Albo retweeted
As we get closer to launch, we're making two important changes to our Layer 1: moving consensus from Proof of Authority (PoA) to Nominated Proof of Stake (NPoS), and adding support for RISC-V smart contracts.
PoA made sense throughout development. A known validator set gave us a predictable environment to develop, test, and iterate on the network.
For launch, we're securing the network with a more decentralized model.
Moving to NPoS replaces the reliance on a predefined set of authorities with a decentralized stake-backed validator and nominator system. Token holders can participate in securing the network by nominating validators, while validators are economically incentivized to operate correctly.
We're also introducing RISC-V smart contracts.
RISC-V makes smart contracts faster and more flexible by using an execution model that is much closer to how modern computers actually work. It also provides an architecture that's well suited to zero-knowledge (ZK) proving and other compute-intensive workloads.
This is a major improvement in how the network runs, how developers will build on it, and its decentralization.
Albo retweeted
nockscan.net is now nockscan.com
@LambdaColl's latest update includes a new domain, updated UX, and a dedicated Bridge UI.
The .net APIs sunset October 14, so update your integrations.
nockscan.net → nockscan.com
· improved UX
· dedicated Bridge UI
· and a lot more under the hood
The .net APIs remain available until October 14, 2026. After that, .com is the only endpoint.
Albo retweeted
Those who say Nock copied Pearl is pure comedy.
Let's look at the facts, backed by their own recent announcements:
1. Nock launched May 2025 with ZK-PoW as its native core. Pearl launched April 2026 with matmul.
2. Pearl's AMA tried to downplay ZK integration as a "potential application." But look at their official recent announcement : they are now formally collaborating with @attestable to integrate ZK proofs and provide "cryptographic assurance that an entity actually ran a computation."
3. This is a direct admission. Pearl's base consensus cannot verify computational provenance on its own. They are now bolting on the exact ZK proof-of-inference architecture that Nockchain built from day one.
4. And the technical evasion? The AMA couldn't provide a numeric prefill-vs-decode or dense-vs-MoE cost split. They claimed "effectively zero overhead" but dodged giving real numbers on the actual overhead.
The "copycat" narrative is dead. Nock didn't copy Pearl's matmul. Nock gave Pearl miners a way to merge-mine while it runs on real ZK-PoUW.
$PRL is adopting $NOCK architecture because their base layer can't do it. What will Pearl holders say now? What's the excuse?
We are cooperating with @prlnet to combine ZK proofs with proof of useful work: announcing a new scheme that is more flexible, more secure, and cheaper to use.
That removes any trust assumptions from pacing and allows verified compliance.
Albo retweeted
Study @nockchain
Ticker $NOCK . Good dip to get in
Nockchain runs useful PoW for ZK proofs plus AI matrix work, creating a decentralized market for verifiable compute that subsidizes NOCK issuance. This lines up with BlackRock's paper framing compute as a tokenizable asset class for agentic AI. DCG lists Nockchain in its portfolio as a verifiable compute protocol. Grayscale (DCG) has separately stressed AI compute bottlenecks. DCG and BlackRock both operate in digital assets and AI infrastructure with overlapping industry activity but no direct shared investment link.
Albo retweeted
Nock isn't your ordinary coin.
It's sound money that settles private and programmable transactions. Execution happens off-chain for speed; settlement lands on-chain for security.
And the mining? It's AI inference.
The network is currently generating AI compute at 40+ ExaMAC/s — roughly the equivalent of thousands of H100s running continuously.
It has also generated over 1 billion zero-knowledge proofs in under a year, making it the largest proving network in the world. A real, competitive market for proof generation, built from a cold start.
That's what "useful proof-of-work" actually means. While others are still fighting over hash puzzles, Nock is building the settlement layer for the entire compute economy.
$NOCK Szn.
There have been a wave of projects recently trying to present itself as a better version of base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722
I am not using any names because this tribalism of "my project is better than project XYZ" is ridiculous but I do like to point out a few things about this conversation i see repeatedly on X.
In the end, all of these "competitors" (they are really not) slightly differ and some are indeed technological novel BUT the bet is the same:
They all need inference demand to support token incentives. They are basically either turning block rewards into a floating discounts on compute or using tokens to bootstrap their GPU marketplace whose main pitch is cheaper inference.
