The team is not slowing down in December and is closing the year with steady progress and developments from across the globe. The month began with the release of the founder and lead developer’s keynote in Miami, and shortly after, the project was featured at MENA 2025, the largest Bitcoin focused conference in the Middle East, held this December in Abu Dhabi.
Crypto, Not Bitcoin: As Demonstrated by the Nexa Blockchain
Andrew Stone, who has played a central role in Bitcoin’s technical and ideological evolution for over a decade, presented his talk Crypto, Not Bitcoin in Miami. His discussion examined the ways in which Bitcoin has transitioned from its early vision of an open, expressive, peer-to-peer system to a structure shaped largely by institutional influence and narrowly defined functionality.
The presentation expands this perspective by illustrating how cryptocurrencies can serve as expressive tools for identity, ownership, and exchange, and it highlights how the Nexa blockchain embodies these principles in practice today.
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Nexa Sponsors Bitcoin MENA 2025
Nexa served as an official sponsor of Bitcoin MENA 2025, held 8–9 December at the ADNEC Center in Abu Dhabi. Organized by the team behind Bitcoin’s global flagship events, the conference brought together leaders, developers, policymakers, and businesses to examine the region’s growing influence on Bitcoin adoption and infrastructure development. The sponsorship reflects ongoing engagement with global industry events and initiatives that support open blockchain development.
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Andrew Clifford: President of Bitcoin Unlimited and Nexa at Bitcoin MENA 2025
The President of Bitcoin Unlimited and Nexa, Andrew Clifford, provided an insightful interview during Bitcoin MENA 2025, which concluded earlier this month in Abu Dhabi. The core development team behind Nexa consists of experienced Bitcoin engineers who contributed significantly to the early years of the first cryptocurrency. Their long standing expertise continues to inform the project’s technical direction and broader ecosystem support.
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https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1zqJVdLEddLKB
Otoplo Wallet Update: New Release 5.1.0
A new version of the Otoplo wallet, 5.1.0, has been released across desktop and mobile platforms. This update focuses on harmonizing the application’s user experience across operating systems while introducing performance improvements, refined interface behavior, and general optimizations. Users are encouraged to update to the latest version to benefit from the unified and streamlined experience.
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Nexa Non-Fungible Tokens: The NiftyArt Gateway
The introduction of NFTs in 2021 generated widespread attention for the technology’s potential, followed by a natural period of consolidation as the market matured. With clearer perspectives now possible, the NiftyArt Gateway article provides an overview of how NFTs and their related standards are implemented within the Nexa ecosystem. The piece outlines the framework, and principles that define NFTs on Nexa and explains how these standards support practical and sustainable use cases.
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Ecosystem Projects Developments
The first part of December brought notable progress across community led initiatives. To highlight the work of ecosystem contributors, the following updates summarize what has been released so far and what is currently in development.
The team behind 137Devs announced ongoing testing of a decentralized exchange on the Nexa testnet, with a mainnet deployment planned in the near term. Alongside the DEX, work is continuing on the ecosystem’s first stablecoin, expected to accompany the platform’s next major release.
A further milestone was delivered by long-standing community moderator and project developer Oldremy, whose Pixelpups initiative introduced the first Web3 casino style games on Nexa. Designed to be fast, fully on-chain, and provably fair, the initial set of games includes Dice (Alpha), Poker (Beta), and Blackjack (Beta). These early releases represent a meaningful step forward for community built applications and practical on-chain use cases.
Try it now:
https://playpixelpup.onrender.com
In Conclusion
Continuous and consistent work continues to drive weekly progress, and contributions from the community are increasingly visible, an encouraging sign for the ecosystem’s long term development. As the year draws to a close, preparations are already underway for an active start to 2026, supported by a growing roadmap and expanding developer engagement. We wish everyone a pleasant and restful holiday season, and we look forward to sharing more updates soon.