Nerva was born on May 1, 2018. There was a 1% pre-mine of 180,000 XNV that went to the person who created it (AngryWasp). Initial supply was set to 18.4 million coins and once those were distributed to miners, tail emission started. Tail emission is set to 0.3 XNV per block, with 1 minute blocks. Nerva has been in tail emission since January 19, 2021 so from that point, annual inflation is 158,000 XNV (or around 0.83%). As of this writing outstanding XNV supply is 19.16 million.
Initial success
Initially, Nerva became popular because of the new algorithm, accelerated emission and being CPU only minable. It quickly attracted a lot of people. As time went on and there was nothing groundbreaking happening, the project was less and less appealing to people. Not much was happening and in November 2021 Nerva’s creator just left without saying anything to anybody in Nerva community.
Struggles
Services started breaking down but a few people stepped in and helped restore things to keep the project going.
Once things were restored, there was a lot of talk but there were few people willing to do anything to move the project forward. Shortly after that, everything started slowing down again to the point where almost nobody was even posting anything in discord other than a few issues and occasional “is this project dead?”
Awakening #1
From June 2023 until February of 2025, there was push to try to wake up Nerva’s community from sleep and accomplish something useful. XNV was listed on XeggeX exchange and DogeCash App (mobile and web wallet), Discord server was cleaned up of unverified and inactive users and Nerva Community started coming together, showing some support.
New development started happening. NervaOne Wallet and Miner was developed. New version of core software was released, new API was developed, NerVault was created, new Discord bot was developed and a few other development initiatives took place.
There was also big marketing push, especially on X to try to grown Nerva’s community. Still, there were only a few people willing to get involved and since Nerva could not gain traction, people moved on to other things and things died down again.
XeggeX and TradeOgre exchange rugged and there was nowhere to trade $XNV.
Awakening #2
Crypto privacy started gaining traction towards the end of 2025 and in January 2026, Nerva’s Discord server started becoming active again. There were people willing to do some work again and contribute towards exchange listing. At the end of January 2026, Nerva was listed on NonKyc exchange.
NonKyc exchange combined with marketing on Reddit and 4chan caused another explosive interest in this small privacy crypto project. New goals were set and people started showing willingness to get involved again.
Where we go from here is up to Nerva’s community because Nerva is an open-source, community crypto project. Anybody who wants to can get involved and help it succeed.
Here are some positive things about Nerva:
- Mature project that’s been here for almost 7 years
- Fair distribution with only 1% pre-mine, most likely sold long ago
- Low inflation of only 0.83% per year
- Private and secure transactions
- CPU only mining
- Supports Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision of 1 CPU = 1 Vote
More information:
Documentation: https://docs.nerva.one/about/
GitHub: https://github.com/nerva-project/
Short history from 2023: https://nerva.one/a-brief-history-of-nerva-project/