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 […]
Today we are extremely excited to announce the on-schedule release of Testnet V0.3 Lemur, another key milestone in technical development by the NKN team. In this version, both functionality and performance of NKN’s system have been substantially strengthened . Lemur key highlights: Expanded testnet to over one thousand nodes globally and validated the core functions under […]
We’re excited to share that NKN just released and made open-source our Javascript Wallet this week. What is it? Essentially, the wallet is a JavaScript SDK that developers can use to get information, such as the balance of an NKN user’s wallet, and make payments/transfers to other accounts. It can also be used to build […]
The Origin of NKN Scalable MOCA Consensus Based on Cellular Automata Figure 2, simulated animation of the standard voter algorithm. Courtesy of https://math.berkeley.edu/~bgillesp/apps/voter Figure 3, simulated animation of the voter algorithm with double polling. Courtesy of https://math.berkeley.edu/~bgillesp/apps/voter Figure 4, simulated animation of the friend of a friend voter algorithm. Courtesy of https://math.berkeley.edu/~bgillesp/apps/voter Figure 8, simulation of […]
The ABC Blockchain Awakens Hackathon took place on August 4 and 5 in San Mateo, California. Blockchain Awakens Hackathon is hosted by ABC Blockchain Community (ABC), and co-hosted by CPC and DoraHacks, with support from DFG capital as the organizer, and organizations such as Binance Labs, Stanford Blockchain, Blockchain Founder Club, and Los Angeles Blockchain […]
On June 12, 2018, Dr. Yilun Zhang, CTO of NKN Labs, announced the opensource of NKN core, 20 days ahead of schedule at the CPC CryptoDevCon at Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. What is NKN open source? NKN open source means that all the source code of the software is open, a programmer […]
On July 28, 2018, NKN along with Quarkchain and ABC Blockchain Community organized a training workshop for BlockchainAwakens Hackathon in San Mateo, CA, which will take place on August 4 & 5. Some of the key takeaways of the workshop are: A basic understanding of how NKN testnet works How to set up the developing […]