🔄 DAO Proposal Sync (Discussion Phase) Project: Kaze × CKB UniTour - Kenya Stage 2 Status: 29 / 30 Likes (~2 days remaining in Discussion Stage) Discussion Stage (7 days), 30 likes on the first post → Voting Stage. talk.nervos.org/t/10736

Hello fellow CKB builders I just shared a post on the CKB Forum about FiberNuts Community Market, a testnet app for Cashu on Fiber. The post explains the project, what I'm building, and how it connects Cashu with Fiber Network. link to project below👇

cellular.id is live. So, what are .cell names? Today, getting paid online usually means handing someone a string of letters and numbers you cannot remember. And you cannot easily check a bank account number, or on a blockchain address, something like ckb1qzda0cr08m85hc8jln... is just too much, one typo and the money is gone... cellula.id takes those details and turn them into a name you chose: maria.cell, joao.cell, whatever you pick. Set it up once and it keeps working, because you hold the only key that moves it, not us. It is yours in a way an account with a company or a bank never is, and it keeps working even if we disappear. People can pay your name in the money they already use: euros, reais or rupees, or, for anyone who does use crypto currencies, your name also accepts CKB, bitcoin, ether, solana, and instant payments over Lightning or Fiber. Before any payment goes through, the payer's browser checks it against the blockchain, so a tampered link warns them rather than quietly taking their money. Your name can even be protected today by a key built to survive computers with quantum technology, dispite the tech still being far into the future. This is all great, we know, and the best part, you do not have to take our word for any of this: the code behind it is public, anyone can run their own copy of the lookup, and even the app itself lives on a blockchain, where its own page checks it against what is actually running. A name like yours, 5 characters long, about $6 a year. The whole story, on Scryve: scryvehq.com/article/a-name-… For people who know the technical details, on Nervos Talk: talk.nervos.org/t/cellula-id… cellula.id

🔄 DAO Proposal Sync (Discussion Phase) Project: Kaze × CKB UniTour - Kenya Stage 2 Applicant: Kaze team Previous work: The team reports completing an earlier university tour (talk.nervos.org/t/10687) covering six universities in Kenya over three months. Kaze also already supports CKB wallets, including a Passkey-based self-custody flow. Deliverable: Three university events in Kenya covering Bitcoin, CKB, and hands-on creation of self-custodial CKB wallets using Passkeys. The proposed targets are 210–300 students reached and 135–195 wallets created, over 6–8 weeks after approval. Budget: $3,000 USD ($1,000 per event). The proposal is open for discussion. Please take a look and share your questions or feedback on the planned activities, targets, and budget. 👉 talk.nervos.org/t/10736

I need the $CKB community’s help here. PSBerlin floated an idea that tackles one of CKB’s real weak spots. Someone in the CKB community, PSBerlin, just floated a clever idea that tackles one of CKB’s real weak spots. Let me know what you think. Running a $CKB node costs money. The miners get paid, that’s how proof-of-work works, they earn rewards for securing the chain. But there’s another type of node, full nodes. These are the ones that just validate transactions and keep the network running and accessible. They don’t earn anything. So the roughly 576 of them keeping CKB running right now are basically run out of goodwill, by altruists, foundations and exchanges. The whole network’s decentralisation depends on charity, and that might not be sustainable long-term. So here’s the idea. What if nodes could earn money by running optional extra services for apps? No changes to CKB itself needed. Nodes offer useful services and apps pay to use them. Things like watching the chain for events and sending alerts, or storing app data like a decentralised Dropbox, or running oracles that fetch outside data. Each node picks which services it wants to run, and each app picks which nodes to pay. If those 576 nodes could each earn, say, a few hundred to a thousand dollars a month doing this, then running a node stops being an act of charity and becomes a proper little business. That changes everything. People would spin up nodes because it’s actually profitable, especially in cheaper parts of the world. More nodes means a more secure, more decentralised network. As PSBerlin puts it, decentralisation becomes a rational business decision, not an ideological commitment. They’ve even built a small example of it already, to prove the economics can work. To be clear, this is an idea being floated, not something CKB’s building. PSBerlin’s putting it out there to see what the community thinks. Honestly? It’s the right problem to be thinking about. That’s a good sign for any ecosystem, people proposing smart solutions

wonder if this finally comes into play 🤔 $CKB

A bird told me swaps and trading coming soon too ! ;) $CKB $BTC #NervosNetwork

Asking for a friend is there still a community for $CKB ?

