Exponential: A Nexus Podcast

Episode 31: Growing SheFi

A conversation with Maggie Love, the founder of SheFi [https://www.shefi.org/], about six years of building one of crypto's largest education communities. The idea for SheFi arrived on a run in 2019. Love had been at ConsenSys long enough to live through the 2018 bear market, and as the first DeFi teams began to form she noticed two things at once: people were earning twenty percent on their tokens through MakerDAO and Compound, and none of the people building or talking about it on stage at ETHDenver looked like her. Find more details about this episode on the Nexus blog [https://blog.nexus.xyz/exponential-episode-31-growing-shefi/].

Episode 30: Selective Disclosure

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 University — with an appointment in the business college and as the lead at Lehigh Blockchain — he has been thinking about networked systems since the late 1980s, when his database research examined how independently administered systems could transact across a network.  On this episode of Exponential, he joined the show to talk about where his students and research team are concentrating their attention now: zero-knowledge acceleration, onchain privacy that can coexist with regulation, and the agentic era beginning to take shape beneath the headlines.

Episode 29: From Nodes to Agents

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 now building the infrastructure layer for the AI era.  The conversation covered the evolution of decentralized compute, the unlikely synergies between blockchain and AI, and a bold prediction about what dev teams will look like in six months.

Episode 28: Hiding the Wiring

The most important milestone in crypto, argues Nic Roberts-Huntley, will be the one that goes completely unnoticed. In this episode of Exponential, the founder and CEO of Blueprint Finance [https://blueprintfinance.com/] sits down to discuss how his firm is building the infrastructure for institutional-grade DeFi yield — and why the endgame is a world where the underlying mechanics of onchain finance quietly power everything from savings accounts to credit card rewards without anyone realizing it. Blueprint Finance operates two protocols — Concrete and Glow — and positions itself as a counterweight to the degenerate, high-leverage yield strategies that proliferated during the last bull run. "We're kind of trying to be the next wave of institutional-grade yield with onchain finance," Roberts-Huntley explains.  Read more on the Nexus blog [https://blog.nexus.xyz/exponential-episode-28/].

Episode 27: 3/17, Infrastructure, and AI

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 17th milestone campaign and to lay out his views on AI, agentic finance, and what he sees as the defining infrastructure opportunity of the decade. The conversation covered ground ranging from how AI is reshaping startup competition to why Daniel believes blockchain infrastructure needs to be designed for autonomous agents — not just human users.