NKN Monthly Report December 2020

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5 min readJan 7, 2021

Highlights

NKN Official Website revamped from ground up
nConnect official release on Synology plug-in market for DSM 7.0
nConnect wins commercial contract with ASUSTOR
Surge, 100% private P2P file sharing app, won NKN Foundation Annual Award
NKN live AMA with core team: video & transcripts
nMobile updated to 1.0.3 on both iOS and Android
NKN 2020 Year in Review

Mainnet technical development updates

Latest Mainnet Stats January 5, 2021:

💻 29,937 full consensus nodes
🏭 147 ISPs or cloud providers
🌐 38 countries & regions

The latest stable release for mainnet is v2.0.7

(https://github.com/nknorg/nkn/releases )

NKN official website revamped from ground up

NKN rolled out a totally revamped version of our official website on December 20, 2020! A brand new nkn.org with faster response, easier navigation, personalized features, and with your choice of local languages! This rejuvenated and modernized redesign is accomplished by our team and our community developer Christian Busch, and we’d like to thank everyone who has been sharing their feedback and suggestions through our official media channels since summer 2020. We hope that both old pals and new friends could enjoy this fresh website and we are always open to all sorts of opinions!

Experience our new website today and send us your thoughts!

nConnect official release on Synology plug-in market for DSM 7.0

nConnect is released officially on Synology plug-in market on December 9, 2020. After months of rigorous testing and continuous enhancements by engineers of both parties, customers now can download nConnect in Synology plug-in market. As one of the first few apps supporting Synology’s latest version DSM 7.0, we will also be releasing nConnect on their mainstream DSM 6.2 version soon to enable all customers who are eager to try nConnect.

For a better understanding of nConnect please read the following article:

https://nkn.org/community/blog/nconnect-for-nas-secure-remote-access-to-files-and-apps/

nConnect wins commercial contract with ASUSTOR

On December 30th, NKN announced a successful commercial partnership with ASUSTOR, a NAS specialized branch founded by industry-pioneering ASUS. Under the agreement, NKN and ASUSTOR create a combination of best-in-class networking technology and leading NAS products, that grants a joint solution to provide customers with secure access to all of their personal data and services whenever and wherever they need.

You can find nConnect on ASUSTOR in the following link:

https://www.asustor.com/en/app_central/app_detail?id=1207&type&model=

For more detail please visit:

https://nkn.org/community/blog/nkn-signs-commercial-partnership-with-asustor/

Surge, 100% private p2p file sharing app, won NKN Foundation Annual Award

The long-waited Surge, a fast and secure P2P file sharing software based solely on the NKN blockchain network, developed by our community team @Rule110 has finally launched its Beta version in the very last month of 2020.

Surge is the winner of NKN foundation 2020 special award, with a price of 2 million NKN tokens, for it not only provides a secure connection and environment but also ensures a stunningly fast downloading speed.

Experience Surge immediately through @Rule 110’s official website:

https://github.com/rule110-io/surge

NKN live AMA with core team

Our last AMA to wrap up 2020 was live on December 16th. In this video AMA, NKN’s founding team talked about the recent businesses successes with Synology and shares the technology behind it. In almost 50 minutes of Q&A, the founding team answered all questions that we gathered from our community, as well as from the live chat on YouTube.

If you missed the AMA, we have prepared a Q&A highlights for you in the following link:

https://forum.nkn.org/t/december-2020-nkn-ama-q-a-highlights/2521

or you can also watch the full video on our official YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71S2tJ2I-Uc

nMobile updated to v.1.0.3 in both iOS and Android

We kept on making nMobile a better communication tool for everyone.

nMobile 1.0.3 iOS:

Added remote notification support for Android FCM so that you can receive notification from across devices
Fixed critical crash bug when switching app from back to foreground
Reduced UI slotters on message list page
Simplified user interactions

nMobile 1.0.3 Android:

Remote notification support by Android FCM
Synchronized connection to NKN logic when optimizing dart mode
Fixed dart exception code
Simplified user interaction

Try nMobile today and share your opinions and thoughts with us!

Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nmobile/id1499487381

Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.nkn.mobile.app

Product demo video: https://youtu.be/bDh7CUvnqW0 1

bug report and feature suggestions:

https://forum.nkn.org/t/nmobile-1-0-community-feedback/2344

NKN 2020 year in review

Time does fly and it is already the moment to wrap up the year with a review of 2020. It was indeed a tough year for everyone, but fortunately we had been successful in both technology advancement and business development. NKN had launched our core products such as nMobile and nConnect on top of the dataRide platform, and won two commercial partnerships with Synology and ASUSTOR. We are also under consideration by Coinbase Custody, and actively traded on Uniswap as one of the most vibrant DeFi exchanges. We went through difficulties and challenges, but we’re striving towards progress and goals.

For a detailed year review, please read:

https://forum.nkn.org/t/nkn-2020-year-in-review/2528