Nockchain NOCK
Rank #496 by market cap
Last 7 days
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Week to 1 October- Price down 32.0% since 24 September.
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What it actually costs to sell NOCK
Selling $100,000 of NOCK returned 9.2% less than the quoted price — Costly. Measured 2026-09-30 on Base.
What Nockchain is
Nockchain is described by its creators as the first layer-1 blockchain powered by Zero-Knowledge Proof of Work, a consensus method in which nodes secure the chain and produce blocks by mining zero-knowledge proofs. $NOCK is the network's native asset, positioned as scarce hard money secured by these proofs. It was fair-launched with no pre-mine in May 2025.
The mechanism combines two elements: a proof-of-work mining competition, familiar from older chains, and zero-knowledge proofs as the object being mined rather than simple hash puzzles. The source states that transaction throughput scales as network difficulty grows, intended to keep money moving without the network bottlenecking as it expands. No further detail on proof construction, validator set, or difficulty adjustment is given in the source material.
Classification listings tag Nockchain under several categories at once — infrastructure, smart contract platform, privacy coin, zero-knowledge, proof-of-work, and Base ecosystem — a breadth that suggests a project still finding its niche rather than one with a single settled use case. It is deployed on Base as a single chain, meaning it does not natively exist elsewhere. The claim of being "the first" ZK-PoW L1 is the source's own framing, not an independently verified fact, and no information here confirms audit status, decentralization of mining, or actual transaction throughput under load. Nothing in the source or the measured facts indicates revenue, staking yield, or governance rights attached to holding $NOCK.
Where NOCK lives
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Price change
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