Launch date TBA · ZKAS
What if Kaspa was anonymous?
ZKas is a fork of Kaspa that makes value anonymous by default — the same proof-of-work BlockDAG, running at one block per second, with every amount, sender, and recipient hidden by construction.
Kaspa proved proof-of-work can confirm blocks in a fraction of a second — but its ledger is fully public. ZKas keeps the speed and changes the default.
All value lives in a shielded pool. The only public quantity is the fee a spender chooses to expose to the miner, so privacy is a property of the whole network rather than of the few who opt in.
Every coinbase reward and transfer commits to an Orchard note-commitment tree. Balances are zero-knowledge notes, not cleartext outputs.
GHOSTDAG at one block per second. The DAG keeps proof-of-work security intact under a parallel block rate.
Transactions verify with succinct Halo 2 proofs — no trusted setup. Value conservation is checked without revealing amounts.
No venture capital. ZKas uses kHeavyHash — the same proof-of-work as Kaspa — so it can be merge-mined with Kaspa's hashrate; low opening difficulty lets ordinary hardware mine from block one, then ramps to steady state.
| Network | Block time | Privacy model | Private by default | Mining |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZKas | 1 s | Orchard · Halo 2 | By default | kHeavyHash · merge-mineable |
| Kaspa | 0.1 s | Transparent | No | kHeavyHash · ASIC |
| Zcash | 75 s | Orchard · Halo 2 | Optional | Equihash · ASIC |
| Monero | 120 s | Ring signatures · RingCT | By default | RandomX · CPU |
Block reward per block. It halves every 3 months from 60 ZKAS, crossing a 6 ZKAS/block tail around month 10; that floor holds until month 24, then steps down once to a perpetual 3 ZKAS/block tail (~95M ZKAS/year) — steeply disinflationary early, a low constant floor in the long run, with no fixed supply cap.
Fair proof-of-work launch. Shielded-by-default coinbase and payments on a one-block-per-second GHOSTDAG BlockDAG.
Adopt the next-generation privacy primitive advanced by Monero — membership against every note ever created, not a fixed ring.
Programmable value that stays confidential — contracts executing over shielded state, so applications inherit the base layer's privacy.
ZKas is open, permissionless, and mined by anyone. Come build it.