[PRESS RELEASE – Zug, Switzerland, May 6th, 2025]
The Casper Association is proud to announce that Casper 2.0 went live on the mainnet on May 6, 2025, marking a significant milestone in the network’s evolution into a platform specifically designed for the management of real-world assets.
Casper 2.0 integrates cutting-edge crypto innovation with enterprise-grade infrastructure, propelling a vision where blockchain technology enhances real economies and is seamlessly incorporated into everyday applications, rather than existing in isolation.
This upgrade allows Casper to move beyond isolated ecosystems, providing a developer- and business-friendly environment that is primed to support the next generation of tokenized assets, on-chain finance, and genuine real-world adoption.
“Casper 2.0 is more than a milestone; it’s a launchpad for real-world blockchain adoption,” asserted Matt Schaffnit, CEO & Board Director of the Casper Association. “With instant, deterministic finality, native upgradability, and built-in access control, we’re enabling a new generation of applications that secure identity, ownership, and value across industries. I’m particularly thrilled by the momentum surrounding real-world use cases now possible on Casper 2.0.”
The future of industry expansion hinges on real-world utility, necessitating systems that ensure ownership security, support regulatory compliance, and seamlessly integrate with economies that extend beyond the Web3 paradigm. Casper 2.0 delivers on this promise through foundational advancements that position it as one of the most comprehensive and versatile blockchains for tokenizing, transacting, and governing real-world assets and processes on-chain.
A newly designed deterministic consensus protocol, Zug, brings instant finality to Casper, ensuring that ownership transitions for assets such as real estate, commodities, and tokenized instruments occur immediately and irreversibly, all while maintaining a clear, tamper-proof audit trail.
Natively Secured Upgradable Smart Contracts
The demands of real-world systems for precise control, accountability, and compliance are met by Casper 2.0. By incorporating natively upgradable contracts, multi-signature support, and fine-grained permissions, developers can construct workflows that are inherently auditable and compliant. All parties in an asset transaction, including buyers, sellers, brokers, escrow agents, and auditors, only access the functionalities for which they are authorized, reflecting the security and role-based access controls found in traditional systems.
Casper 2.0 accommodates builders by empowering millions of software developers to create on-chain using familiar programming languages and modern design patterns, eliminating the steep learning curves typically associated with Web3 development.
Moreover, Casper 2.0 introduces vital infrastructure enhancements, including support for multiple virtual machines, thereby increasing the network’s capability to handle complex, real-world applications.
The upgrade also unlocks a comprehensive set of features that redefine and expand the potential of developers and user expectations on-chain. Smart contracts can now directly integrate rewards and yield through natively secured liquid staking, utilize zero-knowledge hashing algorithms to enable privacy-preserving identity and compliance solutions, and leverage a native token burning mechanism for innovative supply-control strategies.
“Casper 2.0 stems from a simple yet profound concept: blockchain should facilitate the same types of assets, rules, and processes that prevail in the real world,” stated Michael Steuer, CTO & President of the Board of the Casper Association. “By design, Casper 2.0 allows real-world asset transactions to settle instantly, businesses to implement access controls akin to real-world operations, and applications to adapt fluidly as regulations evolve. This enables developers to concentrate on building applications without the constraint of engineering around limitations.”
Additionally, the Casper 2.0 upgrade underwent a thorough, independent audit by Halborn Security, ensuring the codebase adheres to top-tier industry standards, thereby reinforcing trust in its robust and enterprise-ready foundation.
For more information regarding Casper 2.0, including documentation, development tools, and an overview of the network’s new capabilities, please visit casper.network.
About Casper Network
Casper Network (CSPR) operates as a decentralized, layer 1 Proof-of-Stake blockchain engineered for the real-world economy. It empowers individuals to openly benefit from who they are and what they own, transcending borders, sectors, and communities, both within and beyond Web3.
With instant finality, upgradeable smart contracts, enterprise-grade security, and flexible permissioning, Casper’s infrastructure facilitates the secure tokenization, management, and exchange of assets and sensitive data across both public and private environments.
The Casper Association is a non-profit organization based in Switzerland, dedicated to promoting the decentralized evolution and adoption of the Casper protocol, network, and ecosystem.
Learn more about Casper Network at https://casper.network.
Contact the Casper Association at [email protected].
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