CROSS Protocol: Project Update

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• Nexus announced a partnership with Catchback Cards, a Y Combinator-backed platform focused on digital and physical trading cards, which will launch its services on the Nexus Layer 1 mainnet to leverage its high-performance infrastructure for seamless on-chain experiences 4. (December 18, 2025)
• Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin outlined his vision for the blockchain's next era, emphasizing verifiability and native revenue capture, with Nexus built as a compute-proportional Layer 1 that scales throughput via zero-knowledge cryptography and embeds native financial applications like the Nexus DEX Alpha directly into the protocol 56. (December 22, 2025)
• The "2025 Nexus Wrapped" summary highlighted a year of significant scaling, culminating in Testnet III processing a record-breaking quadrillion FLOPS of verifiable compute, effectively turning it into a global supercomputer, with the Nexus Mainnet announced as coming soon for a 2026 launch 7. (December 29, 2025)
• Nexus Capital, a $2.8 billion digital asset manager, partnered with Matrix Labs to deploy WORLD3's autonomous intelligent agents to optimize its institutional DeFi treasury management across 25+ protocols, addressing challenges in 24/7 monitoring, complex risk management, and capital efficiency for its $450 million in assets 8. (December 30, 2025)
• Nexus published its final community report for 2025, with author Bria Han noting that 2025 had been a "transformational" year for the project and summarizing the significant developments that made Nexus a tangible reality throughout the year 9. (December 19, 2025)
• The Nexus ecosystem accelerated in December 2025, marked by technical releases and community engagement, with core protocol development introducing NexusCore execution engines achieving over 100,000 orders per second with sub-100ms latency, alongside progress from the Sakuranexus NFT marketplace and the Exhibition DeFi project on the Nexus testnet 10. (December 5, 2025)
• Nexus published "The Road to the Universal Proof" conversation, part of its ongoing content series exploring the project's technical direction 11. (December 1, 2025)
• Nexus released its Changelog for November 27, 2025, recapping recent news including developer tools, the mainnet launch, the NEX token, and the three-part economic stack 12. (November 27, 2025)
• Nexus published a recap of Chief Scientist Jens Groth's contributions, highlighting his work on verifiability and the project's technical foundations 13. (November 27, 2025)
• Nexus experienced a highly productive November 2025, highlighted by the launch of its Nexus DEX Alpha, a decentralized exchange platform, along with active engagement at global events including DevConnect and significant contributions from community members 14. (November 21, 2025)
• Nexus hosted key community events in China during Shanghai Blockchain International Week and the Chengdu Proof of Nexus Meetup, engaging hundreds of developers, researchers, and ecosystem partners, with CEO Daniel Marin delivering a keynote highlighting Testnet III's growth of over 3 million users and 70 million transactions 1516. (November 8, 2025)
• The Nexus network experienced significant growth, marked by increased proof throughput, transaction volume, and developer activity, with proof submissions per second nearly doubling from 3,400 to 5,810, over 77 million total transactions, and average block time halving to 0.303 seconds 17. (October 14, 2025)
• Nexus Chief Scientist Jens Groth and Head of Content Daniel McGlynn participated in an X Spaces discussion hosted by Genzio Media, covering topics like verifiability, AI, open source, and Nexus's future, with Jens explaining verifiable internet as ensuring data integrity through proofs 1819. (September 2025)
• Nexus published an ecosystem update featuring the latest episode of the "Exponential" podcast, released on October 1, 2025, featuring AI Seer founder and CEO Dennis Yap along with CTO Daniel McGlynn discussing strategies to combat misinformation in real time 20. (September 16, 2025)
• Nexus launched "Exponential," a podcast exploring the people, code, and capital driving technological innovation, with a focus on cryptography, AI, and systems design, featuring Nexus founder Daniel Marin discussing the company's origins and emphasizing verifiable computation 21. (July 30, 2025)
• ROHAN2 onboarded onto CROSS Protocol through a partnership between NEXUS and PLAYWITH KOREA, integrating the sequel to the popular MMORPG ROHAN into the CROSS ecosystem to leverage the success of combining MMORPGs with blockchain technology 1. (May 17, 2025)
• The CROSS whitepaper went live, detailing a blockchain protocol designed to revolutionize decentralized gaming economies, built as an Ethereum-compatible sidechain with BNB Chain integration and developer-friendly tools like SDKs and smart contract templates 2. (May 8, 2025)
• Nexus, formerly Action Square, announced its collaboration with CROSS Protocol to revolutionize blockchain gaming by enabling games to issue their own tokens and granting players true ownership of in-game assets, led by Henry Chang and leveraging his experience from WeMade 3. (March 17, 2025)