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KaChat 5.2.1

The current version of KaChat.

• Customize Dock: choose what sits in the dock and what lives in the Kaspa Hub
• Request Payment: share a link that opens Send with the amount and note filled in, signed so people see who is asking
• Pay from any of your addresses: every send starts with From, and a chat payment from another address still shows in that chat
• KaPosts tips you can see: a tip count on every post, a Tips tab, and a bell beside Follow for someone's new posts
• KaChat Stats: Transactions and Fees tabs for the last 24 hours, 7 days or all time
• .kachat: names are open to everyone, and you can buy or claim them from any of your addresses with Buy From
• Calls: more reliable answering between devices
• Android gets a full redesign to match the iPhone app screen for screen

KaChat 5.2

Names, requests and profiles.

• .kachat names: claim a name like you.kachat, renew it, transfer it, list it for sale, buy one, or make an offer
• Message Requests: no more handshakes. Just send a message, and it lands in the other person's Message Requests to accept or decline
• KaChat profiles: your picture, banner and bio come from social accounts you already have, stamped to your address
• Address Book: save Kaspa addresses with a name and a note. KaChat no longer reads your phone's contacts
• A new chat + menu: send KAS with an exact amount and an encrypted note, and send photos, videos and voice messages on chain or through your Nextcloud
• KaChat Stats in the Kaspa Hub, showing KaChat's activity on Kaspa
• Portfolio: transfers, realized profit and loss for the year, and Nextcloud export and import

KaChat 5.1

Chess tournaments, profile links and privacy.

• Online Chess tournaments: brackets, scoring across the whole tournament, and leaderboards
• Share your profile: a kachat.app link that opens a chat with you
• Public chats: translate a message from its long-press menu, and see delivery status under your own messages
• Privacy: KaChat is blurred in the App Switcher, viewing a secret key needs your passcode, and Simple Mode replaces Child Mode
• Portfolio charts: all-time and year-to-date ranges, and prices compared against bitcoin
• Seed phrase: copy it from the viewer (cleared from the clipboard after 30 seconds) and paste it when importing

KaChat 5.0

Calls arrive.

• Voice and video calls in 1:1 chats, over Nextcloud Talk, entirely inside the app
• Calls ring like phone calls, with Picture in Picture and switching from voice to video
• kachat.app links: every shared post or profile is a kachat.app link that previews everywhere and opens in KaChat
• KaPosts: edit your own post or comment for two hours after posting, or delete it
• Public Chats looks like your chat list, with rooms as rows

Website updates

• News: this page, with the latest KaChat version and the ones before it
• Feedback: a Feedback button at the top of every page. Write your feedback and it opens your email ready to send, with pictures or videos attached there if you like
• .kachat guide: what a name can be, what it costs, how claiming, renewal and grace work, and the marketplace
• Source code: the GitHub link on the home page lists every KaChat repository