Daniel Marin

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 make verifiability a first-class property of intelligent systems. Backed by initial funding from Nexus, VIA will coordinate research, develop open industry standards, and accelerate the adoption of provable, auditable, and

May 20, 2025 - 3 min read

MCP Server Support on Nexus: How Nexus is Connecting AI Agents to Web3

The relationship between blockchain and artificial intelligence represents one of the most significant technological convergences of our generation. At Nexus, we're not just building another L1 blockchain; we're creating the infrastructure for an AI-native financial system. Today, I want to share a key component of this

May 20, 2025 - 6 min read

Nexus partners with Polyhedra Network to build a next-gen hyper-parallel zkVM powered by the GKR protocol

We're thrilled to announce the Nexus and Polyhedra Network partnership to build a hyper-parallel and ultra-performant zkVM powered by the GKR protocol. Polyhedra consistently pushes cutting-edge ZK products to market. Emerging from the foundational zkBridge paper [1] developed in collaboration with Dawn Song at Berkeley and Dan Boneh

September 16, 2024 - 3 min read

Nexus 2.0: Jolt, HyperNova, and a New SDK

We’re excited to announce the Nexus 2.0, the next iteration of our zero-knowledge machine. 2.0 is a major leap forward over last month’s 1.0 zkVM release, and introduces some key new components that are driving performance and efficiency gains: * A new prover frontend, powered by

July 16, 2024 - 3 min read

Nexus raises $25M in Series A funding to bring zero-knowledge proofs to Internet scale

We’re excited to announce $25M in Series A funding co-led by Lightspeed and Pantera, with participation from Dragonfly, Faction, and Blockchain Builders Fund. This follows a $2M seed round led by Dragonfly in late 2022, with participation from Alliance, SV Angel, Blockchain Builders Fund, and others. Enabling the Verifiable

June 10, 2024 - 1 min read

Introducing the Nexus Project

We are excited to introduce the Nexus Project, a scientific and engineering effort aiming to bring truth to the field of computation. We’re bringing to life a new form of compute: verifiable computation, and are powering it with open science and open-source software so it can benefit everyone. Our

May 24, 2024 - 2 min read