Nexus Fires Up Testnet for 2.1M Users – Mainnet Launch Imminent

Nexus just lit the fuse on its public testnet—and 2.1 million users are already strapped in for the mainnet ride.

Stress-testing the future

The protocol's throwing open its doors to developers and degens alike, letting them poke at every transaction layer before real money hits the chain. No more 'trust us, it works'—now they've got to prove it under live fire.

Wall Street's worst nightmare

While TradFi banks still run batch processes from the COBOL era, Nexus is doing mainnet dress rehearsals at scale. The 2.1 million-strong waitlist suggests users would rather gamble on unfinished crypto infra than endure another 9am-5pm ACH delay.

Mainnet countdown starts... now.

Under the hood, the Nexus supercomputer is designed to scale verifiable computation through a unique Layer 1 architecture, where each node runs secure workloads using zero-knowledge VIRTUAL machines (zkVMs).

This approach prioritizes proof over promises and unlocks exponential scalability, massive performance improvements, and auditability essential to power the next generation of AI agents, applications, and systems.

Nexus recently launched two new initiatives to make Verifiable AI a reality and the Nexus ecosystem now includes more than 50 partners. 

The Nexus Verifiable AI Lab is a dedicated R&D division focused on the intersection of verifiability, economics, and artificial intelligence. The Verifiable Intelligence Alliance brings together leading institutions to promote responsible, verifiable AI infrastructure.

This is the final testnet before the Nexus mainnet release later this year. 

Join the testnet at app.nexus.xyz today to contribute compute power and help build a verifiable world. 

Nexus is building a Layer 1 blockchain for the AI era. Nexus has a team of experts in cryptography, research, and engineering developing the Nexus Layer 1 blockchain and Nexus zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine) to create a verifiable world. Nexus is backed by premier investors including Blockchain Builders Fund, Dragonfly Capital Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Pantera Capital.

This content is sponsored and does not serve as an endorsement by Blockworks. The veracity of this content has not been verified and should not serve as financial advice. We encourage readers to conduct their own research before making financial decisions.

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