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Nexus Laboratories, Inc.

Nexus is developing a Layer 1 blockchain designed to function as a 'world supercomputer' for the AI era. By leveraging a zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM), Nexus aims to provide a high-performance, scalable, and verifiable compute platform. Users can contribute their device's idle compute power to the network and earn rewards, facilitating mass adoption. The project is focused on building infrastructure for autonomous applications and agentic intelligence.
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Description

Nexus is a technology company building infrastructure for the AI era. Their core products include the Nexus Layer 1, a 100% EVM-compatible blockchain designed to function as a world supercomputer by concentrating global compute power. This is powered by the Nexus zkVM, a general-purpose virtual machine that enables fast, verifiable compute at a large scale, compatible with languages like Rust, Go, and C++. Nexus also operates the Nexus Verifiable AI Lab, an R&D division focused on the intersection of AI and zero-knowledge proofs, exploring areas like verifiable AI, AI for verification, economic AI agents, and AI-driven economic systems. They encourage participation through their Testnet, where users can contribute their device's idle compute power to earn rewards and help build the network. Nexus targets developers, researchers, validators, and collaborators looking to build autonomous applications and agentic intelligence on their platform.

Grant Funding

VC Funding

None
2024

$0

$25M

Technology & Skills

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RUNTIME
INFRASTRUCTURE
TRADING SYSTEM
MENTORSHIP
KUBERNETES
COLD DATA STORAGE
PULUMI
POSTGRESQL
BACKEND
PARALLEL SYSTEMS
ARCHITECTURE
SYSTEM
LOW-LATENCY SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP
SDK
ORACLE
LAYER1
THROUGHPUT
ENGLISH
LOW LATENCY
GOOGLE CLOUD
CONCURRENCY
HIGH-THROUGHPUT SYSTEMS
PROFILING
DESIGN DOC
GRAFANA
BENCHMARKING
TESTING
CACHE-AWARE DESIGN
C#
CLOUD
BLOCKCHAIN
PROMETHEUS
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM
CONCURRENT SYSTEMS
ZKVM
DESIGN DOCUMENTATION
CODE REVIEW
LATENCY
GO
API
CONSENSUS
TERRAFORM
MATCHING ENGINE
AI
DATABASE
DISTRIBUTED
RUST
TRADING
ZERO-COPY
GCP
RFC
CACHE LOCALITY
MATCHING
NEXT.JS
DESIGN
TRANSACTION ORDERING
NODE
PYTHON
TRADING SYSTEMS
COMPILER
INCIDENT RESPONSE
BIGTABLE
FINANCE
OBSERVABILITY
DOCKER
TRACING
AWS
TYPESCRIPT
I/O
DEX
SETTLEMENT
CI/CD
TELEMETRY
ON-CALL
LOCK-FREE CONCURRENCY
MEMORY LAYOUT
DATA INDEXING
RISK ENGINE
LOCK-FREE DATA STRUCTURE
AZURE
CLI