In partnership: Building the world’s largest verifiable supercomputer
In the span of just over a year, Nexus has grown from a bold idea into one of the most ambitious experiments in verifiable computation.
Testnet III marked a milestone few imagined possible: more than 3 million verified users and 6.7 million prover nodes contributed compute from around the world. Together, they produced over 24 million transactions and nearly half a million contracts across 90% of countries and 1,277 cities. We achieved this, in part, by working closely with the 96 mission-aligned ecosystem partners.
Technology aside, this is proof that a global community is ready to build the world’s largest decentralized supercomputer. Now, with mainnet on the horizon, we are preparing to evolve from experimentation to production.
The Nexus Partner Ecosystem.
Ecosystem growth and partnerships
What began as a small group of cryptographers and engineers has expanded into a rapidly scaling ecosystem. Nexus now counts nearly 100 partnerships across zero-knowledge technology, finance, and AI — each reinforcing our overall mission.
Our partners have extremely specific focuses, but are also interdisciplinary. They help us expand our presence, integrate new technologies, and distribute our products to high-quality teams and audiences all around the world. The Nexus ecosystem counts 37 partners relevant to ZK, 38 relevant to AI, 25 relevant to compute, 24 for DeFi, 52 for our Layer 1 and 5 Web2 partners.
At a quick glance, here are some of the specific collaborations we’ve already engaged with:
StarkWare: Integrating their STWO prover facilitated our zkVM 3.0 being 1000x more efficient than the previous iteration. We’ve also engaged in several high-attendance X spaces and events with their team.
Onyx: Bringing tokenization and AI-powered finance to small and medium enterprises needing distribution, loyalty and capital formation tooling, demonstrating how verifiable finance can unlock real-world economic opportunity.
Dynamic: Working with Dynamic as our lead wallet provider meant 3M+ users could sign up to Nexus and verify their profile frictionlessly, and without needing a seed phrase. We’re currently exploring zk-based identity applications together.
Snag: Working closely to form a deeper understanding of our users, to better incentivize and reward them for using Nexus. (Listen to our recent podcast with Snag to learn more about questing).
Babylon: We’re working together to bring the economic security of 58,000+ BTC to Nexus consensus.
We consider all of our partners to be co-builders of a new market structure. Together, they demonstrate how Nexus is moving from cryptographic theory into production-grade finance, AI, and infrastructure.
Global community and testnet results
We’ve been very grateful to feel the presence of partners and their communities globally and also, locally.
In June we hosted a MCP and Verifiable AI night for demos and video coding with Bay Area builders. The event had some great turnout, thanks to joining forces with our AI x Web3 partners Reppo Network, Lunal, and TXYZ AI.
We’re hosting another event in Korea Blockchain Week, about Verifiable AI x DeFi, alongside Cosmostation, Babylon, Story, Osmosis, and Babylon.
At the frontier of finance
The promise of Nexus extends beyond compute. It is about redefining the structure of markets themselves.
Tokenized assets and stablecoins Enabling transparent, programmable, and proof-secured representations of value.
Lending and derivatives Creating markets where fairness is mathematically verifiable.
Autonomous agents Providing a native coordination layer where AI-driven systems can simulate, optimize, and execute strategies without intermediaries.
By embedding financial primitives directly into the Layer 1, Nexus ensures that markets themselves are verifiable. This is more than DeFi as we know it — it is a new category of finance where every actor, rule, and execution step is provable.
Defining the next era of trust
The last decade of blockchain proved that decentralized networks can move money without banks. The next decade will prove that entire markets can operate on proof, not promises. Nexus is building that future.
From testnet milestones to global partnerships, from a thriving community to the imminent mainnet launch, Nexus has already demonstrated the viability of a sovereign, verifiable supercomputer. Now, the focus shifts from testing to transforming.
As we move towards mainnet in Q4 2025, the invitation is open: to developers building applications, to institutions seeking trust in AI and finance, and to individuals who want their devices — and their participation — to power the next era of digital infrastructure.
The age of verifiable finance is just beginning. Nexus is ready to lead it.
Find where you fit and learn more about the growing Nexus Ecosystem.
At Nexus, strategic growth is at the forefront of my mission, leveraging my expertise in building partnerships and driving business development while harnessing zk and blockchain technologies.
