Was most Kaspa mined before ASIC miners entered the market?

By January 2024, approximately 76% of all KAS had already been mined using consumer-grade GPU hardware, before dedicated ASIC miners entered the picture. Kaspa's emission schedule was structured so that the majority of supply was released during the GPU-mining era from 2021 to 2023, when anyone with a standard graphics card could participate in mining. This spread the process across thousands of independent miners worldwide rather than concentrating it among a small group of specialized operators. For a beginner, this matters because it means most of Kaspa's supply entered circulation through a widely accessible, competitive process before industrial-grade hardware took over.