FYI quoting here a discord message from @hashdag (and myself) about the DK grant: ---------- Addressing below some repeating questions about the DAGKNIGHT grant: 0) DAGKNIGHT is a new consensus protocol (the first parameterless responsive POW one), it is the result of academic efforts by Michael and I, and we have full certainty regarding its properties and correctness. The protocol is an open product of academic research, it belongs neither to Kaspa nor to us, it’s a standalone academic contribution. ---------- 1) Why do we need a 70M grant? We don't.. we will implement DAGKNIGHT either way, for free, because we believe in the utility of the protocol and want to see it implemented. ----------- 2) The 70M grant request is in case there’s community demand for us to shift our full time occupation to implement it. Shifting to full time involves a whole new set of considerations and risk factors, hence the ask. 3) If the grant request is not filled we will continue with the default path of implementing it for free on our own time. In that case, the collected funds should not go to us, since we will work on it with no commitment to timeline, in weekend mode. Rather, they should either be refunded to the generous contributors or allocated to other purposes, presumably following a community vote. 4) If any community member still feels there’s ambiguity regarding DAGKNIGHT and the grant request, feel free to reply to this message and ask for clarifications. Though, please read first the blogpost, KIP, and grant proposal (which are the only three texts I’m responsible for). https://hashdag.medium.com/kaspa-where-to-part-iii-72ddd0bbe6ae https://github.com/kaspanet/kips/blob/master/kip-0002.md https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k9NqHMkN7vMicbD9dLKOM-KUmHpdetxI 5) It might be the case that Kaspa development is less sustainable through grants than we would have wanted, in which case different structures should be considered by me/you/her/anyone who realizes the very high potential of Kaspa. I believe there are sufficient incentives in play to make sense of this. Link to discord message: https://discord.com/channels/599153230659846165/916662870379491328/1056533489287168011

Introducing the brand new #merch shop for #Kaspa, thanks to @PoolPartyNodes! Now you can "Rock the Kaspa" where ever you go! 50% of the sales go directly to the Kaspa DOA! Shop here: https://t.co/cmeMVFFq7T #CryptoMerch #DAGKnight https://t.co/FcxtqHvHSx

The #KASPA community is stepping up! 42% raised so far! @DAGKnight - The world's first Zero Wait Protocol incoming from @MichaelSuttonIL & @hashdag https://t.co/Gf7AoBulDc #DAG #PoW #KAS $KAS https://t.co/ACzBLZQg9j

🎉New #DAGknight crowdfund update! 33.7% funded! The community is on fire! 🔥 See all the details here https://t.co/Gf7AoBulDc https://t.co/JxMyXZsIY3

.@KaspaCurrency #crowdfunding has begun for #DAGKnight! The world's first Zero Wait Protocol from @MichaelSuttonIL & @hashdag! Only one day in & the community has already donated 13.5% of the 70M #KAS needed. Details here: https://t.co/Gf7AoBulDc #DAG #PoW #DAO https://t.co/nevwHLx6tc

Rust Report! Great work Devs!! https://t.co/FrXAKMxFJy https://t.co/vjD9sEhFDy To put it into numbers, this means the first version of $kas on #rustlang is approximately 85% complete https://t.co/2aFRiHX0BT

Kaspa contributor @DesheShai interviewing for @SonOfATech https://t.co/oSaUP2HzjK GhostDag Author Shai Wyborski https://t.co/GNx6dRyc5A via @DesheShai @KaspaCurrency #cryptocurrency

#ICYMI Watch AMA hosted by Joe Vezzani CEO of @Lunarcrush with @hashdag https://t.co/GU09J6lm7M #DAG #POW #dagknight https://t.co/z8vyOWqh1e

Reminder: In one hour the AMA will start. https://t.co/ElQvV4XGBJ Save the date! 📆 December 8th, at 6pm UTC Kaspa founder @hashdag will be hosted for an AMA by @LunarCrush Watch live on: https://t.co/2yzs7uKmi9 #Kas #Kaspa #AMA #YouTube https://t.co/6X1mIzg3Zn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evhGI_3oSvc

Save the date! 📆 December 8th, at 6pm UTC Kaspa founder @hashdag will be hosted for an AMA by @LunarCrush Watch live on: https://t.co/2yzs7uKmi9 #Kas #Kaspa #AMA #YouTube https://t.co/6X1mIzg3Zn

🌎 Our community won't stop growing! 🌏 - 20k Twitter followers, - 11k Discord members, - 10k Telegram members, - 2k Reddit members! We are thankful to have every single one of you onboard! 👪 #Kaspa #Community #Coin https://t.co/0SGiIyohez

In less than 24 hours, Kaspians raised over 1M $KAS to support in-house development of a @Ledger $KAS App. Soon you will be able to store, send & receive your $KAS fast and easy from the safety of your Ledger! #kaspa #Ledger #wallet https://t.co/JOaw22lrVg

🔥🔥🔥 The ledger integration fund has been raised.  In the usual manner, the community collects the necessary amount, thanks to everyone!

