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⛏️ Kaspa token standards officially finalized: even PoW chains are getting into programmability

On October 21, the KCC Coordination Forum announced that three standards—KCC-1, KCC-2, and KCC-20—had reached Final status, meaning they can now be adopted across the ecosystem.

Put simply, KCC-20 is a fungible token standard on Kaspa L1, implemented using on-chain covenants. It doesn’t rely on sidechains or cross-chain bridges.

🔹 Timeline: The KCC-20 Last Call was merged on October 7, and the standard was finalized 14 days later, as scheduled
🔹 Foundations: The Toccata upgrade introduced native programmability, while SilverScript lowered the barrier to development
🔹 Ecosystem moves: Aggregator Braid says users can swap KCC-20 tokens across multiple Kaspa DEXs in a single atomic transaction using KAS—self-custodially, with no deposits required
🔹 Meme launchpad Kaspaseal plans to launch on mainnet on October 23, with creators earning 0.5% of each transaction
🔹 Core developer Michael Sutton summed it up in one line: “programmability on steroids”
🔹 According to an X roundup, KAS is around $0.039, with a market cap of about $1.09 billion

My take: finalizing a standard means “there’s a shared language,” not “there are users.” After Ethereum got ERC-20, token launches and memes were among the first things to take off. The real value depends on whether applications that keep users around come later.

One more reminder: when a new standard has just launched and a new launchpad has just opened, that’s often when scam tokens and phishing contracts are most common. If you want to try it, start with a small position, and always verify contract addresses through official channels.

Do you think programmability on PoW public chains is a new narrative, or just repeating the path Ethereum has already taken?

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