Exponential: A Nexus Podcast
Episodes
Episode 30: Selective Disclosure
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hank Korth has watched a lot of distributed systems cycles come and go. A professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh U...
Episode 29: From Nodes to Agents
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mrudul Gole, Head of Business Development at NodeOps, joined Exponential to trace the arc of a company that started as a blockchain validator and is n...
Episode 28: Hiding the Wiring
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The most important milestone in crypto, argues Nic Roberts-Huntley, will be the one that goes completely unnoticed. In this episode of Exponential, th...
Episode 27: 3/17, Infrastructure, and AI
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin appeared on the Exponential podcast this week to address the company's decision to pull back from its March 17...
Episode 26: DeFi Yield
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Laszlo Szabo, co-founder and CEO of Kiln, joins to talk about one of the most important developments quietly happening...
Episode 25: Invisible Infrastructure
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Jin Kwon, co-founder of saga.xyz, explains how blockchain infrastructure will disappear into the background.Saga began...
Episode 24: Stablecoin Innovation
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Joao Reginatto joins to discuss the future of digital money and the role M0 is playing in making stablecoins more cust...
Episode 23: Stablecoin Payment Networks
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Kevin Lehtiniitty, CEO of Borderless, shares how his team is building a new kind of financial network — one where st...
Episode 22: Predictive AI
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Zohar Bronfman, co-founder and CEO of Pecan AI, unpacks the role of predictive AI in today’s business landscape — ...
Episode 21: Building on Nexus
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Wucklace, a self-taught developer and creator of Exhibition DeFi, shares his path from fashion design to building onch...
Episode 20: Community Building
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Oliwer Nastaziak, chief growth officer at Fren.One, shares what it’s like to build and moderate internet-native comm...
Episode 19: Onchain Collecting
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Joseph Zhang, co-founder and CEO of CatchBack, explains how a side hustle flipping Pokémon cards evolved into a full-...
Exponential Episode 18: Public Privacy
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Aisling Connolly, Chief Strategy Officer at TACEO, joins the show to unpack the deeper technical and philosophical mot...
Episode 17: Roc Camera
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where AI can generate realistic images in seconds, Faust founder and CEO, Kosuke July Hata, who goes by July, is building a new kind of cam...
Episode 16: Nexus DEX Alpha
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 16 of Exponential, Alec James from the Nexus product team introduces a major new release: the Nexus DEX Alpha, a core protocol component de...
Episode 15: Dev Rel
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Dylan Kawalec, Head of Developer Relations at Phala Network, breaks down how Phala is building verifiable compute infr...
Episode 14: Market Sentiment
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Exponential, Genzio Media co-founder and CEO Zack shares his perspective on the maturing Web3 landscape — and why the next wave w...
Episode 13: The Roadmap
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In episode 13 of Exponential, Nexus founder and CEO Daniel Marin outlines near-term roadmap and long-term ambitions. With Testnet III reaching more th...
Episode 12: Abstracting Crypto's Complexity
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For Dynamic co-founder and CEO Itai Turbahn, the future of crypto is in infrastructure. His company, Dynamic, builds wallet tooling designed to disapp...
Episode 11: Verifiable Media
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a digital world saturated with manipulated media and synthetic imagery, trust is no longer a given. Photojournalist David Butow has spent his caree...
Episode 10: Battling Misinformation
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 10 of Exponential, AI Seer founder and CEO Dennis Yap and AI Seer CTO Shahruj Rashid join to discuss their mission: building AI systems tha...
Episode 9: Verifying Healthcare
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 9 of Exponential, Jim Nasr, CEO of Acoer, joins us to tackle one of the most broken but vital systems in modern life: healthcare data. His ...
Episode 8: Use Case
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a space that moves at the speed of Twitter and trades on memes, launching a print magazine about crypto feels almost radical. But for veteran journ...
Episode 7: Beyond Blockchain
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 7 of Exponential, Grigore Roșu — professor, computer scientist, and founder of Pi Squared — joins the show to explore a bold thesis: b...
Episode 6: Scaling AI Startups and Internet Capital Markets
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 6 of Exponential, Dylan Zhang, co-founder and CEO of Pond, joins us to unpack a fast-emerging frontier: helping early-stage AI startups lau...
Episode 5: Questing and Community Design
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the Web3 space matures, projects are rethinking how to grow and sustain communities. In Episode 5 of Exponential, Zach Heerwagen, co-founder and CE...
Episode 4: The Nexus zkVM, Explained
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth episode of Exponential, Samuel Judson — head of zkVM engineering at Nexus — joins the show to unpack the science, strategy, and syst...
Episode 3: The Next Era of the Internet
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Episode 3 of Exponential, we sat down with Nexus Chief Strategy Officer Alex Fowler for a conversation about the forces shaping the next era of the...
Episode 2: Distributed Human Intelligence
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The rapid expansion of AI systems has ignited a fundamental question: How do humans stay meaningfully involved as intelligent software grows more capa...
Episode 1: The Founding Story
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could hear the future being built—one idea, one insight, one proof at a time?We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Exponential, a n...