blockDAG, GHOSTDAG and the surrounding ecosystem — the reference to reach for before a search engine.
Kaspa Research
Discussion forum
The discussion forum where consensus, mining, privacy and protocol design get worked through in public, often by the people writing the code.
Layer 24
Execution environments and the bridges that connect them to L1. Young infrastructure, and bridges are the most-exploited category in the industry.
Kasplex
Chain ID 202555
The first EVM-compatible layer two on Kaspa, and the origin of the KRC-20 standard. Runs an open-source indexer and public APIs alongside the rollup.
Igra Labs
EVM layer two
An EVM layer two built without a single centralised sequencer, trading some tooling familiarity for lower censorship and liveness risk.
Kaspa Finance
DEX on Kasplex
A decentralised exchange and lending venue running on the Kasplex zkEVM, with a token creation tool for KRC-20 issuance.
KAT Bridge
Bridge — read the risk note
A two-way bridge moving KRC-20 assets between Kaspa L1 and Kasplex L2, secured by FROST threshold signatures.
Wallets5
Where keys actually live. Download only from the project’s own site, and treat any link sent to you as hostile until proven otherwise.
Kaspium
iOS · Android
The mobile wallet most people start with. Plain send and receive, HD accounts, twelve or twenty-four word seed in your hands.
Kasware
Browser extension
The first open-source browser extension wallet for Kaspa, with KRC-20, KRC-721 and KNS awareness plus L2 network support.
Kastle
Multi-asset · Ledger
A self-custody wallet covering KAS, KRC-20, KRC-721 and KNS domains, with Ledger hardware integration for larger balances.
Kaspa NG
Pairs with your own node
A desktop wallet that can talk to your own node instead of somebody else’s, which is the practical route to not leaking your address set.
Kurncy
Check the custody mode you are in
A mobile wallet for iOS and Android supporting KRC-20, KRC-721 and KNS, with optional custody modes.
Explorers5
Independent views of the same ledger. Cross-check anything surprising against a second one, or against your own node.
Kaspa Explorer
Open source
The open-source community explorer for addresses, blocks, transactions and KRC-20 transfers.
Kaspa.Stream
Live network view
A block explorer leaning towards live network state — block and transaction flow, miner distribution, node statistics and network metrics.
Kasplore
Blocks · tokens
A general-purpose explorer for blocks, transactions and addresses, with KRC-20 token support.
Kascan
Open source
A deliberately lightweight, fully open-source blockDAG explorer with live TPS, blocks per second, hashrate and top-miner views.
Kaspalytics
On-chain analytics
On-chain analysis rather than block lookup — hashrate, difficulty, supply, address activity, HODL waves and UTXO breakdowns.
Apps5
Software built on Kaspa rather than about it — messaging, publishing, identity and video, settled on the base layer.
Kasia
Open source
An open-source peer-to-peer encrypted messaging protocol and app that settles on Kaspa rather than on a company’s server.
Kaspeak
Encrypted messenger
A decentralised messenger with end-to-end encrypted messages, groups and channels, plus an SDK for building on the same transport.
KasShi
Video · micropayments
A video platform where creators are paid in KAS micropayments — tipping, subscriptions and paid videos settled on L1.
Vivoor
Live streaming
Live streaming with Kaspa tipping, built on Livepeer’s decentralised video infrastructure.
Kaspa Name Service
Names · .kas
Human-readable names on Kaspa — `.kas` domains and arbitrary text inscription, used as identity across several ecosystem apps.
Payments5
Moving value: swaps, marketplaces, tipping and merchant checkout. Anything holding funds deserves the same scrutiny as a wallet.
Kaspa.com
Marketplace · launchpad
A community-run hub bundling an L2 exchange, a launchpad and an L1 marketplace for KRC-721, KRC-20 and KNS domains.
Zealous Swap
AMM DEX
An automated market maker on Kaspa, and the first DEX to launch in the ecosystem.
kas.coffee
Donation pages
Personal donation pages for accepting KAS — custom handle, QR payment, no account between the payer and your wallet.
Kaspero Pay
Non-custodial checkout
A no-code “pay with Kaspa” button for any website, paying non-custodially and directly into your own wallet.
KasTip
Browser extension
A browser extension that adds a tip button to X profiles, sending KAS peer-to-peer without an intermediary holding it.
Knowledge3
Reporting, reference material and primary writing. Useful as pointers to sources, not as substitutes for them.
KASmedia
Reporting · research
Community reporting and research on Kaspa’s development and the distributed-systems ideas behind it, including round-ups of what actually merged.
Kaspa Hub
Directory
An open-source, community-maintained directory of the ecosystem — the widest listing of Kaspa projects that anyone keeps current.
hashd.ag
Primary writing
The personal site of Yonatan Sompolinsky, who authored the GHOSTDAG protocol — writing on coordination markets and the ideas underneath Kaspa.
