Innovating Beyond Blockchain: The Future of Consensus Protocols

In Episode 7 of Exponential, Grigore Roșu — professor, computer scientist, and founder of Pi Squared — joins the show to explore a bold thesis: blockchains as we know them are only a first step.

The future of web3, Grigore argues, lies in universal computation, massively parallel verification, and an evolution beyond the bottlenecks of ordered chains.

Pi Squared, a Nexus partner, is building toward that future. With its FastSet protocol and a new approach to trust, the company is rethinking how verifiability and decentralization scale — while keeping verifiability at the core.