How is NKN different from, like, the internet? Nothing on the homepage tells me why there is a blockchain involved. Nothing it talks about cannot be done with TCP/TLS/etc etc.
If it's a p2p framework then something like libp2p, holochain, or p2panda would be much more appropriate than a blockchain with "incentivized miners" (incentivized to do what??).
I think the reason people are reinventing the wheel is because blockchain tech has extremely limited use-cases and all the people who tried (or are trying) to use it outside of its applicable domain are misguided, prompting further exploration into the p2p space that isn't tethered (no pun intended) to a global state that has to be shared by every node in the system which is an inherently unscalable solution for anything beyond a handful of performant nodes (ie, sharing transactions between banks or something).
to route traffic. NKN is a CHORD overlay on top of the internet. clients connect to nodes and nodes route traffic from one node to another until the packet reaches its destination. clients stay anonymous (no IP leakage). end-to-end encrypted communication. "Proof-of-Relay" algorithm for mining. consensus via MOCA.
the only state of the art blockchain technology I know of. and they dont even pay me to say this.
The purpose of the shared project has nothing to do with nkn, either in usage or ahem a blockchain.
The shared project is more of a p2p VPN to access remote services privately, as opposed to a VPN for accessing the broader internet. Yes, there are other services that do something similar to Zrok, but this actually builds on one (openZiti) presumably to handle the connections more abstractly (and also presumably to launch their own paid SaaS endpoint?). I could see this more competing with Tailscale to access Internal tools at a company, or for home-lab users who want to access/share services they're running remotely.
