Introduction

In Development

The Nexus Exchange is a verifiable perpetual futures exchange built directly into the Nexus blockchain. The order book, matching engine, and risk system run as native protocol components — not as a smart contract on a general-purpose chain — so the exchange settles at CEX-class speed while every fill, funding payment, and liquidation remains independently verifiable.

What's live today

The exchange is live on Nexus Testnet as a development preview. You can connect a wallet, create API keys, fund a synthetic-USDX account from the faucet, and trade the live perpetual futures markets programmatically over REST and WebSocket.

• Perpetual markets, all collateralized and quoted in synthetic USDX. Which ones are listed moves as markets are listed and delisted, so GET /markets is the authority rather than a count here. The configured set expands to 32 — additional crypto, FX, commodities, and equity indices — across upcoming releases.
• Leverage is configurable per market.
• API-first. All trading happens over the REST and WebSocket APIs. The web frontend at nexus.xyz/trade is a read-only market and portfolio view — order entry is via the API.
• Non-custodial by design. Balances and collateral are held by the exchange protocol, never by a private operator.
• Synthetic test funds. Each API key can claim test USDX from the faucet to trade against live, bot-seeded liquidity.

This is a development preview on testnet. It is not a regulated venue and not an offer or solicitation. Markets are seeded with automated liquidity for testing; prices and balances have no real-world value.

What's coming

Perpetual futures are the first market type. Spot, additional derivatives, and broader asset classes — equities, FX, commodities, RWAs — follow in later releases. The roadmap progresses through a sequence of release gates, each adding robustness, risk controls, and on-chain settlement guarantees before the next.