Full-Time
Head of Security
Posted on 10/31/2025
Nexus
Layer-1 blockchain with zkVM proofs
No salary listed
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship
San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more
More locations: New York, NY, USA
In Person
Occasional travel to San Francisco for key meetings; remote from New York is allowed.
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- 7+ years in security engineering or security leadership in blockchain, crypto, or high-growth tech environments.
- Hands-on expertise in cryptography, protocol security, cloud security, and distributed systems.
- Proven success building security programs from early-stage to production-grade systems.
- Experience with incident response, audits, and threat modeling for mission-critical systems.
- Familiarity with compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001) and regulatory risk management.
- Ability to balance tactical execution with strategic planning as the organization scales.
- Embrace AI as a core part of how you work, think, and build.
- Design and execute the end-to-end security strategy for Nexus Layer 1 and all infrastructure, organizational, and ecosystem security needs.
- Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and security audits across protocol, infrastructure, and application layers.
- Partner with engineering leadership to architect secure blockchain protocols and integrate risk controls at the protocol layer.
- Embed security practices into the software development lifecycle and CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop incident response plans for critical on-chain and infrastructure risks.
- Establish monitoring systems to detect economic, cryptographic, or consensus-layer vulnerabilities.
- Establish ecosystem security policies for validators, governance participants, and external integrations.
- Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to ensure readiness for global regulatory environments.
- Collaborate with leadership to communicate risk posture and mitigation strategies.
- Develop and report security KPIs, risk metrics, and strategic priorities
Nexus Laboratories builds a planetary-scale, cryptographically verifiable supercomputer powered by a Layer 1 blockchain and the Nexus zkVM, a zero-knowledge virtual machine. Computations run inside the Nexus VM and produce cryptographic proofs of correctness via the Nexus Proof System, which are anchored on the blockchain. The zkVM is modular, open-source, written in Rust, and highly parallelized to handle large workloads while preserving data privacy where needed. The goal is a Verifiable Internet where actions like AI tasks and identity checks can be proven trustworthy without exposing underlying data.
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$34.4M
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- The $25 million Series A from Lightspeed and Pantera signals strong investor confidence.
- Binance Alpha’s NEX event can broaden retail distribution and test first-window demand.
- Partnerships with Vishwa and PlaysOut create early verticals for agentic credit and gaming.
What critics are saying
- The zkVM is experimental and not recommended for production use.
- Binance Alpha disclosed no final claim threshold, reward size, or dynamic rules.
- The broad stack faces regulatory exposure across stablecoin, exchange, and market infrastructure jurisdictions.
What makes Nexus unique
- Nexus combines a Layer 1 blockchain with a Rust zkVM for verifiable computation.
- Its zkVM can prove any computation with succinct, efficiently verifiable proofs.
- The company positions itself around verifiable finance, AI, identity, and compliance use cases.
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Binance Alpha to feature Nexus as NEX airdrop opens through Alpha Points. Binance Alpha will be the first platform to feature Nexus (NEX) on May 20, giving eligible users a points-gated path to claim an airdrop once trading opens. The NEX rollout will use Binance Alpha Points on the Alpha Events page. Binance has not yet published the final claim threshold, reward size, claim window or any dynamic threshold rules for the event, so users will need to rely on the official Alpha Events interface once trading begins. The structure is familiar for Binance Alpha users. Alpha Points are used to access exclusive TGEs, airdrops and other early-token events, with participation confirmed directly inside the Alpha event flow. Points are spent when users confirm participation, and eligibility can depend on the points balance and event rules active at the time of the claim. The NEX event also fits the broader exchange trend of turning loyalty-style activity points into access mechanics for early token launches. Previous Binance Alpha point-gated airdrops have concentrated demand around the first trading window, especially when users wait for thresholds, claim costs and event timing to appear inside the official Alpha page. What Nexus is building. Nexus is developing an Exchange Layer 1 for verifiable finance, designed around high-frequency financial applications and zero-knowledge-powered verifiable computation. The project has positioned its network for markets, trading systems and finance applications that need speed, low latency and cryptographic verification. The Binance Alpha event should not be confused with Nexus testnet participation. Nexus testnet points and testnet tokens are separate from Binance Alpha Points, and Nexus testnet-related assets carry testing-purpose restrictions. The May 20 Binance Alpha event is about NEX access through Binance's Alpha interface, not a direct conversion claim from Nexus testnet activity unless Nexus or Binance publishes specific rules saying otherwise. The event also does not automatically mean NEX is listed on Binance Spot. Binance Alpha highlights early-stage tokens inside Binance Exchange and Binance Wallet, but the Alpha label itself is not a guarantee of future Binance Spot trading. That distinction matters because Alpha launches can attract fast liquidity and heavy attention without the same market depth, withdrawal access or listing status users associate with main exchange spot markets. Claim details remain the key watch. The most important next details are the Alpha Points threshold, the amount of NEX available per eligible user, the claim cost, the event duration and whether the threshold changes after trading opens. Those mechanics will decide whether the launch becomes a high-speed claim race for active Alpha users or a narrower event for users with larger points balances. Users should navigate through Binance's official Alpha Events page rather than social links, replies or search results. New-token claim windows often attract fake airdrop pages, copied wallet prompts and spoofed contract links, especially when the official claim details are not yet fully published. NEX now enters the Binance Alpha pipeline as a closely watched early-token event tied to verifiable finance and exchange-layer infrastructure. The immediate market impact will depend on how Binance sets the claim rules once trading opens, how much liquidity appears around the first NEX market, and whether eligible users treat their Alpha Points as worth spending on this launch instead of saving them for the next event.
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