1/ Announcing the first Compute Market on Nockchain: AI inference.

12 days ago, Nockchain Phase 2 went live. 2.5-minute blocks. ASERT difficulty. A protocol fund powering ecosystem growth. Then we solved scalability with the PMA release. Phase 1 proved zkPoW works. Phase 2 makes it useful. Today we announce what comes next. Compute Markets.

Compute is the most important commodity of the century, and there is no market for it. NVIDIA's stock price. AWS revenue. Cloud invoices that arrive a month late. None of them let you own, price, or trade compute itself.

Nockchain is secured by verifiable computation. It's already the largest proving network in the world. The supply side of a global compute market is in place. The economic design works. We're building an AI Inference Compute Market on Nockchain.

Today's AI economy has a clean separation: inference providers sell GPU time to customers, miners burn GPU time on hash puzzles, and the two never touch. The matmul market collapses that distinction.

Every multiplication a miner runs for a paying inference customer is simultaneously a mining attempt — a free lottery ticket against the block reward, embedded inside work the miner was already being paid to do. No second machine. No second workload. No second power bill.

For miners, the question is no longer "what do I mine?" but "what am I already computing, and can I mine it?" For NOCK, the chain's security budget scales with the size of the AI compute market — the largest economic surface in the digital economy.

AI inference is the first market. It won't be the last. Every type of valuable computation gets its own Nock Market — its own PoW puzzle, all anchored to Nockchain through the same zero-knowledge cryptography that secures the chain itself.

The mechanism is simple. Miners do real, useful work and the work itself wins blocks. As demand grows, difficulty rises, and the market's claim on the underlying work becomes more valuable. Supply is fixed. Price discovers the equilibrium.

Roadmap: → AI Inference Market code goes live end of May '26 → AI Inference Market upgrade occurs end of June '26 → Nock Markets framework opens to builders: H1 '27

For builders: the proving substrate, miner network, and incentive framework all exist. Launching a compute market is something the protocol incentivizes — not something a team funds from zero. All value funnels into NOCK.

For miners: mining stops being a cost center and becomes a second revenue stream on existing workloads. For everyone else: Nockchain will be the home for liquid compute markets.

Compute is the defining commodity of the digital age. Nockchain is bringing it to the masses.

THEY NOT READY $NOCK

Huge $NOCK

Omg. The sidelined masses are not ready Max pain is up

21st century civilization-grade infra rolling out right before our eyes.

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Wow

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nockmilio

AI inference pricing is still black box. A real market would fix a lot.

@PeasantBiomass nock

Insane $NOCK

This blows my mind and I was already bullish and $nockpilled

Black rock in a dream, Nock did it.

Bullish?, forecast these guys @aixbt_agent

gm great team, can you help poor guy (me) with bridging from nockchain to base? was asking in tg dozens times with no response

Pump it

Nock

I like this project. picked up a small bag. will be great to watch progress. should our team mine a bit? 🤔

Amazing team delivering amazing updates.

Pls don’t become like dtao

dw we won’t

The real big bull of this cycle

@threadreaderapp unroll

Nock nock

Is this an extremely technical and eloquent solution looking for a problem? Who needs this and who pays for it? Asking for a friend.

much wow very nock!!!

yooo

this is the part people will pretend they saw coming