A server-less, secure and private chat for individuals and groups “NKN Splashing” by Tom Introduction D-Chat is one of the highlights of NKN consumer applications, developed by community developer Lynn. It utilizes and showcases a wide spectrum of NKN’s platform products and SDKs, including: Use NKN’s decentralized PubSub service to deliver group messages Use Multi-client SDK […]
October 23rd, 2019, Beijing China. NKN founder & CEO Yanbo Li, co-founder and CTO Yilun Zhang, gave two technical talks on “High-performane Scalable Blockchain and Its Applications in Network” at prestigious Tsinghua University, in collaboration with two university blockchain clubs (BATS and TIBA). We had a good participation from students and university staff, as well […]
by NKN CTO Yilun Zhang We released a new version v1.1.1-beta. This is a major release that introduced various features, security updates, and performance optimization. Feature highlights: Database: Implement state pruning that can greatly reduce ChainDB size by removing unused states. State pruning is still be beta phase and is not enabled by default. You […]
by Yilun Zhang, CTO of nkn.org (first published on Hacker Noon) I use ssh everyday and I love it, but I have to admit that ssh is not ideal in terms of security and convenience. Here are the reasons: The security of ssh relies on the assumption that a user knows the public key of […]
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 […]
We released a new version v1.1-beta. Version 1.1 is a major release that introduced web GUI dashboard, new crypto puzzle mechanism, new txn type, and a lot performance optimization. Feature highlights: Add a web-based GUI dashboard that can be used to show node status and change configurations. By default the dashboard can be accessed from […]
Captain Narwhal’s choices in transmitting data over NKN Captain Narwhal Planet Hopping Hyperdrive (image by Izmo) Imagine you are Captain Narwhal of the Millennium Falcon starship, and need to go from Earth to Endor. You have two choices: “Planet hopping”: go via moon to Mars, from Mars to Tatooin, through Hoth and Naboo, and then land […]