Nexa entered 2026 in a higher gear, building on ongoing workstreams from 2025 while advancing several major initiatives. With the planned hard fork, protocol improvements, and ecosystem projects progressing in parallel, the year ahead is set to deliver significant milestones. This recap reviews January’s key updates, now that the first month of 2026 is complete, and outlines the trajectory we are accelerating toward.
Nexa Sponsoring at Bitcoin MENA 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE
The Nexa team wrapped up a strong appearance at Bitcoin MENA 2025 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The region’s leading Bitcoin-focused conference took place on 8–9 December 2025 at the ADNEC Center, bringing together major industry firms, influential speakers, and institutional participants. Nexa joined as an official sponsor and hosted a booth for attendees, using the event to deepen relationships and reinforce its position within the broader digital asset ecosystem.
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Web3 Trust & Privacy Panel with Andrew Stone | Futurist Conference Florida 2025
Nexa also concluded its participation at Blockchain Futurist Conference Florida 2025 as a Gold Sponsor. Held on 5–6 November 2025 at the Hard Rock Guitar Hotel & Daer in Miami, the event brought together blockchain researchers, infrastructure builders, exchanges, and industry leaders from across the Web3 ecosystem. As part of the conference program, Nexa Founder and Lead Developer Andrew Stone joined the panel “Scaling Trust: Developers Building Privacy and Communities in Web3”, discussing challenges around privacy, trust, and the design trade-offs developers face when building modern blockchain systems.
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Nexa 2025 Chronicle: Built to Scale
To close out the 2025 cycle, we published a consolidated recap of the year. Nexa 2025 Chronicle: Built to Scale aligns the monthly newsletters into a single, cohesive narrative, capturing key development milestones, ecosystem expansion, major conference activity, and the foundational work completed across twelve months. It’s a useful reference for anyone who wants the full 2025 arc in one place.
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Quantum Threats to Blockchain Security and the Nexa Post-Quantum Migration Strategy
Quantum computing is no longer easy to dismiss as a distant concern. In recent years, improved quantum resource estimates, visible hardware progress, and national-level roadmaps have narrowed the safety margin for systems relying on RSA or elliptic-curve cryptography. Cryptocurrencies face added exposure because public keys and signatures are broadcast globally and preserved permanently. At the same time, post-quantum signature schemes such as FALCON have matured to the point where practical deployment is increasingly feasible. Nexa is preparing a full post-quantum migration path ahead of much of the industry, with a focus on real-world readiness rather than theory.
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Nexa Academy: Hard Fork Explained
This month’s Nexa Academy entry provides a clear guide to hard forks and why they matter. A hard fork is a protocol upgrade that changes validity rules in a way older software cannot accept. After activation, upgraded nodes may accept blocks or transactions that non-upgraded nodes reject, which introduces the possibility of a lasting chain split if the ecosystem does not converge on one rule set. The article starts with the fundamentals and then focuses specifically on hard forks, serving as a practical reference as the planned upgrade approaches.
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Nexa Native Assets: Understanding Wrapped Tokens
Wrapped tokens are a major building block in today’s crypto ecosystem, enabling cross-chain access and integrating non-native assets into DeFi. However, the dominant approaches introduce structural weaknesses, including custodial dependencies, security assumptions, and scalability constraints in common execution environments. This article explains how Nexa approaches the problem through miner-validated native assets, aiming to reduce key friction points and provide a more direct framework for wrapping assets such as Bitcoin or real-world assets, aligned with demands for predictability, throughput, and decentralization.
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Nexa Counterparty and Protocol Discovery (CAPD)
Counterparty discovery remains a practical barrier for many trustless, anonymous, peer-to-peer financial protocols. Unlike joining a long-running peer-to-peer network where almost any node may be useful, these interactions are often short-lived and require selective discovery, meaning users need partners that match specific criteria. Coin mixing, atomic cross-chain swaps, and other short-duration trade or agreement flows are all examples where discovery can become a critical but under-specified phase. CAPD frames this challenge and treats discovery as a first-class part of protocol usability, including broader service discovery as a natural extension of the same problem.
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Nexa Halving: Protocol Mechanics, Monetary Design, and Long-Term Security Implications
Block reward halvings are foundational mechanisms in proof-of-work monetary systems, governing issuance schedules and shaping long-term security incentives. In Bitcoin-like designs, halvings are deterministic consensus transitions that reduce inflation over time and progressively shift security toward fee-based funding. As Nexa approaches its first protocol-enforced halving, this article provides a unified review of the monetary mechanics involved, the security budget implications, and how Nexa’s on-chain scalability model fits into the long-run picture.
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New Ecosystem Partnership Announcement and Other News
We also announced a new APAC ecosystem partnership with EvolvH3R and ALL THINGS BLOCKCHAIN. This collaboration supports Nexa’s ecosystem initiatives in 2026, including localized community virtual events in the APAC region, increased exposure to Australian audiences, and support in developing learning materials and onboarding pathways for new builders. While the activities are regional in execution, the resulting education and onboarding resources are intended to be useful globally.
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To Wrap Up
January closes with a clear theme: acceleration through execution. The work carried forward from 2025 is now moving in parallel across protocol development, research priorities, ecosystem growth, and community engagement. Thank you to everyone contributing, attending events, publishing technical discussion, and helping move the project forward. If you have feedback on any of the topics covered this month, we invite you to continue the discussion in the linked forum threads and share perspectives as we move into the next set of 2026 milestones.