Highlights

NKN 2.0 officially released
NKN hosts the Summer Web3.0 Technology webinar
NKN successfully completes comprehensive 6-month security audit
A brand-new version of nMobile is coming soon!

Mainnet technical development updates

Latest Mainnet Stats July 8 2020:

💻 22,905 full consensus nodes
🏭 150 ISPs or cloud providers
🌐 35 countries & regions

The latest stable release for mainnet is v2.0

(https://github.com/nknorg/nkn/releases )

NKN 2.0 officially released

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On June 30, 2020, NKN announced the launch of NKN 2.0. This iteration shows that NKN has stepped into a much broader field by surpassing the conventional definition of blockchain. As a full range provider of free and secure communication services, NKN 2.0 offers dataRide and nCDN as two essential communication platforms for enterprise and individual customers. The updated ecosystem included in NKN2.0 also grants an unprecedented boost to economic incentives and models. The NKN2.0 business software bundle includes all of the communication services that could run with one click, update and restore automatically combined with increasing economic incentives.

More information about the release:

https://blog.nkn.org/nkn-2-0-network-as-a-service-free-and-secure-connection-for-the-new-future/

Download and install NKN 2.0 Commercial package here. NKNx.org also added Fast Deploy support for NKN 2.0 Commercial.

Develop applications on NKN 2.0: https://www.nkn.org/developer/

NKN hosts the summer Web3.0 technology webinar

On June 30th, NKN team hosted and invited elite projects in the blockchain industry (Bluzelle, Filecoin, IoTeX, Storj, Theta) to hold the summer Web3.0 technology webinar together. At this specific webinar, Yilun Zhang, CTO of NKN also announced the launch of NKN2.0, presenting the future vision of the NKN team to become the no.1 platform for communications-related businesses and to use the platform to generate greater value for practical and monetary assets.

To watch the webinar again:

For background information about the webinar and speaker bio, visit:

https://blog.nkn.org/web-3-0-tech-talk-the-power-of-offchain/

NKN successfully completes comprehensive 6-month security audit

NKN contracted Chaitin Technology Co., Ltd. to conduct a comprehensive security audit for the NKN blockchain project from December 20, 2019 to May 16, 2020, including 2 rounds of security review and remediation verification.

With the successful completion of this audit, the security of the project is significantly improved and every functional module can be operated in a relatively safe and secure manner. This is a crucial milestone and prerequisite for NKN 2.0.

https://blog.nkn.org/nkn-successfully-complete-security-audit-of-mainnet/

A brand-new version of nMobile is coming soon!

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“A world near-at-hand, your connection safe and sound”

As one of the goals of NKN, our team and partners are committed to building pioneering communication applications, and nmobile falls to one of them. The updated version of nMobile, with its function renewed, has returned as a more secure, convenient and free IM and large file transfer application.

About NKN

NKN is the new kind of P2P network connectivity protocol & ecosystem powered by a novel public blockchain. We use economic incentives to motivate Internet users to share network connections and utilize unused bandwidth. NKN’s open, efficient, and robust networking infrastructure enables application developers to build the decentralized Internet so everyone can enjoy secure, low cost, and universally accessible connectivity.