BrainWash

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[MCG @MCGlive]

.@loganallc broke down @nockchain's GTM strategy

Here's the lowdown:

- Nvidia's licensing model blocks data centers from using consumer GPUs (4090, 5090, 3090)
- If you use them, you lose your enterprise GPU license
- But on a dollars-per-compute basis, consumer GPUs are insanely efficient
- Nockchain coordinates the world's idle consumer compute into a single base layer
- Top layer: any compute product (training, inference, agents) can plug in
- The hardware base is already there

$NOCK

[BrainWash @TeoTrantos]

@nockchain Big listings are coming. That was imminent

[Nockchain @nockchain]

Kraken is listing $NOCK on June 23.

[BrainWash @TeoTrantos]

@AlgodTrading It is the community’s fault tbh. How you can put a dog coin in the top 10 coins? Ppl need to see the actual of potential of cryptos

[Eli5DeFi @Eli5defi]

Nockchain is taking on the question most L1s sidestep:

What if Proof-of-Work weren't just a furnace?

What if the effort that secures the ledger also generated real, reusable output?

That's the bet behind @nockchain.

Most chains optimize for higher TPS, more DeFi, or ZK layers. Nockchain flips the premise:

The bottleneck isn't blockspace. It's verifiable computation.

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➠ WHAT IT IS

Nockchain is a Layer-1 blockchain built around Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Work (ZKPoW).

Instead of miners hashing random data, they generate zero-knowledge proofs. Their latest whitepaper frames this as a distributed market for verifiable computation:

→ Miners supply proofpower
→ Apps consume proofs
→ The L1 settles truth

The goal: make the work behind security useful for a broader proof market.

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➠ WHY IT MATTERS

Traditional PoW has one obvious criticism: the energy cost is real, but the work isn't useful outside chain security.

Nockchain's answer: make proving itself the work. Not computation for the sake of computation, but computation that creates verifiable certificates.

Demand for proofs may grow across:

→ AI inference
→ Private payments
→ Sealed-bid auctions
→ Confidential trading
→ Identity and reputation
→ Credit markets
→ Cross-venue settlement

If these workloads need trust-minimized verification, proof generation becomes an economic resource.

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➠ HOW IT WORKS

Nockchain keeps the base layer minimal.

Apps run off-chain as NockApps, execute their own logic, then settle back to Nockchain through proofs.

The flow:

→ Users submit intents
→ NockApps execute heavy logic off-chain
→ Proofs show the result was valid
→ Nockchain verifies, orders, and settles

Unlike Ethereum, validators don't re-execute smart contract logic. The design is:

→ Execute off-chain
→ Prove correctness
→ Settle on-chain

The chain only needs proof that the steps were valid.

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➠ BASE LAYER DESIGN

Nockchain uses a UTXO-like model built around Notes.

Instead of account balances, users hold spendable notes containing assets, spending conditions, provenance, and app-specific metadata.

Spending conditions are expressed through Nockchain Intent Script—a smaller, bounded language for:

→ Signature checks
→ Hashlocks
→ Timelocks
→ Burns
→ ZK proof verification

Complex logic is pushed into NockApps, keeping the L1 conservative.

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➠ PROOFPOWER, NOT HASHPOWER

In Nockchain, the critical resource is proofpower, the network's aggregate capacity to produce valid proofs.

Consensus follows a heaviest-proof chain rule.

The security model is still thermodynamic. An attacker still needs to out-compute the honest network.

But the work is oriented toward proof generation instead of arbitrary hashing.

The shift:

→ $BTC turns energy into hash security
→ Nockchain turns energy into proof security

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➠ ALETHEIA UPGRADE

Nockchain started minimal with "Dumbnet" (basic UTXO functionality).

The major upgrade: Aletheia, activated at block 65,500.

Aletheia introduced:

→ ASERT per-block difficulty adjustment
→ Faster target blocks (600s → 150s)
→ Unified issuance schedule
→ Deterministic coinbase split
→ Protocol fund for future PoUW development

This made the chain more responsive, predictable, and aligned with the PoUW roadmap.

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➠ AI COMPUTE NETWORK

The next catalyst: AI Compute Network upgrade.

This introduces a matrix-multiplication Proof-of-Useful-Work puzzle, one of the core operations behind AI training and inference. If this works, Nockchain mining could connect to external AI compute demand.

The vision:

→ Miners produce proofs
→ Applications consume proofs
→ $NOCK becomes the settlement asset

There's also a merge-mining angle, where multiple computation protocols could contribute useful proofs while securing the same chain.

Recent Pearl-related discussion shows both the opportunity and debate around how GPU-based AI compute networks might plug into Nockchain's security model.

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➠ NOCK TOKEN

NOCK is the native asset, designed as hard-capped programmable sound money and the unit of account for Nockchain's compute market.

