What happens when you take a theory of the verifiable finance out of whitepapers and into real rooms, with real builders?
Over the past few weeks, Nexus did exactly that, hosting a series of meetups across Asia to engage directly with developers, researchers, and Web3 communities thinking deeply about the future of trust, computation, and finance.
Rather than four isolated events, this was a single conversation carried across borders: how cryptographic proof can replace institutional trust, and what it takes to build infrastructure capable of supporting that shift at global scale.
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One core idea, shared widely
Across every stop, the Nexus team, led by founder and CEO Daniel Marin and chief scientist Jens Groth, focused on a single, unifying question:
What does it mean to build financial and digital systems that are verifiable by default?
The discussions explored:
Why trust assumptions are the hidden bottleneck of today’s Internet
How zero-knowledge proofs and zkVMs unlock verifiable computation at scale
What performance breakthroughs like Nexus’ prover architecture make possible
How verifiable finance changes not just security, but system design itself
These weren’t abstract talks. They were grounded, technical, and forward-looking, designed to connect cryptographic rigor with real-world outcomes developers care about.
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A regional conversation
While the message was consistent, the energy came from the local communities themselves
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Nexus met builders and researchers across Seoul, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong, each city contributing its own perspective, questions, and priorities. Some conversations leaned deeply technical. Others zoomed out to infrastructure, coordination, and adoption. All of them reinforced the same signal: demand for verifiable systems is global, and growing.
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Looking ahead
The conversations that started in these rooms will continue, in code, research, and future collaborations, as Nexus builds toward a world where verifiability is a guarantee, not a promise.
If you joined us in person, thank you for helping shape that future. If you missed a stop, we’re just getting started.
