NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes. No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC. Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more. Full details:

🚨NEAR INTENTS BLOCKED 500M+ QUOTES FROM BINANCE HACKERS! @AlexAuroraDev of @near_intents said the protocol has refused to process more than 500 million quotes from the Binance hackers since the incident.

Qwen 3.8 27B Abliterated is live on NEAR AI Cloud. Refusals removed, for red teaming and security research, with vision. It runs in a TEE, so your findings stay private. $0.04/M input, $1.35/M output, 256K context. Try it free:

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E193: @NEARProtocol: NEAR Is Encrypted Ethereum @ilblackdragon is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and one of the inventors of the Transformer, the technology behind every AI LLM. Today we talk about why he left Google, how a payments problem pulled him into crypto, and why he thinks AI and blockchain have to be built together. Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:52 - Illia's Mission, Explained To An Uber Driver 03:46 - The Fire In Illia's Belly: Where It Came From 05:46 - How Illia Got Out of Where he Started from 06:54 - Moving out of Google That Changed Everything 07:55 - Attention Is All You Need, Explained Simply 10:59 - Did Illia Know He Was Starting A Revolution? 12:13 - Sponsor: @variational_io , @Bitwise 13:02 - Why Walk Away From Google's Fortune? 14:44 - Illia's Reaction When ChatGPT Exploded 15:55 - What Smart AI People Still Get Wrong 17:29 - How AI Led Illia To Crypto 19:50 - Did Illia Drop AI For Blockchain? 21:00 - 6 Years Of NEAR And How It Survived 22:14 - Why Stay In Crypto With An AI Edge? 24:42 - NEAR In One Sentence: Today And Tomorrow 26:39 - Sponsor: @KASTxyz 27:26 - What You Can Build On NEAR And Nowhere Else 29:03 - What's Happening Inside Centralized AI 30:48 - Does Illia Use Claude Or ChatGPT? 31:36 - What You Should Never Use ChatGPT Or Claude For 32:25 - The Danger Of A Few Companies Owning All The Intelligence 34:35 - How Cryptographic Guarantees Actually Work 35:58 - Is There A NEAR GPT? 36:50 - ZEC Explained Simply: Why It Matters 38:24 - $ZEC Is Private Bitcoin. What Is near:native? 39:32 - Is Owning The AI Interface Bigger Than Owning Banks? 40:29 - User Owned AI, Explained 42:05 - Sponsor: @JupiterExchange , @ethena 42:45 - Can User Owned AI Sustain An Economy? 44:55 - The Best Argument Against User Owned AI 46:13 - Open Weight Models, Explained 47:20 - Is AI Doom Further Off Than We Think? 51:15 - The Next Shift Nobody Is Watching 54:08 - What Humans Will Struggle With Most 55:29 - Thank You

NEAR tokens are now live on the Pumpfun app! Discover and trade new & existing tokens from the NEAR ecosystem with no bridging required. Welcome to the Pumpfun app, @NEARProtocol

THE BLOCK: NEAR Protocol's governance body has voted to lower the maximum annual issuance of near:native from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months. This is to reduce unnecessary dilution and sell pressure on the token. Full effect still requires a security council review, a ~90-day grace period, and validators adopting the protocol upgrade.