Neither of them have anything to offer that serious and large scale AI operations would optimize for:
Model quality, latency, uptime and predictable cost.
Cheap compute already exists and adding a token does not create a moat.
@nockchain on the other hand has a much broader vision:
Money and computation can move under private and programmable rules and be settled with proofs.
Agents will in the future hold money, pay for compute or tools, settle conditional jobs without exposing the underlying strategy.
They will be able to commit funds to a job, release payment only when the predefined result is verified and prove that the transaction was valid without revealing the prompt, model, output or commercial relationships. For all of this, inference is one possible service but not the identity of the network.
That's why pure inference networks are imo too small minded and unlikely to be used in large scales without token speculation anyways.
They ask how to sell GPU time cheaper, base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722 asks how autonomous machines can own money, make contractual agreements and transact privately without the need of 3rd party services or any oversight.
Albo retweeted
There have been a wave of projects recently trying to present itself as a better version of base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722
I am not using any names because this tribalism of "my project is better than project XYZ" is ridiculous but I do like to point out a few things about this conversation i see repeatedly on X.
In the end, all of these "competitors" (they are really not) slightly differ and some are indeed technological novel BUT the bet is the same:
They all need inference demand to support token incentives. They are basically either turning block rewards into a floating discounts on compute or using tokens to bootstrap their GPU marketplace whose main pitch is cheaper inference.
Neither of them have anything to offer that serious and large scale AI operations would optimize for:
Model quality, latency, uptime and predictable cost.
Cheap compute already exists and adding a token does not create a moat.
@nockchain on the other hand has a much broader vision:
Money and computation can move under private and programmable rules and be settled with proofs.
Agents will in the future hold money, pay for compute or tools, settle conditional jobs without exposing the underlying strategy.
They will be able to commit funds to a job, release payment only when the predefined result is verified and prove that the transaction was valid without revealing the prompt, model, output or commercial relationships. For all of this, inference is one possible service but not the identity of the network.
That's why pure inference networks are imo too small minded and unlikely to be used in large scales without token speculation anyways.
They ask how to sell GPU time cheaper, base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722 asks how autonomous machines can own money, make contractual agreements and transact privately without the need of 3rd party services or any oversight.
Albo retweeted
RT if you believe $NOCK will surpass $1 in the next 12 months
And our head nigga in charge, Logan, will deliver
Albo retweeted
From an unpublished editorial in 2023.
“Designing Zero Knowledge systems Is fundamentally different from architecting and building traditional blockchains. New mental models for decentralized applications and environments are emerging, to the point where the concept of ‘blockchains’ may phase out all together. Zero Knowledge teams may find themselves ‘Thinking in Zero Knowledge’ rather than integrating provable computing technology to existing architectures and ideas. Once this happens, an inflection point in the industry will cause a Cambrian Explosion of Zero Knowledge Networks to appear, networks with drastically different functionality that support greater adoption, connectivity, and usability.
Popular first generation blockchains such as Zcash leveraged early versions of zero knowledge technology to make the network private and secure. Future iterations, such as Mina’s ‘Succinct Blockchain’, leveraged a property called ‘recursion’ that allowed for a consistent block size and better accessibility for small validators. While this implementation of zero knowledge was not private by default, it leveraged properties of zero knowledge for scaling and security.
The paradox is that previous generations of blockchains will bootstrap zero knowledge infrastructure in order for ‘provable computing’ to become mainstream. And yet, these systems will most likely transcend blockchains to become something different all together. The zero knowledge caterpillar does not realize it’s using blockchain as a cocoon to become a beautiful, zero knowledge network butterfly.
Perhaps zero knowledge isn’t just a technology to support more layers of blockchain, but instead a new environment for distributed computing all together.
Once Zero Knowledge matures, it is conceivable that the distinction of ‘layers’ may disappear all together. Instead, teams may find themselves launching novel ‘Zero Knowledge Networks’ that seamlessly interact with one another. These systems will be more application centric, liquidity focused, and abstracted to increase the standardization and adoption of these networks.”
