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$ckb #ckb #runckb $btc #btc #BitcoinHalving #BITCOIN @yokaiswapnervos @joy_protocol @NervosNetwork

[Jus7Degen @Jus7Degen]

$CKB — Nervos Network
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Most traders barely talk about $CKB anymore.
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But CKB is one of the more interesting bets on Bitcoin-native infrastructure.
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Nervos Network is a Proof-of-Work Layer 1 built around flexible smart contracts, UTXO architecture, and Bitcoin interoperability.
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Save this checklist:
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-> What it does
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CKB provides a programmable base layer where assets and applications can live while staying closer to Bitcoin-style architecture than most smart contract chains.
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-> Main narrative
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BitcoinFi.
Layer 1.
Proof-of-Work.
Interoperability.
Web3 Infrastructure.
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-> Why it matters
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Bitcoin has huge liquidity, but historically very limited programmability.
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Projects like Nervos are trying to unlock more utility around BTC without completely abandoning Bitcoin-style design.
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-> What makes it different
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CKB uses a UTXO-based model and Proof-of-Work, which makes its architecture feel much closer to Bitcoin than most EVM chains.
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Its RGB++ approach also gives it a direct angle on Bitcoin assets and cross-chain functionality.
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-> Bull case
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If BitcoinFi becomes a major narrative, infrastructure that helps BTC assets move into more programmable environments could get re-rated fast.
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That gives $CKB a very clear niche.
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-> Bear case
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Adoption.
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The technology is interesting, but CKB still needs more users, apps, liquidity, and real Bitcoin-related activity.
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-> What to watch
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RGB++ adoption.
Bitcoin asset activity.
Developer growth.
Wallet integrations.
DeFi liquidity.
Active addresses.
CKB token demand.
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My view:
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Narrative: 9/10
Utility: 8/10
Adoption: 7/10
Risk: Medium-High
Upside: High
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BitcoinFi.
Proof-of-Work.
Programmable BTC infrastructure.
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$CKB is an old project sitting inside a much newer narrative.
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If BitcoinFi keeps expanding, Nervos could be one of the sleeper infrastructure plays traders rediscover.
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Save this for your BitcoinFi watchlist.
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@VitalikButerin $CKB

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$CKB ❤️

[LuBu @ZhugeLyang]

POST QUANTUM PROJECTS LIST

▫️Partial, optional post-quantum (PQ) capabilities ▫️

Network - Token 👇

Algorand - ALGO
NEAR Protocol - NEAR
Nervos Network - CKB
Circle Arc - ARC (minted)

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▫️ Emerging PQ projects - with higher risk ▫️

Network - Token👇

Quantum Resistant Ledger - QRL
Abelian - ABEL
NaoX - NAORIS
Quantus - QTC

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▫️ Researching or developing PQ upgrades ▫️

Network - Token👇

Ethereum - ETH
Starknet - STRK
Solana - SOL
XRP Ledger - XRP
Tezos - XTZ
Stellar - XLM

Hedera - HBAR
Cardano - ADA
XDC Network - XDC
Optimism - OP
Zcash - ZEC
Bitcoin - BTC

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▫️ Upcoming worthy mention ▫️

@0xMiden mainnet is close
it's been on my radar for a long time
it will have PQ capabilities from day one

here's why:

- uses STARK proofs - designed for PQ security
- uses lattice Falcon 512 signatures to resist attacks
- uses Poseidon2 hashing for efficient verification inside its VM

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So yeah, plenty of projects are working toward post-quantum security, and the outlook isn’t as catastrophic as CT headlines made it sound two days ago.

As Vitalik said, there’s no reason to assume quantum doomsday is tomorrow, but the work needs to happen, NOW.

Also, if these efforts deliver, blockchains could end up better prepared than almost all of the other systems we rely on every day, so let's not shit our pants yet.

[Curious Engineer ++ @DivyankBhardwa2]

Time to enjoy the ride...
Next stop... 🌝🌝
$CKB
This cycle will be different. Utility coins like #CKB will prevail, no more meme no-utility https://t.co/ERncMVzVbP B.S.

[dondara @dondara05]

It’s just the beginning $ckb

[Rypto @RyptoCrypto]

Bitcoin has a problem $CKB solved years ago.

Satoshi’s coins. About 1.1 million bitcoin:native Quantum goes for those first. Nobody can make the call.

