Team NKN is a group of engineers with many years of experience in networking software and blockchain technology who dedicate themselves to disrupting the Internet. New Kind of Network was founded by Yanbo Li, Bruce Li and Yilun Zhang, who shares the same vision and ambition of building the largest blockchain in the world for sharing Internet connectivity by anyone in our planet earth.

In March 2018, Whitfield Diffie, inventor of public key cryptography, joined the team as advisor.[1] Later in March 2019, the team welcomed Stephen Wolfram, Founder and CEO of wolfram Research and bestselling author of A New Kind of Science, as its advisor.[2][3][4]

New Kind of Network also attracted its own community starting from the inception of the project, with a group of experienced technology geeks and enthusiasts who share the same vision of building a better Internet for all of us.