Architecture

This section covers each component of Nexus.

Components

Component	Role	Status
NexusBFT	BFT consensus with single-slot finality	Mainnet
NexusEVM	EVM-compatible smart contract execution, 1-second blocks	Mainnet
Compute Network	Distributed validity proof generation via the Nexus zkVM	Testnet
Nexus zkVM	Experimental zkVM native to the Nexus ecosystem	Version 3.0
NexusCore	Specialized financial coprocessors — the Exchange execution engine	H2 2026
Sequencer	Will order transactions and dispatch to NexusCore and NexusEVM	H2 2026