๐ Nexa Monthly Newsletter July 2026: Hardware Acceleration
Highlighting July with hardware acceleration could not be more exciting. After a long period of research, testing, and development, the Blitz project is coming together, and the team is looking forward to publishing a series of articles that motivate and explain the technology behind it. This month we started that series with the article on why Nexa builds hardware.
No less important was the publication of Nexa's 4th Anniversary Spaces recap, in which the lead developer provided insights into where the project is heading, how core blockchain improvements such as Tailstorm are progressing, and more.
Alongside these, there is plenty more to cover: an updated Nexa roadmap for 2026 and 2027, newly released features, the updated explorer, the Wally wallet patch, and everything else recapped below.
Find the full newsletter in the Nexa Forum below. ๐
๐ฆญ Wally Wallet: Peer-to-Peer Offers
Wally Wallet has had a very special feature for quite some time, and it is time to review it. Peer-to-Peer trades now can be made directly in the Wally, exchanging Nexa coins for tokens or NFTs.
Read more:
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๐ Why Nexa Builds Hardware
Imagine a microchip that can do the same thing as your software node, but is faster, more reliable, uses less energy, and can be built for a fraction of the cost. This is not a distant dream, but the direction Nexa has been working toward for years.
Nexa Chief Scientist, Dr Peter Rizun, designed Blitz, a hardware which verifies digital signatures and removes the dominant compute bottleneck for scaling cryptocurrencies.
To understand the benefit of hardware acceleration, we first need to go back to when the first Bitcoin block was mined. Since then, the technology has improved more than 1,000,000 times, and the same improvement can be reached in scaling cryptocurrencies.
Read the full article in the Nexa Forum below. ๐
I succeeded to place-and-route 4 signature-verifier cores in the Blitz FPGA. Static timing analysis (STA) shows I can clock the cores up to 210 MHz, suggesting a throughput of over 300,000 verifications/s.
Testing on silicon next to prove it...
๐ Nexa 4th Anniversary Spaces with Andrew Stone, Andrea Suisani and David Thibodeau
Four years ago, Nexa launched with a small group of people, a very ambitious technical vision, and the belief that scalable peer-to-peer electronic cash could be taken much further.
Since then, Nexa has grown through changing market conditions, technical challenges, major infrastructure development, new applications, conferences, ecosystem growth, and now its first halving.
Four years is a meaningful milestone, especially in an industry where projects, technologies, and entire narratives can appear and disappear very quickly. Nexa has continued building through all of it.
To mark the anniversary, the team came together for a live Space to look back at the journey, discuss the lessons learned, explore what is being built right now, and think about the direction Nexa takes as it enters its fifth year. Special thanks go to Don Alucard for moderating the event.
Here is a recap of the 4th Nexa Anniversary Space and the full recording. ๐
๐ Monthly Development Updates: June 2026
June was a month of consolidation and construction. The largest task is still the second hard fork, with a sweeping locking and validation rework. It is being carved into smaller, reviewable chunks which land one at a time.
Alongside that, the block explorer had its busiest month so far, smart-contract tooling was pushed to its limits with the Nexa Warriors contract suite, and time-lock vaults came within sight of completion.
All of these updates, with more detailed information, can be found below in the June monthly development update. ๐
I can't get over how cool it is that custom silicon can just become part of your computer. Our Blitz FPGA verifies secp256k1 signatures, and to Linux it's a regular file: open /dev/verify, write 160 bytes, read back 1 byte โ PASS or FAIL.
Any number of processes can do this at once. A small kernel driver tags each request and routes every verdict home; PCIe DMA rings + MSI interrupts do the heavy lifting. 151.7k sigchecks/sec, zero errors, from os.write().
๐ NexScript Playground Upgrades
We are pleased to announce that the NexScript Playground has been upgraded with major improvements.
A full code editor has been added with five example contracts to help developers get started with coding advanced transactions.
The playground is connected to the network, and you can write, test, and interact with the contracts straight from the website.
Find more detailed information in the Nexa Forum below. ๐
They said Bitcoin couldn't scale: watch our tiny Blitz FPGA accelerator card verify every signature in the Nexa blockchain (10.6 million) in 75 seconds.