There is an incredibly hard problem coming for Bitcoin. CKB was built quantum-resistant ready from the ground up. Bitcoin wasn’t. So Bitcoin’s going to have to deal with a massive problem, and CKB simply won’t.

When quantum computers get powerful enough, and that’s years away, but it’s coming, they can crack the cryptography that protects certain Bitcoin wallets. Specifically the old ones, where the public key is sitting out in the open on the chain.

The single biggest target is Satoshi’s coins.
Satoshi is sitting on roughly 1.1 million Bitcoin. At today’s prices that’s about $92 billion. Those coins use the exact old-style wallets that quantum would go for first. Never moved, never touched. The biggest jackpot in crypto, just waiting there.
So what does Bitcoin do about it? I don’t know. I genuinely don’t know what the right answer is. Do you freeze Satoshi’s coins? Do you force everyone to move funds? Do you change Bitcoin itself?

Even if they somehow agreed on one of those, nobody’s actually in charge of Bitcoin. There’s no CEO, no board, no one who can just make the call. So even if everyone agreed on the fix, who leads it? Who actually makes it happen?

Whatever Bitcoin decides, it’s going to make a lot of people very, very angry. There’s no clean fix. This isn’t just a Bitcoin thing. Every chain that wants to go quantum-resistant is going to face this exact fight.

Every chain except the ones that were built for it from day one. Like $CKB.

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[Rypto @RyptoCrypto]

The people who build on $CKB actually love it.
A new orderbook DEX just landed on testnet. The opening line was “thrilling.”

Here’s something I keep noticing about CKB. The people who actually build on it genuinely love it.

Take this. A dev team called Lucent Labs just spun up an early version of a decentralised exchange on CKB, an orderbook DEX, live on testnet for people to test. It’s proper early days, a minimal proof-of-concept, but it’s a real working thing you can go and try.

It’s how they announced it that stood out to me. Their opening line was, “building in the open on Nervos is thrilling.” I am no coder, but thrilling is not a word I imagine when describing it. That dev team did, and they were genuinely buzzing about building on $CKB.

That’s the pattern. People who build on CKB, the ones who really understand the tech, keep coming away excited

[GetCode @IwanKaban]

Nervos $CKB will become fully Quantum resistant network .. 👀

[Chain INK @0xchainink]

$CKB : Review 📜

What if the signature scheme Vitalik Buterin spent this week arguing crypto should move toward had already been sitting on another chain for a year?

Meet Nervos CKB, a proof-of-work Layer 1 where SPHINCS+ hash-based locks have been live as an option since late 2025. Its RGB++ protocol binds Bitcoin UTXOs without a bridge, and its Fiber payment layer just cleared every milestone on its build.

Let's explore the chain that keeps being early. 👇

⚪ CKB at a Glance

Marketplace Insight: CKB occupies an awkward and interesting position. The engineering is genuinely ahead of the market's attention, with a Bitcoin-native asset protocol that needs no bridge, a payment-channel layer doing atomic swaps with Lightning, and post-quantum locks that were deployed before the current debate about them started.

The token tells a different story, down 69% on the year and sitting near a market cap most people would class as microcap. The all-time high from March 2021 is now a distant number. What the past month shows is a project shipping steadily on Fiber and tooling while the L1 itself stayed deliberately still.

⚪ Mission

Nervos CKB exists to be the layer that stores and verifies, not the layer that executes. The architecture separates concerns on purpose: CKB handles state, security, and settlement through its Cell Model, while computation happens above it. The longer-term bet is that Bitcoin will need an asset and payments layer that does not require trusting a bridge, and that a proof-of-work chain with a generalised UTXO design is the honest way to build one.

🔵 A Brief History

Nervos launched its mainnet in November 2019, raising around $72 million across its token sales, with a proof-of-work chain running the Eaglesong hash function and a 25-year primary issuance halving schedule. The Cell Model, a generalisation of Bitcoin's UTXO design capable of holding arbitrary state, was the core architectural claim from the start.
The chain spent its early years relatively quiet.

The turn came with RGB++, which binds asset issuance and ownership to Bitcoin UTXOs through isomorphic mapping, letting assets settle against Bitcoin without a bridge contract holding custody. That removed the single largest attack surface in cross-chain design, which matters given the project's own history.

