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 […]
NKN testnet v0.5 Koala is officially released today, marking the completion of another key milestone on our roadmap. Since the v0.3 Lemur release two months ago, NKN development team have made the following major achievements: Developed and improved the NKN core software for quality and scalability: re-wrote the entire network layer which is released as […]
a fast, scalable, and easy-to-use p2p overlay network stack (used by NKN) https://github.com/nknorg/nnet nnet is a fast, scalable, and easy-to-use network stack for decentralized and distributed systems. This is one of the four core components of NKN, now modularized and released as a separate top level repository. It handles message delivery, topology maintenance, etc in […]
Highlights: Telecom Infra Project (TIP) is a collaborative telecom community founded by Facebook, together with leading telecom operators, equipment vendors and research institutes. The TIP Summit is the ultimate annual conference to showcase the latest solutions and products. NKN is a Silver Sponsor of the TIP Summit 2018 London. NKN showcases its overall technology vision, […]
Summary: During month-long CryptoBazar Hackathon in September, NKN attracted 157 developers who produced several high quality applications based on the NKN SDK. The top prize winner SpaceCats by Nikolay Perevozchikov’s team is a 3D multiplayer game with amazing audio and video effects, and real-time playability. We would also like to congratulate 2nd place Danil Lykov […]
Portal Network x NKN partnership Portal Network and NKN (New Kind of Network) have signed a strategic partnership agreement to build the NKN Name Service (NKN). This is our dedication to enhance and provide a seamless blockchain environment for NKN users. About this Partnership Portal Network has been constantly working on Blockchain Name Services (BNS) […]
Blockchain technology has been discussed heatedly over the past several months.The attention of various industries on how to integrate with blockchain has shown an explosive growth trend in 2018. Some scholars believe that it is another disruptive innovation following the 20-year cycle of the mobile Internet outbreak. Blockchain technology will completely reshape human social activities […]
5G is emerging in the telecommunication infrastructure. Its emergence will gradually develop many technical ideas that were previously impossible to realize, including the impact of blockchain on the real economy. As a public blockchain based on decentralized communication, NKN can influence and promote communication development in the 5G era from many aspects. With integration with […]
The first Bitrun Hackathon has been held from 31st August to 2nd September in Hangzhou, China, hosted by Bitrun Blockchain Community. This three-day-hackathon attracted lots of domestic talents to join, including students mostly from top universities in China such as Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Fudan University, and Zhejiang University. They were competing for fame and […]