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What to implement for .kas names after Toccata

Handoff, not a product claim. Names are inscriptions + an indexer, not a new internet. Read REAL.md first. Official: inscriptions, wallets, indexer API.

Ask

1. Keep inscribing with KasWare or Kastle. KasWare: buildScript({ type: "KNS" }) then submitCommitReveal. Kastle: commitReveal("mainnet", "kns", data) (two popups). Reveal output 0 pays the protocol fee. KasWare · Kastle.
2. Keep uniqueness on the indexer. First valid reveal wins. Nodes will not reject a second alice.kas. A KIP-20 covenant_id does not encode the label.
3. Treat covenant name UTXOs as optional elevation. KasName.sil is compiled with official Silverscript v1.0.0 (Ori, 9 Sep 2026). Own UTXO only. Continuation keeps the same sompi; pay fees from a sibling input. No foreign readInputState. Argent is the multi-actor layer above this and is not release-ready.
4. Optional overlay. Publish ipfs/peer/onion so kns://alice.kas runs a dApp locally without ICANN. overlay.html.

Do not mix these

trump.kas and bakery.kas already exist as KNS inscriptions owned by other keys. The P2SH rows below are a second object. opus.kas has no inscription. Subnames (opus.dei.kas) are not an inscription op.

Proven mainnet

Re-checked 2026-09-08 against api.kaspa.org, api.knsdomains.org, and indexer.kaspa.com. Run go run ./cmd/kns-spec prove to repeat.

1. KNS inscription (KasWare envelope)

Reveal script:

<xonly_pubkey> OP_CHECKSIG OP_FALSE OP_IF <kns> <0> <{"op":"create","p":"domain","v":"kns"}> OP_ENDIF

That reveal is a pubkey spend with a kns envelope. It is not a Toccata covenant program. The covenant explorer has no row for it. The KNS indexer does.

2. Covenant deploys on covenants.kaspa.com

Action deploy, status unrevealed, identity scriptHashFallback (no KIP-20 id on the UTXO yet).

Implement next

1. Envelope, fees, ops, check — protocol.html
2. KasWare — kasware.html and working page
3. Kastle — kastle.html (fee output 0 still required)
4. Optional Name UTXO — KasName.sil

This is not

• The official KNS app (app.knsdomains.org, @knsdomain).
• A deployed global registrar. No consensus uniqueness for .kas.
• A seed prompt. Never ask for a seed.