Kaspa KAS/USD, a layer-1 blockchain token, has seen a staggering year-to-date increase of 2500%, outperforming top cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin BTC/USD, Ethereum ETH/USD, and Solana SOL/USD.

What Happened: Kaspa describes itself as the “fastest and most scalable Level 1, instant validation transaction layer” and operates using a proof-of-work consensus mechanism. 

Its architecture is grounded in the GHOSTDAG/PHANTOM protocol, which is considered a scalable extension of the Bitcoin consensus.

At the time of writing this article, KAS was trading at $0.13. BTC, ETH, and SOL rose by 125%, 67%, and 459% respectively in the same period. The surge in Kaspa came after Binance said it would list KAS for perpetual trading.

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Why It Matters: Last week, cryptocurrency analyst CrediBULL Crypto took to X to share an optimistic outlook on Kaspa’s future performance.

“There is no doubt in my mind that it will soon break into the top 20 coins by market cap,” CrediBULL Crypto said. 

The analyst expressed confidence in Kaspa’s trajectory: “$KAS up 50% from this day-old tweet, and it has a LONG ways to go. Like I said yesterday (sounds weird to even say that 😂), one of the cleanest charts I’ve seen in literally years.”