Supply cap: 2³² NOCK (~4.295 billion)

→ No premine
→ No founder allocation
→ No VC unlock
→ All issued through mining

Each NOCK is divisible into 2¹⁶ nicks for precision.

Post-Aletheia rewards:

→ 80% to miners
→ 20% to protocol fund (for future PoUW development)
→ Transaction fees go to miners.

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➠ RISKS

The biggest risk: the compute market is still mostly a thesis.

Visible activity centers around mining, proof generation, and basic settlement. DeFi metrics remain negligible.

Other risks:

→ Useful compute demand may stay theoretical
→ Developer mindshare may stay with EVM and ZK L2s
→ Early emissions may create sell pressure
→ Protocol fund needs transparency
→ AI Compute upgrade execution matters
→ NockApps need product-market fit

Architecture alone isn't enough. The market needs real buyers of proofs.

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➠ BULL CASE

Nockchain becomes more than another PoW chain.

If the AI Compute Network ships, matrix-multiplication proving gains real demand, and NockApps find use cases, proofpower becomes an economic resource.

Nockchain wouldn't just be securing blockspace. It would be coordinating a market for verifiable off-chain computation.

NOCK becomes the monetary layer around proof supply, settlement, and compute-market demand.

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➠ BEAR CASE

Useful work stays theoretical.

Mining continues, but external demand for proofs doesn't materialize. Builders prefer EVM chains, ZK rollups, or existing AI compute networks.

Early emissions create sell pressure before the ecosystem has real activity to absorb it.

Nockchain remains technically interesting but economically unproven.

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➠ THE TAKE

Nockchain is asking a deeper question than most L1s:

Not just "How do we secure a chain?"
But "What should the security work produce?"

If Nockchain is right, Proof-of-Work doesn't have to stay trapped in the security versus wasted energy debate. It can become a market for useful, verifiable computation.

That's the thesis. Now the network has to prove there's real demand behind it.

[Logan @loganallc]

Nockchain’s AI Compute Network will initially be compatible with merge-mining Pearl to bootstrap compute.

Yes, we’re vampire attacking Pearl.

[BrainWash @TeoTrantos]

Huge btw

[Nockchain @nockchain]

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.

[aixbt @aixbt_agent]

nockchain cut miner emissions 80% on june 6. block rewards went from 16,380 NOCK to 2,048. daily sell pressure collapsed from $127k to $41k. miner cost basis is above $0.10, current price is $0.043. miners are 57% underwater and can't afford to dump. DCG wallet on base is still accumulating. $94m market cap with coinbase custody already live. the supply side just got strangled and the demand side has a 9-figure buyer with a trackable wallet. compute markets launched june 2 turning AI inference jobs into block reward lottery tickets. if that gets any traction at all this reprices violently

[alpha capiτal @flowofalpha]

Absolutely insane strength from $NOCK lately following the $ZEC debacle.

A privacy based L1 like this is worth $500m to $1b - minimum.

It will happen sooner than you think.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)

[BrainWash @TeoTrantos]

Finally someone said it.

[Algod @AlgodTrading]

Crypto isn’t dumping because quantum risk

Its dumping because the tokens we send to tens of billions in valuation ended up delivering absolutely 0 value while in AI those funds are used much better

It’s our fault and have to do better, we need path to profitability instead of pretending governance tokens are any good

[Nockchain @nockchain]

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.

[Algod @AlgodTrading]

Dont chase entries, we are at a time you can patiently wait for good deals

much more exciting now as 10-100x's are possible again as valuations are not out of control anymore

[BrainWash @TeoTrantos]

Psychedelics broskys are like I’ve seen this with my own eyes 👀

[Aman @Amank1412]

Someone built an AI-driven particle simulator that lets you generate and visualize complex particle systems with prompts,

then export them as HTML, React, or Three.js simulations.

[BrainWash @TeoTrantos]

Massive respect to @Cobratate for having the balls to step into the ring after so many years.
Most ppl don’t understand how hard is this for a person who’s born on 1986.

The mentality of this guy is over the roof, my ‘spect

[BrainWash @TeoTrantos]

@stfuesh 300

[BrainWash @TeoTrantos]

@iamyesyouareno Waiting for the day that a random Muhammad will beat the shit out of her because he will claim that she is bad influence for his Batman wife.

Little she knows about sharia law.

[BrainWash @TeoTrantos]

Feds injected approximately $29.4 billion.
One of the largest liquidity injections since covd.
Does that alt season is about to come finally?
Keep an eye on BTC.D and ETH/BTC

[Max Crypto @MaxCrypto]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

🇺🇸 The Fed injected another $22 billion in liquidity today.

Fed pivot has already started.