📊 Kaspa Network Daily Activity — May 23, 2026 🏆 NODE COUNT HITS 342 — ANOTHER NEW ALL-TIME HIGH! Kasplex L2 surges to 142. Active addresses climb to 848. Igra L2 holds 1,882. Infrastructure keeps strengthening. ⚡ Core Network Metrics TPS: 25 (1h avg 25.3) — pullback from yesterday's 35, calmer rhythm BPS: 9.8 (1h avg 10.0) — block production solid near target Public Nodes: 342 📈🏆 — ANOTHER NEW ALL-TIME TRACKING HIGH! Up from 338 Active Miners: 178 📈 — up from 176, continued strengthening Network Hashrate: 407.4 PH/s 📈 — strong recovery from 397.0 (+2.6%) Mempool: 17 transactions waiting — clean and efficient 📦 Supply & Emissions Circulating Supply: 27.46B KAS (95.65% mined) — modest tick from yesterday Block Reward: 2.75 KAS Next Reduction: 2.60 KAS in ~13 days, 3 hours 📈 On-Chain Activity Transactions (last hour): 61,044 — down from yesterday's 101,172 (-40%) All-time Transactions: 2,159,978,857 — +3.5M since yesterday Active Addresses (last hour): 848 📈 — strong jump from 615 (+38%) All-time Active Addresses: 96,149,400 — STABLE, holding the corrected figure The split between transaction volume and active addresses tells today's story. Hourly transactions cooled significantly (-40%), but unique participating wallets surged +38% to 848. This is meaningful: fewer total transactions, but distributed across far more individual addresses. Quality engagement is up even as raw volume cools. Transaction chart shows a single concentrated spike above 800K around midday before settling back — burst-and-rest demand pattern that the DAG handled effortlessly. 🧩 Layer-2 & Ecosystem Activity (Last Hour) Kasplex L2: 142 🔥🔥 — strong surge from 33 (+330%) 🌋 KRC-20: 36 🔥 — rebound from 2 (+1,700%) KRC-721: 7 — up from 1 Kasia: 52 — pullback from 248 (-79%), entering quiet phase Igra L2: 1,882 🔥🔥🔥🔥 — slight ease from 1,968 (-4%), still firmly elite 👑 Kasplay: 50 — pullback from 71 (-30%), consolidating K-Social: 2 — pulled back from yesterday's tracking-high of 24 Kaspeak: 0 KFS: 0 👉 Key Highlight: KASPLEX L2 ERUPTS to 142 — a massive +330% surge from yesterday's quiet 33. This is the original L2's strongest reading since the May 18 explosion to 244. Kasplex's pattern of periodic dramatic bursts continues to define its character: long quiet stretches punctuated by powerful eruption days. Today's 142 fits squarely into that mold. 🌋 NODE COUNT MILESTONE — 342 PUBLIC NODES! Another new tracking-period high, the second consecutive update setting a record. The trajectory tells the whole story: 311 → 312 → 313 → 315 → 318 → 319 → 322 → 325 → 326 → 327 → 332 → 332 → 333 → 329 → 334 → 338 → 342. That's a +10% increase in just four weeks. Kaspa's decentralization is deepening at a remarkable pace. 🏆 Igra L2 eases slightly to 1,882 — a minor 4% pullback from yesterday's near-ATH 1,968, but still firmly in the elite 1,800+ zone. Eight weeks of uninterrupted four-digit dominance, and the protocol shows zero signs of fatigue. 👑 KRC-20 bounces back to 36 from yesterday's deep low of 2 (+1,700%) — the token layer waking up again, continuing its choppy but persistent rhythm. Kasia eases to 52 after recent triple-digit elite days — perfectly consistent with its established wave pattern. The cycle continues: surge → cool → surge. Kasplay consolidates at 50, the second day of pullback from the ATH-matching 71. Still firmly above its long-term baseline, the structural lift remains intact. K-Social pulled back to 2 after yesterday's intriguing 24 spike — one day, not a trend, but worth continued watching. Combined L2 top 4: Igra (1,882) + Kasplex (142) + Kasia (52) + Kasplay (50) = 2,126 transactions per hour. Seven protocols showing activity. 