Introducing NEX: An Internet Native Currency
Introducing NEX, the native digital currency of the Nexus blockchain. Token details * Ticker: NEX * Total Supply: 100 trillion Token distribution
The Nexus Trifecta
An economic machine built on the integration of three financial primitives: the Nexus Layer 1, the Nexus Exchange, and USDX.
A Blueprint for Protocol-Level Finance
Insights from the Messari Nexus Protocol Report Finance runs on complex computation, but almost none of it is verifiable from
Latest
The Transaction Volume Implications of Agent Adoption in Crypto
The difference between human and agent transaction patterns is not linear. It is exponential — and most infrastructure teams have not run the numbers.
Exponential Episode 31: Growing SheFi
A conversation with Maggie Love, the founder of SheFi, about six years of building one of crypto's largest
Exponential Episode 30: Selective Disclosure
Hank Korth has watched a lot of distributed systems cycles come and go. A professor in the Department of Computer
The Agent Onboarding Problem
The biggest unreported barrier to agentic DeFi adoption is not liquidity, not fees, and not speed — it's the onboarding flow.
Why AI Agents Need a Different Blockchain
Every major blockchain was designed for human users. AI agents transact at machine speed and need cryptographic proof of execution. That's a categorically different infrastructure problem.
Exponential Episode 29: From Nodes to Agents
Mrudul Gole, Head of Business Development at NodeOps, joined Exponential to trace the arc of a company that started as
Node Rush: Season 2 Wrap-Up
The Grid gave. The Runners dug. Here's what happened when 336,706 Node Runners went prospecting. Five weeks
Exponential Episode 28: Hiding the Wiring
The most important milestone in crypto, argues Nic Roberts-Huntley, will be the one that goes completely unnoticed. In this episode
News
Specialization, Verifiability, and the Machine Future: A Conversation with Nexus CEO Daniel Marin
In a recent episode of Web3 with Sam Kamani, Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin joined the show to unpack
Why Crypto’s Most Powerful Year Is Still Ahead
As the new year begins, predictions for where crypto is headed in 2026 are everywhere. But amidst the noise, a
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
Network
3.17: Testnet Closing. Mainnet Loading.
If you've been paying attention, you probably saw that we were building toward 3.17. You made a
Nexus Network Status 11.20.25
After several months of steep acceleration, November reads as a month of consolidation for the Nexus proving network. Some indicators
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
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
CoinMarketCap
This post is to inform CoinMarketCap that Nexus would like to register alec.james@nexus.xyz and daniel@nexus.xyz
Partnering with CatchBack Cards
We are excited to announce a new partnership with CatchBack Cards, a next-generation platform redefining how collectors engage with digital
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
Community
Node Rush: Season 2 Wrap-Up
The Grid gave. The Runners dug. Here's what happened when 336,706 Node Runners went prospecting. Five weeks
Nexus Community Report: Welcoming USDX
Over the past weeks, Nexus has continued to expand across infrastructure partnerships, global industry engagement, educational initiatives, and community-led creativity.
From Assumptions to Proof: Nexus Across Asia
What happens when you take a theory of the verifiable finance out of whitepapers and into real rooms, with real
Community Report: Verifiably Creative
Nexus is kicking off February with the continued momentum across our global community. Activity throughout the month includes our upcoming
Changelog
Nexus Changelog 02.13.26
This changelog outlines updates across three core areas: the trading interface and infrastructure powering the Exchange, improvements to the broader
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
Research
Permutation Proofs Déjà Vu
Modern zero-knowledge proofs are revisiting 20-year-old ideas If you have been working in zero-knowledge cryptography for a long time, the
Honesty in Crypto: A Skeptical Look at Cryptographic Models of Participants in Blockchains
At Frontier Forum during DevConnect 2025 in Buenos Aires, I spoke about something that has shaped my entire career in
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.
Events
The Verifiable Financial Machine
A conversation with Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin at ETH Denver ETHDenver this year felt different. The speculative energy
ETHDenver Recap
Economic efficiency is the unlock ETHDenver this year did not feel like a celebration of momentum. It felt like a
Nexus at ETHDenver
Building the rails for verifiable finance ETHDenver has always been more than a conference. It’s a pressure test for
From Assumptions to Proof: Nexus Across Asia
What happens when you take a theory of the verifiable finance out of whitepapers and into real rooms, with real
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
Artificial Intelligence
The Transaction Volume Implications of Agent Adoption in Crypto
The difference between human and agent transaction patterns is not linear. It is exponential — and most infrastructure teams have not run the numbers.
The Agent Onboarding Problem
The biggest unreported barrier to agentic DeFi adoption is not liquidity, not fees, and not speed — it's the onboarding flow.
Why AI Agents Need a Different Blockchain
Every major blockchain was designed for human users. AI agents transact at machine speed and need cryptographic proof of execution. That's a categorically different infrastructure problem.
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