Kaspa Dropping Two Hard Forks in 2026!

Just caught this from Kaspa founder Yonatan Sompolinsky (@hashdag on X) - they're planning not one, but TWO hard forks this year.

The upcoming Covenants++ hardfork, targeted for May 5, 2026, kicks off a major step toward greater programmability on Kaspa. This upgrade lays essential groundwork for features like vProgs, native assets, smart wallets, vaults, and ZK verification capabilities directly on the mainnet (Layer 1).

vProgs are Kaspa's form of advanced, verifiable smart contracts: they enable off-chain computation (complex logic runs externally by apps or provers) while submitting zero-knowledge proofs to the chain. Kaspa nodes verify these proofs efficiently on-chain to confirm correct execution - without re-running heavy computations themselves. This keeps the base layer lean and scalable, while supporting rich, sovereign, composable programs.

Then, end of Q3, they're rolling out DAG KNIGHT with a BPS boost aiming for 40-25 ms block times. That's real time level speed while keeping the PoW decentralization intact. From what I read in his Medium post, this is part of pushing Kaspa as "real-time Bitcoin". Team is expanding too, which is huge for a fair-launched project. Timelines are aggressive, if they pull this off, Kaspa could seriously eat into Solana/Eth's lunch on speed and usability.

Check the Medium article for the deep dive: https://hashdag.medium.com/in-which-it-was-never-my-choice-to-hold-the-fire-we-found-937314149402