$CKB’s token does two jobs at once. It’s money. It’s space and the rent system is properly clever. Here’s a clever bit of how CKB works. Its token basically does two jobs, and behind that sits one of the smartest economic designs in crypto. If you saw my storage video, you’ll remember the $CKB token isn’t just money, it’s also space. You lock CKB to store data on the chain, one token roughly equals one byte. So it’s gas and it’s storage, in one. Here’s where it gets interesting. CKB has two kinds of new supply. The first is just like Bitcoin, capped, halving over time, paid to miners. The second is a small, steady inflation, and it does a genuinely clever job. It works like rent. If you’re hogging loads of storage on the chain, that inflation charges you for it over time. You pay for the space you use. But if you’re just a long-term holder not using storage, you don’t want to be diluted by that. So there’s a shelter called the Nervos DAO. Lock your idle coins in it, and you earn back exactly what the inflation would’ve taken. So you’re not diluted. So the same token is Bitcoin-like and deflationary for holders, but charges rent to the people using space. Pretty clever

crypto’s next breakthrough won’t necessarily come from the loudest project. it may come from a quiet team solving a problem everyone else accepted.

the next big winner may still look insignificant today. once everyone recognizes its value, the price won’t be asking for permission.

Amazing $CKB analysis. Go read this. Eight years technically right. Commercially invisible. That’s what we’re trying to change. Chain INK put out a full deep-dive review on $CKB. And it’s a great one. It’s balanced. It gives CKB real credit where it’s earned it. The whole no-bridge Bitcoin smart contracts thing. The Cell Model. State rent. Being one of the last proof-of-work chains standing. But it’s also honest about the problems. The bridge hacks. The low usage. The token being miles off its peak. And the line that stuck with me sums the whole thing up. CKB has spent eight years being technically right, and commercially invisible. Brilliant engineering. Barely any recognition. That’s what we’re aiming to change. Getting CKB seen and understood. So go and read it. And drop them a like or a comment while you’re there. Engaging with CKB content only pushes that same content further, and it recognises the effort that went into the piece.

Hackathon's over, building definitely not. Ideas are bouncing between projects and winners keep evolving! 👀 We're seeing @ebubedev delivering beyond scope on Fiber Studio, @Code3ks refining the Cashu + Fiber, plus updates from CLASP's scoped, permissioned payments by @enochidx, and early prototypes & RFCs from @ILE_Labs on channel rebalancing and @midnightexplr on routed machine payment sessions. ⚡️ Catch up on what the community is building in Pulse 14: fiber.world/blog/pulse/issue…

