{"id":5429,"date":"2026-10-04T14:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:43:41","slug":"september-2026-work-progress-kaspa-reward-cut-and-quai-reward-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/september-2026-work-progress-kaspa-reward-cut-and-quai-reward-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2026 Work Progress: Kaspa Reward Cut and Quai Reward Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September was a quiet maintenance month. Kaspa cut its block reward on schedule, and we upgraded three nodes: Ergo, Pearl, and Quai. The Quai release is the one worth reading, because it changes how Qi mining rewards and fee rewards are calculated.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2miners-september-2026-work-progress-report.jpg\" alt=\"2Miners September 2026 work progress report - miner servicing ASIC rigs while his husky plays in autumn leaves\" width=\"1344\" height=\"768\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5424\" data-wp-pid=\"5424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2miners-september-2026-work-progress-report.jpg 1344w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2miners-september-2026-work-progress-report-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2miners-september-2026-work-progress-report-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2miners-september-2026-work-progress-report-768x439.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1344px) 100vw, 1344px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Kaspa (KAS) Block Reward Reduction<\/h2>\n<p>As defined by the <a href=\"https:\/\/kaspa.org\/tokenomics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaspa Tokenomics<\/a> and the official emission schedule, Kaspa underwent another scheduled block reward reduction in September.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Previous Reward:<\/strong> 2.312 KAS<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Reward:<\/strong> 2.182 KAS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kaspa-kas-block-reward-reduction-september-2026.png\" alt=\"Kaspa (KAS) block reward reduction in 2026, from 3.086 KAS in March to 2.182 KAS in September\" width=\"1422\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5425\" data-wp-pid=\"5425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kaspa-kas-block-reward-reduction-september-2026.png 1422w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kaspa-kas-block-reward-reduction-september-2026-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kaspa-kas-block-reward-reduction-september-2026-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kaspa-kas-block-reward-reduction-september-2026-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kaspa-kas-block-reward-reduction-september-2026-1200x675.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1422px) 100vw, 1422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The reward drops by about <strong>5.6%<\/strong> every month, so since March it has fallen from <strong>3.086 KAS<\/strong> to <strong>2.182 KAS<\/strong> per block.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please pay attention!<\/strong> Kaspa mining profitability has changed. We have already updated <a href=\"https:\/\/2cryptocalc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">2CryptoCalc<\/a> to reflect the new reward values. Mining continues on the <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/kas-mining-pool\">KAS pool<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/solo-kas-mining-pool\">KAS SOLO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Node Updates<\/h2>\n<h3>Quai v0.56.0<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/quai-go-quai-v0-56-0-release-notes-september-2026.png\" alt=\"go-quai v0.56.0 release notes on GitHub: faster Qi unwrapping, new Qi reward calculation and smoothed fee rewards\" width=\"1422\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5430\" data-wp-pid=\"5430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/quai-go-quai-v0-56-0-release-notes-september-2026.png 1422w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/quai-go-quai-v0-56-0-release-notes-september-2026-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/quai-go-quai-v0-56-0-release-notes-september-2026-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/quai-go-quai-v0-56-0-release-notes-september-2026-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/quai-go-quai-v0-56-0-release-notes-september-2026-1200x675.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1422px) 100vw, 1422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A mandatory upgrade that activated on <strong>September 15<\/strong>. What changed for miners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Qi rewards<\/strong> now come straight from the hash-proportional Qi reward and no longer include a share of the Quai fee pool.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fee rewards are smoothed.<\/strong> They follow a lagged moving average, and each fee sample is capped at <strong>4\u00d7<\/strong> the fee-free Quai reward, which limits the effect of fee spikes on payouts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Faster Qi unwrapping:<\/strong> newly unwrapped Qi is locked for only 10 zone blocks.<\/li>\n<li>Fixes for UTXO accounting, reorgs, and the database.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our nodes run v0.56.0, and nothing changes in your miner configuration. Mine on <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/quaikawpow-mining-pool\">QUAI KawPow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/solo-quaikawpow-mining-pool\">QUAI KawPow SOLO<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/quaisha-mining-pool\">QUAI SHA-256<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/solo-quaisha-mining-pool\">QUAI SHA-256 SOLO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Pearl v1.4.8<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pearl-node-v1-4-8-release-september-2026.png\" alt=\"Pearl (PRL) node v1.4.8 release on GitHub, commit 5b09d84\" width=\"1422\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5427\" data-wp-pid=\"5427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pearl-node-v1-4-8-release-september-2026.png 1422w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pearl-node-v1-4-8-release-september-2026-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pearl-node-v1-4-8-release-september-2026-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pearl-node-v1-4-8-release-september-2026-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/pearl-node-v1-4-8-release-september-2026-1200x675.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1422px) 100vw, 1422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our node runs <strong>v1.4.8<\/strong> (commit 5b09d84). It is a network and stability release:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DNS seeds moved to the pearlnetwork.net hosts<\/li>\n<li>The node checks that headers connect before it verifies the ZK certificate, which makes sync more robust<\/li>\n<li>Hardening and robustness fixes taken over from upstream btcd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No changes for miners. Mine on <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/prl-mining-pool\">PRL POOL<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/solo-prl-mining-pool\">PRL SOLO<\/a>, and check profitability on <a href=\"https:\/\/2cryptocalc.com\/prl-mining-calculator\" target=\"_blank\">2CryptoCalc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Ergo 6.0.7<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ergo-node-v6-0-7-release-september-2026.png\" alt=\"Ergo node 6.0.7 release on GitHub: storage rent transactions filtered out of the mempool\" width=\"1422\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5426\" data-wp-pid=\"5426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ergo-node-v6-0-7-release-september-2026.png 1422w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ergo-node-v6-0-7-release-september-2026-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ergo-node-v6-0-7-release-september-2026-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ergo-node-v6-0-7-release-september-2026-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ergo-node-v6-0-7-release-september-2026-1200x675.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1422px) 100vw, 1422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This release has a single change: <strong>storage rent transactions are now filtered out of the mempool<\/strong>. Autolykos mining is unchanged. Mine on the <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/erg-mining-pool\">ERG pool<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/solo-erg-mining-pool\">ERG SOLO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Stay Updated<\/h2>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pool2miners\">X (Twitter)<\/a> and join our <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/chat2miners\">Telegram chat<\/a> to stay informed about new developments, miner alerts, and network upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September was a quiet maintenance month. Kaspa cut its block reward on schedule, and we upgraded three nodes: Ergo, Pearl, and Quai. 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