Research

Where are Kaspa’s White Papers?

Here are valuable resources for research:

GhostDAG White Paper
https://research.kas.pa
DAGKnight White Paper

What is GhostDAG?

GHOSTDAG allows us to make a chain out of the parallel blocks in the BlockDAG, which results in the same security guarantees provided by Nakamoto consensus (bitcoin), but with increased throughput and lower confirmation times.

For more information, read: https://kaspa.org/what-is-ghostdag-and-dagknight/

Where can I read community-driven information?

Kaspa Wiki - Kaspa is a community project, completely open source, no central governance, no business model.

Where can I find debunked myths about Kaspa?

Discover the truth about Kaspa at https://kasparchive.com/

Where can I listen to interviews?

KasMedia Interviews
XXIMpod on YouTube

What is the Kaspa Bounty?

People can earn $30,500 if they can prove Kaspa isn't what it claims to be. There is an open bounty to anyone who can mathematically prove that PHANTOM GHOSTDAG is wrong. Prove Kaspa does not Scale Nakamoto Consensus (Kaspa generalized NC, arguments in semantics will not be accepted as "proof"). If you are able to prove it, you will receive $30,500.00 paid in BTC. See x.com/kaspafacts for more information.

What happens to Kaspa and Bitcoin when quantum computers are viable?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10377 - Quantum attacks on Bitcoin, and how to protect against them

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.08118 - On the insecurity of quantum Bitcoin mining

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08023 - 51% Attack via Difficulty Increase with a Small Quantum Miner

What is DAGKnight?

Michael Sutton and Yonatan Sompolinsky are working on a new ordering mechanism called DAGKNIGHT where the confirmation time adapts automatically by the internet speed. This means any improvement in the network conditions of the miners and any optimization in the block validation algorithm will also speed up the confirmation time.

DAGKNIGHT (DK) is a new consensus protocol, written by the authors of this KIP, that achieves responsiveness whilst being 50%-byzantine tolerant. It is therefore faster and more secure than GHOSTDAG (GD), which governs the current Kaspa network. In DK there’s no a priori hardcoded parameter k, and consequently, it can adapt to the “real” k in the network. Concretely, in DK, clients or their wallets should incorporate k into their local confirmation policy of transactions (similarly to some clients requiring 6 confirmations in Bitcoin, and some 30 confirmations). (Source: https://github.com/kaspanet/kips/blob/master/kip-0002.md)

Infographic source: https://x.com/KaspaFacts/status/1895452419229892693

Research

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