In the fourth episode of Exponential, Samuel Judson — head of zkVM engineering at Nexus — joins the show to unpack the science, strategy, and systems thinking behind zero-knowledge cryptography.
Sam brings a rare combination of perspectives: part mathematician, part systems engineer, and deeply attuned to the social and regulatory dimensions of cryptographic technology.
This primer-style episode traces the evolution of zero-knowledge proofs, the motivation for building the Nexus zero-knowledge virtual machine (zkVM), and why ZK is becoming foundational to how trust is engineered into software systems.
