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Kaspa ASIC Miner Profitability Calculator

KHeavyHash ASIC miners for Kaspa, from the small IceRiver KS units…
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Coins
Model
Profit
Bitmain
Bitmain Antminer KS7
KHeavyHash · 45TH/s
$12.12
Bitmain
Bitmain Antminer KS7
KHeavyHash · 40TH/s
$10.12
IceRiver
IceRiver KS7
KHeavyHash · 30TH/s
$5.30
Bitmain
Bitmain Antminer KS5 PRO
KHeavyHash · 21TH/s
$2.37
Bitmain
Bitmain Antminer KS5
KHeavyHash · 20TH/s
$2.26
IceRiver
IceRiver KS7 Lite
KHeavyHash · 4.2TH/s
$0.72
IceRiver
IceRiver KS0 Ultra
KHeavyHash · 400GH/s
$-0.03
IceRiver
IceRiver KS0
KHeavyHash · 100GH/s
$-0.08
IceRiver
IceRiver KS0 PRO
KHeavyHash · 200GH/s
$-0.11
IceRiver
IceRiver KS2 Lite
KHeavyHash · 2TH/s
$-0.16
Goldshell
Goldshell KA Box
KHeavyHash · 1.18TH/s
$-0.30
Goldshell
Goldshell KA Box PRO
KHeavyHash · 1.6TH/s
$-0.51
IceRiver
IceRiver KS5M
KHeavyHash · 15TH/s
$-0.52
IceRiver
IceRiver KS1
KHeavyHash · 1TH/s
$-0.75
Goldshell
Goldshell E-KA1M
KHeavyHash · 5.5TH/s
$-1.25

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* Kaspa on ASIC

A blockDAG that pays every second

kHeavyHash powers Kaspa with a proof-of-work core that fuses dense matrix multiplication with two Keccak operations. It preserves cryptographic integrity through Keccak. The scheme targets high throughput and near‑instant block emission, so the ledger moves with one‑second heartbeats. Its workload leans on arithmetic rather than memory, which lowers VRAM pressure and suits both GPUs and FPGAs. Early miners favored commodity cards, yet the modest memory footprint invited specialized silicon. Purpose‑built ASICs arrived and pushed network hashrate sharply higher, along with efficiency per joule on that class of hardware. The same design can draw more power than SHA‑256 on comparable setups because the matrix stage is compute heavy. Energy per confirmation can still compare well when rapid blocks compress waiting time. Results also depend on hardware and settings. kHeavyHash was not crafted to resist ASICs, which shapes decentralization by tilting rewards toward operators with access to new rigs. Security leans on Keccak primitives and the determinism of its linear algebra. Kaspa organizes blocks in a directed acyclic graph, so parallel additions reduce orphaning and support high bandwidth without long delays. Frequent client and miner optimizations refine scheduling, arithmetic kernels, and networking, which helps stabilize latency and improve utilization. FPGA implementations benefit from the regular structure of the matrix step, and many designs stream operands to keep power spikes in check. The result is an algorithm that is austere in memory, exuberant in computation, and alive to the trade between speed, hardware diversity, and the ever‑shifting center of gravity in mining.

Block time
0 s
Payouts land continuously, not every ten minutes.
Block reward
2.1855 KAS
Emission steps down every month on a smooth curve instead of a four-year cliff.
Network hashrate
356.84 PH/s
Your share of this is your share of every reward.

What a slice of the network earns

KHeavyHash miners span a very wide range, from desk-sized units under a terahash to rack machines above thirty. This table converts each class into daily Kaspa at the live network hashrate, before electricity, so you can see what the table's hashrate column really means.

Gross output only. The profit column in the table subtracts your electricity cost and picks the best coin; use it for the buying decision.

Hashrate class Network share KAS per day Gross per day
200 GH/s <0.0001% 1.06 $0.04
1 TH/s 0.0003% 5.29 $0.22
5 TH/s 0.0014% 26.46 $1.12
10 TH/s 0.0028% 52.92 $2.24
20 TH/s 0.0056% 105.83 $4.49
40 TH/s 0.0112% 211.67 $8.98
Top Kaspa miner on this page
Bitmain Antminer KS7
Hashrate
45TH/s
Power
3080W W
Efficiency
68.44 J/TH
Net profit at your rate $12.12/day
* GHOSTDAG

Why fast blocks change how an ASIC gets paid

On a ten-minute chain a small miner can wait days between the blocks it contributes to; pools exist largely to smooth that out. Kaspa orders parallel blocks with GHOSTDAG rather than discarding them, so the network produces a block roughly every second and even a modest KHeavyHash unit sees its share arrive in a steady stream.

Kaspa's emission also behaves differently from the halving coins. The reward decreases every month along a geometric curve, cutting roughly in half over a year, which is why the daily figures on this page drift down gently rather than dropping overnight. Factor that in when you turn a daily number into a payback estimate.

KHeavyHash was designed to be light on memory and heavy on arithmetic, which made it ASIC-friendly early; the hardware generations since have pushed efficiency down quickly. The efficiency column in the table, in joules per gigahash, is where that race shows up.

