NEXAI
Onchain AI-Sector Index · Base Sepolia Testnet

Twenty AI tokens. One basket, one number.

Deposit approved tokens, mint $NEXAI, and hold a proportional, in-kind share of a basket of AI-sector crypto assets — no swaps, no price oracle in the core math, no picking winners.

10% of every management fee routes directly to the AI Grants Fund, funding new AI-sector projects building on NEXAI.

The Problem

AI is the most obvious trade in crypto right now. Getting exposure to it cleanly is not.

Pick one AI token yourself, and you're betting the whole thesis on a single name going right. Spread it across a dozen, and congratulations — you now have a part-time job: wallets, approvals, rebalancing, all by hand.

The professionally-managed alternative exists. It also comes with accreditation checks, subscription paperwork, and a custodian holding your assets for you. Not exactly why you're here.

Right now, there's no clean way to just hold the sector — onchain, non-custodial, no second job required.

How It Works

You deposit the tokens. NEXAI becomes the one thing you hold.

  1. 01

    Deposit

    Deposit approved tokens — USDC, WETH, and other approved assets — into the basket.

  2. 02

    Mint

    Mint $NEXAI: one token for your proportional, in-kind share of everything inside.

  3. 03

    Hold

    Your share is fully backed and verifiable onchain, any time you check.

  4. 04

    Redeem

    Redeem for your share of the underlying basket, whenever you want. No lock-in.

Why NEXAI

Same AI-sector exposure. None of the usual tradeoffs.

Centralized funds hold the assets. You hold paperwork.

Non-custodial

You hold $NEXAI directly. Nobody custodies it for you, ever.

Some “exposure” is synthetic — leverage, liquidation risk included.

No leverage, no derivatives

Every $NEXAI is backed by real assets sitting in the basket. Nothing synthetic.

Professional AI funds want accreditation and a six-figure income.

Open to anyone

Anyone with a wallet can hold the sector. No gatekeeping.

Most index products just collect fees and track a number.

Funds the sector, not just tracks it

A share of protocol fees flows to an AI Grants Fund — $NEXAI holders vote on which projects get funded next.

Tokenomics

$NEXAI holds the basket. The governance token runs the protocol.

20Basket Size
BaseNetwork
DAOGovernance
0.2%Mint/Redeem Feeplanned

$NEXAI

The Index Token

  • Backed 1:1, in-kind — deposit basket assets to mint, redeem to withdraw your share back.
  • Dynamic supply. Expands and contracts with deposits and redemptions — no fixed cap.
  • Currently backed by a 2-asset testnet basket (WETH/USDC), scaling toward the full 20-asset AI-sector basket.

Governance Token

Name TBD

Supply & Price

100M fixed supply — $0.01 IDO price.

Allocation

  • Public / IDO(no lock)40%
  • Team(2yr vesting, 6mo cliff)15%
  • Treasury / DAO20%
  • Ecosystem & Partnerships(2yr vesting)15%
  • Liquidity(6mo lock)10%

Governance

  • 5% max wallet cap — enforced onchain.
  • Linear voting — one token, one vote. Straightforward, one-token-one-vote governance.

Fees

planned
  • 0.2% mint fee, 0.2% redeem fee
  • 1.5% annual management fee (on $NEXAI TVL)

Revenue split: 80% stakers · 10% AI Grants Fund · 10% Treasury

Roadmap

From architecture to mainnet. Here's exactly where we stand today.

  1. ✓
    M1

    Architecture

    Complete

    Jun–Jul 2026

    Framework selection, technical plan, dev environment setup.

  2. We are hereJul 2026
  3. M2

    Testnet

    In Progress

    Aug–Oct 2026

    Smart contract deployed and functional on Base testnet.

    • ✓Core protocol (mint/redeem, zapper) — built and tested on testnet
    • Multisig/timelock admin structure — built and tested, not yet deployed for real
    • Governance token — built and tested, not yet deployed for real
    • 20-token basket scaling — design only, not yet built
  4. M3

    Audit Ready

    Upcoming

    Nov–Dec 2026

    Code submitted to Certik or Hacken for security audit.

  5. M4

    Mainnet

    Upcoming

    Jan–Feb 2027

    Deployment on Base mainnet after audit clearance.

  6. M5

    IDO

    Upcoming

    TBD, post-mainnet

    IDO launch for governance token.

Beyond Mainnet

Phase 2 · 2027–2028 — Tokenized AI stocks added to the basket (e.g. Nvidia, Microsoft, Google exposure).

Phase 3 · 2029+ — 50+ assets, multi-chain, institutional.

Team

A small team, building in public.

Team details will grow as things firm up — for now, here's who's actually building this.

D

Dmitry

Founder

Product & Strategy

Setting direction, positioning, and what ships next.

M

Mendez

Co-Founder

Protocol Engineering

Writing and shipping the contracts, end to end.

No custodian. No gatekeeping. Just the sector, onchain.

Mint $NEXAI whenever you're ready — no waitlist, no minimum.