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KIP 21: KIP-21 rusty-kaspa Implementation Spec

Reserved KIP 21 companion for Kaspa implementation notes on incremental state maintenance, pruning, reorgs, and synchronization.

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Layer
Consensus, Chain-Block UTXO Validation
Updated
2026-05-28
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KIP-21 rusty-kaspa Implementation Spec

Status: Reserved companion document.

This companion document is reserved for conceptual rusty-kaspa implementation notes around KIP-21, including incremental state maintenance, witness-oriented data retention, pruning/reorg handling, and sync import/export choices. It does not change the consensus rules in KIP-21.

Reserved scope:

  • incremental SMT state maintenance
  • data retained for witness construction
  • pruning and reorg maintenance
  • pruning-point SMT import/export
  • IBD wire shape and validation flow