Every launch removes one more thing you used to do somewhere else. Today, we're partnering with @Ondo to bring tokenized US stocks and ETFs into confidentially, with one account 🧵

Every layer of the NEAR stack, one event. Both co-founders kick it off. Virtual NEAR Day goes live tomorrow with @therollupco from 11am–2pm ET. Illia Polosukhin and Alex Skidanov open with a fireside on formal verification.

From the agent marketplace to private inference to cross-chain settlement, NEAR is the vertically integrated stack for a user-owned AI economy. @Delphi_Digital's latest report on how NEAR is built for agentic commerce, with confidentiality and verifiability by design ↓

NEAR DevHub built an IronClaw routine for sports teams, cities, or regions that delivers scores, trade news, and updates to Telegram or Slack. Your personalized sports section is one routine away. IronClaw shows its tool calls as it works, then waits for approval before anything runs.

Two ways to put staked NEAR to work for user-owned AI: IronClaw agent hosting returns a flat credit budget, staking for confidential inference turns staking yield into compute credits. NEAR AI staking closes the loop between what you hold and what you run.

What a perfect timing to host OSAS and discuss where open source AI is going! Having gaining a lot of "attention", I am thrilled to share the final agenda for the upcoming OSAS SF this Friday co-hosted with @near_ai 💘 @MTSlive crew will be present, to capture my amazing speakers! ​"Learning Powerful Models: Why and How" by @lukaszkaiser, Co-author of "Attention is All You Need" paper ​3:30pm - 3:50pm "User-Owned AI Is All You Need" by @ilblackdragon , Founder of @NEARProtocol @near_ai, Co-author of "Attention is All You Need" paper ​3:50pm - 4:15pm "Why Open Models and Open Science Matters" Fireside chat between @matthew_d_white (Former Global CTO of AI at @linuxfoundation, CTO of @PyTorch) and @ilblackdragon ​4:20pm - 4:40pm "Building Self Improving AI" by @achowdhery, Adjunct Professor at @Stanford ​4:40pm - 5:00pm "OSS is all you need" by @JeanKossaifi, Group Lead at @nvidia Research ​5:00pm - 5:20pm "Yukon: Open Science in the Post-AGI Era" by @soubhikdeb, Head of Research at @eigenlabs ​5:20pm - 5:40pm "Personal AI and Continual Learning" by @BowenWang18, Co-Founder at @river_ai_inc ​5:40pm - 6:00pm "Specialized Intelligence vs. the God Model" Fireside chat with @dzhulgakov, Co-founder at @FireworksAI_HQ, and @ai, Partner at Canonical x @lightspeedvp Talks will be recorded and shared openly!

What happens when the thing using the internet isn't a person anymore? That's the question the whole space is thinking about. Agents are moving onchain, acting on our behalf, turning what people want into what actually happens. It's easy to get lost in the noise, but this is the time to do deep thinking on what matters. What is the infrastructure that gets built or doesn't? Who are the ones ahead and who is behind? Staying focused on the future and making sure the rails are ready before the agent economy arrives at scale. NEAR is putting those pieces together.

Pay someone onchain and they can scroll your whole financial life. Every balance, every counterparty, forever. flips that. Pay confidentially from the account you already have: they get the money, not your history.

The second Virtual NEAR Day streams September 10, 11AM–2PM ET with 15+ speakers. From NEAR AI and NEAR Intents to confidentiality and user-ownership, explore the full NEAR stack in one sitting. Live on YouTube and X.

Zero-knowledge proofs and TEEs both keep onchain activity confidential, just through different mechanics. @AlexAuroraDev (NEAR Intents) and @MayaDotan_ (StarkWare) walk through both, moderated by @jessiexiao_eth. Tune in tomorrow 8/27 at 9 AM ET.

Value and users are already fragmented across dozens of chains. How a network connects to the others determines whether it's an island or the connective tissue. The historical answer, bridges that lock and wrap assets, produced the single largest category of losses in crypto. An approach that moves authority rather than assets, letting one identity act natively on many chains without a bridge in the path, removes that attack surface. It turns interoperability into an extension of user control. In an agent economy that can't be confined to a single chain, this substrate decides who can transact where. @Itsfloe breaks down the approach of cross-chain interoperability in the most recent market intelligence report.