Technical Roadmap

Nockchain was launched in May of 2025 and is ready for use today. Its capabilities will continue to be upgraded by contributors and companies in the Nockchain ecosystem.

The following roadmap may be traversed out of its written order.

• 2024-08-22. NockApp framework alpha.

  • "NockApp Framework: Developer Alpha" (Zorp blog, 2024-08-22)

• 2024-10-24. Jock scripting language developer preview.

  • "Jock Language Developer Preview" (Zorp blog, 2024-10-24)

• 2025-05-21. Mainnet launch. "Dumbnet": mining only, $NOCK transactions locked for one month from genesis.

  • "Nockchain is Live" (Nockchain newsletter, 2025-05-22)

• 2025-06-30. Jock scripting language alpha.

  • "Introducing Jock: A Friendly Programming Language for the Nock Ecosystem" (Nockchain newsletter, 2025-06-30)

• Hashed timelock contracts and expansion of native lockscripts (atomic swaps, basic programmability).

• Temporary data blob store.

• Fraud proof lock (enabling for optimistic rollups).

• Composable app rollups.

  • "Composable App Rollups" (Zorp blog 2025-07-26)

• Pre-confirmation support (Maximum Extractable Value resistance and low latency).

• Increased block size and blob store size (high throughput).

• ZKP verification onchain (fully expressive intents).

• Jock scripting language beta.

• Jock scripting language 1.0.