Zorp: Nockchain's ZK Proof-of-Useful-Work Consensus

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:

• 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

Links:

• Zorp on X
• Nockchain on X
• Urbit on X