In a wide-ranging conversation on the Cryptonews Podcast, Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin laid out his vision for a more trustworthy internet — one where cryptographic proofs, not blind trust, underpin everything from AI inference to blockchain consensus.

During the show, Daniel recounted the founding moment of Nexus in 2022, when a breakthrough in proof composition sparked the idea for a distributed, verifiable supercomputer.

Since then, Nexus has shipped three major testnets and developed a new kind of scalable layer 1 blockchain powered by the Nexus zkVM.

“The more nodes you connect to Nexus, the faster the network gets. That’s the inverse of how blockchains have worked until now.”

Daniel used the podcast to explain how Nexus is able to harnesses idle compute power from devices around the world — not through traditional GPU marketplaces, but through coordinated, verifiable task orchestration. This allows Nexus to prove computations at massive scale, enabling not only more efficient blockchains, but also secure AI, private identity systems, and more compute-intensive tasks.

As AI becomes ubiquitous, Daniel emphasized the urgent need for infrastructure that can verify digital outputs:

“We’re already close to a world where we don’t know what’s true or false online. Verifiability isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity.”

Check out the Nexus OS at app.nexus.xyz.