Gemini aired an interview on Kaspa with Kaspa Silver: what it does (and doesn't) mean for KAS
On 1 September 2026, the US cryptocurrency exchange Gemini aired a live interview about the Kaspa (KAS) network with Kaspa Silver (@KaspaSilver), one of the most visible faces of the Kaspa community. Gemini announced the broadcast a day in advance on its X account; the topics were Kaspa's technology and its community. For the market, it is a signal of interest from a regulated exchange. The interview itself, however, does not mean a KAS listing – as of the date of this article, we have found no official announcement of KAS trading on Gemini.
Why the interview is being talked about
Gemini, founded by the brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, is one of the most strictly regulated exchanges in the US. It is supervised by the New York regulator NYDFS (New York Department of Financial Services) and adds new coins cautiously. That is why the Kaspa community watches every sign of interest from it.
In the crypto world, educational broadcasts like this sometimes precede deeper cooperation – a listing, institutional custody or derivatives. Equally, they sometimes remain just an interview. What a possible listing would mean is summarised in the table; these are possible impacts, not announced steps.
| Area | Possible impact of a listing |
|---|---|
| Liquidity | direct trading for USD and EUR, less dependence on stablecoins |
| Institutions | funds and asset managers can only buy through regulated counterparties with insured custody |
| Mining | greater trust in the asset supports investment in mining infrastructure |
| Development | more attention for applications built on Kaspa |
What is technically interesting about Kaspa
BlockDAG instead of a single chain
Traditional networks such as Bitcoin stack blocks one after another into a single chain. When two miners find a block at the same moment, the network discards one of them (an orphan block). This limits throughput and forces a longer interval between blocks – 10 minutes on average for Bitcoin.
Kaspa uses a directed acyclic graph of blocks (BlockDAG):
- parallel blocks are not discarded but incorporated into the graph structure,
- the GHOSTDAG protocol, co-authored by researcher Yonatan Sompolinsky, orders them into a single history,
- high speed – the network currently produces 10 blocks per second.
The DAGKnight consensus is being prepared as the next step. In addition, at the end of June 2026 the network gained programmable conditions for coins through the Toccata hard fork – details in our article The Kaspa Toccata hard fork.
A fair launch without a pre-mine
Kaspa was created without pre-mined coins, without an initial coin offering (ICO) and without allocations for investment funds. All coins come from public mining. For US regulators, this is an argument against KAS being considered an unregistered security.
What it means for miners
Kaspa mining today runs on specialised ASICs for the kHeavyHash algorithm. Neither the interview nor a possible listing changes that. Mining income is mainly affected by the KAS price and network difficulty; at today's difficulty and price, 1 TH/s earns 3,55 Kč a day. How Kaspa is mined and which machines are used is described in our article Kaspa (KAS).
What next
- Kaspa (KAS) – how the network works and how it is mined.
- How to set up a Kaspa wallet – where to store your mined KAS.
Sources
Frequently asked questions
Can KAS be bought on the Gemini exchange?
Why does it matter that Kaspa had no premine?
This text was prepared with the help of AI. Facts, figures and procedures were checked by Yegor.
