# Introduction Nexus is a blockchain designed to run a high-performance exchange ecosystem — a global platform where every asset, market, and stream of information is instantly tradable with extreme performance and low latency, powered by a foundation of high-performance verifiable computation based on zero-knowledge proofs. The Nexus Exchange will support spot and perpetual futures markets for crypto, equities, FX, and commodities, targeting H2 2026. ### Technical Overview Nexus uses NexusBFT, a Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism built on CometBFT. Blocks are final when committed. NexusEVM is the programmability layer. It runs standard Ethereum bytecode with the same gas semantics, RPCs, and toolchains. NexusCore will be the Exchange execution engine, built with specialized financial coprocessors to handle order matching, position management, risk evaluation, and liquidations at 5ms block intervals. NexusEVM contracts will be able to compose with NexusCore natively — placing orders, reading market data, and managing margin within a single transaction. The Compute Network generates validity proofs using the Nexus zkVM. It is live on testnet and will expand to prove Exchange execution on mainnet, so that any party can verify correctness without trusting the operator. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.nexus.xyz/overview/introduction.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.