356.1 PH/s Kaspa hashrate on 30 October 2026 at 12:56 UTC, source the Kaspa REST API
Kaspa's hashrate is the total computing power miners aim at the network every second. It is produced almost entirely by purpose-built ASIC machines running Kaspa's own algorithm, kHeavyHash. The dated figure is below. The number matters because it works like a price tag. It tells you roughly what it would cost to attack the chain, and rebuilding this much specialised hardware is not something an attacker does quietly.
One row per day, the daily mean of the Kaspa REST API's hashrate history and the mean of the 7 days up to that day. The 7-day mean smooths out the swings of single days, which is the number to watch when you want to know whether miners are arriving or leaving.
| Day, UTC | Daily mean | 7-day mean |
|---|---|---|
| 29 October 2026 | 360.8 PH/s | 366.8 PH/s |
| 28 October 2026 | 356.6 PH/s | 367.4 PH/s |
| 27 October 2026 | 353.0 PH/s | 368.5 PH/s |
| 26 October 2026 | 367.7 PH/s | 368.9 PH/s |
| 25 October 2026 | 381.1 PH/s | 369.0 PH/s |
| 24 October 2026 | 381.5 PH/s | 368.6 PH/s |
| 23 October 2026 | 367.2 PH/s | 368.2 PH/s |
| 22 October 2026 | 364.6 PH/s | 368.4 PH/s |
| 21 October 2026 | 364.5 PH/s | 367.4 PH/s |
| 20 October 2026 | 356.0 PH/s | 365.3 PH/s |
| 19 October 2026 | 368.3 PH/s | 364.5 PH/s |
| 18 October 2026 | 378.4 PH/s | 360.4 PH/s |
| 17 October 2026 | 378.7 PH/s | 356.7 PH/s |
| 16 October 2026 | 368.1 PH/s | 353.6 PH/s |
| 15 October 2026 | 357.7 PH/s | 348.7 PH/s |
| 14 October 2026 | 350.2 PH/s | 345.6 PH/s |
| 13 October 2026 | 349.9 PH/s | 343.9 PH/s |
| 12 October 2026 | 340.0 PH/s | 340.9 PH/s |
| 11 October 2026 | 352.3 PH/s | 341.6 PH/s |
| 10 October 2026 | 357.0 PH/s | 342.0 PH/s |
| 9 October 2026 | 333.8 PH/s | 341.8 PH/s |
| 8 October 2026 | 336.2 PH/s | 343.2 PH/s |
| 7 October 2026 | 338.3 PH/s | 344.4 PH/s |
| 6 October 2026 | 328.9 PH/s | 345.1 PH/s |
| 5 October 2026 | 344.5 PH/s | 347.6 PH/s |
| 4 October 2026 | 355.6 PH/s | 347.4 PH/s |
| 3 October 2026 | 355.5 PH/s | 347.5 PH/s |
| 2 October 2026 | 343.2 PH/s | 347.4 PH/s |
| 1 October 2026 | 345.0 PH/s | 347.3 PH/s |
| 30 September 2026 | 343.1 PH/s | 346.6 PH/s |
Daily means of the hashrate history from the Kaspa REST API, the 7-day mean covers the day and the 6 days before it, read on 30 October 2026.
| Week, Monday to Sunday | Average hashrate |
|---|---|
| week of 31 August 2026 | 320.6 PH/s |
| week of 7 September 2026 | 331.2 PH/s |
| week of 14 September 2026 | 340.1 PH/s |
| week of 21 September 2026 | 343.4 PH/s |
| week of 28 September 2026 | 347.4 PH/s |
| week of 5 October 2026 | 341.6 PH/s |
| week of 12 October 2026 | 360.4 PH/s |
| week of 19 October 2026 | 369.0 PH/s |
Weekly averages of the daily means in api.kaspa.org's hashrate history, read on 30 October 2026.
Every second, each mining machine makes billions of attempts at solving the current block. Hashrate is the sum of all those attempts across every machine in the world pointed at Kaspa. More hashrate means an attacker needs more physical hardware and more electricity to overpower the honest majority.
That's why hashrate is best read as a security budget. It represents real capital, machines bought, facilities built and power contracts signed, committed by people who only earn their money back if the network keeps running honestly. Like TVL for smart contracts, it is a number someone has to pay for, which is what makes it hard to fake.
What hashrate is not. It is not adoption, not transaction demand, and not a price signal. A chain can have enormous hashrate and empty blocks, or modest hashrate and a busy economy. It measures the wall around the city, not the life inside it.
One thing does not affect the hashrate, and that is merged mining. Networks like ZKas reuse the exact same kHeavyHash work Kaspa miners already produce, so no mining power leaves Kaspa. Participating requires mining Kaspa. We explain the mechanism in full in Kaspa merged mining, explained.
These apply to every proof-of-work chain, and they're the reason hashrate headlines mislead so reliably.
A kHeavyHash hash and a SHA-256 hash are different computations on different hardware. Saying "Bitcoin has thousands of times Kaspa's hashrate" is like comparing kilometres to kilograms, the units don't convert. What is comparable across chains is the economics, how much real hardware and electricity stands behind each network. The table below shows the raw factor anyway, because you'll see it quoted everywhere. Just read it as a statement of scale, never as a security ratio.
Miners are businesses. When the coin price falls, margins compress, and the least efficient machines eventually shut off, weeks or months later, once hosting contracts and hope run out. A falling hashrate usually tells you about yesterday's miner economics, not tomorrow's network health. The same works in reverse. Hashrate keeps climbing long after a rally starts, as ordered machines come online.
Total hashrate says nothing about how it's distributed. A network where three pools control the majority of blocks has a different risk profile than one with dozens of independent operators, at identical total hashrate. When you evaluate security, ask both questions. How big is the wall, and how many hands hold it?
Both figures are fetched when the page loads, so this table is current whenever you're reading it. Remember trap number one, the factor is scale, not security.
| Network | Hashrate | vs. Kaspa |
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Bitcoin's SHA-256 network is the largest computing effort in crypto and has a 12-year head start in ASIC development. The honest reading for Kaspa is that it is secured by a dedicated, single-purpose ASIC fleet, which is the strongest form of proof-of-work security a young chain can have, because that hardware is useless for anything except mining kHeavyHash. An attacker can't rent it from a general-purpose market the way GPU-mined chains can be attacked.
The absolute number is a headline. Four readings carry actual information.
Kaspa's hashrate was 356.1 PH/s on 30 October 2026 at 12:56 UTC, source the Kaspa REST API.
Kaspa uses kHeavyHash, its own proof-of-work algorithm, mined by dedicated ASIC hardware. GPU mining stopped being competitive after the first Kaspa ASICs arrived in 2023.
Not directly. Kaspa's kHeavyHash and Bitcoin's SHA-256 are different computations on different hardware, so raw hash counts don't convert between the two. What can be compared is the economics behind each network, the real hardware and electricity committed to it. Any raw factor between the two numbers is a statement of scale, not a security ratio.
No. Merged-mined networks such as ZKas reuse the same kHeavyHash work Kaspa miners already produce, so no mining power leaves Kaspa. Participating in merged mining requires mining Kaspa. Hashrate moves are driven by miner economics, coin price, electricity costs, and Kaspa's monthly block reward reductions.
Hashrate follows miner profitability with a lag. When the KAS price falls or a monthly reward reduction lands, the least efficient machines eventually become unprofitable and shut off. A falling hashrate usually reflects past miner economics rather than a change in the health of the network itself.
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