How does the Crescendo Hardfork position Kaspa for smart contracts?

The Crescendo Hardfork increases Kaspa's capacity and speed specifically to support anticipated demand from emerging technologies, including smart contract layers enabled via the ongoing based ZK bridge design. Smart contracts are self-executing programs stored on a blockchain — they power decentralized apps, token protocols, and automated agreements without a central operator. Importantly, the source describes this as an ongoing design, meaning full smart contract capability is still in development and not yet live on Kaspa. For a beginner, this means the Crescendo upgrade is partly about future-proofing: growing the network's headroom so Kaspa can absorb the additional load when smart contract activity eventually arrives.