Dear community, This is a friendly reminder that there are many fake Kaspa accounts popping up. Please remember that Kaspa does not host airdrops, and will never ask you to connect your Metamask to anything. Stay safe. #Kaspa #Kas #SafetyFirst

⚡️⚡️⚡️Ledger support news Members of the KASPA team had a Zoom call with the Ledger company, and as a result, it turned out that the application could be developed in-house. To do this, you just need to cheer up the guys with one million KAS. So far, 300k have been collected https://explorer.kaspa.org/addresses/kaspa:pzyzn6lyfw0wjey0xzdy0g6hf96wwl26lfy9hwst5glxs9zhml42umpdwmd78

Kaspa Improvement Proposal #2 for upgrading to #Dagknight, a novel consensus protocol with unheard of theoretical properties, is now out! https://t.co/EM0U94Zz6t Authors: @hashdag @MichaelSuttonIL $KAS #DigitalSilver #Crypto https://t.co/FIVsN87FUc

AMA with CoinEx Persian TG and me-ow at 9am PST https://t.me/CoinExOfficialPersian

Congrats #Kaspa community on a new all-time high #Hashrate! Slowly but surely approaching the Peta zone with nearly 0.5 PH/s $KAS #Pow #FairLaunch https://t.co/1gg6XEGhia

There is no official telegram channel for ledger support, please be careful and don't give your seeds to anyone!

KDX 2.12.0 has been released and is downloadable at https://kdx.app/. It includes Kaspad 0.12.10. This release includes a few updates, such as the ability to lock the in-app wallet without exiting the KDX application (lock icon top/right of the wallet tab). PWA Wallet (web wallet at https://wallet.kaspanet.io/ that is also included inside KDX) has been updated as well. Wallet transaction entries are now linking to the corresponding transaction info on the explorer at https://explorer.kaspa.org/. The wallet now also uses the public archival node API server at https://api.kaspa.org/ to fetch transaction dates. Previous transaction dates are also updated (the process will occur automatically when opening the wallet after this update, but may take a few minutes to complete). All applications have also been updated to contain the latest Kaspa branding.

What is Kaspa? #KASPA core contributor @desheshai discussing in the recent #MEXC ama on what makes #KASPA unique! $KAS #CRYPTO #POW #AMA https://t.co/YrYTFhYgmK https://t.co/2omMlKacVp

Great AMA yesterday by some of Kaspa main developers and contributors together with @MEXC_Global Yonatan Sompolinsky @hashdag Shai Wyborski @DesheShai Michael Sutton @MichaelSuttonIL Link to full audio : https://t.co/FZtyhib5XA

$Kaspa Accepted Everywhere! Once listed on @crypto_checkout merchants started to integrate! A shout out to the first store to accept #KASPA! @Brand425Coffee Thanks to @ Rhubarbarian and @ jwj (Discord) and all for their help! #Fast #Secure #Adoption #DAG https://t.co/d0YtBX57eA

RT @MEXC_NA: 📲 If you've been on the #MEXC app, you've definitely have seen $KAS trending‼️🚀 We have a special episode today for you! Joi…

RT @MEXC_NA: Here's Your Next #MEXC Moonshot 🚀 Join #TwitterSpaces at 9 AM PST tomorrow‼️ 🔥 Trending -- The Silver of the Future: $KAS 🏚…

There will be a AMA session with the KASPA developers on Thursday at 9 am PST in the Twitter Spaces audio room. The meeting is organized by the MEXC exchange. https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1MYGNgQOovOJw

RT @MEXC_NA: Your next #MEXC moonshot? 🚀 💎 $KAS 💎 🔥 Have you heard of trending #cryptocurrency team, @KaspaCurrency yet? What is #KASPA…

