Permissionless IV Recap: Where the Stack Is Headed
Permissionless IV brought the industry to New York with a clear focus on what’s working. AI is showing up
Permissionless IV brought the industry to New York with a clear focus on what’s working. AI is showing up in protocol design. Stablecoins are gaining traction as core infrastructure. DeFi is evolving toward automation. Regulation is starting to recognize how these systems connect.
Nexus was there to be part of that conversation and to share how our work fits into what’s next.
AI was widely discussed at Permissionless, with a focus on practical tools rather than hype.
At Nexus, we’re building infrastructure with AI in mind from the start.
That includes use cases like verified inference, automated execution, and agent coordination. We’re not layering AI on top. We’re designing systems that assume it from the beginning.
Nexus Founder and CEO Daniel Marin was a speaker on a panel about open source AI. Find the talk here:
A key theme was that stablecoins are no longer just a way to move value. They’re becoming the liquidity behind payments, credit, and capital formation.
This is a key focus for us at Nexus. We’re exploring what it means to build systems that start with stablecoins as a default. It’s about giving agents and users access to capital that moves through programmable systems.
The DeFi conversation was less about total value locked (TVL) and more about coordination.
That perspective is shaping how we approach execution, strategy, and composability across the stack.
For more on this, check out our series on the layers of the Nexus Layer:
Permissionless IV made it clear that crypto’s most interesting edge is no longer just financial. It’s computational. The builders leading this next phase are treating AI, stablecoins, and DeFi not as separate categories but as parts of the same system.
That’s the future we’re building toward at Nexus.