In brief
- On Aug. 19, NEXUS opened NEXUS AI Labs, a portal that gathers 11 AI solutions the company developed in-house.
- Among them is wasd, a text-to-game engine that converts a written prompt into a playable game in roughly 60 seconds and takes follow-up edits typed into chat.
- All of the portal’s products were built using the NEXUS AI Framework, the company’s autonomous development platform, which operates 33 AI agents and 39 specialized development functions.
The text-to-game engine wasd is now live on NEXUS AI Labs, the portal NEXUS opened Aug. 19 to bring together 11 AI solutions built in-house.
According to the company, entering a prompt like “drone racing through a neon city” yields a playable game about 60 seconds later, played with the arrow keys. Editing is done through chat: ask it to “make the enemies faster” and the change is applied immediately. A single link is all it takes to share a finished game.
Type "drone racing through a neon city." Sixty seconds later you're playing it with the arrow keys.
𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗱 is live on NEXUS AI Labs — a text-to-game engine. Say "make the enemies faster" in chat and it applies on the spot.
Share the finished game with a single link.@ONEView on X ↗
The rest of the lineup
Sharing the portal with wasd are RED STUDIO, an AI video studio, and the creative studio StoryMaker. NEXUS sorted the 11 tools into three categories: content creation, workflow automation and blockchain integration.
Content creation covers Text to 3D, a real-time engine that the company said produces a 3D model in roughly a minute; AIVE, built for game advertising trailers; and PerfectPixel, which turns a single line of text into pixel art.
Filling out automation are Kiroro, a marketing platform NEXUS said operates autonomously around the clock; Bob, a summarizer for meeting notes; and ImageToApp, which converts an idea into a working app.
The blockchain entry
The blockchain category belongs to ONEchain Skills, which runs blockchain services using nothing but natural-language commands. The tool was formerly known as CROSS Skills. Back in June it cleared every item in an AI Skill security scan conducted by CertiK — described by NEXUS as the world’s largest Web3 security services provider, and itself a member of the network’s validator set.
Built by the framework, not by hand
Each of the 11 products emerged from the NEXUS AI Framework, the company’s proprietary autonomous development platform, NEXUS said. The user provides a goal, and the AI independently handles planning, design, development and validation until a finished product exists. Not a single line of code was written by a person, according to the company.
Underpinning the framework are 33 AI agents assigned distinct roles that collaborate with one another, along with 39 specialized development functions.
NEXUS presented the portal as proof that its research becomes products people can genuinely use, instead of ending at papers or demos.
Background
AI Labs arrives during a hectic period for the company. CROSS was renamed ONEchain and $CROSS became $ONE, with $ONEUSD designated the ecosystem’s common unit. ONEUSD serves as the medium of exchange, while ONE acts as the store of value. Nothing migrated and no new asset was created, and both the validator set and supply stayed the same. On X, the project’s handle changed from @CROSS_gamechain to @ONE_gamechain.
Preceding that rebrand was the acquisition of an 89.03% stake in One Store for roughly 62.6 billion won, or about $40.74 million. The Korean app marketplace ships on more than 38 million devices, and it became the network’s third validator July 15 on CROSS Mainnet 2.0, joining H Lab and CertiK.
ONEstore introduced AI Games on Aug. 7, a storefront section set aside for titles built with AI tools. The section debuted with 20 games, Ragnarok Breaker and Heros Unite among them. NEXUS intends to launch global ONEstore across 124 countries at once from a single build.
Cumulative ONEwallet+ users topped 2.18 million as of July. NEXUS has additionally signed an agreement with the won-pegged stablecoin KRWQ, and both parties are examining trading pairs that would allow KRWQ to be swapped for $ONEUSD or $ONE within ONEchain. First-half revenue came in at 17.4 billion won with net income of 5 billion won, figures that account for the One Store acquisition.
“One of the keys to the age of AI transformation is how quickly technological research can be proven as deployable products,” NEXUS CEO Henry Chang said. He said the company is building products “at the speed of thought” through AI and intends to extend that capability across its blockchain platform business.