Sounds like $NOCK.
Some Upcoming Blockchain + ZK Predictions And Thoughts For 2025-2026:
1. The Blockchain caterpillar will completely give way to the Zero Knowledge Network butterfly.
2. By the end of the decade we will phase out the term 'blockchain' completely. If we are lucky, they will be replaced by 'Decentralized Networks'.
3. Many L2s fighting for survival will become frameworks to deploy L3s on the winner(s) of the L2 wars.
4. The app sovereignty movement will create a revolt where applications have more power to dictate liquidity and deployment strategies against their layer conterparts.
5. The best applications will behave like L1 ecosystems.
6. Base will seriously consider 'launching' on Bitcoin.
7. Every Ethereum L2 is a Bitcoin L2.
8. Circle will launch something that enables programmability for USDC. They will want to get closer and closer to the application layer.
9. The first 'Reverse Oracle' will appear.
10. The ICO will come back and rebalance the market to enable the old school true ecosystem cults.
11. Multiple 'ZK Eth-aligned projects' will break away from ETH and become protocol agnostic.
12. Multiple 'ZK Eth-aligned projects' will reveal their true intentions: That they are direct competitors with Eth and Solana (they dare not claim to be a competitor to BTC).
13. The winner of the proof wars will win by financializing the proof.
14. Loosers of the proof wars will 'wait for demand and supply to materialize'.
15. Every specialized proof startup today will converge to the realization that they must become something resembling a network, lest they give up too much ground to their competitors who will attempt to do the same.
16. The term Rollup will die.
17. The term Coprocessor will die.
18. Many old L1 protocols may forgo the layer strategy and become layer independent application networks.
19. OP-CAT will be launched in our lifetime.
20. We may have less blockchains, but we will have millions of networks. Call them Virtual Decentralized Networks. VDNs will be an emergant property of blockchain agnostic computation.
21. Liquidity will continue to be a core value proposition and competitive moat, until its not.
22. It's premature to say we are in the 'consumer era' - we need more consumer infrastructure at the application layer.
23. Teams will stop competing on consensus. Simultanously, new species of zk consensus will emerge.
24. There will be hundreds of Bitcoin Metaprotocols and layer 2s.
25. Then there will be less metaprotocols, and no layer 2s. Only Bitcoin and Bitcoin Apps (bApps).
26. Bitcoin L2s will become investors + branded liquidity for the next wave of true Bitcoin programmability.
27. Ethereum will solve the fragmentation crisis.
28. In a zero knowledge/post functional value proposition world, the premium a network commands comes from how its base asset is perceived, not the optimizations they create or technical issues they solve.
29. Applications disembodied from blockchains will tap into liquidity sources from any and all networks.
30. The Proof wars will continue.
31. A great deal of innovation will take place at the intersection of distributed network optimizations and FHE + MPC + ZK. These innovations will upend many notions we have about traditional blockchian architectures and user experience.
32. Embedded Decentralization will be the next battleground for adoption.
33. Teams will feel the odd constraint created by better technological innovations forced within smaller and smaller environments to experiment and compete.
34. ZK will create a class of applications with better ux and that feel more expressive.
35. The next great battleground is within traditional web 2 architectures.
Albo retweeted
Privacy: a proof.
Programmability: a proof.
Arbitry Compute: a proof.
Scaling: a proof.
Everything crypto built a separate chain for reduces to the same check. What can be proven will eventually be proven.
Albo retweeted
Almost exactly 2 years ago I predicted that a zk protocol would emerge and win by understanding the network effects of crypto economic incentives.
“13. The winner of the proof wars will win by financializing the proof.
14. Loosers of the proof wars will 'wait for demand and supply to materialize'.
15. Every specialized proof startup today will converge to the realization that they must become something resembling a network, lest they give up too much ground to their competitors who will attempt to do the same.”
@nockchain is the clear winner.
Some Upcoming Blockchain + ZK Predictions And Thoughts For 2025-2026:
1. The Blockchain caterpillar will completely give way to the Zero Knowledge Network butterfly.
2. By the end of the decade we will phase out the term 'blockchain' completely. If we are lucky, they will be replaced by 'Decentralized Networks'.
