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You can run escrow on-chain with Kaspa covenants. Lock funds with rules for how they can be paid out. A third party authorizes a payment to the buyer or seller. The contract checks their signature, who gets paid and how much. This example uses an arbiter. You can build other escrow designs by changing the rules for how funds are released.

A lot of people think what makes Kaspa unique is the technology. But the technology is really the consequence of a deeper philosophical difference. Most crypto projects ask: How can we maximize performance without sacrificing decentralization? Kaspa asks: How can we maximize decentralization without sacrificing performance? That slight inversion of priorities changes everything. It changes what the system optimizes for, which tradeoffs are acceptable, and ultimately what kind of threat model matters. Kaspa and in particular the upcoming DAGKnight fork are built around the idea that a decentralized monetary network should remain resilient even under extreme failure scenarios like global infrastructure disruption, war, or other large-scale breakdowns. Because fast digital coordination should not force people to choose between trusting a small group of node operators over a small group of banks. For many applications, that distinction may not matter. But for the applications where credible neutrality, censorship resistance, and resilience matter most, that ideological edge is the product. Kaspa does not merely compete at the technological level. It competes at the philosophical level and the technology is just the downstream consequence of following that philosophy to the end.

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