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Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

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16 episodes

3 days ago

In Episode 16 of Exponential, Alec James from the Nexus product team introduces a major new release: the Nexus DEX Alpha, a core protocol component designed to deliver deep liquidity and high-performance trading from the ground up. The Nexus DEX Alpha is the testnet version of a product that will operate as an enshrined order book exchange built directly into the layer one. This architectural choice gives it meaningful advantages in performance, composability, and developer experience. “It is...

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In Episode 16 of Exponential, Alec James from the Nexus product team introduces a major new release: the Nexus DEX Alpha, a core protocol component designed to deliver deep liquidity and high-performance trading from the ground up. The Nexus DEX Alpha is the testnet version of a product that will operate as an enshrined order book exchange built directly into the layer one. This architectural choice gives it meaningful advantages in performance, composability, and developer experience. “It is...

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Episodes (16/16)

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 16: Nexus DEX Alpha

In Episode 16 of Exponential, Alec James from the Nexus product team introduces a major new release: the Nexus DEX Alpha, a core protocol component designed to deliver deep liquidity and high-performance trading from the ground up. The Nexus DEX Alpha is the testnet version of a product that will operate as an enshrined order book exchange built directly into the layer one. This architectural choice gives it meaningful advantages in performance, composability, and developer experience. “It is...

3 days ago

30 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 15: Dev Rel

In this episode of Exponential, Dylan Kawalec, Head of Developer Relations at Phala Network, breaks down how Phala is building verifiable compute infrastructure using trusted hardware and open-source tooling. The goal: privacy-preserving execution environments that don’t rely on centralized cloud services or blind trust. In the episode, we mention a podcast that Dylan recorded with Nexus Chief Scientist Jens Groth. Here is the link to that show. More details about this episode are at b...

1 week ago

47 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 14: Market Sentiment

In this episode of Exponential, Genzio Media co-founder and CEO Zack shares his perspective on the maturing Web3 landscape — and why the next wave will look very different from the last. A crypto native since 2011, Zack launched Genzio in 2022 to fill a gap he encountered firsthand while working at Ripple and OKX: Web3 companies needed partners who actually understood crypto. “People are going to need to continue to get help from people who really understand this industry,” he said.&nbs...

2 weeks ago

44 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 13: The Roadmap

In episode 13 of Exponential, Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin outlines near-term roadmap and long-term ambitions. With Testnet III reaching more than three million participants, Nexus is preparing for its most significant milestone yet: mainnet launch in Q1 2026.

3 weeks ago

35 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 12: Abstracting Crypto's Complexity

For Dynamic co-founder and CEO Itai Turbahn, the future of crypto is in infrastructure. His company, Dynamic, builds wallet tooling designed to disappear behind the apps we already use. In this episode of Exponential, Itai lays out a compelling thesis: the next wave of crypto adoption won’t look like crypto at all. “The next billion users are already here. We’re not bringing them to crypto — we’re bringing crypto to them.” More episode info is here: https://blog.nexus.xyz/exponential-episode-...

1 month ago

30 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 11: Verifiable Media

In a digital world saturated with manipulated media and synthetic imagery, trust is no longer a given. Photojournalist David Butow has spent his career documenting real events — from the war in Iraq to protests in Washington — and he’s now at the forefront of a growing movement: making digital images verifiable at the source. In episode 11 of Exponential, we explore the promise and friction of C2PA, an emerging standard for content provenance that embeds cryptographic proof directly into digi...

1 month ago

27 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 10: Battling Misinformation

In Episode 10 of Exponential, AI Seer founder and CEO Dennis Yap and AI Seer CTO Shahruj Rashid join to discuss their mission: building AI systems that can detect and dismantle misinformation at internet scale. You can find more info about this podcast on blog.nexus.xyz/podcast.

