It's true, the last embers of our Camp Nexus campfire are glowing. Over the past few months, we watched our community transform into the most enthusiastic campers we could have imagined. From Merit Badge challenges to Hidden Badge hunts, from Wayfinding Wednesdays to Campfire Fridays, Camp Nexus was open to everyone, and it often felt like everyone showed up.
But here's what made this truly meaningful: while you were earning badges and climbing leaderboards, you were also helping build something revolutionary. Every compute job you ran, every node you connected, every challenge you completed meant you were actively shaping the foundation for the verifiable world.
Let's talk about what happened when over 1 million participants decided to contribute to something bigger than themselves.
Here's what you accomplished:
3+ trillion Testnet III points distributed across the community
Nearly 400k badges earned on quest.nexus.xyz
600k replies to our challenges and quests
500k reposts expanding the network
2.2 million total engagements across all our content
Thousands of shares that brought even more contributors to the network
These aren't just metrics — they represent every job run and every node connected that contributed to scaling verifiable compute across the globe. Each node that joined made the network more powerful.
Building verifiable infrastructure, one node at a time
Camp Nexus may have felt like a game, but it wasn't. You were participating in a shift from blind trust to mathematical assurance, from centralized control to distributed participation. Each time you contributed compute, you were helping build confidence in the outputs we rely on and ensuring that incentives flow to the people who make them possible.
This matters because the Internet today runs on compute, but we rarely see how — or where — it happens. Most of what powers our digital world is hidden behind proprietary infrastructure and unverifiable execution. As a result, trust online is increasingly strained and dependent on brand reputation rather than cryptographic truth.
What do we do now? Well, let's take a peek into the near future.
Camp Nexus badges will live forever. You'll always be able to earn these badges, and we're building quests that will let you collect every single Camp Nexus badge. Even if you were late to Camp Nexus, and missed those early badges, don't worry. We'll keep adding them to quest.nexus.xyz until every Camp Nexus badge is available.
A new campaign is coming soon. We're taking everything we learned from your incredible participation and building something even more engaging. If you thought contributing to Camp Nexus was rewarding, you haven't seen anything yet.
The campfire at Camp Nexus might be winding down, but the infrastructure you helped build is just getting started. By participating, you helped move us one step closer to making verifiable compute universally accessible.
Through your participation, your contributions are now part of a live map showing compute flowing across the globe. Your work travels with you, and your presence in the network is recognizable, reputational, and repeatable.
Keep contributing, keep supporting each other, and get ready for whatever comes next. The infrastructure of the future needs people like you.
Ryan Crowe
Ryan Crowe
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Daniel McGlynn