How this list was put together
Every website here was requested and returned a live page on 13 August 2026. Every X handle was published by the project itself — on its own site, in its own documentation or in its own source repository — and then checked to confirm the profile resolves.
That second rule is why 19 of these 31 entries show a website and no X link. Handles circulating in search results and third-party listings were not good enough to publish. Impersonation accounts are common in this corner of the internet, and a wrong social link on a wallet entry is not a typo — it is somebody’s coins.
Descriptions are written here rather than copied from the projects, so they say what a thing is rather than why you should want it. Logos are the icons each project publishes on its own domain; where a project publishes none, the card shows its initials instead of invented artwork.
What listing does not mean
Inclusion is not an endorsement, not a security review and not an audit. Nothing here has been examined by this site beyond confirming that it exists, that it is about Kaspa, and that its links work. Several of these projects hold funds or handle keys. That is exactly the category where you should verify for yourself before trusting anything — start from the project’s own domain, never from a link somebody sent you.
The ecosystem moves quickly, so this list will drift. If an entry is wrong, out of date or missing, the fix is a correction rather than a rewrite — and the date above tells you how stale the checking already is.
Wallets and bridges deserve extra care
A wallet page and a phishing clone of it look identical. Download only from the project’s own domain, confirm the address in your browser bar character by character, and never enter a seed phrase into anything reached from a social post.
Bridges lock assets in one place and mint a representation in another. Across the industry that mechanism has lost more value than any other category of infrastructure, and Kaspa’s L2 surfaces are young. Size those deposits accordingly.
Where the rest of the site goes deeper
This page is breadth. For custody compared honestly, and for how the layers actually fit together, the chapters below carry the argument rather than the list.
Chapter 11 — the directory
Kaspa
projects
Everything below is something somebody built on or for Kaspa: execution layers, wallets, explorers, messaging, payment rails and the places the community writes things down. Each entry gets a website, an X profile where the project publishes one itself, and one plain sentence about what it does.
At a glance
Projects listed31
Categories7
With an X profile12 of 31
Links checked13 August 2026
EndorsementsNone
The directory
What is actually being built
§ 01 — filter, search, then verify
Sorted into seven groups because the differences between them matter more than the total count does. A bridge is not a wallet, and neither is a blog. Filter to the group you need, or search across all of them.
31 of 31
Protocol4
The base layer itself, and the documents that decide what it becomes. Every roadmap claim is checkable here or it is not checkable at all.
rusty-kaspa
Reference implementation
The reference node implementation in Rust. Every consensus change ships here first, and running it is what turns your view of the ledger from borrowed into your own.
Kaspa KIPs
Specifications
Where protocol changes are proposed, argued over and finalised. If an upgrade is not in a KIP or a tagged release, it is a hope with a date attached.
Kaspa Wiki
Documentation
Community documentation covering the blockDAG, GHOSTDAG and the surrounding ecosystem — the reference to reach for before a search engine.
Kaspa Research
Discussion forum
The discussion forum where consensus, mining, privacy and protocol design get worked through in public, often by the people writing the code.
Layer 24
Execution environments and the bridges that connect them to L1. Young infrastructure, and bridges are the most-exploited category in the industry.
Kasplex
Chain ID 202555
The first EVM-compatible layer two on Kaspa, and the origin of the KRC-20 standard. Runs an open-source indexer and public APIs alongside the rollup.
Igra Labs
EVM layer two
An EVM layer two built without a single centralised sequencer, trading some tooling familiarity for lower censorship and liveness risk.
Kaspa Finance
DEX on Kasplex
A decentralised exchange and lending venue running on the Kasplex zkEVM, with a token creation tool for KRC-20 issuance.
KAT Bridge
Bridge — read the risk note
A two-way bridge moving KRC-20 assets between Kaspa L1 and Kasplex L2, secured by FROST threshold signatures.
Wallets5
Where keys actually live. Download only from the project’s own site, and treat any link sent to you as hostile until proven otherwise.
Kaspium
iOS · Android
The mobile wallet most people start with. Plain send and receive, HD accounts, twelve or twenty-four word seed in your hands.
Kasware
Browser extension
The first open-source browser extension wallet for Kaspa, with KRC-20, KRC-721 and KNS awareness plus L2 network support.
Kastle
Multi-asset · Ledger
A self-custody wallet covering KAS, KRC-20, KRC-721 and KNS domains, with Ledger hardware integration for larger balances.
Kaspa NG
Pairs with your own node
A desktop wallet that can talk to your own node instead of somebody else’s, which is the practical route to not leaking your address set.
