NEAR Protocol opens its doors to Pearl, a coin mined with AI math
@NEARProtocol has added $PEARL to
@near_intents and the near.com app. Users can swap into PEARL from any supported chain and pay others with it; swaps are confidential by default, and wallets and apps on the NEAR Intents 1Click API can now offer PEARL swaps too.
Pearl is a separate Layer-1 blockchain from
@prlnet, live since late April 2026. Its miners run the matrix math behind AI models on GPUs, and that same work secures the chain and issues new coins, capped at 2.1 billion.