Alex Fowler

1/ Jolt now supports zero-knowledge 🧵 This makes Jolt suitable for privacy applications — no SNARK recursion, no "wrapping", no sacrifice of transparency. Marginal increase in proof size (~3 KB). Prover time is essentially unchanged. a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/…

This... We need to think about AGI from the perspective of "how measurement and verification shape the agentic economy."

Looks like the market structure bill fight on yield won’t be our last, because we will have the same fight on rewards and yield in the OCC rule making process. It makes no sense, and in fact is regressive, to not allow for rewards / cash back / loyalty for using money on platform and would harm both many current fintechs and consumers. The banking lobby is trying incredibly hard to harm consumers and protect their moats.

Excited to introduce USDX, a new U.S. dollar product for a new era of finance. USDX is 1:1-backed by U.S. Treasuries and cash equivalents, and is the upcoming native stablecoin of the Nexus economy. USDX will endow the Layer 1, the Exchange and the broader Nexus Ecosystem with exiting new economic properties.

Introducing USDX — the native dollar of the Nexus economy. A shared settlement layer for all apps, trades, and markets on Nexus. One asset. Unified liquidity. Protocol-native incentives. Capital is converging, and USDX is its native home. Read more: blog.nexus.xyz/introducing-us…

gnexus. via @DefiantNews thedefiant.io/news/defi/nexu…

It’s important that you understand what happened last night. Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue. In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired. CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.” In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump. But censorship always backfires. Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

Tomorrow, some of the leading minds in privacy, including our very own @JensGroth16, will discuss the future of the stack. We'll see you there.

We were busy last year. Nexus shipped zkVM 3.0, scaled to 3M+ users, and ran two global testnets. We moved from proving infrastructure to building financial infrastructure. In case you missed it, here's our 2025: blog.nexus.xyz/2025-year-in-r…

We just published "Hash-based signatures for Bitcoin," a new analysis of post-quantum schemes by @kudinov_mikhail and myself at @blksresearch. This paper serves as a gentle intro to hash-based schemes and explores how to optimize them specifically for application in Bitcoin. 🧵

A quadrillion FLOPS of verifiable compute. Real workloads, running on a real network, powered by a global community of builders. This was your Nexus Wrapped in 2025. The cities. The nodes. The community. Thank you.

The current world’s finance lives in an opaque system: participants can’t independently verify accounting, settlement, or risk in real time. That needs to change.

Announcing the Nexus DEX Alpha Get early access: nexus.xyz/trade

@hosseeb "Numbers That are Money" - DigiCash tagline

What's the crypto one-liner that lives in your head rent-free? For me it's "the price is the product."

The latest $128M Balancer exploit is a reminder of something fundamental: most smart contracts today rely on audit-based hope. Developers write complex code, auditors review it, and everyone hopes there are no hidden logic flaws. But hope isn’t assurance.

ICYMI: 🇨🇭 Blockstream Capital Partners, advised by @adam3us, will acquire Swiss #Bitcoin lender @berglindeBTC to expand its European and institutional services. btctimes.com/blockstream-ca…

1/ "Open always, eventually wins." Money is the last closed network. The next step is neutral, permissionless rails anyone can build on. Full talk ⬇️

1/ Some roadmaps are just feature lists. Ours is a blueprint for verifiable finance — a world where every transaction is provable, programmable, and composable by default. Here’s what’s next for Nexus: blog.nexus.xyz/the-nexus-road…

Excited to share "Provable Cryptography for Bitcoin: An Introduction" - a comprehensive workbook that teaches formal security definitions and proofs through hands-on exercises. Solutions included!

In the 90s, cryptography was regulated like a weapon. Today, it might be our best defense against runaway AI. Just dropped a convo with @alexanderfowler on the post-user internet, the ethics vacuum, and why verifiability matters more than ever.