{"id":108,"date":"2021-09-21T21:21:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T21:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaspa.org\/?p=108"},"modified":"2022-04-22T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T21:27:15","slug":"kaspa-launch-plan-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaspa.org\/kaspa-launch-plan-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaspa launch plan (proposal) Pt-1"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yonatan Sompolinsky<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n [L1, POW, lack of EVM]<\/p>\n There seems to be little room now for a new L1, especially one powered by PoW such as Kaspa. The market has matured, and with it the scope of attacks and manipulations has expanded from direct attacks on block ordering (eg double spends via reorgs, liveness attacks) to attacks that regard txn content \u2014 typically in the zero-to-one-confirmations phase \u2014 by miners or bots (aka flashbots). Moreover, Kaspa lacks as of now EVM support, rendering it significantly less relevant to the current market.<\/p>\n Kaspa may be launched as a research-oriented consensus engine that is focused on experimentation, novel testing of dynamics, and a vibrant battlefield for real world cryptoeconomics attacks. I call it gamenet mode.<\/p>\n [CPU\/GPU mining, uncertain scarcity, low hashrate and security, non-commercializable]<\/p>\n The platform should be CPU\/GPU-mineable, to facilitate the base activity; I believe Ethash is a neutral candidate that fits our needs. However, its token should be deliberately unfit for commercialization, in order to penetrate hardcore communities, individuals, and zones that refrain from cooperating with non-BTC or non-ETH tokens. Accordingly, the token\u2019s supply should challenge the ordinary notion of scarcity, and should be unfit for exchange listing. This implies that the platform will obtain low hashrate and low security, at the initial stages.<\/p>\n [battle-field, simulation, real world game, selfish mining, reorgs, MEV]<\/p>\n The theme of gamenet\u2019s activity can be thought of as a continuous hackathon over a live network which serves as a battle-test field for simulating real world attacks, manipulations, and dynamics of a multi-player network. The block rewards will incentivize occasional reorg\/selfish-mining attacks by strategic and sophisticated miners of the gamenet, whereas transactions in the network will implicitly or directly reflect MEV exploits from real world DeFi systems such as Ethereum.<\/p>\n [R&D groups and individuals, testbed for innovation, recognition by broad crypto community]<\/p>\n The goal is to attract research and dev groups (e.g., flashbots fans) to play, compete and\/or collude over the live system, and to extract insights on the real-world dynamics of other live systems such as Ethereum. Further, commercial L2 projects that propose solutions to certain exploits, such as using cryptographic primitives for MEV, can implement those over Kaspa gamenet and prove the robustness of their solution, while others may attempt to refute it. I hope Kaspa will become a center of a vibrant R&D community, and that the general community will look to Kaspa gamenet as a credible source of insights regarding cryptoeconomic dynamics in the wild.<\/p>\n An example for the community\u2019s interest around the topic may be found in this recent summit http:\/\/reorg.wtf\/<\/a><\/p>\n [monetary policy solidification, recover scarcity, compensate early community]<\/p>\n\n
Why Kaspa shouldn\u2019t launch as an ordinary cryptocurrency<\/h1>\n
Gamenet: A proposal to launch Kaspa in a novel experimental mode<\/h1>\n
Cryptoeconomics phase 1<\/h2>\n
Gamenet activity<\/h2>\n
Community<\/h2>\n
Cryptoeconomics phase 2<\/h2>\n