THE FOUNDER
Yonatan Sompolinsky
DAGLabs was founded by Dr. Yonatan Sompolinsky with the purpose of implementing the GHOSTDAG protocol – invented by Yonatan with his then Ph.D. advisor professor Aviv Zohar.
Yonatan started gaining a reputation within the cryptocurrency academic circle back in 2013 when he and professor Zohar conceived the GHOST protocol, a protocol famous for being cited in the Ethereum whitepaper as a design goal.
Yonatan currently holds a post-doctoral position at Harvard researching transaction ordering protocols and MEV.
CORE DEVELOPERS & RESEARCHERS
All of whom contributed immensely to the implementation and stabilization of the network, include:
Michael Sutton
msutton
Core Developer. Distributed Systems Researcher and Developer,
Michael got his M.Sc in computer science from the Hebrew University, where he researched parallel algorithms and distributed systems.
Shai Wyborski
deshe
Shai is a Kaspa researcher and one of the authors of the GHOSTDAG paper.
Shai is a Ph.D candidate in the Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University where he researches classical and quantum cryptography.
Mike Zak
svarog
Core Developer. Cryptocurrency and Distributed Systems Developer
Elichai Turkel
elichai2
Core Developer. Applied Cryptographer and High-Performance Developer
Ori Newman
someone235
Core Developer. Cryptocurrency and Distributed Systems Developer
COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS
In addition to the core developers, there are many other community developers, community marketers, and project volunteers who are actively contributing to the Kaspa ecosystem’s growth. Kaspa is a 100% decentralized, community project. Anyone that wants to participate can join the development team, marketing team, business development team and community.
Anton Yemelyanov
aspect
Applied Blockchain Technologies Researcher, Advisor & Contributor
Dmitry
Mining and Wallet Improvements
Georges Künzli
Tiram
Data Scientist and Developer. Ecosystem Development, Hosting, and Tester
Mert
Mertery
Turkish Telegram Mod, Social Media, and Miner
Surinder Singh Matoo
Matoo#2047
Web Systems Architect and Developer, Wallet Framework
Tim
Ecosystem Infrastructure and DNS Developer. Technical Support. Community Moderator. Treasurer
Chris Wolf
Kaspa_HypeMan
Marketing, Business Development/Listings, & Community Helper
Jason Dixon
titorelli
Marketing, Content Creation, & Community Helper
D-Stacks
(github) JWJ
Core Improvements and Ecosystem Tools Developer
Oudeis
Community Developer
Chad
Rhubarbarian
Marketing, Branding, Web Development, Social Media, Graphic Designer & Community Helper
Navin Tiwary
icecreamfish
Marketing, Web Development, Social Media, Infosphere Builder & Community Helper
Tmrlvi
(github)
hauntedcook
Community Developer
Robert Matejko
IAmeR^
API and Block Explorer Developer
allii
Marketing & Business Development/Listings
Edward
cryptoarmy
Marketing, Infosphere Builder & Community Helper
Cafalchio
CafaBr
Community Developer
Adam
@CoinProspector
Project Advisor & Business Development
Avidan Abitbol
Avidan
Community Helper,Community Moderator. Marketing,Business Development/Listings, and Rust Committee
Gavin Wood
GWood
Community Helper and Reddit Moderator
Amao
Amao
Chinese Community Developer
Panchuker
@lab_cripto
Network Security (mining)
Brandon Smith
Miner_League
Community Developer, Stratum Developer and Mining Pool Developer
Lazzeruz
Lazzeruz
Community Helper, Marketing, Partnership Scout
Articles & News
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New Community Marketing Fund
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Kaspa Pool Addition — Midaspool
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Kaspa Pool Addition — MagicPool
The magical experience of crypto mining with MagicPool MagicPool MagicPool has launched a PPLNS mining pool for Kaspa with region locations in US West, DE Germany, and global. MagicPool supports five blockchains for GPU mining and will be integrated into Awesome Miner...
Kaspa Listed on DigiFinex
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Integration of Kaspa BlockDAG Guide
An overview of resources and processes to integrate the Kaspa BlockDAG. Integration Guide The Integration of Kaspa BlockDAG is a comprehensive guide of slides designed to help developers, exchanges, and DeFi projects integrate with Kaspa’s blockchain technology. Kaspa...
Kaspa on Chainge Finance — Wallet and DeFi
Embrace the unstoppable revolution and become your own bank. Time for some Chainge? Chainge Finance, a unified non-custodial wallet and DeFi app, provides Kaspa users numerous benefits for storing and managing their KAS coins. With its various features and...
Kaspa Twitter Space — Oana Batran CBO of Chainge Finance
Wednesday, March 15th, 12:00 PM EST — Hosted by @BubblegumLtng Kaspa Twitter Space with Chainge Finance Host: Bubblegum Lightning/@BubblegumLtng and co-host: Wolfie/@Kaspa_HypeMan are set to hold a Kaspa Twitter Space on March 15th, 2023, at 12 PM EST with special...
Kaspa Solo Mining Tutorial by AvogHadro
A tutorial on how to solo mine on Windows. Solo Mine Your Node Solo mining is a great way to improve the Kaspa network’s decentralization while earning rewards, avoiding pool fees, and bypassing third parties. By solo mining, you have complete control over your mining...
Kaspa CLI Wallet Tutorial by AvogHadro
A tutorial on installing a CLI Wallet on Windows. CLI Wallet with Kaspad Now that we have gone through the process of syncing a kaspad node, we will create and use a command line interface(CLI) wallet using kaspawallet.exe in the list of programs in kaspad. While your...
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PUBLIC DONATIONS ARE WELCOME!
Simple donation through Cryptocurrency Checkout
Manual donations dev-fund-address: kaspa:precqv0krj3r6uyyfa36ga7s0u9jct0v4wg8ctsfde2gkrsgwgw8jgxfzfc98
Mining dev-fund-address: kaspa:pzhh76qc82wzduvsrd9xh4zde9qhp0xc8rl7qu2mvl2e42uvdqt75zrcgpm00
The wallet is managed by 4 members of the community (msutton, Tim, The SheepCat and demisrael) who were publicly voted in to become the Treasurers.