NEAR Protocol
@NEARProtocol
The unified commerce layer for assets and agents.
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“Agents will be your interface to use blockchain, and you may not even know you are using blockchain” - @ilblackdragon
NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin joined The @SmartEconomyPod to discuss how AI agents will become blockchain’s primary users.
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“You cannot imagine a business doing commerce onchain where everybody can just go into Block Explorer and see how much revenue they're getting, how much they're paying their suppliers, what the salaries are, right?"
- @ilblackdragon on @Unchained_pod
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All-time volume on NEAR Intents just crossed $20 billion.
This milestone is the result of a series of technical breakthroughs that removed some of the biggest constraints in cross-chain execution.
A deep dive on Intents' rapid momentum 🧵
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Preparing NEAR for the Quantum Era:
Quantum is coming.
And most systems weren’t designed for the shift.
Upgrading cryptography at internet scale will be no small task.
Read more on how NEAR is preparing for the post-quantum era. 👇
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Solving quantum algorithms with AI by @eigencloud. Science is accelerating and open source is going to drive that.
NEAR is shipping post quantum crypto end of Q2 to make sure everyone has time to upgrade.
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ICYMI: Leading research desks, macro analysts, and reporters have all been covering NEAR's key role in the privacy renaissance, across both DeFi markets and AI.
A roundup 🧵
What NEAR shipped this month:
✦ NEAR Intents crossed $19B+ in all-time volume and 25M+ total swaps.
✦ Confidential Payments went live on with Universal Send.
✦ $VVV is live on NEAR Intents and
✦ Illia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon) and Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) discussed the Privacy Renaissance on @therollup.
✦ NEAR AI and the Government of Bermuda partnered to deploy AI-powered public services.
✦ NEAR Intents began powering cross-chain swaps in Ledger Wallet.
✦ IronClaw released version v0.28 “IronClaw Reborn”.
✦ NEAR Intents integrated private USDC payments for the NEAR AI Agent Market.
✦ NEAR Intents
joined the strkBTC Federation.
✦ NEAR AI shipped automatic PII anonymization.
✦ NEAR introduced Dynamic Resharding.
✦ NEAR AI and FailSafe launched AttackBench.
✦ NEAR hosted events at Consensus Miami and the SALT Digital Finance Forum in Bermuda.
✦ referrals went live
✦ The Bitwise NEAR Staking ETP drew roughly $3M in inflows
✦ Trezu (@trezuapp) launched confidential treasuries
And much more.
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Running payroll? Paying invoices? Receiving payments?
Historically doing this on-chain meant all the key company information was visible to everyone in the world.
With @TrezuApp using confidential intents you can now keep this information private as it's suppose to be.
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Running payroll on a public multisig means every salary is public.
Every vendor payment. Every trade size.
Not every team signed up for that level of transparency. Trezu lets you choose.
Public treasury for open governance. Confidential treasury for everything else.
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Zcash pioneered confidential payments.
Universal Send expands that model to cross-chain payments, without sacrificing privacy.
Private balances. Any asset. Any chain.
To send a payment:
- Open
- Scan a merchant QR code
- Pay with what you have
The merchant receives the asset they want.
handles the swap + routing automatically.
One confirmation. Confidential by default.
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Confidential payments are live on
Pay anyone in any asset, on any chain, without exposing your wallet activity.
Introducing Universal Send.
Privacy is becoming the default expectation.
And increasingly, the default experience on
Turns out, confidentiality on is ridiculously seamless.
The market is choosing confidential execution.
Intents.
Privacy.
AI agents.
What once appeared disconnected is now converging into a single thesis:
AI money runs on NEAR.
SVRN CEO @sal_ternullo joined @Bankless to share how the vision is coming into focus. 👇
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INTERVIEW: near:native’s AI Money Thesis—Intents, Privacy, & Tokenomics | Sal Ternullo
@NEARProtocol keeps showing up in strange places: cross-chain wallets, privacy apps, AI infrastructure, and now the emerging agent economy. @sal_ternullo, CEO of @svrn_ai, joins us to explain why he thinks this is not another NEAR pivot, but the original thesis finally coming into focus. They dig into NEAR Intents, AI money, tokenomics, privacy, fee capture, agentic commerce, and why SVRN is trying to commercialize the NEAR ecosystem rather than simply hold the asset.
[TIMESTAMPS]
0:00 Intro
2:23 Why NEAR Keeps Showing Up
3:58 Pivot or Return to Roots?
5:34 The “AI Money” Thesis
7:47 Intents, Zashi, and Real Product Market Fit
9:31 Tokenomics, Buybacks, & Value Accrual
12:39 NEAR’s Different Approach From Ethereum
15:54 Fees, Scaling, and First-Party Apps
20:57 Cross-Chain Liquidity as NEAR’s Moat
25:14 The Contrarian Investor Case for NEAR
28:20 Privacy, Enterprises, and AI Agents
36:25 What SVRN Is Building for NEAR
42:48 Investor Sentiment & Final Thoughts
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Why now:
42% of activity is confidential. $80M weekly volume. Confidential payment shipped last week.
People are showing up. Growth is already happening. Now it's rewarded.
GTA 6 is LIVE on
Just kidding. It was supposed to be released today, but as a consolation referrals are live on
Refer a trader and you both earn 10% of transaction spend every transaction they make.
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Verifiably private AI is NEAR AI.
Major platforms and nation-scale systems like Venice, Brave, Abound, and the Government of Bermuda are integrating NEAR AI to bring confidential inference to their users 🧵
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Miami showed where the industry is heading.
AI agents. Stablecoins. Privacy.
NEAR is building the infra connecting it all.
From agentic commerce to confidential AI, Consensus made one thing clear:
The next internet economy will be autonomous, interoperable, and user-owned.
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USDC is now live in the NEAR AI Agent Market, with confidential execution through Confidential Intents.
Private stablecoin settlement is foundational infrastructure for the AI economy and now live on NEAR to power the next wave of agentic commerce and autonomous businesses.
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