Those who say Nock copied Pearl is pure comedy.
Let's look at the facts, backed by their own recent announcements:
1. Nock launched May 2025 with ZK-PoW as its native core. Pearl launched April 2026 with matmul.
2. Pearl's AMA tried to downplay ZK integration as a "potential application." But look at their official recent announcement : they are now formally collaborating with
@attestable to integrate ZK proofs and provide "cryptographic assurance that an entity actually ran a computation."
3. This is a direct admission. Pearl's base consensus cannot verify computational provenance on its own. They are now bolting on the exact ZK proof-of-inference architecture that Nockchain built from day one.
4. And the technical evasion? The AMA couldn't provide a numeric prefill-vs-decode or dense-vs-MoE cost split. They claimed "effectively zero overhead" but dodged giving real numbers on the actual overhead.
The "copycat" narrative is dead. Nock didn't copy Pearl's matmul. Nock gave Pearl miners a way to merge-mine while it runs on real ZK-PoUW.
$PRL is adopting
$NOCK architecture because their base layer can't do it. What will Pearl holders say now? What's the excuse?
We are cooperating with
@prlnet to combine ZK proofs with proof of useful work: announcing a new scheme that is more flexible, more secure, and cheaper to use.
That removes any trust assumptions from pacing and allows verified compliance.