1 month ago

30 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 9: Verifying Healthcare

In Episode 9 of Exponential, Jim Nasr, CEO of Acoer, joins us to tackle one of the most broken but vital systems in modern life: healthcare data. His story starts where many do — with a personal experience that revealed just how fragmented and opaque medical data really is. But unlike most, he decided to build something better. Acoer is a software company rethinking health infrastructure from the ground up, using cryptography, blockchain, and user-centric design to make data more connected, m...

1 month ago

37 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 8: Use Case

In a space that moves at the speed of Twitter and trades on memes, launching a print magazine about crypto feels almost radical. But for veteran journalists Zack Seward and Joon Ian Wong, that’s exactly the point. Their new project, Use Case, is a quarterly publication designed to document the parts of crypto that actually matter — the systems that work, the ideas that endure, and the people building things with real-world impact. “Crypto to me is wonderfully ambivalent,” Zack says. “Th...

2 months ago

37 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 7: Beyond Blockchain

In Episode 7 of Exponential, Grigore Roșu — professor, computer scientist, and founder of Pi Squared — joins the show to explore a bold thesis: blockchains as we know them are only a first step. The future of web3, Grigore argues, lies in universal computation, massively parallel verification, and an evolution beyond the bottlenecks of ordered chains. Pi Squared, a Nexus partner, is building toward that future. With its FastSet protocol and a new approach to trust, the company is rethinking h...

2 months ago

40 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 6: Scaling AI Startups and Internet Capital Markets

In Episode 6 of Exponential, Dylan Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Pond, joins us to unpack a fast-emerging frontier: helping early-stage AI startups launch, scale, and find product-market fit through a new kind of internet-native capital platform. At a time when AI tooling is accelerating and the barriers to launching new products are dropping, Pond is building infrastructure for what comes next — connecting early-stage founders with capital, distribution, and feedback loops in real time. “Pond...

2 months ago

29 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 5: Questing and Community Design

As the Web3 space matures, projects are rethinking how to grow and sustain communities. In Episode 5 of Exponential, Zach Heerwagen, co-founder and CEO of Snag, joined us to explore how “questing” is emerging as a powerful mechanism for aligning users, incentives, and long-term network health. Zach defines questing as Web3’s take on loyalty. In traditional business models, loyalty is mostly transactional — based on how much a customer spends. In contrast, Web3 broadens the definition of...

2 months ago

29 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 4: The Nexus zkVM, Explained

In the fourth episode of Exponential, Samuel Judson — head of zkVM engineering at Nexus — joins the show to unpack the science, strategy, and systems thinking behind zero-knowledge cryptography. Sam brings a rare combination of perspectives: part mathematician, part systems engineer, and deeply attuned to the social and regulatory dimensions of cryptographic technology. This primer-style episode traces the evolution of zero-knowledge proofs, the motivation for building the Nexus z...

2 months ago

40 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 3: The Next Era of the Internet

In Episode 3 of Exponential, we sat down with Nexus Chief Strategy Officer Alex Fowler for a conversation about the forces shaping the next era of the internet. With a career that spans bioethics, early cryptographic policy, and consumer technology, Alex brings a rare combination of philosophical grounding and technical experience to one of the most urgent questions of our time: as machines begin acting on our behalf, who can we trust?

3 months ago

35 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 2: Distributed Human Intelligence

The rapid expansion of AI systems has ignited a fundamental question: How do humans stay meaningfully involved as intelligent software grows more capable, autonomous, and ubiquitous? The second episode of Exponential: A Nexus Podcast features Jordan Gray, co-founder of PublicAI, a startup working to ensure human participation remains central to the future of artificial intelligence. In a wide-ranging discussion, Gray outlines how PublicAI is developing infrastructure to support distribu...

3 months ago

26 minutes

Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 1: The Founding Story

What if you could hear the future being built—one idea, one insight, one proof at a time? We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Exponential, a new Nexus podcast about the people, code, and capital shaping the frontier of technology. Each episode features conversations with founders, engineers, and thinkers working at the edge of what’s possible—from cryptography and AI to systems design and economic coordination. Our mission is simple: to surface the deep motivations and bold architectures...

3 months ago

26 minutes