BlockGroup, parent company of BlockVC, created a $200M crypto M&A fund in December 2018. The new crypto fund focuses on the secondary market: especially acquisition as well as strategic follow-up investment in high quality blockchain projects. These additional investment will strengthen the operation capital of the project team. In addition, BlockGroup partner with the project […]

June 17th, 2019 Why Since its debut in late August 2018, our public testnet has grown to over 12,000 nodes globally in June, 2019. That is more than Bitcoin or Ethereum in terms of full consensus nodes. Thanks to our community for supporting the new kind of Internet, making it stable, performant, and secure. Since […]

Summary NEP-5 to ERC-20 swap tool will be open May’25 — June’15, 2019. After which, it will be closed forever. We strongly encourage you to swap as early as possible, since this is the last window. Testnet (tNKN) to ERC-20 swap tool will be open starting Monday June’17, 2019. ERC-20 to mainnet swap tool (two-way) will be […]

work in progress, revised on 2019–03–31 We are all eagerly anticipating NKN’s mainnet V1.0 release scheduled for June 2019, so here is a short summary of how we plan to transition from today’s testnet to mainnet for a smooth launch. And it has implications for all of you: token holders, miners, and community developers. So […]

Dear NKN token holders, We have successfully completed the vast majority of the NKN token swap from NEP-5 to ERC-20. At the time of this announcement, 95.5% of NKN circulating supply has been swapped. (334,222,240 out of 350,000,000). In addition, the NEP-5 smart contract is now locked preventing any further token transfers or trades. This […]

Dear NKN token owners, it is approaching the final days of NKN token swap from NEP-5 to ERC-20 (Deadline: March 28th, 2019, 23:59 UTC). And it is very important to read on for your own interest. Why? Even though the bulk of circulating NKN tokens have been successfully swapped (over 223 Million out of 350 […]