Inspired by Urbit’s minimal assembly language, Nockchain fuses Urbit’s vision of sovereign computing with a novel proof-of-useful-work consensus mechanism, creating a blockchain where every computation fuels progress and scaling. The crypto-economics behind Nockchain’s zkVM incentivise competition between zero knowledge provers, ultimately bootstrapping ZKPs as a new computational commodity.
Topics covered in this episode:
- Logan’s background
- Urbit’s values
- Nock, Urbit's minimal assembly language
- Use cases for zk proofs
- Nockchain’s zkVM efficiency
- Useful proof-of-work
- Launching Nockchain
- Future roadmap for Nockchain
- Building apps on Nockchain
- Store of value vs. revenue generation
- The impact of quantum computing
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Sponsors:
- Gnosis: Gnosis builds decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, since 2015. This year marks the launch of Gnosis Pay— the world's first Decentralized Payment Network. Get started today at - gnosis.io
- Chorus One: one of the largest node operators worldwide, trusted by 175,000+ accounts across more than 60 networks, Chorus One combines institutional-grade security with the highest yields at - chorus.one
This episode is hosted by Brian Fabian Crain.