Kurncy
Check the custody mode you are in
A mobile wallet for iOS and Android supporting KRC-20, KRC-721 and KNS, with optional custody modes.
Explorers5
Independent views of the same ledger. Cross-check anything surprising against a second one, or against your own node.
Kaspa Explorer
Open source
The open-source community explorer for addresses, blocks, transactions and KRC-20 transfers.
Kaspa.Stream
Live network view
A block explorer leaning towards live network state — block and transaction flow, miner distribution, node statistics and network metrics.
Kasplore
Blocks · tokens
A general-purpose explorer for blocks, transactions and addresses, with KRC-20 token support.
Kascan
Open source
A deliberately lightweight, fully open-source blockDAG explorer with live TPS, blocks per second, hashrate and top-miner views.
Kaspalytics
On-chain analytics
On-chain analysis rather than block lookup — hashrate, difficulty, supply, address activity, HODL waves and UTXO breakdowns.
Apps5
Software built on Kaspa rather than about it — messaging, publishing, identity and video, settled on the base layer.
Kasia
Open source
An open-source peer-to-peer encrypted messaging protocol and app that settles on Kaspa rather than on a company’s server.
Kaspeak
Encrypted messenger
A decentralised messenger with end-to-end encrypted messages, groups and channels, plus an SDK for building on the same transport.
KasShi
Video · micropayments
A video platform where creators are paid in KAS micropayments — tipping, subscriptions and paid videos settled on L1.
Vivoor
Live streaming
Live streaming with Kaspa tipping, built on Livepeer’s decentralised video infrastructure.
Kaspa Name Service
Names · .kas
Human-readable names on Kaspa — `.kas` domains and arbitrary text inscription, used as identity across several ecosystem apps.
Payments5
Moving value: swaps, marketplaces, tipping and merchant checkout. Anything holding funds deserves the same scrutiny as a wallet.
Kaspa.com
Marketplace · launchpad
A community-run hub bundling an L2 exchange, a launchpad and an L1 marketplace for KRC-721, KRC-20 and KNS domains.
Zealous Swap
AMM DEX
An automated market maker on Kaspa, and the first DEX to launch in the ecosystem.
kas.coffee
Donation pages
Personal donation pages for accepting KAS — custom handle, QR payment, no account between the payer and your wallet.
Kaspero Pay
Non-custodial checkout
A no-code “pay with Kaspa” button for any website, paying non-custodially and directly into your own wallet.
KasTip
Browser extension
A browser extension that adds a tip button to X profiles, sending KAS peer-to-peer without an intermediary holding it.
Knowledge3
Reporting, reference material and primary writing. Useful as pointers to sources, not as substitutes for them.
KASmedia
Reporting · research
Community reporting and research on Kaspa’s development and the distributed-systems ideas behind it, including round-ups of what actually merged.
Kaspa Hub
Directory
An open-source, community-maintained directory of the ecosystem — the widest listing of Kaspa projects that anyone keeps current.
hashd.ag
Primary writing
The personal site of Yonatan Sompolinsky, who authored the GHOSTDAG protocol — writing on coordination markets and the ideas underneath Kaspa.
How this list was put together
Every website here was requested and returned a live page on 13 August 2026. Every X handle was published by the project itself — on its own site, in its own documentation or in its own source repository — and then checked to confirm the profile resolves.
That second rule is why 19 of these 31 entries show a website and no X link. Handles circulating in search results and third-party listings were not good enough to publish. Impersonation accounts are common in this corner of the internet, and a wrong social link on a wallet entry is not a typo — it is somebody’s coins.
Descriptions are written here rather than copied from the projects, so they say what a thing is rather than why you should want it. Logos are the icons each project publishes on its own domain; where a project publishes none, the card shows its initials instead of invented artwork.
What listing does not mean
Inclusion is not an endorsement, not a security review and not an audit. Nothing here has been examined by this site beyond confirming that it exists, that it is about Kaspa, and that its links work. Several of these projects hold funds or handle keys. That is exactly the category where you should verify for yourself before trusting anything — start from the project’s own domain, never from a link somebody sent you.
The ecosystem moves quickly, so this list will drift. If an entry is wrong, out of date or missing, the fix is a correction rather than a rewrite — and the date above tells you how stale the checking already is.
Wallets and bridges deserve extra care
A wallet page and a phishing clone of it look identical. Download only from the project’s own domain, confirm the address in your browser bar character by character, and never enter a seed phrase into anything reached from a social post.
Bridges lock assets in one place and mint a representation in another. Across the industry that mechanism has lost more value than any other category of infrastructure, and Kaspa’s L2 surfaces are young. Size those deposits accordingly.
Where the rest of the site goes deeper
This page is breadth. For custody compared honestly, and for how the layers actually fit together, the chapters below carry the argument rather than the list.