The Compute Network framework on @Nockchain uses ZKPs to allow multiple Proof of Work Computation Protocols to merge-mine the same chain.
More Compute Networks = more miners, more security, and more use cases.
Each Compute Network on @Nockchain is its own ZK-proven Proof of Useful Work puzzle.
Each Compute Network secures the network and subsidizes useful economic activity.
All Proof of Useful Work networks will live on @Nockchain.
Nockchain’s AI Compute Network upgrade is in the process of being audited.
Timeline for the upgrade going live is early July.
The new Proof of Useful Work matrix multiplication puzzle is functionally complete, and already open-source.
Miners, get ready.
Iris Wallet v1.2.4 is live 🌼
🌉 Bridge Max — bridge your entire balance in one tap. Iris reserves the network fee and works out the largest you can send. No more guessing.
🔧 Migration fix — v0 → v1 upgrades now work for everyone.
⚡ Faster import — balance loads instantly, the rest syncs in the background.
Your wallet updates to v1.2.4 automatically. Enjoy and tell us what you'd like to see next 🙂
The $NOCK supply is verifiable and transparent.
We’re focused on incentivizing computers to do useful work verified with ZKPs, starting with AI inference.
We’re committed to building privacy primitives down the line, and intend to do so carefully and conservatively.
The first privacy primitives on Nockchain will be at the application layer, and will be heavily audited.
1/ Announcing Networking Gen2: a ground-up upgrade to how Nockchain nodes talk to each other.
Faster sync, fewer round-trips, and a network that gets out of its own way.
Best part: it's fully backward-compatible. Gen1 stays working, nodes negotiate Gen2 only when both sides support it.
No consensus change. Operators upgrade on their own schedule.
The chain was already fast. Nous makes the network keep up.
First, we subsidized and incentivized ZKPs.
Now, we’ve got plenty of fast, cheap ZKPs.
Next, we use ZKPs to make verifiable Puzzles of many kinds of compute.
Incentivize Compute with Puzzles. Create Compute Markets.
Nock nock.
The high end of our estimate was 2k peers. We got more than 10k.
I’m going to sleep, engineers are still working, nothing serious seems to be wrong, we think just networking issues from many more peers than we were expecting.
But hey, it’s begun! Formal writeup of launch after we get some more stability, on here and email newsletter. Probably tomorrow.