Nockchain in October 2026: a field guide for miners, holders and builders

This guide shows Nockchain as it stands on October 10, 2026. Much of it changed in the last three months, and it will change again. That is why each section ends with a place where you can check the facts yourself. If a term is new to you, our glossary explains it.

The money

NOCK is the chain’s coin. One NOCK splits into 65,536 (2^16) units called nicks, and total issuance is capped at 2^32 NOCK, about 4.29 billion.¹² If you hold NOCK, your coins live in notes, Nockchain’s version of unspent outputs.¹⁸ As of October 10, 2.35 billion NOCK had been mined, a little over half the cap.¹⁵

Each block pays 2,048 new NOCK today. Since the Aletheia upgrade at block 65,500, 80% goes to the miner and 20% goes to a protocol fund. The reward falls to 1,536 NOCK at block 170,501.² At the 24-hour average block time of about 150 seconds, the block is expected around October 23.¹⁶

Check it: the emissions table in 014-aletheia.md, and Nockscan’s supply-audit and epoch-progress endpoints.

Two ways to mine

Nockchain began with a single puzzle: miners produce zero-knowledge proofs, and the chain rewards the work.³ On August 14, at block 126,000,¹⁹ the Logos upgrade went live. It added a second puzzle built on matrix multiplication, compatible with the work Pearl miners do.³ If you mine, you can now win a block either way.

The split between the two lanes has changed twice. Logos aimed for 30% AI blocks and 70% ZK blocks. Anthropos, at block 147,500 on September 15,²⁰ flipped that to 70% AI and 30% ZK.⁴ Under Anthropos, blocks come every 150 seconds or so across both lanes.⁴

Each lane adjusts its own difficulty. To see the current mix, Nockscan’s mining-metrics counts about the last 100 blocks by puzzle.⁵

Check it: Nockscan’s mining-metrics for recent blocks by puzzle, and prover-stats?period=7d for seven days split by lane. Our Network page shows both, with the method for each.

Who runs what

Zorp, the company that built Nockchain, announced on July 20 that it is winding down.⁶ In June, Zorp transferred the trademark, domains and GitHub repositories to Nock Community Co. (NCC).⁷ NCC is a non-stock corporation and the beneficiary of the protocol fund.⁷

NCC shares signatory roles for the protocol fund and the bridge to Base with three other parties.⁸ They are NockBox, Southwest Pool Supply Co. and Lambda Collective.⁸ Lambda Collective also runs Nockscan, the explorer our chain figures come from.⁹

National Compute, Logan Allen’s new company, was announced the same day Zorp announced its wind-down.¹⁰ Logan Allen signs the Logos specification as “Logan Allen (National Compute Co)”.³

A separate company, National Compute Labs PBC, runs nationalcompute.com, which describes “The National Compute Grid”.²¹ On October 7, Anjney Midha posted that “hundreds of MI355x and B300 nodes” were live on that site.¹⁷ We found no stated link between that company and Nockchain.

Check it: NCC’s page in the Nockchain docs, and the posts linked in our Governance report.

The bridge

A bridge carries NOCK to Base, an Ethereum layer 2, as a wrapped token at contract 0x9B5E262cF9bb04869ab40b19AF91D2dc85761722.²² At 12:06 UTC on October 10, the lock address on Nockchain held 1.583 billion NOCK, 67.4% of the 2.35 billion mined.¹¹¹⁵

The trip back is closed. The pull request for the September 26 upgrade says “bridge withdrawal processing remains disabled.”¹² The roadmap lists withdrawals for Q1 2027.¹³

Check it: Nockscan’s bridge endpoint and the lock address, our Bridge report and Bridge Watch.

The roadmap

The roadmap at nockchain.org lists one current item, the “Useful Inference Routing Protocol”, for Q4 2026. For Q1 2027, it lists bridge withdrawals, the full Nock ZKVM, a ZK verification opcode and forced data availability.¹³ A privacy pool application follows in Q2 2027.¹³

Earlier versions of the page gave earlier dates. In January, the page listed bridge withdrawals for Q1 2026, and in June it listed them for Q2 2026. The June page also listed the full ZKVM and the ZK opcode for Q3 2026. It put forced data availability and the privacy pool in Q4 2026.²³²⁴

Check it: the live page, and our Roadmap Tracker, which links each date to an archived snapshot.

Where to check each piece

What you want to know	Where to look
Block height, reward and the next cut	Nockscan tip, mining-metrics (blockRewardNock), epoch-progress
Share of AI and ZK blocks	Nockscan mining-metrics, prover-stats?period=7d
The rules for each upgrade	changelog/protocol/ in nockchain/nockchain
Who holds the brand	Zorp’s July 20 post and Nockchain’s July 22 post
Who governs the fund	NCC’s page in the Nockchain docs
Bridge balance and deposits	Nockscan bridge, the lock address
Roadmap dates, then and now	nockchain.org/roadmap and its Wayback snapshots
NOCK price and market cap	CoinGecko API, id nockchain

Nockscan shows up in three rows of that table. Its API documentation is public,¹⁴ and if you run a Nockchain node, you can compare Nockscan’s numbers with your own.