3. Many L2s fighting for survival will become frameworks to deploy L3s on the winner(s) of the L2 wars.
4. The app sovereignty movement will create a revolt where applications have more power to dictate liquidity and deployment strategies against their layer conterparts.
5. The best applications will behave like L1 ecosystems.
6. Base will seriously consider 'launching' on Bitcoin.
7. Every Ethereum L2 is a Bitcoin L2.
8. Circle will launch something that enables programmability for USDC. They will want to get closer and closer to the application layer.
9. The first 'Reverse Oracle' will appear.
10. The ICO will come back and rebalance the market to enable the old school true ecosystem cults.
11. Multiple 'ZK Eth-aligned projects' will break away from ETH and become protocol agnostic.
12. Multiple 'ZK Eth-aligned projects' will reveal their true intentions: That they are direct competitors with Eth and Solana (they dare not claim to be a competitor to BTC).
13. The winner of the proof wars will win by financializing the proof.
14. Loosers of the proof wars will 'wait for demand and supply to materialize'.
15. Every specialized proof startup today will converge to the realization that they must become something resembling a network, lest they give up too much ground to their competitors who will attempt to do the same.
16. The term Rollup will die.
17. The term Coprocessor will die.
18. Many old L1 protocols may forgo the layer strategy and become layer independent application networks.
19. OP-CAT will be launched in our lifetime.
20. We may have less blockchains, but we will have millions of networks. Call them Virtual Decentralized Networks. VDNs will be an emergant property of blockchain agnostic computation.
21. Liquidity will continue to be a core value proposition and competitive moat, until its not.
22. It's premature to say we are in the 'consumer era' - we need more consumer infrastructure at the application layer.
23. Teams will stop competing on consensus. Simultanously, new species of zk consensus will emerge.
24. There will be hundreds of Bitcoin Metaprotocols and layer 2s.
25. Then there will be less metaprotocols, and no layer 2s. Only Bitcoin and Bitcoin Apps (bApps).
26. Bitcoin L2s will become investors + branded liquidity for the next wave of true Bitcoin programmability.
27. Ethereum will solve the fragmentation crisis.
28. In a zero knowledge/post functional value proposition world, the premium a network commands comes from how its base asset is perceived, not the optimizations they create or technical issues they solve.
29. Applications disembodied from blockchains will tap into liquidity sources from any and all networks.
30. The Proof wars will continue.
31. A great deal of innovation will take place at the intersection of distributed network optimizations and FHE + MPC + ZK. These innovations will upend many notions we have about traditional blockchian architectures and user experience.
32. Embedded Decentralization will be the next battleground for adoption.
33. Teams will feel the odd constraint created by better technological innovations forced within smaller and smaller environments to experiment and compete.
34. ZK will create a class of applications with better ux and that feel more expressive.
35. The next great battleground is within traditional web 2 architectures.
Albo retweeted
Nockchain is now the leader in the next generation of Proof of Useful Work protocols.
The network's hardware for open compute markets is now worth over $1 Billion.
base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722
The Value of base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722's AI compute hardware is now
$600 Million
To put this number into perspective, the value of the hardware running Bitcoin mining is roughly $17 Billion.
Once Nockchain offers inference to NockApps, real AI teams and global infrastructure groups this number will skyrocket.
Albo retweeted
Did you ape the $NOCK dip anon?
Everyone is de-risking ahead of the Clarity Act vote tomorrow.
If it passes, we’ll likely see a $BTC god candle, on-chain follows, and most importantly we will never see $NOCK below these levels ever again.
Odds of clarity act passing are still 50/50 tho.
Let’s see how everything plays out tomorrow.
Albo retweeted
Tons more people are looking into base:0x9b5e262cf9bb04869ab40b19af91d2dc85761722 lately and there's a lot to catch up on, so I covered everything since July in this new video
4 weeks ago @nockchain had zero AI compute behind it. Today there's ~21,000 H100s worth of hardware.. and the token's still a small cap at $73M
With AI mining live and there's a big gap between what's built and where the token's priced.. and the biggest catalyst hasn't even hit yet.
I cover it all here, check it out
youtu.be/0gC0wzESvKo
