DEX Alpha launch and Gridcrew Season One finale

The past two weeks have been transformative for Nexus, with two major milestones that push both the technical boundaries of our platform and the depth of community participation.

First, we launched Nexus DEX Alpha, a verifiable decentralized exchange built on Nexus’s native orderbook engine and verifiable infrastructure.

The DEX delivers institutional-grade performance in a fully non-custodial architecture and offering low-latency execution, deep liquidity, and transparent trade matching.

It’s a major step toward our broader goal of building verifiable finance: performant enough for serious traders, decentralized enough to uphold the values of the open web.

At the same time, Gridcrew Season One came to a close, with over 560,000 node runners participating and 78,504 runners joining and competing across the SYN, ACK, and FIN crews.

To commemorate the season, we launched crew-specific NFTs — our most popular collection to date — with over 100,000 NFTs minted within days of release. These tokens not only represent contribution, but begin to lay the foundation for a new kind of community identity.

Together, these updates expand both what you can do on Nexus and how you can belong here.

Nexus DEX Alpha

Launched the Alpha version of Nexus DEX, a non-custodial central limit order book (CLOB) exchange built on our native proving infrastructure
Introduced limit orders, orderbook mid-price calculation, and real-time streaming of market data via WebSockets
Integrated TradingView-powered live charts, real-time orderbook visualizations, and complete trade history
Deployed WebSocket infrastructure for streaming oracle prices, aggregated candles, orderbook updates, and live trades using Redis
Built a streamlined onboarding flow including invite code access, wallet creation, and test token claiming/depositing
Enhanced the mobile trading experience with responsive panels, a dedicated trade icon, and optimized navigation across charting and order placement

Gridcrew Season One — final results

Concluded the first-ever Gridcrew season, with faction leaderboards finalized and team statistics tallied
Released commemorative NFTs for each faction — SYN, ACK, and FIN — with live mint count tracking and integration into the Nexus Quest platform
Reached over 100,000 NFT mints within days, marking Gridcrew NFTs as the most claimed digital assets in Nexus history

These developments mark a key moment for Nexus. We’ve expanded what’s possible for traders on-chain, and deepened how contributors participate in and shape the network. Expect more DEX features and new community modes in the coming cycles — including what comes next after Gridcrews.

Get early access to the DEX nexus.xyz/trade, track your progress at quest.nexus.xyz, and follow development at docs.nexus.xyz and https://github.com/nexus-xyz/.

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