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<a href="https://x.com/Kaspaunchained" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@Kaspaunchained</a> has announced the launch of Silverscript v1, a high-level smart contract language designed to bring readable, complex, stateful applications to the Kaspa ledger. The release marks a meaningful step forward for a network that has, until now, lacked an expressive developer language at the base layer.<h2 id="what-silverscript-does">What Silverscript Does</h2><cite>Core developer <a href="https://x.com/OriNewman" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">@OriNewman</a> described Silverscript as "Kaspa's first high-level smart contract language and compiler," designed to enable "DeFi, vaults, and native asset management directly on Kaspa's L1."</cite> The practical impact for developers is significant: the language strips away the complexity of writing raw opcodes, condensing what previously required thousands of lines of low-level stack code into concise, human- and AI-readable scripts of around 60 lines.<cite>Silverscript is Kaspa's high-level smart contract language and compiles directly to native Kaspa Script, with no virtual machine and no intermediate representation.</cite><cite>The language draws inspiration from CashScript, a higher-level smart contract language originally developed for Bitcoin Cash, but adds constructs such as loops, arrays, and function calls to expand expressiveness within Kaspa's UTXO model.</cite><cite>Silverscript is the standard authoring path for Toccata covenants: developers write the state and transition policy, while the compiler handles low-level stack encoding, ABI layout, state validation helpers, and the repetitive covenant plumbing.</cite> This design allows developers to focus on application logic rather than low-level implementation details.<h2 id="context-toccata-and-the-broader-kaspa-roadmap">Context: Toccata and the Broader Kaspa Roadmap</h2>The v1 release closes an eight-month development cycle that ran alongside the Toccata framework. <cite>Kaspa's Toccata hard fork went live on June 30, transforming Kaspa into a programmable Layer 1 blockchain with support for smart contracts and ZK applications.</cite><cite>Previously, Kaspa's UTXO model only controlled who could spend coins. After Toccata, developers can create conditions that determine how and when coins can be spent.</cite><cite>Toccata does not turn Kaspa into an account-chain smart contract system. Instead, it makes UTXOs able to carry state, split into parallel lineages, merge when necessary, and prove the next step.</cite> Silverscript sits on top of this foundation as the primary authoring tool for covenant-based applications.One caveat worth flagging for developers: the KCC20 token standard is still not live, meaning the full token infrastructure on Kaspa remains a work in progress even as the smart contract language itself reaches v1.Sources: <a href="https://docs.kaspa.org/toccata/silverscript" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Silverscript, Kaspa Official Docs</a> <a href="https://github.com/kaspanet/silverscript/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Silverscript Repository, GitHub</a> <a href="https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560605483763" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Kaspa Toccata Hard Fork Overview, Bitget News</a>

It is now possible to write readable Smart Contracts on Kaspa!

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