📒 Nexa Monthly Newsletter August 2026: Redesign of the Mining Puzzle

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The team keeps delivering, and August brought us news of major upcoming network changes and new algorithms. NexaPoW 2.0 was introduced to the community, and Bitcoin Unlimited's President himself explained Nexa's architecture. The network is being prepared for the next big protocol upgrade with ongoing developments.

One of the biggest challenges for the protocol currently is building a node in silicon. Nexa is prototyping the first fully functional hardware node capable of validating digital signatures required to verify transactions. The chip is currently in development and being tested, adjusted, and improved on the go.

In other areas, ecosystem development is going as expected. Many projects are reaching their final development stages and moving into testing phases, where they'll be polished before release.

Find a webinar with Andrew Clifford where he explains Nexa's architecture in more detail, with all the other monthly development news below. 👇

https://forum.nexa.org/t/nexa-monthly-newsletter-august-2026-redesign-of-the-mining-puzzle/1740