๐ Nexa July Highlights: A Layer of Ownership
This month, Nexa opened a new page in decentralized gaming. Senior Development and Solution Architect, Steven @NevetsVDM, explained how blockchain can improve the game ecosystem and expand ownership of in-game items outside of the game. With emerging technologies and use cases, there is a gap that blockchain technology can help address.
Apart from gaming, the team presented an updated NEXA development roadmap for 2026 and part of 2027. Cards can now be expanded to see more detailed information for each goal.
The 4-year anniversary commemorative event was finalized, with limited-edition NFTs sent to everyone who participated and was eligible to receive them. Also, it is worth mentioning that Wally Wallet @WallyWalletOrg received an update and is now at version 3.30.02.
Find Steven's webinar on gaming with EvolvH3R and all highlights of July below. ๐
๐ฅ 2-minute explainer about a blockchain you probably havenโt discovered yet. ๐
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๐ Meet $NEXA.
Worth a look. ๐
๐ Updated NEXA Development Roadmap 2026-27
The Nexa Development Roadmap has just been updated. You can now open an interactive card for each goal to see its key items and more detailed information about what is coming.
The roadmap includes long-anticipated blockchain improvements and important infrastructure projects coming together. It is not limited to these developments, and there are plenty of side projects and ongoing works in parallel.
It gives a strong signal on where Nexa is heading this year and early next. Blockchain projects and ecosystem applications are organized into separate streams, based on whether they focus on the blockchain protocol or on business-facing use-cases.
Find the updated roadmap in the Nexa Forum below. ๐
๐ Moving Beyond Centralized Gaming: Nexa Blockchain with Steven van den Meiracker
In a recent webinar on gaming with @EvolvH3R, Nexaโs Senior Development and Solution Architect, Steven van den Meiracker @NevetsVDM, presented Nexa Blockchain, its architecture and strengths, and highlighted how it can be integrated with the gaming ecosystem and used as infrastructure to explore digital assets beyond gaming.
In-game assets can now truly belong to players, and thatโs more than just a promise. Steven showcased a demo of a new on-chain card game, โNexa Warriorsโ, which is currently in development.
Beyond the gameplay experience, users will be able to trade game cards on marketplaces and use them in additional ways that are still being explored.
Find and learn more in the Nexa Forum below. ๐
๐ Nexa Monthly Newsletter June 2026: Four Years On
This June was special, marking the 4-year anniversary of the Nexa blockchain on 21 June 2026. With the recent first halving event and the conclusion of a 4-year journey, it is now clear that Nexa is entering a second phase.
Commemorating the event, Nexa hosted Spaces on X with the founder and lead developer, @GAndrewStone.
While the team is working on publishing the Spaces on the Nexa forum and other social media platforms, you can now listen to the recording on X, linked in the monthly newsletter below.
Important protocol improvements planned for the roadmap, such as Tailstorm and the integration of quantum-secure cryptography, are under development and undergoing extensive testing.
Find the full Nexa newsletter below, starting with the recent halving Spaces, which are already available on YouTube. ๐
๐ Nexa Explorer: HODL Vaults
It's exciting to introduce the upgraded Nexa Block Explorer with long-anticipated HODL Vaults integration.
Since the introduction of HODL Vaults in the @OtoploHQ wallet, there has been significant interest and many questions about their availability and statistics.
Vaults are now available on the Nexa explorer and integrated into the tools.
Find the link to the HODL Vaults on the Nexa Explorer below. ๐
๐ LibNexaKotlin 0.5.68: Wallet Stability Release
A new release of LibNexaKotlin 0.5.68 with wallet stability improvements, and a call for developers to upgrade to the new version.
Lately, a lot of major work has been happening in this library, designed to make it easier to interact with the Nexa blockchain.
Since the last update, there have been two more releases, 0.5.67 and 0.5.68, which improved the experience on iOS devices.
Read more and find all the details in the Nexa Forum below. ๐
๐ Nexa Emission Schedule: The Journey to 21 Trillion NEXA
Explore Nexaโs emission schedule through a simple, interactive experience built for the community.
On the site, youโll find details on coin supply, network statistics, live market data, block and era visualizations, halving summaries, and more.
The emission schedule website was introduced to the community during the 4-Year Nexa Anniversary Spaces on 21 June 2026.
Find the link to the new Nexa Emission Schedule website below. ๐