Seoul, South Korea, April 17, 2026 – The NEXUS Foundation and the leading cryptocurrency exchange KTX jointly held a press conference in Seoul today, themed "Hydropower Empowering the On-Chain Future." The NEX-AI distributed computing platform officially announced a deep strategic partnership with KTX Exchange. The two parties will jointly explore the innovative integration of distributed computing technology and centralized exchanges, injecting new momentum into the global AI application and crypto-finance sectors.
This press conference attracted heavyweight guests, including representatives from traditional South Korean capital and the head of BASEChain Korea, demonstrating the high importance that traditional South Korean financial capital attaches to the integration of blockchain and AI technologies. It also signifies a deep connection between international distributed computing power projects and local South Korean capital and the Layer 2 ecosystem. At the conference, Michael, CEO of the NEX-AI project, delivered an enthusiastic and engaging presentation. He stated, “In the AI era, computing power has become the most scarce strategic resource. NEX-AI aggregates idle GPUs, servers, and other computing resources globally through a decentralized network, forming an efficient, secure, and elastic distributed computing power platform. Today, our partnership with KTX, as well as our collaboration with traditional Korean capital and BASEChain Korea, aims to break down the barriers between traditional computing power and financial infrastructure, enabling AI training, inference, and large-scale model deployment to directly serve cryptocurrency trading, DeFi protocols, and Web3 applications, achieving synergistic development of technology, capital, and the regional ecosystem.” The deep integration of distributed computing power and centralized exchanges: NEX-AI, as a leading distributed computing power platform, uses blockchain technology to achieve the sharing and scheduling of computing resources. Users can contribute computing power through nodes and obtain stable returns, while providing AI developers with low-cost, highly available computing power support. KTX Exchange, on the other hand, is renowned for its efficient and secure centralized trading services, possessing a mature trading matching system, liquidity pools, and a compliance and risk control system.
The core of the collaboration lies in directly injecting distributed computing power into the centralized exchange ecosystem: • AI-driven intelligent trading system: Leveraging NEX-AI's distributed computing power, KTX will deploy real-time AI risk control models, predictive trading algorithms, and high-frequency quantitative tools to improve trading efficiency and security. • Computing Power as a Service (CaaS) model: Exchange users can directly access the computing power resources of the NEX-AI network to run applications such as on-chain AI agents, NFT generation, and on-chain machine learning models. • Cross-chain computing power settlement: Seamless settlement of computing power usage and transaction fees will be achieved through blockchain smart contracts, with better compatibility and synergy with the BASE chain. This hybrid architecture of "distributed computing power + centralized exchange" retains the advantages of centralized trading in terms of speed, user experience, and liquidity, while leveraging the distributed network to solve the problems of high cost, poor scalability, and single point of failure faced by single centralized computing power providers. Future Outlook: The Infinite Possibilities of AI + Crypto Finance In his speech, NEX-AI CEO Michael emphasized that the collaboration launch event held in Seoul is just the beginning. In the future, both parties will work together with traditional Korean capital and the BASE Chain Korea team to jointly promote development in the following directions: 1. AI-native crypto infrastructure: Building an on-chain computing power market to support large-scale AI model training, especially strengthening deep integration with the BASE Chain ecosystem. 2. Complementary advantages of decentralization and centralization: Exploring the new "CeDeFi" model, while maintaining efficient KTX trading, introducing more decentralized governance and transparency mechanisms. 3. Regionalization and sustainable development: Leveraging the power of traditional Korean capital to accelerate project implementation in Asia and effectively utilize global idle energy and hardware to reduce carbon emissions from the AI industry. 4. Next-generation application scenarios: Including AI-driven automated market makers, smart contract vulnerability detection, personalized DeFi investment advisors, and real-time rendering computing power support for GameFi and Metaverse projects on the BASE Chain.
Representatives from the NEXUS Foundation and the head of BASEChain Korea both stated that this collaboration will significantly boost the development of the blockchain and AI industries in South Korea and even Asia, jointly building a smarter, more efficient, and secure digital economy future. The launch event attracted numerous traditional financial institutions, blockchain investment firms, AI technology companies, and international media from South Korea. The two parties have signed a strategic cooperation memorandum, and the first joint products are expected to launch in the second quarter of 2026.
About NEX-AI: NEX-AI is a distributed computing platform incubated by the NEXUS Foundation in the United States. It is dedicated to reshaping the global AI computing power supply system through blockchain technology, and its development is led by CEO Michael. About KTX Exchange: KTX is one of the world's leading centralized digital currency exchanges, offering spot trading, contracts, wealth management, and other services. It consistently adheres to compliant operations and technological innovation. For more details, please visit the official websites and social media channels of NEX-AI and KTX.
