NEXUS signs MOU with DCS Pay to bring CROSS toward everyday global payments. NEXUS has signed a strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) with DCS Pay - the global payments platform operated under DCS Group - to explore token-based payments and stablecoin settlement, connecting CROSS to a network of millions of merchants with a longer-term goal of putting the token to work at merchants worldwide. Who DCS Pay is. DCS Pay is a global payments platform operated by DCS Fintech (Hong Kong) Limited under DCS Group, a Singapore-based financial group. Through DCS Card Centre Pte. Ltd., the group holds a license to issue credit and charge cards under the supervision of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which makes it an established, regulated card issuer rather than a crypto-native newcomer. It operates a merchant network numbering in the millions, along with infrastructure that spans card issuance, payment acceptance, and settlement - the full stack of how a payment moves from a customer to a merchant and clears. A two-way collaboration. Through the agreement, NEXUS (CEO Hyunkuk Jang) and DCS Pay intend to interconnect their payment infrastructures and widen where payments can actually take place. The collaboration runs in two complementary directions. The first reaches outward, toward merchants. For much of their lifetime, tokens have tended to stay inside the on-chain world - useful within an ecosystem, but rarely something you reach for at a store counter. The plan is to support CROSS ($CROSS) and the ecosystem dollar CROSSD ($CROSSD) as payment options across DCS Pay's global network of millions of merchants, so users around the world can put them to work on real goods and services - offline purchases included - rather than leaving them confined to on-chain activity. Get NEXUS's stories in your inbox. Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer. The second reaches inward, into the CROSS platform itself. The two companies plan to expand integration of DCS Pay's payment solution across the CROSS platform NEXUS has built, and to introduce multichain stablecoin settlement in support of CROSS Shop transactions - settlement designed to operate across multiple chains rather than being locked to a single environment. Built on a real card issuer. What distinguishes this partnership is the kind of company on the other side of it. DCS Group already runs DeCard, a card that lets holders spend stablecoins such as USDT and USDC in everyday settings, and it operates white-label issuing infrastructure that lets other companies launch their own stablecoin cards under their own brand. In other words, the bridge between regulated card rails and on-chain value is not a roadmap item for DCS - it is something the company builds and runs today. Building on that capability, NEXUS plans to explore connecting DCS Group's infrastructure with the CROSS ecosystem to enable a Web3 payment card that runs on global card networks. The aim is for CROSS to become usable as a genuine means of payment at merchants worldwide - acceptance that reaches beyond a single direct network toward the reach of global card rails. Looking further out, the two also plan to discuss a single payment rail that connects crypto and fiat across multiple blockchains, so users across the CROSS ecosystem and beyond can pay conveniently wherever they are, online or offline, without having to think about which rail settled the purchase. In the words of both companies. "We're proud that NEXUS - a team building one of the most closely watched digital ecosystems out there - has chosen DCS Pay as its payments infrastructure partner," said Sean Dong, Head of Business Operations at DCS Pay. "Gaming is emerging as one of the strongest real-world use cases for digital assets, and we're glad to be building and delivering a safe, convenient payment experience together." "This collaboration is another milestone in CROSS moving beyond a gaming ecosystem to settle into real-world global payment infrastructure," said Hyunkuk Jang, CEO of NEXUS. "By working with DCS Group - a card issuer with global issuing capability - we aim to build a digital payment ecosystem that users and merchants worldwide can trust and rely on." About NEXUS. NEXUS Co., Ltd. is a KOSDAQ-listed company in South Korea since 2015 and the DevCo behind the next-generation blockchain gaming infrastructure of the CROSS gamechain. Led by CEO Henry Chang, former CEO of WEMIX, Wemade and Neowiz Mobile, the company brings together over 100 blockchain and gaming industry experts, including select founding members from WEMIX with proven Web3 success. NEXUS built CROSS Gamechain in 2025 and continues to build and maintain it, delivering developer tools such as SDKs and APIs, operating core services including wallets, marketplaces and explorers, and partnering with global studios to onboard games and expand adoption, driving the sustainable growth of the CROSS ecosystem.

