New Kind Of Network is a decentralized peer-to-peer networking infrastructure and public blockchain that uses a Proof of Relay algorithm to verify relay workloads and reward participating nodes. NKN's Twitter Score is 19 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #58,351 among 531,432 tracked accounts.
NKN was founded by Yanbo Li, Zheng "Bruce" Li, and Yilun Zhang. The project launched its Narwhal mainnet on July 1, 2019, establishing a public blockchain designed to power a decentralized internet. Its nConnect product extends this infrastructure into a secure remote-access solution built directly on the blockchain. NKN has a commercial partnership with QNAP and counts Stephen Wolfram and Whitfield Diffie among its technical advisors.
NKN has received backing from Fenbushi Capital, Arrington XRP Capital, BlockVC, NGC, Node Capital, and OKEx Capital. On April 3, 2025, Binance assigned the NKN token a Monitoring Tag, placing it under closer scrutiny. NKN's account has published 2,984 posts and has been mentioned by 115 accounts a total of 767 times.
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The accounts that follow NKN include 75 founders, 16 angel investors, 74 influencers and 4 VCs. Among them are Notsofast, Michael Arrington, Lookonchain, NEAR Protocol, Seraphim and Jane Lippencott.