Can an attacker manipulate Kaspa's block emission schedule?

Manipulating Kaspa's block emission schedule is highly impractical for any attacker. Kaspa's reward system excludes blocks marked as non-DAA — those created too late to fit the emission schedule — from receiving rewards. An attacker trying to artificially trigger the rare edge-case scenarios needed to cause excess emission would need to control a large fraction of the global network's total hashrate (combined mining power), and even then could not guarantee the extra emission would be paid to them. For a beginner, this means Kaspa's emission schedule is protected by the same proof-of-work security that guards the rest of the network: gaming it costs more resources than it could ever pay out.