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.
The $NOCK supply is verifiable and transparent.
We’re focused on incentivizing computers to do useful work verified with ZKPs, starting with AI inference.
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.
For miners: mining stops being a cost center and becomes a second revenue stream on existing workloads.
For everyone else: Nockchain will be the home for liquid compute markets.