It’s a pressure test for ideas. A preview of what crypto believes about its own future. A signal of where capital, builders, and institutions are leaning next.
This year, Nexus is showing up with a clear thesis:
The next evolution of DeFi is not about more apps. It’s about proof.
It’s about building the computational and cryptographic infrastructure that transforms digital finance from assumption-based to verification-based, from trust me systems to mathematically guaranteed ones.
Here’s where you can find the Nexus team throughout the week.
Liquidity is deeper. UX is better. Institutions are circling.
But the stack itself is still incomplete.
Today’s DeFi architecture rests on fragmented chains, trust-heavy bridges, opaque execution environments, and limited guarantees about correctness. It works — but it doesn’t yet scale to global finance.
So what does the 2026 DeFi stack actually look like?
At MultiChain Day, we’ll be speaking on a panel about “The 2026 DeFi Stack: Proof, Liquidity and Rails,” that will explore three pillars:
Proof — cryptographic verification as the base layer of trust.
Liquidity — unified, programmable capital across chains.
Rails — the infrastructure layer that connects systems without compromising security.
The future stack isn’t just faster. It’s verifiable by default.
For Wall Street to meaningfully adopt decentralized finance, the requirements are clear:
Deterministic execution
Verifiable settlement
Scalable compute
Compliant, auditable infrastructure
Cryptographic guarantees that survive adversarial environments
In other words, institutions need infrastructure that behaves less like an experiment and more like a market utility.
At AdoptionCon, we’ll be sharing our thoughts on a panel about “Institutional DeFi: What L1s Must Deliver to Win Wall Street,” where we will break down what Layer 1 networks must deliver to become credible rails for institutional capital and why performance alone is not enough.
Throughput without proof does not solve institutional risk.
The winning L1s will be those that can offer something fundamentally new: verifiable compute at global scale.
AI is accelerating. Markets are becoming more automated. Smart contracts are becoming more complex. But one question remains:
How do we verify that computation itself is correct?
Verifiable finance is the next frontier, a world where:
Every trade can be proven correct
Every risk model can be verified
Every cross-chain interaction can be validated
Every AI-generated financial decision can be audited cryptographically
This isn’t incremental improvement.
It’s a shift from “trust the system” to “verify the system.”
At BASS, we’ll explore how zero-knowledge proof systems and global-scale computation transform finance from opaque and assumption-based to transparent and mathematically guaranteed.
Because in a world increasingly driven by autonomous systems, verification becomes the new foundation of trust.
But the deeper shift happening right now is architectural.
We are moving toward a Verifiable Internet — one where computation, identity, data, and value are cryptographically proven, not socially assumed.
Finance is simply the first large-scale test case.
Nexus is building the world supercomputer to power that transition, scaling proof generation so verification becomes fast, accessible, and embedded into the infrastructure of the Internet itself.
We’ll be speaking across the events above and you’ll also find the Nexus team throughout the main conference. If you want to go deeper on verifiable compute, institutional-grade infrastructure, or what the 2026 DeFi stack really requires, let’s connect and build the rails together.
