Nexus Changelog 11.14.25
DEX Alpha launch and Gridcrew Season One finale The past two weeks have been transformative for Nexus, with two major
Introducing the Nexus DEX Alpha
A verifiable DEX, built for you Crypto exchanges weren’t built for traders — they were built for volume. For too
The Nexus Roadmap
The architecture of a value-positive Layer 1 When Nexus launched in 2024, it was introduced as a universal verifiable machine
Nexus Milestones: A Look Back
In the span of just a few years, Nexus has evolved from an ambitious prototype to a globally recognized effort
Gridcrews: Choose Your Path
Gridcrew Assembly is live. Choose your team. Contribute together. Win rewards. Node Running started as individual contribution. You secured Glyphs.
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Nexus Changelog 11.14.25
DEX Alpha launch and Gridcrew Season One finale The past two weeks have been transformative for Nexus, with two major
Exponential Episode 16: Nexus DEX Alpha
In Episode 16 of Exponential, Alec James, product manager at Nexus, introduces a major new release: the Nexus DEX Alpha,
Meet Nexus at DevConnect Buenos Aires
This month, the Ethereum community gathers in Buenos Aires for DevConnect — a weeklong series of conversations, experiments, and vision-setting across
Node Runners: Season One Wrap-Up
From individual provers to Gridcrews: how 560,000 runners built the network together When we launched Node Runners in September,
Nexus APAC Community Recap: Shanghai & Chengdu Meetups
As part of Nexus’s ongoing commitment to building a global and engaged community, we recently hosted a series of
Community Report: Proof of Nexus, Community Call, and the NEXY Awards
October was an extraordinary month for Nexus, marked by global events, new milestones, and remarkable community contributions. From meetups in
Meet the 2025 NEXY Award Winners
When we launched the Nexus Creator Academy in early October, our goal was to open a space for creators around
Exponential Episode 15: Dev Rel
In this episode of Exponential, Dylan Kawalec, Head of Developer Relations at Phala Network, breaks down how Phala is building
Artificial Intelligence
AI Collective Talk with Alec James Recap
Over the last decade, AI has surged from speculative research to high-stakes deployment. During an AI Collective talk, Nexus business
AI, Proof, and the Future: Five Questions with Tanner Duve
The people working at Nexus come from a wide-variety of backgrounds, and each of them bring a different skill-set that
Automating constraints generation for the Nexus zkVM
The Nexus zkVM is steadily evolving, with each release introducing incremental improvements in functionality and performance — all while maintaining a
Introducing the Nexus zkMCP: Verifiable Model Execution
Do you know what this number represents? "proof": "0xa3b9f83e95c3c2b...d904a" It’s not just a string
News
Climb the Ranks: The Nexus Leaderboard is Live
The new Nexus leaderboard is now live. We designed it to recognize top contributors, spark friendly competition, and turn every
Yes, Nexus is on TikTok. No, We’re Not Dancing (Yet)
The Verifiable Internet just got a little more personal. We’re launching a Nexus presence on TikTok — not to replicate
Nexus Testnet III Is Now Live — Everywhere
Today marks a major milestone: Nexus Testnet III is now fully live across the globe. Over the past 24 hours,
Introducing VIA: The Verifiable Intelligence Alliance
The Verifiable Intelligence Alliance (VIA) is a new initiative designed to bring together leaders in cryptography, AI, and economics to
Network
Verifiable Finance: A New Foundation for the World’s Most Critical System
Finance is the beating heart of modern civilization. It allocates resources, measures risk, and fuels innovation. Yet the infrastructure that
Nexus Network Status 9.09.25
The Nexus network continues to prove its strength as a high-performance, verifiable computation layer. This new monthly report highlights key
Introducing Snag: A Smarter Way to Quest
Your digital adventures are about to get a serious upgrade. Today, we’re launching Snag — the new questing engine fueling
Optimizing Contribution at Scale: Fairer Job Assignments for Provers
We’ve made prover job assignments more fair, stable, and resistant to abuse, rewarding real contributors and improving the health
Verifiable Internet
A Post-User Internet Reflections from Proof of Talk 2025
At Proof of Talk 2025, the closing panel featured leaders from Sui, MetaversX, Tezos, and Hedera. What started as a
Nexus Storage Layer
Modern AI thrives on data — but storing that data is becoming increasingly untenable. Today, uploading a simple 10MB image to
The Nexus Consensus Layer: Building a Capital Supercomputer
The Universal Proof is a cryptographic artifact that can prove the correctness of any computation on the Nexus Layer 1.
