What if you could hear the future being built — one idea, one insight, one proof at a time?
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Exponential, a new Nexus podcast about the people, code, and capital shaping the frontier of technology. Each episode features conversations with founders, engineers, and thinkers working at the edge of what’s possible — from cryptography and AI to systems design and economic coordination.
Our mission is simple: to surface the deep motivations and bold architectures behind tomorrow’s most important systems.
Episode 1: The founding story of Nexus
To open the series, we sat down with Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin for a wide-ranging conversation on the origins of the company, the pursuit of verifiable computation, and the foundational vision driving Nexus forward.
The episode unfolds like a live creative review — title reveal and all — and quickly sets the tone for the kind of dialogue we’re aiming for: technically rigorous, philosophically curious, and grounded in first principles.
“In AI, the question is: how do we make machines think? In cryptography, it’s: how do we make machines tell the truth?”
That question — how to build machines that can reliably tell the truth — is at the core of verifiable computation, and it’s the guiding principle that led Daniel from theoretical physics and AI research into founding Nexus. He describes a pivotal realization: that the holy grail of cryptography (a machine that can prove anything) and the architectural future of blockchain (a world computer that can verify any computation) are, in fact, the same goal.
“It’s obvious that the world will need a lot of computing power coming from zero-knowledge cryptography to prove at insane rates — to power the financial layer of civilization.”
Throughout the episode, Daniel traces a journey that begins with reading physics books at age six and leads to building what he calls a “Manhattan Project-style institution” to advance the frontier of verifiable computing. Along the way, we get glimpses of the guiding framework behind Nexus — a company built to push performance, and to build systems with indestructibility at their core.
“Imagine the future of the Nexus computer as a biological system — something that, if attacked, can regenerate. That’s how important liveness is.”
The episode closes by looping from the abstract back to the elemental. Why does verifiable computation matter?
“It’s a tool we’ve developed to be able to get along with each other, to tell each other the truth, and to coordinate at scale. That’s the goal of Nexus.”
Listen now
You can find Exponential on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Whether you’re a builder, investor, or simply someone fascinated by the future of computation, we hope you’ll subscribe and join the conversation.
This is just the beginning — and the curve is exponential.
