Nexus is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for verifiable finance. Our vision is to create a credibly-neutral, decentralized Internet Exchange — a global, Layer 1 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. We believe finance is the most important application of verifiable computation, forming the foundation for a new programmable economy.Nexus targets the $1T+ in daily exchange TradFi volume market across global spot, perps, derivatives, options, RWAs, treasuries, FX, and prediction markets, bringing programmable and composable exchange markets to the Internet’s financial layer.
Nexus presents a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain optimized from first principles for verifiable, high-throughput and low-latency exchange computation.The system introduces a custom parallelized co-processor architecture that extends the NexusEVM with NexusCore, a bundle of high-performance, exchange-optimized computational engines. These enshrined co-processors embed financial operations natively at the protocol layer, and give developers access to high-throughput matching engines, price data, liquidation systems and other optimized primitives, designed to enable the permissionless creation of high-performance Internet markets. Further, the Nexus co-processors expose native CEX-like APIs at the L1 node level, so HFT strategies can be seamlessly migrated onchain.Consensus and execution are co-designed for throughput and verifiability. The NexusBFT consensus engine will achieve sub-second block times and deterministic finality, while the parallelized NexusEVM + NexusCore execution layer allows independent orderbook engines to process orders concurrently. Every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation is executed transparently onchain.At the heart of the system is the Nexus zkVM, a high-performance zero-knowledge virtual machine that aims to scale the network horizontally through verifiable computation long-term. The zkVM enables proof generation for the Layer 1’s execution and is currently deployed on millions of devices via the Nexus Network. As of now, the zkVM is in experimental mode, but its vision is to allow Nexus to scale the validation of financial computations to millions of devices, enabling the next generation of Internet-scale financial markets.
