The Multi-asset, Store of Value Blockchain
Bitcoin is the most secure and trusted ‘store of value’ blockchain in the world today. However, Bitcoin can only securely store its own native token (BTC), faces future challenges and was not designed for future scaling solutions.
Ethereum is the most used token and smart contract platform. But value created on the network is not captured by ETH’s token price and its "pay once, store forever" model means a bloated, un-sustainable chain with ETH holders paying the price.
Nervos CKB is the only PoW multi-asset & store of value general purpose blockchain for the new crypto-economy.
Check out our Positioning Paper, Crypto-economic Paper and Nervos CKB whitepaper
A Sustainable Multi-asset and Store of Value Blockchain
Maximally secure, permissionless and censorship-resistant
Solves the biggest challenges facing blockchains today
A layer 1, specifically built for layer 2 scaling solutions
Native token CKByte aligns the interests of all network users
Built for developers and native smart contract capabilities
The Nervos CKByte
The CKByte (Common Knowledge Byte) is the native token of the Nervos CKB. The CKbyte represents ownership of the Common Knowledge Base blockchain and is designed to be used as a store of value and for resource management. Equivalent to owning land, with the CKByte you can use it to store assets, smart contracts and other types of “common knowledge” or rent out your space.
The CKbyte scales with value creation through other tokens, assets, data and smart contracts deployed on the network. As the Nervos network grows, it is expected that the demand for the CKByte token will grow as well. It is this innovative crypto-economic design that aligns network participants, and enhances the network’s "store of asset" properties.
The Nervos DAO is an inflation shelter from secondary issuance used to manage state storage and provide sustainable incentives for miners. Store of Value users can lock their tokens in the Nervos DAO and receive a proportional share of this inflation. In this way your tokens are never diluted beyond a fixed cap.
The Nervos Network
The Nervos Network represents the entire ecosystem of Nervos and is a collection of protocols, layer 2's and public blockchains underpinned by the Nervos CKB and CKByte token.
A core design principle at Nervos is that layer 2 solutions such as side-chains, plasma chains and state channels are the best way to scale a blockchain system. Rather than comprising the decentralization and security of the base layer through largely untested and novel consensus mechanisms in order to achieve high performance and TPS, we utilize layer 2 solutions that bring nearly unlimited transaction capabilities and minimal transaction cost to a layer 1 blockchain that's designed to be secure, permissionless and decentralized. This in our opinion is the only way to solve the scalability trilemma.
Alongside several deployments currently being worked on by the Nervos team - enterprises, developers and users are welcome and encouraged to utilize the CKB to deploy layer 2 solutions, dapps, protocols and blockchains.
Learn more about the Nervos Network.
Unlimited Scalability and applications
Efficiency & scale while retaining security
Free Transactions at Lightning-speed
Flexibility for novel blockchain applications
If you're an awesome project or developer and interested in building on the Nervos Network, please get in touch!
Or head over to our Github to check out our awesome code.
Milestones and Roadmap
Jan 2018
Nervos CKB RFC released
July 2018
Completion of pre-sale fund-raising
Nov 2018
Nervos CKB Virtual Machine RFC released
Dec 2018
Open-sourced Nervos CKB
Mar 2019
CKB Token Economics RFC released
May 2019
Common Knowledge Base Testnet Launch
June 2019
CKB Consensus RFC released
Q3 2019
public token sale
Q4 2019
Mainnet Launch & Token Generation Event