We are excited to be invited to the @MEXC_NA Twitter space this Thursday at 9am PST! Make sure to set your clocks #KASPA community and join the @DesheShai @MichaelSuttonIL @MEXC_NA AMA! Venue: https://t.co/BHE1ItLsHc $KAS #CRYPTO #AMA #DIGITALSILVER https://t.co/lUSyqdrEA0

#Kaspa Mobile Wallet Update: The estimated goal for the Play Store and App Store releases are still before end of the year! Keep up the great work Azbuky 👏 $KAS #Mobile #Wallet #Crypto #Kaspium https://t.co/bdUzzGopfM

If you woke up one morning recently and realized you were pruned off the Kaspa discord server, note that it was an honest mistake made by a moderator trying to remove captcha bots. All "kicked" users are welcome to rejoin us at https://t.co/pke6RPJ1mx https://t.co/PHnEBQpS9v

Don't forget to celebrate the new ATH

https://youtu.be/quPfx-uQc-E

Thanks @OriNewman @Elichai2 @DesheShai @MichaelSuttonIL and all other contributors for your amazing work on $kas. https://t.co/TXzSFfdVuJ After 4 long months, we are thrilled to finally unveil the initial benchmarks for $KAS on RUST. There is still a long way to go, but they seem to go beyond our expectations. The tl;dr is that 30 bps has never seemed more within reach. The plot shows block processing >> https://t.co/qS9B5ktXVr

https://twitter.com/kaspacurrency/status/1593438000809213953?s=21&t=dbl3vMIt6Gf7nix1kqV4jg

#KASPA community we have some exciting news! $KAS is now accepted on @crypto_checkout. 🎉 #crypto #payments #ecommerce https://t.co/4UCHQXK4N0 https://t.co/O7szdau9rW

A statement about the extremely exciting development on our Rusty front, be sure to read carefully, you don't want to miss the intriguing details 👈 https://t.co/tCESbuE9md 1/n A clarification about current and future benchmarks of rusty $kas and how they should be interpreted. 🧵 We are all very excited about the incredible performance of our simulated nodes so far, which exceeded our expectations. However, we would like to stress that

https://twitter.com/mexc_global/status/1592764994206457857?s=46&t=o3an9EMcPMEkW1dmYD27PQ

Congrats #Kaspa community on a new all-time high #HashRate! - 315 TH/s $KAS #POW #CRYPTO https://t.co/7zdGlIgEAG

🏎💨 $KAS #CRYPTO #POW https://t.co/jTFRpNUb0G Following the $kas on #rustlang performance update by @OriNewman yesterday — here is a breakdown of the numbers, along with coming benchmarking plans (btw I blame @Elichai2 for a lot of this amazing perf) 🧵 The main takeaway for now is simply the relative speedup over the >>

#BTC got you down? $KAS is all green! Trading is live on @coinexcom ! KAS/USDT https://t.co/k0V9N2yvbH $KAS #COINEX #CRYPTO #PoW #DagKnight https://t.co/qvo0LHf93d

Kaspa can now be traded on Coinex https://www.coinex.com/info/KAS

New exchange listing coming online tomorrow! Thanks! @coinexcom $KAS #COINEX #CRYPTO https://t.co/g2dgVrq846 https://t.co/ksGBU7g2Yr

#KASPA 1 BPS in action. ⚡️ $KAS #crypto #pow https://t.co/ocV1fgqfUb

Happy Birthday #KASPA 🎉 We are now officially 1 year young from mainnet launch! To the community..thank you for all the support! This is just the beginning. $KAS https://t.co/O33wIXOz6k

“Now devise a consensus protocol that is secure for any latency and we argue that there is no #POW or indeed no other consensus protocol that has achieved it and it is, in fact, impossible to achieve without POW.” -Yonatan Sompolinsky @hashdag #DAGKNIGHT #ComingSoon #Kaspa https://t.co/hxKMpgMqcH

RT @KaspaArchive: DAG KNIGHT is the first 50% Byzantine Fault Tolerant parameterless consensus protocol “This was no easy task, it took u…

On October 31, 2022 "The DAG KNIGHT Protocol: A Parameterless Generalization of Nakamoto Consensus" by @hashdag in joint work with @MichaelSuttonIL was revealed on the same date in which 14 years ago the #Bitcoin WP was released 👈 Full paper below: https://t.co/8SIGgI6OrR https://t.co/IWmlEPmmJC

https://youtu.be/9v5h3PK04JQ