Karlsen Documentation

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Overview

Karlsen is a fork of Kaspa introducing a GPU-centric fork as a solution to the dominance of ASIC mining farms, aiming to empower small-scale miners and enhance decentralization. We focus on bridging the gap between blockchain technology, decentralized finance and the real world of payment systems and traditional finance.

With Kaspa, our approach is one of friendly cohabitation. We operate under the same protocol, enjoy similar advantages, and face unidentified issues. Any significant improvements that need to be made in the primary codebase will be shared back.

Small Scale Miners

The Karlsen Network team believes in decentralization and small-scale miners. We will ensure long-term GPU-friendly mining.

Hashing Function

We initially started with kHeavyHash and blake3 modifications on-top. This algorithm is called KarlsenHashv1. However kHeavyHash and blake3 are not future proof in ASIC resistence. Therefore we've launched already our testnet-1 with FishHash. It is the worlds first implementation of FishHash with Golang in a 1bps blockchain.

KarlsenHashv1 is currently used in mainnet and can be mined using the following miners maintained by the Karlsen developers:

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
   • Rust Full Node Installation
   • Golang Full Node Installation