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| 1h | 24h | 7d | 30d | 60d | 90d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.24% | 5.44% | 26.98% | 59.85% | 23.63% | -- |
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Top Holders
| Address | Token | Quantity | Percentage | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0xe618...86e8 |   NOCK | 46,335,680.14 | 1.08% | $896.51K |
| 0x718d...68de | NOCK | 42,077,603.96 | 0.98% | $814.12K |
| 0xed96...4557 | NOCK | 38,762,206.11 | 0.9% | $749.98K |
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About Nockchain
Nockchain's journey began with a core thesis: repurpose Proof-of-Work to generate zero-knowledge proofs of state transitions, creating a useful proving market. The launch of the testnet validated this ZK-PoW consensus, bootstrapping a competitive mining ecosystem and establishing proofpower as a tradable resource.
The publication of the NockVM whitepaper marked a pivotal milestone, formalizing a minimal ZKVM based on Nock's 12 opcodes. This demonstrated a path to efficient, sound, and general-purpose verifiable computation, laying the theoretical groundwork for future applications.
A significant technical evolution was the community-driven shift from CPU to GPU proving. This achieved orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains, making the network's proof generation economically viable at scale and solidifying its position as a leading proving network.
The protocol upgrade at block 65,500 introduced ASERT difficulty adjustment and reduced block time to 2.5 minutes, materially improving chain responsiveness. Simultaneously, the establishment of the Nockchain Foundation with a 20% block reward allocation created a governance structure for long-term ecosystem development, funding grants, research, and adoption initiatives.
Positive: The May Phase 2 upgrade cut block time from 10 to 2.5 minutes and adopted ASERT difficulty adjustment; bridge fee revenue was retroactively redirected to Flock to fund builders; the PMA upgrade reduced node memory to 16GB and sped up syncing 20x; the Logos upgrade introduced AI-PoW dual mining, letting miners earn two incomes; Nock ZKVM R&D advanced.
Negative: Token supply is highly concentrated—top 10 wallets hold 67.62% with a Gini coefficient of 0.9616, posing whale sell-off risk; the first major client, National Compute, is affiliated with the founder, raising demand-independence concerns; core developer Zorp shut down; Logos activation height changed multiple times; a trace reuse mining exploit was patched via the Zoe upgrade; market cap is only ~$22M–$50M with high volatility.
Sam Parker (Chief Research Officer)
Shelby Evans (COO)
Note: No reliable information on co-founders was found. The above are the core executives listed on official sources.