The security record is where the honest reading gets uncomfortable. Force Bridge, the cross-chain bridge infrastructure, suffered exploits that cost the ecosystem real money, including a $3.9 million incident in June 2025 that drew a warning from DAXA, the South Korean exchange consortium. The response was architectural: RGB++ exists partly because bridges keep failing, and the project moved toward a design that does not need one.

CKB Edition Meepo activated on mainnet on 1 July 2025 at epoch 12,293, and remains the current ruleset. Late 2025 brought the quantum-resistant lock work, deploying an optional SPHINCS+ lock script on mainnet. Governance restructured when CKBA, a Swiss Verein, replaced the Foundation as the coordination body, with the chain itself remaining permissionless proof-of-work.

The past month has been a Fiber month. Version 0.9.1 landed on 11 September with force-close settlement fixes, on-chain TLC reconciliation using verified settlement snapshots, configurable peer-message rate limits, and improved funding-failure diagnostics. Version 0.10.0-rc1 followed on 25 September with backup-RPC authorization fixes. Fiber Studio filed its completion report with all milestones done and signed builds for all three desktop platforms.

Node v0.210.0 shipped 17 September carrying dependency and security updates with no protocol change, alongside CKB-VM v0.24.15 and a transaction-pool architecture review.

On the ecosystem side, the Gone in 60ms Fiber infrastructure hackathon returned results, with Fiber Forge taking a category and FiberNuts, a Cashu ecash implementation backed by Fiber RUSD, placing first in another. CKB Off-Chain Aba ran in Abia State, Nigeria on 3 October with sessions on the Cell Model, RGB++, and Fiber, and a Vietnam meetup followed on 8 October. Dular wrapped a Fiber payments pilot with around 30 users in Kenya.

Not everything went up. UTXOSwap announced it is shutting down on 10 to 11 October, with liquidity providers told to withdraw before 16:00 UTC on the 10th. CKBA does not operate it and only amplified the notice, but a DEX closing is a real signal about ecosystem depth.

🔵 Ecosystem Narrative

The through-line across the past month is Bitcoin-adjacent payments, built
out while the base layer stayed still.

➛ The Cell Model. A generalisation of Bitcoin's UTXO design where each cell holds arbitrary data and a lock script, giving the chain programmable state without abandoning the UTXO security model.

➛ RGB++. Asset issuance and ownership bound to Bitcoin UTXOs through isomorphic mapping, with no bridge contract and no wrapped token holding custody between the two chains.

➛ Fiber Network. Payment channels on CKB with atomic swaps into Bitcoin Lightning through the Cross-Chain Hub, shipped 18 August. Multi-tenant hosted LSP for mobile wallets, Loop In and Out, and full payment-hash settlement remain in progress.

➛ SPHINCS+ locks. Optional hash-based post-quantum lock scripts live on mainnet since the late 2025 quantum-resistant lock work, the same signature family now being pushed as the conservative path for Ethereum's lean roadmap.

➛ Mobile and tooling. Pocket Node Android v1.8.4 on Google Play with the iOS build verified on hardware at the M1 stage, Khie merged as a P2P wallet-connect protocol, Omiga v1.2.0 expanding on-chain asset management with CCC wallet integration, and CKB Script Port experimenting with moving synced script state between light clients.

➛ Real-world pilots. Dular's Kenya payments pilot, Blackbox POS adding a receive-only Bitcoin rail where keys never touch the device, and FreightOnNervos and RIVET demoed at the Nigeria event.

⚪ Token Utilities

$CKB is the state-rent asset of the network, which is an unusual design.

➛ State storage: holding one CKB entitles you to store one byte of state on chain, making the token a claim on blockspace rather than only a gas asset.

➛ Transaction fees: paid in CKB for computation and state changes.

➛ Nervos DAO: locking CKB earns secondary issuance back, offsetting the dilution that uncapped issuance would otherwise impose on holders.

➛ Mining: proof-of-work issuance through Eaglesong, on a 25-year primary halving schedule.

⚪ Key Features

➛ Proof-of-work Layer 1 with a generalised UTXO architecture through the Cell Model.

➛ RGB++ binds assets to Bitcoin UTXOs with no bridge and no wrapped token.

➛ Fiber brings payment channels with atomic swaps into Bitcoin Lightning.

