NKN (NKN), or New Kind of Network, is a network that focuses on creating a decentralized and open-source network protocol for public blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to share network bandwidth and internet connectivity. Its main objective is to address the challenges faced by today's internet, such as centralization, scalability issues and security concerns.

NKN was founded by Yanbo Li, Bruce Li, and Yilun Zhang. They have a background in networking software and blockchain technology. The project lists Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, and Whitfield Diffie, inventor of public-key cryptography as advisors.

NKN Mainnet was launched in July 2019 and has up to 25,000 full consensus nodes. According to NKN's whitepaper, the project has three main goals: decentralizing internet infrastructure, improving scalability, and promoting network security. Overall, the aim of NKN is to create a cost-effective platform for decentralized applications by harnessing the collective power of the community.

Notable use cases for NKN include: Content Delivery system (contract with Chinese video giant iQIYI); Edge computing (contract with China Mobile); D-chat (secure messaging app); nShell (secure remote terminal access).

NKN’s consensus algorithm is based on Cellular Automata, where a simple local majority rule can lead to system-level convergence in a small number of iterations. The design goal is to scale to arbitrary numbers of equal consensus nodes.

NKN uses a global addressing scheme based on public keys, in order to enable direct peer to peer communication without centralized servers. The routing of packets is based on the Chord Distributed Hash Table (DHT), which maps each NKN address to a random and verifiable position on the Chord DHT ring.

NKN is the native token of the NKN network. It has a maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens, with 754,831,362 NKN in circulation.

NKN utilizes a mechanism called Proof-of-Relay (PoR), also referred to as “useful Proof-of-Work”. Unlike traditional proof-of-work (PoW), such as the consensus mechanism deployed on Bitcoin, which rewards based on computing hash functions, PoR rewards miners for relaying real-world (useful) data along the network.

NKN can be purchased on various centralized exchanges such as Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin, Bittrex, Huobi, Gate.io, Bitget, Crypto.com and more.

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The all-time high of NKN was 1.48 USD on 2021-04-10, from which the coin is now down 98.13298686094595%. The all-time high price of NKN (NKN) is 1.48. The current price of NKN is down 98.13298686094595% from its all-time high.

As of , there is currently 791.27M NKN in circulation. NKN has a maximum supply of 1.00Bn.

The current market cap of NKN is 21.86M. It is calculated by multiplying the current supply of NKN by its real-time market price of 0.027631794458.

The all-time low of NKN was 0.00641054 , from which the coin is now up 331.0369244712614%. The all-time low price of NKN (NKN) is 0.00641054. The current price of NKN is up 331.0369244712614% from its all-time low.

NKN (NKN) has a market capitalization of $21.86M and is ranked #955 on CoinMarketCap. The cryptocurrency market can be highly volatile, so be sure to do your own research (DYOR) and assess your risk tolerance. Additionally, analyze NKN (NKN) price trends and patterns to find the best time to purchase NKN.