📊 Market Snapshot Price: $0.034 (−3.5%) 🔴 — sharp pullback from yesterday's +1.5% green Rank: #61 — unchanged from yesterday Market Cap: $925.15M — down from $960M (-3.6%) Fully Diluted: $968.59M — slipped back below $1B after yesterday's reclaim 🧠 Daily Insight A tale of two tracks today: infrastructure keeps deepening and ecosystem stays active, while the market gives back yesterday's gains in a sharper pullback. What changed since yesterday? Infrastructure (continued strengthening): Node count NEW ATH at 342 (+1.2%), hashrate jumped to 407.4 PH/s (+2.6%), miners up to 178 — three consecutive updates of all-green infrastructure metrics L2 side (Kasplex erupts, others consolidate): Kasplex +330%, KRC-20 +1,700%, while Igra/Kasia/Kasplay all consolidate after recent peaks Base layer (split signal): TPS -29%, hourly transactions -40%, BUT active addresses +38% — fewer transactions distributed across MORE wallets Market side (sharp pullback): Price -3.5%, market cap -3.6%, fully diluted slipped back below $1B — clear giveback of yesterday's progress The Kasplex L2 eruption to 142 is the day's clearest single-protocol story. Looking back at Kasplex's behavior over the entire tracking period reveals a remarkably consistent pattern: quiet baselines of 30-80 punctuated by dramatic burst days (588 on Mar 4, 639 on Mar 9, 297 on Mar 19, 297 on Mar 24, 110 on Apr 5, 244 on May 18, 142 today). When Kasplex wakes up, it does so loudly. The original L2 is far from forgotten — it just operates on its own rhythm. The node count milestone deserves another shout. 342 today, after multiple consecutive updates setting new highs. Decentralization is the most fundamental property of a public blockchain, and Kaspa's node count growth is the quietest but most important metric we track. While hashrate and prices fluctuate day-to-day, node count keeps climbing nearly monotonically. This is the foundation getting wider, not taller. 🏗️ The active addresses surge to 848 (+38%) alongside lower transaction volume is the most interesting on-chain pattern today. Two interpretations are possible: either there's a coordinated event drawing more participants per transaction (an airdrop claim, a token distribution, a community event), or organic engagement is simply broadening. Either way, the participation quality is up. Igra L2's slight ease to 1,882 is barely worth noting — still elite, still anchoring the ecosystem. The longer we track, the more it becomes clear that Igra functions less like a "protocol" and more like Kaspa's default L2 infrastructure layer. It just runs. Market-side delivered a sharp -3.5% giveback, dropping price to $0.034, market cap to $925M, and fully diluted back below $1B at $968M. This wipes out yesterday's gains and then some. After multiple soft sessions earlier this month, yesterday's $1B reclaim felt promising — today's pullback is a reminder that volatility within the billion-dollar zone is the new normal. The chain keeps building; the market keeps searching. The hashrate jump to 407.4 PH/s deserves attention. That's the strongest reading in over two weeks, continuing the pre-reduction strengthening pattern we documented before each previous halving event. With the next cut to 2.60 KAS arriving in 13 days, miners are clearly positioning. The 168 → 176 → 178 sequence on miner count confirms it — more operators committing, not fewer. The supply squeeze ahead is no surprise; the miners see it coming and are leaning in. Nearly three months of tracking. The macro pattern remains crystal clear: long-term structural strengthening punctuated by short-term market noise. Igra dominates. Kasplex bursts. Kasia waves. Kasplay builds. KRC-20 cycles. Nodes multiply. Hashrate strengthens. The chain processes. Today added another brick. 🧱 #Kaspa #KAS #KaspaBuilders #Layer2 #IgraL2 #Kasplex #Nodes342 #Hashrate #CryptoData