Nexus OS: Muchao Tang on Connecting
In a recent Nexus Chat, Head of Communications Erica Jostedt sat down with Product Design Lead Muchao Tang for a
Partnerships
Scaling Human-AI Networks with Newfoundation
At Nexus, we believe the future of AI isn’t about replacing humans, it’s about expanding our capacity to
Partnering with Nubila Network to Build the Physical Perception Layer for AI
At Nexus, we believe that the future of intelligence must be both verifiable and rooted in reality. That’s why
Partnering with Avail to Power the Modular Blockchain Era
At Nexus, we are building verifiable infrastructure designed for the next wave of scalable, interoperable applications. To help reach those
Partnering with Spheron on Scaling Verifiable Compute with the World’s Largest Community-Powered Data Center
At Nexus, we’re building verifiable infrastructure to power the next generation of blockchains and AI applications. Today, we’re
Community
Node Runners: Season One Wrap-Up
From individual provers to Gridcrews: how 560,000 runners built the network together When we launched Node Runners in September,
Nexus APAC Community Recap: Shanghai & Chengdu Meetups
As part of Nexus’s ongoing commitment to building a global and engaged community, we recently hosted a series of
Community Report: Proof of Nexus, Community Call, and the NEXY Awards
October was an extraordinary month for Nexus, marked by global events, new milestones, and remarkable community contributions. From meetups in
Meet the 2025 NEXY Award Winners
When we launched the Nexus Creator Academy in early October, our goal was to open a space for creators around
Changelog
Nexus Changelog 11.14.25
DEX Alpha launch and Gridcrew Season One finale The past two weeks have been transformative for Nexus, with two major
Nexus Changelog 10.31.25
UI refinements, prover upgrades, and a new status page This issue of changelog contains focused upgrades across the Nexus stack
Nexus Changelog 10.17.25
This week marks two important shifts across the Nexus network — one infrastructural, one cultural. On the technical side, we’ve
Nexus Changelog 10.03.25
This edition of the Nexus Changelog marks a major milestone for the Node Runners community. The Node Runners Reward Shop
Research
Economic Throughput and Security in a Proof-of-Stake Blockchain
The Nexus blockchain is still in the design stage, but we want to share some ideas about our vision for
ETHPrague 2025 Field Notes
ETHPrague 2025 brought together leading voices from the Ethereum and broader Web3 ecosystem to discuss the future of decentralized technology.
Eurocrypt 2025 Field Notes: Invited Lectures, Awards, and Recent Results in Cryptography Research
Eurocrypt 2025, held in the heart of Europe, brought together the global cryptographic community to discuss cutting-edge research across both
zk in the Real World: Verifying Cancer Research
From December 9 to December 13, the Nexus network operated in a testnet phase, providing participants worldwide an opportunity to
Events
Meet Nexus at DevConnect Buenos Aires
This month, the Ethereum community gathers in Buenos Aires for DevConnect — a weeklong series of conversations, experiments, and vision-setting across
Nexus APAC Community Recap: Shanghai & Chengdu Meetups
As part of Nexus’s ongoing commitment to building a global and engaged community, we recently hosted a series of
Introducing the Nexus Creator Academy
A global invitation to shape the future, one story at a time Across the world, creators are changing how people
Korea Blockchain Week 2025
Seoul’s crypto moment and Nexus’s strategic milestones Korea Blockchain Week 2025 (KBW2025) wrapped up in late September, turning
zkVM
Automating constraints generation for the Nexus zkVM
The Nexus zkVM is steadily evolving, with each release introducing incremental improvements in functionality and performance — all while maintaining a
Using Coding Agents for zkVM Guests: Applications to Accountability
One of the main reasons to use a zkVM is ease of development: instead of having to manually implement a
Infinite Compute, Infinite Security: The Road to the Universal Proof
At Nexus, we’re building a world supercomputer — one capable of proving billions of computations per second. The reason? We
The Nexus zkVM 3.0
We're excited to announce the Nexus zkVM 3.0, our next-generation zero-knowledge virtual machine. This release is a