The joint effort marks a step forward in the development and interoperability of two emerging technological innovations, blockchain and edge computing, NKN said.

The Narwhal Mainnet is NKN’s first step to create the world’s largest permissionless public blockchain by number of nodes. The testnet already registered 13,000 full consensus nodes, and now the project hopes to scale it up to “millions if not trillions of nodes.

At the same time China Mobile was rolling out its 5G service, NKN began engaging with one of the largest Video Service Providers in China that have been experiencing phenomenal customer growth and looking for new ways to meet the growing demand.

Let me be explicit: the current NKN node code, without any modification, will work with one billion full nodes without any problem.