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smoothiepool retweeted
GRWM: building @nockchain with Nock Rogan
Zero Knowledge proofs aren't easy. We pamper him with the finest accommodation and accoutrements, so that he can be at his best every single day.
smoothiepool retweeted
1e. Native VRF
Verifiable onchain randomness on MegaETH via DrandOracleQuicknet.
This is a preinstalled, stateless BLS12-381 verifier for the public drand quicknet beacon with Lottery demo based on @Zodomo's DrandVerifier implementation.
docs.megaeth.com/developer-dโฆ
smoothiepool retweeted
Nockchain is cutting emissions by 50% starting at block 65500 tomorrow.
That means 35M new nock gets emitted each month instead of 70M for the next 6 monthsโฆ
Then issuance reduces again, then yearly, on a slow curve that maintains the protocolโs security budget over time!
smoothiepool retweeted
All Time Highs for mining activity in anticipation of Nockchain Phase 2.
The network has been mining 4 million proofs per second.
Later this year, we tap into this energy to make proving fully useful.
smoothiepool retweeted
Nockchain Phase 2 Consensus Upgrade is ready on the Github repository.
If you're running a node, upgrade prior to block 65,500.
github.com/nockchain/nockchaโฆ
sure memes might bring some joy to some people but i'm thinking scalable provable trust systems are way more important to humanity
@nockchain @octralabs
Not โshillโ but facts, DCG/Grayscale and @BarrySilbert, are all accumulating of NOCK
Same guys who acquired/made public TAO at $40 are accumulating $NOCK.
Not โshillโ but facts, DCG/Grayscale and @BarrySilbert, are all accumulating of NOCK
Itโs on BASE and Safetrade
0x9B5E262cF9bb04869ab40b19AF91D2dc85761722
somehow memojis find a way
this was the best part of unicorn chain
i'm so happy to see it being worked on, sad that it's not denominated in UwU
smoothiepool retweeted
we had to maxxbid the @octra auction
for the culture
we like $OCT
milady.
Why?
Most ppl still think cryptoโs main bottleneck is speed.
More TPS. Cheaper gas. Faster blocks.
Yeah maybe.
But another bottleneck matters just as much:
public-by-default infrastructure.
Transparent balances. Visible strategies. Open positions. Public business logic... Great for memes bro.
Less great for institutions, enterprises, serious capital, sensitive data or AI systems handling private inputs.
I believe thatโs where @octra gets interesting.
Octra appears to be building around a different thesis:
crypto doesnโt only need more scalability.
It also needs confidential computation.
Their docs describe HFHE (Hypergraph Fully Homomorphic Encryption), an in-house approach designed for parallel encrypted computations and consumer-grade applications.
That alone made me pay attention.
Meaning privacy doesnโt stop at payments.
From founder @octralex:
โThe real unlock is not one-off privacy, but composable privacy over time.โ
That line matters.
Multiple teams are pushing privacy from different directions.
For example, nockchain is building a programmable cypherpunk L1 with mining, custom execution, private transactions & private DeFi foundations... and more.
Octra appears focused on another frontier:
a full encrypted compute stack.
โข standalone L1 or decentralized middleware
โข isolated execution environments (โcirclesโ)
โข private logic + encrypted storage
โข multi-language support via WASM / Rust / C++
Different architectures.
Different starting points.
Same broader theme:
bringing privacy back to crypto.
And fuck yes, we need this.
If that works, the TAM isnโt just โprivacy coin users.โ
Itโs potentially:
โข institutions that need confidentiality
โข enterprises using blockchain rails
โข private DeFi primitives
โข AI systems using sensitive data
โข any application where transparency is a bug
You can read the litepaper here:
octra.org/litepaper.pdf
Tokenomics looks okay to me, 33% circ supply expected at launch. More details here:
docs.octra.org/oct-docs/octrโฆ
Iโll let you do the maths and decide for yourself.
If you know how to analyze marketcaps, you know what to do.
Low caps with real technical narratives are rare in this market. Iโm bullish.
Privacy in crypto is inevitable.
I know it.
You know it.
We know it.
octra.
