1. Everything in the world is a layering of inevitability and coincidence.
2. The name “Nexus” was clearly inspired by
@harari_yuval’s 2024 book Nexus. In that book, I learned that “nexus” comes from Latin, meaning connection or link. I thought there could be no more fitting name for a blockchain company, so I named my startup Nexus.
3. Ironically, the book is not about blockchain — it is about AI. It offers deep and broad insight into the historical arc of human information networks, the longitudinal significance of AI, and the profound transformations it will bring. (Its arguments remain highly relevant, and I personally recommend reading it.)
In particular, the rise of agents is anticipated in the book, too. Agents, it suggests, will evolve from passive executors of assigned tasks into increasingly active participants in workflows — and eventually into autonomous entities.
4. Thirteen months after I personally invested, became the controlling shareholder and CEO, and launched the CROSS Project, something happened. On February 1 — just days ago — we launched MoltArena in a single day. At that moment, Nexus became an AI Agent company. More precisely, it became an Agentverse company.
5. Naturally, with 30 years in the gaming industry, our first product was the gamification of agent debate battles — MoltArena(
moltarena.crosstoken.io/). The second was the world’s first agent MUD game, @MoltyRoyale(
moltyroyale.com/), launched just 60 hours later.
6. As a blockchain-native company, Nexus’s next features can only be onchain. Agents will connect wallets, purchase premium services, mint their own agenttokens, and operate their economies onchain.
7. The sudden rise of
@openclaw at the end of January may have looked like coincidence — a trigger from the outside. But when it comes to Agentverse, it was inevitable. Nexus has seriously been committed to integrating Game × Blockchain × AI. When preparation meets timing, coincidence reveals itself as inevitability.
8. Perhaps this began 30 years ago, when I first stepped into the game industry at Nexon during university. Perhaps it was already mostly completed when I was pushed out of a previous project I had started. Steve Jobs spoke about “connecting the dots backward.” It may sound like hindsight bias — but when you look back, the dots align too perfectly to ignore.
9. To accelerate this evolution of Nexus, the company decided yesterday to raise funds. I am personally investing an additional KRW 5B. I accept Game × Blockchain × AI as my lifetime calling, and I am all in. Coincidentally — or perhaps inevitably — the market environment for digital asset treasury strategies is also turning favorable. :-)
10. I accept all of this as fate.
p.s.) A senior colleague from Nexon recently reminded me of something: Nexon’s first game, known in Korea as “바람의 나라,” was released in the United States under the name Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds(
nexustk.com/index.html). I vaguely remember it now. Perhaps everything truly began there