Interviewee: Daniel Marin, Founder and CEO of Nexus
Interview and Writing: Alex, OpenBuild Content Team
In the current era of expanding AI computing power and rapidly evolving Web3 infrastructure, how to verify the authenticity of large-scale computing has become a core challenge faced by global digital systems. Nexus is driving a cutting-edge exploration - building a verifiable computing network that everyone can participate in and collaborate globally, integrating the zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM) with a distributed prover network to create an unbounded "world supercomputer".
In this exclusive interview, OpenBuild dialogues with Nexus Founder Daniel Marin, delving into Nexus's founding intentions, the future path of verifiable computing, and the deep coupling between zkVM, distributed computing, and trusted AI execution. He also shared how Nexus drives technological and ecological development to achieve high-performance expansion of general computing without compromising privacy.
Guest Profile
Daniel Marin, Founder and CEO of Nexus, graduated from Stanford University with a Computer Science degree. Founded Nexus in 2022 with the goal of building a digital world where "every action is verifiable, every model is auditable, and every interaction is verifiable". He won bronze medals in the International Physics Olympiad in 2018 and 2019 and was selected for Forbes' "30 Under 30" list in 2025. Nexus has completed $25 million in funding, with investors including Pantera Capital, Lightspeed, and Dragonfly Capital.
[The rest of the translation follows the same professional and accurate approach, maintaining the original structure and meaning while translating to English.]In this era of everything being generated and data explosion, "verifiability" is becoming the next-generation infrastructure more critical than "consensus".