Know your hashrate already and just want KAS per day? Open the Kaspa mining profitability calculator →

* Background

About the KHeavyHash algorithm

Begin at the present, where specialized machines hum with purpose, and trace backward through the mirrors of memory to the algorithm that set the tempo: kHeavyHash, a proof-of-work scheme crafted for Kaspa that interleaves compact matrix multiplication with two Keccak-based hashing steps, leveraging the cryptographic core underlying SHA-3 to deliver strong diffusion while keeping video memory demands unusually low, so early on even modest GPUs and FPGAs could participate efficiently; by leaning on compute rather than large datasets, it avoided the memory bottlenecks that sideline smaller miners in other protocols and enabled dual mining on GPUs, where Kaspa could be run alongside more memory-bound coins to squeeze extra utility from the same hardware, yet the very clarity of its design-never intended to resist ASICs-ultimately invited purpose-built devices that increased network hashrate and security but shifted the mining landscape away from broad GPU accessibility and toward professional operations, raising familiar questions about decentralization; energy-wise, its compute-heavy character means higher power draw per device compared with the highly optimized ASIC ecosystems of algorithms like SHA-256, even as it remains efficient for its class by keeping data movement minimal and arithmetic dense in registers and cache; on-chain, Kaspa’s one-second block cadence and blockDAG architecture, orchestrated by the GHOSTDAG ordering protocol, let multiple blocks be added concurrently with low orphaning, producing steady reward flow, seconds-level confirmation, and markedly higher throughput without the latency penalties that haunt linear chains, characteristics well-suited to applications that need rapid settlement and high resiliency under load; for miners, this rhythm translates into fast block discovery, quick transaction verification, and tight response windows to new work, while practical planning is grounded in tools that estimate potential outcomes from hardware hashrate, power consumption, network difficulty, pool conditions, and expected uptime; taken together, Kaspa’s high-speed blockDAG and the compute-focused efficiency of kHeavyHash form a system engineered for throughput and responsiveness, one that began as a haven for lower-memory GPUs, matured with FPGA experimentation, and now runs at scale on ASICs, a cycle turning like a wheel as the network’s technical foundations continue to expand capacity and compress time between intent and confirmation.

* Answers

Kaspa ASIC mining, answered

The first row of the table, sorted by profitability, at your electricity rate. Kaspa hardware ranges from sub-terahash desktop units to rack miners above thirty terahashes, so the most profitable unit and the best unit for your situation are often different rows.

Not competitively. KHeavyHash ASICs raised the network hashrate far beyond what graphics cards can reach per watt, so GPU mining of Kaspa has been unprofitable since the first ASIC generations arrived.

Kaspa's reward falls a little every month instead of halving every four years. Over a twelve-month payback period the daily reward roughly halves, so a projection built on today's number alone will overstate the year by a wide margin. Use the daily figure as a starting point, not the finish line.

Because blocks arrive about once a second, a small KHeavyHash unit receives a steady trickle of its share instead of waiting days for a block, and its low power draw suits home electricity. The table shows whether that trickle covers your rate.

This page compares Kaspa ASIC hardware at your electricity rate. The Kaspa mining profitability calculator, linked above, takes any hashrate and power draw you enter and returns income, cost and profit for that setup.
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ALPH $0.082540 ↗0.71%
KAS $0.042410 ↗0.39%
ETC $8.85 ↗0.34%
LTC $69.64 ↗0.02%
DOGE $0.093090 ↘0.01%
RXD $0.000038 ↘0.47%
BCH $314.08 ↗1.2%
CKB $0.001302 ↗0.13%
HNS $0.009060 ↗0.27%
KDA $0.009121 ↘4.13%
SC $0.001020 ↗0.12%
ALEO $0.038140 ↗1.02%
FB $0.391400 ↘1.4%
XMR $550.43 ↗1.35%
BELLS $0.126100 ↘0.22%
XTM $0.001992 ↘3%
ZEC $1,301.66 ↘1.22%
BTC $84,860.52 ↗0.26%
ALPH $0.082540 ↗0.71%
KAS $0.042410 ↗0.39%
ETC $8.85 ↗0.34%
LTC $69.64 ↗0.02%
DOGE $0.093090 ↘0.01%
RXD $0.000038 ↘0.47%
BCH $314.08 ↗1.2%
CKB $0.001302 ↗0.13%
HNS $0.009060 ↗0.27%
KDA $0.009121 ↘4.13%
SC $0.001020 ↗0.12%
ALEO $0.038140 ↗1.02%
FB $0.391400 ↘1.4%
XMR $550.43 ↗1.35%
BELLS $0.126100 ↘0.22%
XTM $0.001992 ↘3%
ZEC $1,301.66 ↘1.22%
BTC $84,860.52 ↗0.26%
ALPH $0.082540 ↗0.71%
KAS $0.042410 ↗0.39%
ETC $8.85 ↗0.34%
LTC $69.64 ↗0.02%
DOGE $0.093090 ↘0.01%
RXD $0.000038 ↘0.47%
BCH $314.08 ↗1.2%
CKB $0.001302 ↗0.13%
HNS $0.009060 ↗0.27%
KDA $0.009121 ↘4.13%
SC $0.001020 ↗0.12%
ALEO $0.038140 ↗1.02%
FB $0.391400 ↘1.4%
XMR $550.43 ↗1.35%
BELLS $0.126100 ↘0.22%
XTM $0.001992 ↘3%
ZEC $1,301.66 ↘1.22%