$CKB : Review 📜 What if you could give Bitcoin smart contracts without a bridge, without a wrapped token, and without asking Bitcoin to change a single line of code? Meet Nervos CKB, a proof-of-work Layer 1 whose RGB++ protocol maps Bitcoin UTXOs directly onto its own Cell Model, so Bitcoin assets gain programmability through mathematics rather than through a custodian. Designed by former Ethereum core developers, it can deploy post-quantum cryptography without a hard fork, and its Lightning layer is now in active testing. Let's explore one of crypto's widest gaps between engineering and recognition. 👇 ⚪ Nervos at a Glance Marketplace Insight: Nervos occupies genuinely rare territory. It is one of the last proof-of-work Layer 1s of any scale, it uses a UTXO model rather than accounts, and RGB++ solves Bitcoin programmability through isomorphic binding rather than a bridge, which Messari singled out in a dedicated report. Crypto agility means post-quantum lock scripts can deploy as cells without a consensus vote, a structural advantage most chains cannot match. The clean contrast is that the recent 35% to 44% bounce is best read as a cheap, thinly traded Layer 1 rotating in a risk-on pocket rather than evidence Fiber usage has arrived. The engineering is respected and continuous. The demand has not shown up. ⚪ Mission Nervos exists to give Bitcoin programmability without compromising it. The founding argument is that Bitcoin's security and its UTXO model are features rather than limitations, and that adding smart contracts should not require wrapping assets, trusting a bridge, or forking the base chain. The Cell Model generalizes Bitcoin's UTXO into a container that holds arbitrary state, so RGB++ can bind Bitcoin UTXOs to CKB Cells cryptographically. State rent, where users pay for the storage they occupy, is the economic half of the design, intended to prevent the state bloat that eventually strains every other chain. 🔵 A Brief History Nervos was founded in 2018 by a group drawn from the centre of the Ethereum ecosystem and China's early exchange industry, including Jan Xie, a former core R&D contributor to Ethereum, Daniel Lv, CTO of the imToken wallet, Terry Tai from the Yunbi exchange, Kevin Wang of Launch School, and Cipher Wang. That pedigree matters because the design choices were deliberate departures from Ethereum rather than ignorance of it: proof-of-work over proof-of-stake, UTXO over accounts, and state rent over unpriced storage. The project raised $28 million from Sequoia Capital, Polychain, and Wanxiang, and mainnet launched in November 2019. For its first years, Nervos was a well-regarded Layer 1 that few people used, described by its own community as an outsider during the era of new smart contract platforms and rollups. The turn came with RGB++, launched in early 2024, which introduced a way to bind Bitcoin UTXOs to CKB Cells so Bitcoin-native assets like Ordinals and Runes could interact with smart contracts without a cross-chain bridge. It drove a 55% price increase, 181% month-over-month growth in new addresses that April, and a dedicated Messari report calling it a game-changer for Bitcoin's scalability. The years since have been building against a falling chart. JoyID wallet passed 800,000 users and the RGB++ ecosystem grew past 400 dApps. The DAO 1.1 upgrade shipped, CKCON25 in December brought a new explorer and testnet releases, and Rosen Bridge integration passed a community vote in January 2026. The setbacks were substantial. A $3.9 million bridge hack in June 2025 followed the earlier Force Bridge exploit, damaging trust and prompting a warning from South Korea's DAXA alliance, while KuCoin removed CKB from cross-margin trading in May 2026. The building continued regardless. Governance restructured around CKBA, a Swiss Verein replacing the old foundation coordination layer, with community votes passing Vellum, a reputation layer on did:ckb, at 64.37% and an iOS Pocket Node grant at 52.8%, while rejecting several proposals on merit. The v0.209.0 node release hardened the tx-pool and networking stack, reaching roughly 89.5% miner adoption, and a new hard fork is in planning without a locked date. The busiest surface was Fiber: v1.1.0 shipped atomic Bitcoin Lightning swaps through a Cross-Chain Hub in August, Loop In/Out and hosted LSP work progressed, Android Pocket Node reached Google Play, and a July hackathon drew 66 submissions from roughly 100 participants, producing tools like Clasp for scoped, revocable AI-agent access to Fiber payments. 🔵 Ecosystem Narrative The organizing idea is that Bitcoin should gain programmability through mathematics rather than through trust. ➛ RGB++ and isomorphic binding. Bitcoin UTXOs are mapped directly onto CKB Cells, so Bitcoin assets gain smart contract functionality with no bridge, no wrapped token, and no custodian, which is a structurally different security model from every wrapped-BTC approach. ➛ The Cell Model and CKB-VM. A generalization of Bitcoin's UTXO that can hold arbitrary state, paired with a RISC-V based virtual machine, giving the chain flexibility while keeping the UTXO security properties Bitcoin relies on. ➛ Fiber Network. A Lightning-compatible payment layer for RGB++ assets, with v1.1.0 enabling atomic swaps between Bitcoin Lightning and CKB through a Cross-Chain Hub, plus Loop In/Out, hosted LSP, and liquidity management in progress. Currently testnet-oriented with mainnet still pending. ➛ State rent economics. Users pay for the on-chain storage they occupy rather than paying once and storing forever, which prevents state explosion and gives CKB a demand driver tied to actual data usage. ➛ Crypto agility for post-quantum. Rather than requiring a hard fork to change cryptography, CKB allows new lock scripts including post-quantum ones to be deployed as cells without a consensus vote, so the chain can adapt to a quantum threat without forcing migration on anyone. ➛ Proof-of-work commitment. One of the last major Layer 1s still using Nakamoto consensus, which has retained a genuinely loyal mining community in a landscape that has largely moved to proof-of-stake. ⚪ Token Utilities $CKB is a state-rent and security token rather than a conventional gas asset. ➛ State rent: holders pay for on-chain storage capacity, so occupying data space requires locking CKB, tying token demand directly to actual chain usage. ➛ Mining rewards: miners secure the proof-of-work network and receive primary issuance on a halving schedule capped at 33.6 billion. ➛ NervosDAO deposits: depositors lock CKB to receive a share of secondary issuance, which offsets the dilution that secondary issuance would otherwise impose. ➛ Transaction fees: pays for computation and transactions across the network and the RGB++ ecosystem. ⚪ Key Features ➛ RGB++ mapping Bitcoin UTXOs to CKB Cells with no bridge required. ➛ A Cell Model generalizing UTXO to hold arbitrary state, on a RISC-V virtual machine. ➛ State rent pricing storage to prevent state bloat. ➛ Crypto agility allowing post-quantum locks without a consensus vote. ➛ Proof-of-work consensus in a predominantly proof-of-stake landscape. ➛ Fiber Network extending RGB++ assets to Lightning-compatible payments. 