Nockchain and Nockchain accessories.
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Nock is Proof-based money.
Nock is Proof-based money.
Proof-based money is programmable gold.
Proof-based money is private gold.
Proof-based money is backed by useful compute.
Proof-based money is powered by Nockchain.
Proof-based money is fair-launched with no pre-mine.
Proof-based money is a non-sovereign store of value.
Proof-based money is powered by the last frontier blockchain.
Proof-based money is private and scalable.
Proof-based money is secured by Proof of Useful Work.
Proof-based money is built on modern research.
Proof-based money has the timeless principles of Moneyness.
Proof-based money is a bet on Truth.
What is $NOCK?
Southwestern Pool Supply retweeted
Can a blockchain reward miners for more than one kind of verifiable computation?
Bitcoin gives every miner the same basic task: search for a valid hash. This provides a consistent measure of mining power because more hashpower means a greater chance of producing the next block. Hashing works well for consensus even though its output has little value outside the blockchain.
Nockchain replaces hash grinding as the costly mining work with generating proofs over NockVM computation. More proofpower gives a miner a greater chance of producing the next valid block, analogous to hashpower in Bitcoin.
Nockchain extends this model beyond a single kind of work. Its base ZKPoW network rewards NockVM proof generation. A separate AI PoW network lets inference providers reuse existing model computation while competing for PoW rewards. Each has its own difficulty and incentive structure.
For proof-based mining to work, proofpower has to remain tied to fresh computation. A miner's chance of winning should scale with effective proofpower without allowing previous work to be reused or amortized across new mining puzzles.
The protocol addresses this by cryptographically binding each puzzle to fresh inputs. Extending the model into a broader compute market introduces another requirement: there also has to be external demand for the computation being incentivized.
Southwestern Pool Supply retweeted
Building on Nockchain, for Nockchain: Chris (@theodorvaryag) made compilation 20× faster and cut memory from 11 GB to 4 so the next developer hits less friction than he did. The proof-first standard he works to is the one the network runs on.
Most Urbit contributors have entered through the front door: wanting a personal server they can trust to be theirs forever.
~navsul-pagrec (@theodorvaryag) wandered his way in through the side door:
"I work on a small deterministic machine, Nock, and my work pursues a very practical question: how do we make this useful and reduce the friction for new developers and users?"
While he's amenable to the idea of Urbit OS, his work on hoon compilers, performance optimizations, and memory arenas around nock come from working on @nockchain, rather than Arvo, Vere, or Gall apps.
Interested in learning more about the perspective of a guy who improved compilation speeds by 20x?
Check out our interview with him below 👇
urbit.org/blog/contributor-s…
Our roots.
People are paying attention to reduced instruction set computing (RISC) more these days. Maybe because they are interested in better per-watt performance, or perhaps for purposes of building ZK-provable circuits for general purpose computing.
And maybe it's worth it. @Apple Silicon (ARM) is great. Of course, things like @Intel's Panther Lake is breathing new life into x86, proving that efficiency isn't just about reduced instructions sets.
So why does Urbit use a reduced instruction set? We are far away from trying to do efficient bare metal CPUs. And we leave the ZK provable computation to @nockchain.
We are interested in reduced instruction sets for a rather unique reason: stability. And not just in the 'my computer doesn't crash' sort of way, but with the idea that all of general purpose computing needs a stable foundation upon which it can be built. A foundation upon which we can build a forever computer.
Nock is Urbit's RISC. 12 opcodes (~10% as many as RISC-V), narrowed down to the bare minimum ontop of which the whole of general purpose computing can be built. It has changed every so slightly over the years, but using Urbit's practice of 'kelvin versionining' (version numbers count down to 0, and then there are no more changes ever again), it is becoming more and more solid.
Curious to learn more about Nock, and a little homesick for Christmastime? Check out our "12 Days of Nockmas" block series, day 0 below: urbit.org/blog/nockmas-2025-…
Southwestern Pool Supply retweeted
the nockster by @SWPSCO ships with 4 dice to literally roll your own entropy if you want
Southwestern Pool Supply retweeted
The new AI Compute Network goes live on Friday (8/14) at Block 126,000. Code is being merged today.
Computers running AI inference will be able to mine $NOCK.
At launch:
- 30% of blocks mined will be AI.
- 70% of blocks mined will be ZK.
Please update your nodes before Friday!
Southwestern Pool Supply retweeted
Now live: $NOCK
@nockchain is a hard money protocol powered by useful Compute Networks. Mining the network verifies useful computation.
Start trading today → app.kraken.com/JDNW/NOCK
Here we go!
Coming soon: $NOCK
@nockchain is a hard money protocol powered by useful Compute Networks. Mining the network verifies useful compute instead of wasting energy.
Trading starts June 23
Get ready → kraken.com/sign-up
Southwestern Pool Supply retweeted
cross chain private swaps?
on a janky homebrewed ui?
yes, anon. you can otc $NOCK safe and secure now with atomic hash locked contracts
@nockchain @base
just completed a trustless crosschain HTLC swap from base USDC into native mainnet NOCK with @nocktoshi using only native @nockchain and @base primitives
