“Let me be explicit: the current NKN node code, without any modification, will work with one billion full nodes without any problem.” Quote from latest interview with NKN.ORG CTO Yilun Zhang by @ggmesh for @DailyChainNews Full interview here, a must read for technology enthusiasts: https://thedailychain.com/billions-of-nkn-nodes-with-dr-zhang/
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]