** Zug, Switzerland, May 6, 2025 /Chainwire/ – ** The Casper Association is proud to announce that Casper 2.0 launched on The Mainnet on May 6, 2025, a major milestone that marks the evolution of the network into a purpose-built platform that showcases real-world assets.
Casper 2.0 bridges crypto innovation with enterprise-grade infrastructure, advancing a vision where blockchain does not exist in isolation, but can serve real economies and everyday applications, not just on its own.
With this update, Casper goes beyond silent ecosystems, offering a developer- and business-friendly environment ready to support the next wave of tokenized assets, on-chain finance, and real-world adoption.
“Casper 2.0 is more than a milestone, it’s a launchpad for real-world blockchain adoption,” said Matt Schaffnit, CEO and Director of the Casper Association. “With instant deterministic purpose, native upgradability, and built-in access control, we’re enabling a new generation of applications that ensure identity, ownership, and value across industries. I’m especially excited about the growing momentum around real-world use cases now possible on Casper 2.0.”
The next wave of industry expansion depends on real-world utility with systems that secure ownership, support compliance, and integrate with economies beyond Web3. Casper 2.0 will deliver on this promise with fundamental improvements that make it one of the most complete and adaptable blockchains for tokenizing, transacting and governing real-world assets and on-chain processes:
Zug Consensus
A new deterministic consensus protocol, Zug brings instant finality to Casper, ensuring that ownership transitions for assets are real-time
Tokenized states, commodities and instruments are not only immediate and irreversible, but also leave a clear and tamper-proof audit trail.
Natively guaranteed upgradeable smart contracts
Real-world systems demand precise control, accountability, and compliance. Casper 2.0 delivers. With natively upgradable contracts, built-in cross-functional support, and fine-grained permissions, developers can design workflows that are auditable and compliant by default. All parties in an asset transaction, from buyer and seller to broker, escrow agent, and auditor, are restricted to only the specific functionality they are authorized to access, mirroring the country-based access and security controls of traditional systems.
Developer accessibility
Casper 2.0 meets builders where they are, empowering millions of software developers to build on-chain using familiar languages and modern design patterns, without the steep learning curves and constraints typical of Web3 development.
In addition to its key innovations, Casper 2.0 introduces critical infrastructure enhancements, including support for multiple virtual machines, expanding the network’s ability to support complex real-world applications.
Casper 2.0 also unlocks a powerful set of features that redefines and expands what developers can build and what users can expect on-chain. Smart contracts can now integrate rewards and yields directly into their logic via zero-knowledge hashing and all-knowledge hashing algorithms, to enable privacy-preserving identity and compliance solutions, and utilize a native token burning mechanism to implement new supply control strategies.
“Casper 2.0 is the result of a simple and powerful idea: that blockchain should support the same types of assets, rules and processes that exist in the real world,” said Michael Steuer, CTO and Chairman of the Board of the Casper Association. “By design, CASPER 2.0 enables real-world asset transactions to take place instantly, enterprises to implement access controls that reflect reality, and applications to seamlessly update as regulations evolve. Casper 2.0 allows developers to focus on building applications, not engineering around limitations.”
Additionally, the Casper 2.0 update has undergone a rigorous, independent security audit to ensure its codebase is aligned with industry-leading standards and reinforces confidence in its secure, enterprise-ready foundation. More information about Casper 2.0, including documentation, development tools, and an overview of the network’s new features, is available at Casper.network.
About the Casper Network
Casper Network (CSPR) is a decentralized layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain designed for the real-world economy. It empowers people to openly benefit from who they are, what they do, and what they own, across borders, businesses, and communities, within and beyond the Web3.
With instant purpose, upgradable smart contracts, enterprise-grade security, and flexible permissioning, Casper’s infrastructure supports the tokenization, management, and exchange of secure assets and sensitive data across public and private environments.
The Casper Association, a Swiss-based non-profit organization, promotes the decentralized development and adoption of the Casper protocol, network, and ecosystem.
Learn more about the Casper network at https://casper.network.
Contact the Casper Association at [email protected] .
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