Lead investor @PanteraCapital believes that Nexus’ biggest advantage is its team of professionals in cryptography and computer science. As a top project in the ZK track, it has just launched node operation (supports browser or CLI operation) and recommends participation.
1️⃣Nexus team strength: All members are cryptography experts, strong
A. Executive Team
1. Daniel Marin (CEO): Stanford graduate, 2-time International Physics Olympiad winner
2. Jens Groth (Chief Scientist): Former DFINITY Research Director, Inventor of Groth16
3. Alex Fowler (Chief Strategy Officer): Co-founder of Blockstream, Chief Privacy Officer of Mozilla
B. Core Team
1. Michel Abdalla: President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
2. Don Beaver: Former Chief Cryptographer at Jump Crypto
3. Kristian Sosnin: Cryptography Engineer
4. Samuel Judson: Cryptography Engineer, PhD in Cryptography from Yale University
2️⃣ How to participate in the testnet
1. Run through the browser
Open https://beta.nexus.xyz/ and click the switch in the middle to run it. You need to keep your computer turned off, and do not change browsers, computers, or clear cookies, otherwise you will lose points.
2. Run via CLI
This part requires you to have a certain foundation in terminal operations. You can open the document and read the guide yourself.
https://docs.nexus.xyz/zkvm/cli-quick-start
5. Vamsi Policharla: Cryptography Engineer, PhD Candidate in Cryptography at Berkeley University
6. Yinup Zhang: Cryptography scientist, PhD student in cryptography at Berkeley University