🔵 Meet the Team Nervos runs a notably lean current team, with three names listed formally against a protocol whose development happens largely through open-source contribution and CKBA-coordinated grants rather than a conventional company structure. ▶️ Core Members: ➛ Terry Tai - CEO and Director | A core developer of the Yunbi exchange, the venue that first listed Ethereum in China, before co-founding Nervos in 2018. He remains the formal executive lead through the transition to CKBA-coordinated governance. ➛ Kevin Wang - Co-Founder | Founded Launch School, an online software engineering education platform, after engineering at IBM's Silicon Valley Lab, and led the North American organization through the project's early years. ➛ Daniel Lv - Co-Founder | Former CTO of imToken, one of the earliest and largest Ethereum wallets with millions of users, bringing genuine consumer product experience to a project whose hardest problem has always been reaching users. ➛ The founding architects | Worth naming even though they no longer appear on the formal roster: Jan Xie, a former Ethereum core R&D contributor, designed the Cell Model and the deliberate departures from Ethereum that define the chain, while Cipher Wang architected RGB++ and drove the Lightning integration thesis. Much of what makes Nervos technically distinctive traces to their work. ➛ CKBA and CKB Eco Fund | The load-bearing entities today. CKBA, a Swiss Verein, replaced the older foundation coordination layer and now runs governance including grant votes and treasury design, while the Eco Fund finances ecosystem development. The project raised $28M from Sequoia Capital, Polychain, and Wanxiang. 🔵 Ratings ➛ Use Case: ★★★★ (4/5). Nervos solves a genuinely hard problem in a genuinely novel way. RGB++ binds Bitcoin UTXOs to CKB Cells cryptographically rather than through a bridge, which is a structurally safer approach than every wrapped-BTC alternative, and Messari published a dedicated report recognizing it. The supporting work is real: over 400 dApps, JoyID past 800,000 users, state rent solving state bloat at the economic layer, crypto agility allowing post-quantum locks without a fork, and Fiber extending RGB++ to Lightning with atomic swaps now working on testnet. The 1-point deduction is adoption relative to capability. The BTCFi narrative has not delivered the volume the architecture anticipated, Fiber remains testnet-oriented with mainnet pending, and competing Bitcoin layers have captured more attention despite weaker technical claims. ➛ Tokenomics: ★★★⯪ (3.5/5). The design is unusually thoughtful and solves problems most chains ignore. Primary issuance is capped at 33.6 billion on Bitcoin-style halvings with the next in November 2027, supply is roughly 98% circulating so there is no unlock overhang or vesting cliff, and state rent creates genuine demand tied to storage usage rather than speculation. NervosDAO lets depositors offset secondary issuance dilution, which is an elegant answer to perpetual inflation. The 1.5-point deduction is that secondary issuance of 1.344 billion annually is perpetual by design, network usage is too low for state rent or fees to offset it meaningfully, and the token remains roughly 97% below its peak despite the recent bounce. ➛ Audits: ★★★ (3/5). This is where the record is hardest. Nervos has suffered two bridge security incidents, including a $3.9 million hack in June 2025 that damaged trust and triggered a formal warning from South Korea's DAXA alliance, following the earlier Force Bridge exploit. Two failures on the same class of infrastructure is a pattern rather than an accident. The mitigants are genuine: the core proof-of-work chain has run since November 2019 without a protocol-level exploit, the UTXO Cell Model has a smaller attack surface than account-based systems, the v0.209.0 release shows continued security hardening across the tx-pool and networking stack, and crypto agility means cryptographic upgrades can ship without a contentious fork. But I could not verify a named third-party audit or security score, and the bridge record has to carry weight. ➛ Community: ★★★★ (4/5). The builder signal is stronger than the market cap suggests. A July Fiber hackathon drew 66 submissions from roughly 100 participants, producing genuinely creative work including Clasp for scoped, revocable AI-agent access to payments and a Cashu mint settling over Fiber, which is the clearest evidence of developer density this ecosystem has produced. Governance through CKBA functions on substance rather than rubber-stamping, passing Vellum at 64.37% and the iOS Pocket Node grant at 52.8% while rejecting proposals like fiber-payjoin-kit V2 and a mobile SDK on technical grounds. The miner base has held through a 97% drawdown, with 89.5% upgrading promptly to the current client, and community activity spans Kenya, Shanghai, Vietnam, and Colorado. The 1-point deduction is scale: roughly 70 CKBuilders and 45 tracked projects is a real ecosystem but a small one, and the DAXA warning and KuCoin delisting have narrowed mainstream access. 🔵 Conclusion Nervos is one of the most intellectually serious projects in crypto and one of the least rewarded. A team drawn from Ethereum core development and the imToken wallet built a chain that deliberately reversed Ethereum's central choices, keeping proof-of-work and the UTXO model, then solved Bitcoin programmability through isomorphic binding rather than a bridge, which Messari recognized in print. State rent prices storage properly. Crypto agility lets post-quantum cryptography deploy without a hard fork. Fiber is bringing Lightning-compatible payments to RGB++ assets, and a 66-submission hackathon shows builders are actually using it. The risks are real and partly self-inflicted. Two bridge exploits, including a $3.9 million loss in June 2025, brought a regulatory warning from South Korea's DAXA and reinforced exactly the trust problem RGB++ was designed to solve. Secondary issuance continues perpetually while usage stays too thin to offset it. Exchange access has narrowed, Fiber remains testnet-oriented with mainnet pending, and the recent 40% bounce reflects a cheap asset rotating rather than demand arriving. But the bull case has a specific shape. If Bitcoin programmability becomes genuinely important, the approach requiring no bridge and no custodian is the one that should win, and Nervos has been building it since 2018 with Lightning integration now in active testing and a developer community shipping real tools against it. Nervos has spent eight years being technically right and commercially invisible. The question is whether the market ever arrives to check the work.

