The New Kind of Network is an open-sourced protocol for public peer-to-peer networks to share network bandwidth. The project was launched in January of last year and has Stephen Wolfram as an advisor. There is a There are a number of notable use cases for NKN. There is a The contract with iQIYI is for a content delivery system. China Mobile has a contract with edge computing. D-chat is a secure messaging app. There is a A simple local majority rule can lead to system-level convergence in a small number of iteration. There is a Direct peer to peer communication is possible without a centralized server with the use of a global addressing scheme.