➛ Optional SPHINCS+ hash-based locks live on mainnet since late 2025.

➛ State rent model where token holdings translate directly into storage rights.

➛ Nervos DAO lets holders neutralise secondary-issuance dilution by locking.

🔵 Meet the Team

Nervos runs on a three-person founding bench that has stayed intact since 2018, through the 2019 mainnet launch and the long stretch of low attention that followed. For a project this old, nobody leaving is itself a data point.

▶️ Core Members:

➛ Terry Tai - CEO & Director | Leads the company and sits on the board, having moved from the founding team into the executive seat. He has carried the project through the Foundation-to-CKBA restructure and the post-exploit pivot toward bridgeless architecture.

➛ Kevin Wang - Co-Founder | The most visible outward-facing voice on architecture, particularly on the case for separating storage and verification from execution, which is the thesis the entire Cell Model rests on.

➛ Daniel Lv - Co-Founder | Came out of the Ethereum ecosystem engineering side and has focused on the protocol and VM layer, the part of the stack that produced CKB-VM and the Cell Model implementation.

➛ CKBA (Common Knowledge Base Association) | The Swiss Verein that replaced the Foundation as the coordination body, which closed membership applications on 15 September with five applications queued for the General Assembly. It does not control the chain, which stays permissionless proof-of-work.

➛ Nervos DAO and Community Fund DAO | Ecosystem funding and governance, with a community dashboard launched in late September, FiberLatch Access completed and paid, and Vellum passed in the recent cycle.

🔵 Ratings

➛ Use Case: ★★★★ (4/5). CKB is solving a problem that keeps proving itself real. Bridges fail repeatedly, and RGB++ binds assets to Bitcoin UTXOs without one, which is a structurally better answer than most of the industry has. The Cell Model is a serious architectural idea, Fiber extends it into payment channels with working atomic swaps into Lightning, and the SPHINCS+ locks mean the post-quantum conversation reaching Ethereum this week is one CKB already acted on. The 1-point deduction is adoption. The pilots are small, with roughly 30 users in the Kenya test, UTXOSwap is closing this week, and a market cap near $62M after seven years on mainnet reflects a chain whose engineering has consistently outrun its usage.

➛ Tokenomics: ★★★⯪ (3.5/5). The state rent design is genuinely original, tying token holdings to storage rights so that demand for blockspace translates into demand for CKB rather than only into fee burn. The Nervos DAO gives holders a mechanism to lock and recapture secondary issuance, neutralising dilution for anyone willing to commit, and primary issuance follows a predictable 25-year halving schedule. The 1.5-point deduction is that issuance is uncapped, with roughly 49.7 billion CKB circulating and the dilution offset available only to holders who actively lock. The token is down about 69% year on year and hit an all-time low in August, which is a long way from the March 2021 high and indicates the state rent demand loop has not yet reached the scale the design assumes.

➛ Audits: ★★★★ (4/5). Nervos holds a verified CertiK Skynet Score of 85.77, grade A, with eight passed security checks against a single informational flag and zero warnings or alerts. The architecture adds genuine weight on its own: proof-of-work consensus, a UTXO-derived model carrying narrower state assumptions than account-based chains, optional SPHINCS+ post-quantum locks live on mainnet since late 2025, and an RGB++ design that removes bridge custody entirely rather than attempting to secure it. Node and light-client security hardening shipped in the September cycle alongside CKB-VM v0.24.15 and a transaction-pool architecture review. The 1-point deduction is the exploit record and the scope of the rating. Force Bridge suffered multiple incidents including a $3.9 million exploit in June 2025 that prompted a DAXA warning, and the Skynet listing carries a partial rating badge with governance left unscored, so the A grade rests on fewer completed dimensions than a full panel.

➛ Community: ★★★★ (4/5). The community is small but unusually durable, having stayed through a 69% annual drawdown and years of limited attention. The activity is real rather than performative: the Gone in 60ms hackathon produced working infrastructure including FiberNuts and Fiber Forge, Off-Chain events ran in Nigeria on 3 October and Vietnam on 8 October with technical sessions rather than marketing, the Build on CKB campaign closed with 20 participants, and a Dev Rel AMA ran on 28 September with the CCC maintainer. Governance is participatory through the Community Fund DAO with a public dashboard. The 1-point deduction is scale and attrition, with twenty-participant campaigns and thirty-user pilots pointing to a committed core rather than a growing base, and UTXOSwap closing this week shows the ecosystem losing pieces as well as adding them.

