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 […]

Highlights Mainnet v0.9 Beluga released NKN Forges Partnership with Three Leading Cloud Platforms AWS Marketplace launches 1-click NKN full node Token swap to ERC-20 successfully completed with 95.5% ratio NKN Mainnet launch plan unveiled NKN past present and future: UZI interviews NKN co-founder Community develops WiFi firmware with NKN and GUI R&D highlights Github source […]

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 […]

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 […]

NKN is excited to announce the immediate availability of its NKN 1-click Full Node on Google Cloud Marketplace. In addition, NKN has joined the Google Cloud Technology Partner program. NKN is the only full node blockchain software approved by Google Cloud and officially supported by the project team. https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/nkn-public/nkn-full-node NKN nodes are the backbone of […]

Highlights NKN Testnet V0.8 Released: fully decentralized and unstoppable One-Click NKN Full Node launches on DigitalOcean Interview with NKN advisor Stephen Wolfram and CTO Yilun Zhang Testnet Reaches over 7,000 Nodes Korean Language Website and Introduction Deck Launched NKN South America / Africa Challenge: connecting the Next Billion Users Tech Talk: “Scaling to 1 million+ […]

Connecting the Next Billion Users (NBU), lighting up NKN shared network one country at a time. Rules Run an NKN node in one of the qualifying countries and verify it’s working correctly, e.g. using the community made https://nknx.org node manager (requires logging in) or the official testnet explorer https://testnet.nkn.org/. Fill in this Google Form (https://goo.gl/forms/Xm0VbpOgjiNcdbYG2) […]