Buying a Kaspa token is four steps: get KAS, hold your own keys, check the token's fairness, then buy — or, for a launch that's still open, mint it directly and skip the secondary-market premium. Here's the whole flow, safely.
KRC-20 is Kaspa's fungible-token standard, indexed by Kasplex. There are two ways to get a KRC-20 token, and they cost very different amounts:
Minting means claiming freshly-issued supply from an open launch, at the protocol price, while the token is still minting out. Buying means purchasing tokens someone already holds, on a secondary marketplace — usually at a premium once a launch has sold out and demand is set by the market.
The practical rule: if a launch is still open, minting is almost always the cheaper way in. If it's already minted out, you buy it on a marketplace. Either way, the safety step is the same — check the token's on-chain fairness before you spend a single KAS. This matters most during a launch wave like Toccata, when dozens of new tokens appear a day and not all of them are honest.
Four steps from zero to holding a Kaspa token in your own wallet.
KRC-20 tokens live on the Kaspa network and are priced and paid for in KAS. Buy KAS on an exchange that lists it, then withdraw it to a wallet you control — not left on the exchange. You'll spend KAS both to buy or mint the token and to cover the small network fee.
Install a self-custodial Kaspa wallet that supports KRC-20 — for example KasWare or Kastle. You hold the keys, so you control your tokens and sign every transaction yourself. Not sure which to pick? The best Kaspa wallet guide compares them.
Write your seed phrase down offline and never share it. A wallet that asks you to hand over custody, or a "support" DM asking for your seed, is a scam — walk away.
Before you spend anything, read the token's on-chain fairness. The live radar grades every KRC-20 token A–F from the signals that separate a fair launch from a rug: pre-mint %, mint progress and holder concentration.
A weak grade — a big deployer pre-mint, a handful of wallets holding most of the supply — is a warning to slow down. No grade guarantees safety, but it moves you from guessing to reading the chain. If you're new to the red flags, the rug-pull checklist walks through each one.
Already sold out? Buy it on a KRC-20 marketplace such as KaspaCom, which settles as trustless wallet-to-wallet swaps (PSKT) — you keep custody and trade peer-to-peer, no platform holding your funds. Telegram bots also offer buying, but check whether they take custody first.
Still minting? Then you don't need the secondary market at all — mint the token directly. It's the protocol price instead of a market premium, and minting through the Fair-Launch Radar is a flat 1.75% — nearly 3× cheaper than the 5% the dominant bots take — and non-custodial.
When a launch is still open, buying on the secondary market means paying an early holder's markup. Minting claims the same supply at the protocol price — and the only variable left is the tool fee. The dominant bots quietly take 5%; minting through the Fair-Launch Radar is a flat 1.75%, non-custodial, on the same on-chain mint. Over a launch wave, that gap is real money.
Fund a non-custodial Kaspa wallet (such as KasWare or Kastle) with KAS, then either buy an existing token on a KRC-20 marketplace like KaspaCom using trustless wallet-to-wallet swaps, or — if the token is still minting — mint it directly. You always sign from your own wallet; a non-custodial venue never takes custody of your funds.
If the launch is still open, minting is usually cheaper than buying — you claim supply at the protocol price instead of paying a secondary-market premium. Linkrra's Fair-Launch Radar mints open tokens at a flat 1.75%, nearly 3× cheaper than the 5% the dominant bots charge, and it's non-custodial. See the fee comparison.
Yes. KRC-20 tokens are priced and paid for in KAS. Buy KAS on an exchange, withdraw it to a self-custodial wallet, and use it to mint or buy tokens plus pay the small network fee. You don't need any other coin.
Check its on-chain fairness before you spend. The radar grades every KRC-20 token A–F from pre-mint %, mint progress and holder concentration — the same signals that separate a fair launch from a rug. No grade guarantees safety, but a weak one is a clear warning. The rug-pull checklist explains each signal.
It depends on the venue. Marketplaces built on PSKT — such as KaspaCom — use trustless wallet-to-wallet swaps, so you keep custody and settle peer-to-peer. Custodial bots and centralized services hold your funds instead. Prefer non-custodial venues where you sign every transaction from your own wallet.
Watch the live radar and the launch feed — they surface tokens as they deploy and mint, each with a fairness grade, during launch waves like Toccata. You can also set alerts so you hear about a launch while it's still open and mintable, not after it's sold out.
Check any token's fairness on the radar, then get in the cheap way — mint an open launch from your own wallet at a flat 1.75%. Keep custody, keep more of every mint.