NEW LAUNCH Your USDC can now earn yield confidentially with Earn vaults curated by @gauntlet_xyz and additional vaults curated by @628Labs on @talerfinance. Your $USDC keeps working with you: swap it, send it, spend it. No withdrawing from the vault first. Every launch means one less thing you need to do elsewhere. Put your money to work today →

Preparing multi-chain assets for a post-quantum future. Illia Polosukhin explains how NEAR gets there. With Chain Signatures, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and stablecoins held via NEAR Intents can be secured with post-quantum cryptography and kept confidential, with protocol upgrades handling the transition automatically. Confidential and quantum-resistant. A powerful combination for future-proofing your assets.

AI is the frontend what the agent interacts with. The agent harness sits in between, securing the actions, isolating the secrets, and keeping everything verifiable. The future of secure, agentic AI is here.

Confidential Intents are now live on @MeteorWallet. Meteor users can now make confidential cross-chain swaps, send funds confidentially, and receive funds confidentially on the Meteor App, powered by NEAR Intents.

The industry is calling for open AI infrastructure. Open weights and models are essential, but still only one layer of the stack. Truly sovereign AI infrastructure needs to verify the whole flow, from prompt to model to hardware, and ensure it's encrypted end-to-end. And open rails. Agents need an open settlement layer to transact across assets and markets freely, but confidentially, so they're not broadcasting their movements and sensitive user data. "Sovereign AI" is a multi-dimensional challenge across the whole stack that involves inference, settlement, privacy, and verifiability. NEAR is building that stack holistically through the combination of the protocol, NEAR Intents, and NEAR AI, and is designed to support any closed or open model, and any payment ramp. The age of AI can be one of prosperity indeed if the infrastructure, the full infrastructure, is open.

Open-weights models and self-hosting are not the same as owning your AI. Ownership requires guarantees built into the infrastructure:  -Privacy, so your data stays yours 
-Verifiability, so you can prove what ran, on what data, with which model
-Neutrality, so everyone has equal access to open markets
-Alignment, so the model is optimized for your success User-owned AI is the whole stack, from inference to settlement, not a license on a model:

Prompt injection assumes the model can reach your secrets. On IronClaw, it can’t. Credentials sit in an isolated vault; tools run sandboxed in WASM. A compromised agent has nothing to hand over.

New podcast with @sharongoldman on why we need verifiable AI, not just open. Users & businesses should be able to verify not just an LLM's answer, but the whole chain: the model, prompt, training data, and hardware. Stop giving away your data, demand full access to knowledge.

An agent that acts as a real economic participant needs several capabilities at once: ✦ Identity and permissions, scoped and durable ✦ Settlement at machine speed and micro scale ✦ Private inference ✦ Confidential execution ✦ Verifiability ✦ Universal liquidity ✦ Discovery and coordination Two other factors determined whether the economy around those agents persists: ✦ Transparent governance: the more agents depend on a system, the more its rules have to be legible and contestable. ✦ Sustainable economics: usage funds security, rather than emissions that eventually run out. No single product or platform delivers across all those requirements. Today the model, settlement, and governance sit with different, uncoordinated parties. Coordinating them into one open stack is the gap NEAR is building to fill:

MAINNET UPGRADE Quantum-safe signing is now live on NEAR mainnet. This makes NEAR one of the first blockchains with a NIST-approved post-quantum signature scheme in production. The upgrade also launches dynamic resharding, so NEAR Protocol can scale itself automatically 🧵

Confidential Intents, now in general availability, is a privacy primitive the entire blockchain industry can build on.  When privacy is an option, users take it.  Builders and protocol teams: with a one-click API, you can now let your users go cross-chain and go dark.

The NEAR roadmap is public: From quantum-readiness to confidentiality and agentic flows, NEAR is building open infrastructure to power the agent economy. See what's shipped and what's underway.

Big new upgrades from @Ledger, bringing seamless UX to self-custody. Ledger Wallet™ uses NEAR Intents to power cross-chain swaps and is working with NEAR to align hardware wallet security for the quantum era. This is DeFi, free from compromise.

The next era of AI needs user-owned infrastructure. NEAR is building the user-owned AI stack. Combining private inference, secure agents, confidential money rails, and open infrastructure. Built so users control their data, assets, and intelligence.

Only two steps separate you from qualifying for NEAR@3.33. 1. Hold $100+ in confidential balance 2. Complete at least one confidential swap Qualifying remains open until Confidential Intents reaches $70M TVL. Just use

Confidential Intents is now generally available for all developers. If you're already on 1Click Swap, confidential execution is one parameter away. If you're not, it's one integration. Give your users the privacy they want today:

Confidential NEAR Intents are now available to all builders to integrate in their DeFi products with a one-click API. Deliver confidential cross-chain execution instantly, no extra infra or steps required. The privacy renaissance is here and it runs on @near_intents.

NEW LAUNCH Confidential Intents is now generally available, bringing NEAR's confidential execution infrastructure to all builders. Devs and dApps can bring confidential execution to their users through the NEAR Intents 1Click Swap API. The privacy renaissance runs on NEAR 🧵