NEXUS partners with AEON to extend on-chain value into everyday life. NEXUS is connecting its on-chain platform, CROSS, to AEON's payment framework - opening a path for on-chain value to move through real-world commerce, from QR checkout at tens of millions of merchants to the emerging AI agent economy. A partnership beyond the game economy. NEXUS has entered a partnership with AEON, a digital-asset payment framework. Through this collaboration, the reach of CROSS - the on-chain platform built by NEXUS - extends past the gaming ecosystem and into AI-native commerce, autonomous payments, and global economic activity. For most of its history, on-chain value has lived in a world of its own. It has been easy to hold, trade, and move between applications, but hard to actually spend in the places people shop every day. The intent of this partnership is to close that gap: to let value created and held on-chain be used the way people already pay, both online and offline. What AEON brings. AEON is a payment and settlement layer purpose-built for the AI agent economy. It was created to address the cost burdens, programming limitations, and settlement delays that traditional financial networks impose on AI agent collaboration - frictions that become more visible as software begins to transact on its own. By drawing on major agent protocols - including x402, ERC-8004, Google's A2A, and MCP - AEON supports autonomous and verifiable transactions between AI agents. Rather than bolting payments onto rails designed for human-initiated transfers, AEON treats agent-to-agent settlement as a first-class case. The result is meaningful scale already in place. Today AEON serves more than 2 million users and processes around 30 million transactions every month, giving this partnership a substantial, working foundation to build on from day one rather than a promise to grow into. Real-world spending at scale. Through AEON Pay, CROSS users can use CROSS at more than 50 million merchants worldwide, including QR-based checkout - across shopping, restaurants, and everyday purchases. In practice, this means on-chain value no longer has to stay on-chain. The same value that moves through games and applications can move through a coffee shop, a grocery run, or a meal out. For a player who has only ever used on-chain value inside a game, the change is simple but significant: the value they hold becomes usable in the physical world, at the kinds of places they visit anyway. Get NEXUS's stories in your inbox. Join Medium for free to get updates from this writer. The footprint is what makes this real. Coverage at this scale means the usefulness of CROSS is no longer tied to a single app or storefront; it follows the user into the ordinary moments of a day, wherever a QR code is accepted. Toward AI-native commerce. The partnership is also a bet on where commerce is heading. As AI agents begin to act on behalf of people and businesses - booking, buying, negotiating, and settling - they need a way to transact that is fast, programmable, and verifiable. Legacy payment rails, built around human approval and batch settlement, were never designed for software that operates continuously and at machine speed. By bringing CROSS together with AEON's agent-native settlement layer, NEXUS is working toward an environment where AI agents, applications, services, and users can transact freely, both online and offline, without the friction that has historically sat between on-chain value and real-world use. It is a step toward commerce that is not just digital, but autonomous - where value can be exchanged and verified without a human in the loop for every transaction. Strengthening global collaboration. For NEXUS, the AEON partnership is part of a wider effort to broaden its collaborations across the industry. "We will continue to strengthen global collaborations to advance the value of blockchain assets," said Hyun-guk Jang, CEO of NEXUS. "Through this partnership, we want to create an environment where digital assets can be used in everyday life - and expand that into a real-life payment infrastructure." The throughline holds: from a game-native economy, to real-world checkout, to an AI agent economy that settles on-chain - value that finally travels as far as the people and agents using it. A rebranding under review. Separately, a rebranding of the CROSS ecosystem is under consideration. Under the proposal being reviewed, the mainnet "CROSS" would become "OneChain," and the native token "$CROSS" would be renamed "$ONE." The change has not been finalized; any decision would follow the review and due process of the foundation and the relevant institutions involved. About NEXUS. NEXUS Co., Ltd. is a KOSDAQ-listed company in South Korea since 2015 and the DevCo behind the next-generation blockchain gaming infrastructure of the CROSS gamechain. Led by CEO Henry Chang, former CEO of WEMIX, Wemade and Neowiz Mobile, the company brings together over 100 blockchain and gaming industry experts, including select founding members from WEMIX with proven Web3 success. NEXUS built CROSS Gamechain in 2025 and continues to build and maintain it, delivering developer tools such as SDKs and APIs, operating core services including wallets, marketplaces and explorers, and partnering with global studios to onboard games and expand adoption, driving the sustainable growth of the CROSS ecosystem.