We are bringing #CKB Off Chain to Aba on Saturday, October 3. 🇳🇬 📅 Oct 3 | ⏰ 11 AM – 4 PM 📍 Innovation Growth Hub, 10 Calabar Street, Aba Entry is free. Just show up. Let's link up and build. The registration link is out Kindly register ckb-off-chain-aba.eventcrib.…

$CKB IS PUSHING DEEPER INTO BITCOIN LAYER-2 Nervos' Fiber ecosystem is working on Bitcoin interoperability through Lightning-based swaps. The bigger idea: Bitcoin doesn't have to remain isolated from faster payment infrastructure. If the rails work, BTC liquidity can interact with broader on-chain applications without abandoning Bitcoin's base layer. #CKB #Nervos #Bitcoin #Layer2

Cross-chain bridges are where trust assumptions usually fail. If CKB relies on a third party for liquidity, users still need to trust the operator. True decentralization means no one can be hacked or censor you. How does Nervos handle finality without intermediaries?

Can Bitcoin run smart contracts? RGB++ is a non-EVM Bitcoin layer that combines Bitcoin’s UTXO model with the RGB protocol and the Nervos blockchain to create native Bitcoin smart contracts. Our research team wrote a beginner’s guide to how it works. Check it out below: info.arkm.com/research/rgb-p…