Nexus launches AI-agent Layer 1 with top-tier exchange listings on day one

Nexus (@NexusLabs) brought its mainnet online Tuesday evening and began native trading under the ticker nexus4. The token last changed hands around $0.000059, up 13% on the day and 35% since launch. The project reports a market capitalization of $353 million on roughly $105 million in daily trading volume. Total supply is 100 trillion tokens, with 60 trillion in circulation. Nexus is positioning itself as "verifiable finance for AI agents." The network runs a zero-knowledge virtual machine across every node, and plans an "exchange blockchain" that would embed a central limit order book directly into the Layer 1. Its native stablecoin, USDX, is being developed with M0 (@m0) and is designed to be backed by short-duration U.S. Treasuries. The day-one listings were notable: Coinbase, Kraken, Binance Alpha, Bitget, KuCoin, and MEXC all supported trading at launch, an uncommon level of tier-one exchange coverage for a new Layer 1. Nexus raised $27.2 million in 2025 from Lightspeed, Pantera, Dragonfly, SV Angel, Alliance, and Faction. The key question for markets is whether Nexus is simply another AI-themed L1, or a credible infrastructure play for agent-driven finance.