The Nock Ecosystem
The three pillars of the Nock ecosystem mutually reinforce each other.
The elements of the Nock ecosystem reinforce each other to provide a secure, censorship-resistant platform for transacting, building, and flourishing. Proof power on Nockchain secures $NOCK and enables NockApp as a global application layer.
$NOCK
Programmable sound money that scales.
$NOCK is the digital asset for the Nock ecosystem. Nocks are scarce hard money secured by zero-knowledge proofs on Nockchain. $NOCK was fair-launched with no pre-mine in May 2025.
What is $NOCK?Nockchain
A secure interoperable foundation for all digital assets.
Nockchain is the first L1 blockchain powered by Zero-Knowledge Proof of Work (ZKPoW). Nodes secure the chain and produce blocks by mining zero-knowledge proofs in a PoW competition. Transactions scale as the network difficulty grows to maintain a high velocity of money without bottlenecking.
What is Nockchain?NockApp
Rollups to connect your app to Internet capital.
NockApp is a framework for application-specific rollups (app rollups) on Nockchain. Programmability is simple and scalable.
What is NockApp?For formal details, read the foundational papers, or keep going through the docs:
Assimakis Kattis, Joseph Bonneau. (2020). "Proof of Necessary Work: Succinct State Verification with Fairness Guarantees" (key concept: proof of necessary work)
Assimakis Kattis, Brian Klatt, Philip Quirk, Logan Allen. (2025). "A Framework for Compiling Custom Languages as Efficiently Verifiable Virtual Machines" (key concept: Nock as verifiable ZKP target)
Assimakis Kattis, Fabian Trottner. (2020). "Stabilizing Congestion in Decentralized Record-Keepers" (key concept: elastic block size)
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