[ANN] (KASP) Kasperchain - Layer 1 blockchain | Blake3v2

Kasperchain (KASP) — GPU-Mined Layer 1 Blockchain with Blake3v2 PoW

Hello everyone,
I would like to introduce Kasperchain, a new Layer 1 blockchain built around GPU-based Proof-of-Work and a custom mining algorithm called Blake3v2.

The idea behind Kasperchain is fairly simple.

Proof-of-Work is still one of the most straightforward ways to build an open network where anyone can participate in securing the blockchain. At the same time, mining has become increasingly dependent on specialized hardware and very large operations.

Kasperchain takes a different approach.

The network is designed specifically for GPUs, and its PoW algorithm is built around the characteristics of modern graphics cards. The goal is to create a practical GPU mining ecosystem while keeping the blockchain itself simple, transparent and independent.

Kasperchain is its own Layer 1 with its own consensus, blocks, difficulty adjustment, native coin and mining algorithm.

The native coin is KASP.

What is Kasperchain?

Kasperchain is a standalone Proof-of-Work blockchain.
The network uses Blake3v2 as its consensus mining algorithm. Blake3v2 is based on the general ideas behind BLAKE3, but it is not simply BLAKE3 with a different name.
BLAKE3 is extremely fast and highly parallel, which makes it interesting as a foundation for GPU-oriented computation. Blake3v2 takes this further by adding mining-specific processing stages designed to make the workload more suitable for GPUs.
The intention is to balance several types of computation instead of relying only on raw hash throughput.

A mining iteration includes:

* Block header and nonce processing
* Initial Blake3-based compression
* Parallel state mixing
* GPU-oriented computation
* State-dependent memory mixing
* Secondary compression
* Final 256-bit hash
* Difficulty verification

This gives Kasperchain a PoW function specifically designed for the network rather than simply using a general-purpose hash directly.

Why GPU mining?

GPU mining is one of the main design decisions behind Kasperchain.
The project is not trying to support every possible type of mining hardware.
The consensus model is optimized around GPUs because modern graphics cards provide a large amount of parallel computing power and are available from multiple hardware manufacturers.
This also gives miners the possibility to use hardware that can have value outside cryptocurrency mining.
The goal of Blake3v2 is simply to make specialized optimization more difficult by combining parallel computation with additional state and memory operations instead of relying on one extremely simple hashing loop.

Kasperchain technical specifications

Project name: Kasperchain
Ticker: KASP
Type: Layer 1 blockchain
Consensus: Proof-of-Work
Mining algorithm: Blake3v2
Mining hardware: GPU
GPU vendors: NVIDIA and AMD
Target block time: 60 seconds
Maximum supply: 21,000,000 KASP
Initial block reward: 12.5 KASP
Halving interval: 210,000 blocks
Premine: 0 KASP
ICO / Presale: None
Developer allocation: None

Fair launch

Kasperchain is intended to follow a simple PoW launch model.

No premine.
No ICO.
No presale.
No private allocation.
No developer mining period.

Mining

Kasperchain uses the open-source kasper-miner for GPU mining.

The miner is designed specifically for Blake3v2 and supports modern NVIDIA and AMD GPUs.

The project is not intended to rely on a closed-source miner with an undisclosed mining fee.

A typical pool configuration will look like:

Code:

kasper-miner --algo blake3v2 --pool stratum+tcp://POOL:PORT --wallet YOUR_KASP_ADDRESS --worker rig01

For example:

Code:

kasper-miner --algo blake3v2 --pool stratum+tcp://pool.example.com:3333 --wallet ksp1qxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --worker rig01

The pool address and wallet address obviously need to be replaced with your own values.

The worker name can be anything you want and is mainly used to identify your mining machine.

Solo mining is also part of the design, allowing miners to connect directly to a Kasperchain node instead of using a pool.

Mining software

Project: kasper-miner
Algorithm: Blake3v2
Type: GPU miner
Source: Open source
Hardware: NVIDIA / AMD
Mining modes: Pool / Solo
Developer fee: 0%

Our official links

Wallets: https://github.com/kasperchain/kasper/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Source: https://github.com/kasperchain/kasper

Kasper miner
Last release: https://github.com/kasperchain/kasper-miner/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Source: https://github.com/kasperchain/kasper-miner

Read our full Whitepaper here
https://github.com/kasperchain/kasper/blob/main/README.md

Mainnet

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