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<p>Kaspa's block reward fell from 2.06 to 1.94 <a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24KAS&amp;src=cashtag_click" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$KAS</a> on Wednesday, a 5.6% reduction under the network's monthly emission schedule. Miners did not leave in any significant numbers: network hashrate dipped briefly before recovering to within 1% of its level before the cut.</p>
<h2 id="hashrate-recovers-after-brief-dip">Hashrate Recovers After Brief Dip</h2>
<p>Hashrate, the combined computing power of all miners on the network, fell to about 265 PH/s earlier on the day. It then climbed back to around 363 PH/s, within 1% of Tuesday's level, before the reduction took effect.</p>
<p>That recovery is broadly in line with recent readings. Data from Cryptohall24 showed <a href="https://www.cryptohall24.com/en/mining/kaspa-netzwerk-hashrate" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">network hashrate at 378.0 PH/s on 24 October 2026</a>, up from 318.2 PH/s at the end of August on the same dataset. The same source shows hashrate remains well below its peak of 642.80 PH/s.</p>
<h2 id="how-kaspa-s-emission-schedule-works">How Kaspa's Emission Schedule Works</h2>
<p>Unlike Bitcoin (<a href="https://x.com/search?q=%24BTC&amp;src=cashtag_click" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$BTC</a>), which halves its block subsidy roughly every four years, Kaspa reduces rewards in small monthly steps. According to Bitget's explainer, <a href="https://www.bitget.com/price/kaspa/what-is" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">the block reward is cut every month by a factor of (1/2)^(1/12)</a>, so the reward halves once a year. That works out to a cut of about 5.6% each month, a figure also noted by <a href="https://phemex.com/blogs/what-is-kaspa-and-blockdag-network" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Phemex</a>, which describes the design as meant to spare miners a sudden change in their economics.</p>
<p>The policy also fixes issuance per unit of time rather than per block. After the Crescendo hard fork on May 5, 2025, which raised the block rate from 1 to 10 blocks per second, <a href="https://swapzone.io/exchange/kaspa" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">the per-block reward fell proportionally while the per-second emission rate was preserved</a>.</p>
<p>The next step, to 1.84 $KAS, is due in about 29 days.</p>
<h2 id="supply-context">Supply Context</h2>
<p>Kaspa has no premine or founder allocation, and new coins enter circulation only through proof-of-work mining. Its estimated total issuance is about 28.7 billion KAS, according to <a href="https://taxguru.in/finance/crypto/kaspa-kas-blockdag-ghostdag-emission-custody-indian-vda-tax.html" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">TaxGuru's overview of the protocol</a>. CaptainAltcoin reported that <a href="https://captainaltcoin.com/kaspa-price-could-be-heading-toward-a-huge-supply-squeeze/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">more than 95% of the supply had already been mined by 10 July 2026</a>, which means each monthly cut now applies to a shrinking flow of new coins.</p>
<p>Whether hashrate stays steady through further reductions will depend on the KAS price, electricity costs and mining hardware efficiency, the main factors in miner profitability.</p>
<p><strong>Sources</strong></p>
<ul>
 <li><a href="https://www.bitget.com/price/kaspa/what-is" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitget: What is Kaspa (KAS)</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://www.cryptohall24.com/en/mining/kaspa-netzwerk-hashrate" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Cryptohall24: Kaspa Network Hashrate</a></li>
 <li><a href="https://captainaltcoin.com/kaspa-price-could-be-heading-toward-a-huge-supply-squeeze/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CaptainAltcoin: Kaspa Supply Squeeze</a></li>
</ul>
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Kaspa Block Reward Falls 5.6% to 1.94 KAS as Network Hashrate Holds Near 363 PH/s

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