What’s new? Our 1-click NKN node image has now been updated for mainnet and approved by all three leading cloud platforms DigitalOcean, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Service. Some of the highlights of this version: Upgraded for Mainnet Improved security: mandate one unique wallet per node. it is no longer possible to take a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
San Mateo, CA, December 17th, 2018 NKN announces Dr. Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, has joined the NKN project as technical advisor. Wolfram will provide technical guidance and entrepreneurial mentorship to the NKN project. Inspired by Wolfram’s seminal book A New Kind of Science (often dubbed “NKS”), the founders of NKN aspire […]