What is the DAGKnight protocol upgrade?

DAGKnight is a peer-reviewed upgrade to Kaspa's consensus protocol that removes hardcoded timing parameters entirely. Traditional blockchain protocols lock timing values into the code — if conditions change, developers must push a manual update. DAGKnight, documented in IACR ePrint 2022/1494, replaces those fixed values with logic that reads actual network conditions in real time and adjusts confirmation speed accordingly. For a beginner, this means Kaspa's throughput is not artificially capped by parameters set at launch — it can get faster on its own as the infrastructure it runs on improves, with no code changes needed.