NKN client enables free end to end data transmission in a purely decentralized way. Prior to NKN, if a sender client (a mobile app, for example) wants to send some data to a receiver client, the receiver needs to be publicly accessible, which is not practical for consumer applications, or they have to be both […]
V0.1, September 2019 edition Welcome newcomers Mining can sound daunting for newcomers, especially when you hear about the expensive ASIC based Bitcoin mining machines or very high end cloud servers needed for other leading blockchain projects. Fear no more, NKN mining software requires inexpensive computers (home routers or network hard disks, old laptops, and $5 […]
NKN client enables free end to end data transmission in a purely decentralized way. Prior to NKN, if a sender client (a mobile app, for example) wants to send some data to a receiver client, the receiver needs to be publicly accessible, which is not practical for consumer applications, or they have to be both […]
In recent weeks, we have discussed about our roadmap beyond mainnet and the two flagship products (nCDN, PubSub) we are launching. Here is an overview of how everything fit in the NKN system architecture, and how can applications utilize NKN network. There are six layers in NKN’s system architecture, and if we start from bottom […]
by Yilun Zhang, CTO of NKN.org What is Pub/Sub One basic function of NKN client (e.g. https://github.com/nknorg/nkn-client-js) is to provide a decentralized message system, which includes unicast, multicast and anycast. That’s pretty much enough if the message sender knows who are the receivers. However, in lots of common scenarios, the receiver should be logically decoupled from […]
March 31st, 2019; San Mateo, California Today we are thrilled to announce the general release of NKN Mainnet V0.9 Beluga. With the entire networking and consensus subsystems fully verified after Meerkat, this release focuses on ledger and security enhancements. V0.9 Beluga is the last major release before our final Mainnet v1.0 Narwhal, scheduled for June […]
NKN is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of its NKN 1-click Full Node on AWS Marketplace. AWS users no longer need to fiddle with complicated installation and environment configurations. Instead, users can deploy a fully installed and configured NKN Full Node Virtual Machine with just a few clicks from the AWS Marketplace. You can […]
Introduction NKN recently announced Stephen Wolfram – founder and CEO of Wolfram Research; author of A New Kind of Science (NKS); creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language – joined NKN as an advisor. Given Stephen’s pioneering discoveries using cellular automata, it was a natural fit that he become involved with NKN. We recently […]
January 18th, 2019 Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of Meerkat (NKN’s testnet v0.7) two weeks ahead of schedule. Meerkat is the final testnet release which includes a full featured testnet with complete implementation, strong security and enhanced performance, plus SDK release. This is a significant milestone in our technology development towards our […]