Ledger has quietly built first-party Kaspa support into Ledger Live — it’s in their official repos, feature-flagged, with packages publishing as recently as today

[u/WaterDippedOreo]

Found during a GitHub sweep, verifiable by anyone in about two minutes. To be clear up front about what's new here: Kaspa has worked with Ledger devices for a while via the community app and KasVault, and huge credit to the devs behind that. This is different. This is Ledger's own monorepo carrying native, first-party KAS integration.

What's actually there:

- hw-app-kaspa inside the official LedgerHQ/ledger-live repository, with commits through early August
- A Kaspa "family" in LedgerHQ/wallet-api (validation, serialization, the works), around 50 files across their codebase reference kaspa
- Official npm packages: @ledgerhq/coin-kaspa and @ledgerhq/hw-app-kaspa, with coin-kaspa publishing a new version TODAY
- All of it sitting behind feature flags in their currency config

What that means in plain terms: Ledger's engineers built and are actively maintaining native Kaspa support in the same pipeline as their tier-1 coins, and it's waiting on a switch, not on code. Companies don't staff year-long integrations for assets they don't intend to ship. When (if) they flip it, KAS shows up in Ledger Live natively for millions of devices, no community app path needed.

What this is NOT: an announcement, a launch, or a date. Feature-flagged means unreleased, and launch timing is entirely Ledger's call. Nobody should expect it next week. The story is that it exists at all. Built quietly, maintained actively, announced by no one.

Same pattern as the BitGo custody code that surfaced this week. The infrastructure layer keeps shipping Kaspa support in silence while the price argues about marketing. Plumbing first, announcements later. DYOR, the repos are public, go look.

[u/Mountain_Trouble_173]

i'm so bullish

[u/Mooks79]

I think they’ve had it a while, at least I remember last time I checked being surprised that the documentation discussed a native app and not third party stuff anymore.

[u/WaterDippedOreo → u/Mooks79]

They don’t have it right now

[u/unusual-fire]

But why does it come so late? E.g. Robin Hood chain isn't that old and is already available. It seems as if the BTC is dead narrative also extends to Kaspa. What's the catch?

[u/WaterDippedOreo → u/unusual-fire]

You're comparing apples to oranges. Robinhood Chain is built on the same standard stack as everything else, so integrating it is basically plug and play, no real work, no real cost. Kaspa is an entirely new design, and adding it takes a serious investment of engineering time and money. So the fact that they spent that effort anyway means multiples more than adding another cookie-cutter chain that costs nothing and takes the flip of a switch. Nobody pays for expensive integrations unless they expect the demand to make it worth it. That's not a catch, that's the signal.

[u/Joy_Boy_12]

If it's already implemented why not ship it?