🔵 Conclusion

CKB is a chain that keeps arriving early and waiting. The Cell Model predated the current interest in UTXO-based programmability, RGB++ solved bridgeless Bitcoin assets before the latest round of bridge failures, and the optional SPHINCS+ locks went live on mainnet roughly a year before the Ethereum research community started arguing publicly for hash-based signatures.

The engineering has been consistent and the past month shows it continuing, with Fiber reaching release-candidate stage, Fiber Studio completing every milestone with signed builds, and mobile tooling progressing on both Android and iOS.

The gap is everything downstream of the engineering. A $62M market cap after seven years on mainnet, an all-time low set in August, pilots measured in dozens of users, campaigns closing with twenty participants, and a DEX shutting down this week all describe a project whose technical output has not converted into usage or value. The Force Bridge exploit history sits on the record, and the Skynet rating that offsets it is still only partial.

What makes it worth watching is the specificity of the bet. If Bitcoin needs an asset layer that does not require trusting a bridge, and if the post-quantum conversation now reaching Ethereum pushes chains toward hash-based signatures, CKB has already built both.

Being right early only counts if the market eventually arrives, and that is the thing CKB has been waiting on for seven years.

[FitXoge @fitcryptobit]

$CKB @NervosNetwork is a decentralized public blockchain for universal truth, able to speak to any language.

Common knowledge ftw!

#NervosNetwork #CKB @ckba_build

[Charlie Kong Belbouille @Charlie_Kong_B]

$CKB ♥️♥️♥️
#1501
#ckb

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@dondara05 💯💯

[dondara @dondara05]

In 7 years of being in crypto I don’t think I’ve seen so many active builders on nervos network, glad to see devs are paying attention to a tech that’s been ahead of its time. $ckb bitcoin:native

[Rypto @RyptoCrypto]

I need the $CKB community’s help here.

PSBerlin floated an idea that tackles one of CKB’s real weak spots.

Someone in the CKB community, PSBerlin, just floated a clever idea that tackles one of CKB’s real weak spots. Let me know what you think.

Running a $CKB node costs money. The miners get paid, that’s how proof-of-work works, they earn rewards for securing the chain. But there’s another type of node, full nodes.

These are the ones that just validate transactions and keep the network running and accessible. They don’t earn anything. So the roughly 576 of them keeping CKB running right now are basically run out of goodwill, by altruists, foundations and exchanges.

The whole network’s decentralisation depends on charity, and that might not be sustainable long-term.
So here’s the idea. What if nodes could earn money by running optional extra services for apps? No changes to CKB itself needed. Nodes offer useful services and apps pay to use them.

Things like watching the chain for events and sending alerts, or storing app data like a decentralised Dropbox, or running oracles that fetch outside data. Each node picks which services it wants to run, and each app picks which nodes to pay.

If those 576 nodes could each earn, say, a few hundred to a thousand dollars a month doing this, then running a node stops being an act of charity and becomes a proper little business. That changes everything. People would spin up nodes because it’s actually profitable, especially in cheaper parts of the world. More nodes means a more secure, more decentralised network. As PSBerlin puts it, decentralisation becomes a rational business decision, not an ideological commitment.

They’ve even built a small example of it already, to prove the economics can work.
To be clear, this is an idea being floated, not something CKB’s building. PSBerlin’s putting it out there to see what the community thinks. Honestly? It’s the right problem to be thinking about. That’s a good sign for any ecosystem, people proposing smart solutions

[Mr Altcoin officiel @Zouzoua_1er]

Nervos CKB will have a halving event every 4 years according to its mechanism, at which time the base issuance rewards will be halved

RT

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@gandreou007 $ckb

[Mr Altcoin officiel @Zouzoua_1er]

Woooh 🔥 Nouvelle : $CKB l'un des projets cryptographie les plus prometteurs après le $BTC voyons voir ce qui arrivera dans les temps qui viendront. https://t.co/0qt89hVsn2

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@Core_002 $CKB

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@CadeONeill $CKB

[Curious Engineer ++ @DivyankBhardwa2]

Stage is all set for $CKB
#CKB will take off during this cycle’s AI agent narrative!