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$Auki

[STILL K.A.P.O @KAPOTHEGOAT01]

“What does $NOCK have to do with AI?”

Build permissionless AI compute networks on top of their zkPoW base.

Miners contribute GPUs to verifiable AI tasks (e.g., inference), earn, and produce useful output that’s cryptographically proven.

Nockchain is launching an AI Compute Network upgrade (target early July) with a matrix multiplication PoUW puzzle. Which is open-source, supports high-end GPUs like RTX 5090/4090.

It starts with merge-mining compatibility to bootstrap liquidity/compute.

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@astral_eth_92 🤝💥

[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.

[STILL K.A.P.O @KAPOTHEGOAT01]

$NOCK $NOCK

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[STILL K.A.P.O @KAPOTHEGOAT01]

$NOCK is CHANGING THE GAME for Compute Markets

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[Auki @Auki]

Experimenting with a camera-based scanner to map products instead of using a separate barcode scanner.

It's a much more streamlined UX, and every bit of time saved during the setup process multiplies as we scale up.

[STILL K.A.P.O @KAPOTHEGOAT01]

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[STILL K.A.P.O @KAPOTHEGOAT01]

For context: $NOCK hit $500M mcap when the miner emissions were 5x higher

This is still early for me. Once we hit price discovery above $500M+ that’s when the fireworks start

Also the fundamentals are MUCH STRONGER and AI compute markets using zK tech go live soon

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[STILL K.A.P.O @KAPOTHEGOAT01]

Not only early $TAO whales but traders and investors with long-term time frame who are not deterred by “market conditions” are accumulating $NOCK

I have always said — outliers will always move and pump in ANY market regardless of market conditions

Most money is made in fear/disinterest environments and remaining patient

[Auki @Auki]

Our SDK rewrite is underway and already deployed on a number of robots/devices. It's getting much easier for any robot, phone, glasses, or browser to connect to the real world web.

We're building it in public. It's open source with a public kanban: https://t.co/gYziHe36JN

[Shero @sopranos_ak]

When the Prime Minister of Sweden 🇸🇪 gets a live demo of @Auki’s AI tools at a local supermarket, you know the future is already here.

The retail sector is one of the world’s largest employers, with people across many different roles where support tools can make a real difference.

Giving workers a personal AI assistant brings out the best in people and reduces moments of frustration and confusion.

What’s visible today is only a fraction of what $AUKI is building behind the scenes.

Just watch.

[Nils @broodsugar]

Modernizing every part of the supply chain is a national interest.

For everyday consumers, the supply chain ends in the grocery store.

In this picture, the @SwedishPM gets a demonstration of @Auki’s AI copilot @CactusXR for retail by store owner Johan Westlund, ICA Kvantum Värnamo.

Sweden has always been a leader in innovation and technological adoption.

[Nils @broodsugar]

Det är i nationens intresse att modernisera hela försörjningskedjan, och det är just i dagligvaruhandeln där medborgarnas liv berörs mest direkt.

Här visas @Auki’s AI för handlare och konsumenter upp för @SwedishPM av Johan Westlund, ICA Kvantum Värnamo.

Sverige har alltid varit en ledande innovatör och i framkanten av teknikanvändning. Jag och många av mina svenska kollegor växte upp med förmånlig access till det allra senaste, just eftersom Sverige alltid haft en stark framtidstro.

Vi är som bäst när vi tror på framtiden. Låt oss aldrig bli för bekväma i vardagen - det är inte svenskt.

[Moon or Dust ᛗ @mtheright]

@flowofalpha $nock will fly hard. Technically how crypto is meant to be

[alpha capiτal @flowofalpha]

$TAO and $NOCK are the new BTC and ETH.

[Auki @Auki]

Couple more shots of the Swedish PM visiting ICA and getting a @CactusXR demo. 🇸🇪

[Plata @platacrypto]

Still around 100m MC, DCG and other titans invested, below the price Cobie invested and folks already talking again about "fuck i missed it."

Can't make up the trading mentality of some folks 🥱

$NOCK is going to billions and i have no doubt about it. That it is already up a bit from the bottom, doesn't matter the slightest.

In trading you should never try to catch the perfect bottom. Build conviction and see the opportunity.

[Grant @Grantblocmates]

saylor sold?

I wasn’t aware, too busy buying the new ai bitcoin

[Plata @platacrypto]

They were doubting $NOCK

https://t.co/rmZoDUPtJd

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the train is picking up speed

[roberto 🕹️ @bertobags]

quietly noting that $nock now appears on @DCGco’s official portfolio page.

first investment listed as 2025.

https://t.co/oJ8xPzX59B

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[Plata @platacrypto]

https://t.co/nNIcQZ347g