THE CASE FOR $NOCK
Some things should be hard to make.
Money is one of them.
Meet NOCK. Scarce digital money anchored in real work, built for a world of verifiable computation.
Follow the ideaMoney is how we carry the value of our work into the future.
Digital money should make that simple: a supply you can check, a history you can verify, and value you can hold yourself.
That’s the starting point for NOCK, the native asset of Nockchain.
What is NOCK?01 FINITE BY DESIGN
4,294,967,296. That’s the ceiling.
Nockchain’s consensus rules cap the total issuance of NOCK at 232. New supply follows a defined schedule that eventually ends.
Anyone running a node can check those rules. Scarcity is written into the system.
Explore the monetary policy02 ANCHORED IN REALITY
The digital world needs a physical anchor.
Miners commit energy and hardware to compete for block rewards. Their proof of work makes the chain’s history costly to replace.
Producing the work is hard. Checking the proof is much easier. That asymmetry is the point.
Understand proof of work03 OWNED DIRECTLY
Ownership starts with control.
Iris Wallet makes it simple to send and receive NOCK, while keeping your keys on your device.
Self-custody puts you in charge. It also makes protecting your keys your responsibility.
Get started with IrisSecuring money is useful work.
Nockchain asks a second question: can that computation serve another purpose, too?
Real resources.
Open competition.
Mathematical work.
Cryptographic proof.
A costly history.
An independently checked ledger.
A monetary network can also be a foundation for markets in computation. Nockchain brings proof generation and eligible AI matrix work into its mining design.
↗The scope matters: general customer-requested ZK proving, transaction privacy, and general NockApp proof settlement remain in development in the current docs. See what works today ↗
A SIMPLE MONETARY THESIS
That’s the case for NOCK as money.
Its rules create the foundation.
People give it value by choosing to use it.
No rabbit hole required.
But there are some good ones.
The thinking behind Nockchain, in plain language.
The full argument for a market in verifiable computation.
Explore blocks, transactions, and the public ledger.
Open-source code. The rules are there to be checked.
The next chapter of money
is verifiable.
