In 2024, we donated 2.1 billion $ASTEROID tokens to @StJude. Two years later, these tokens reached a peak value of $1 million USD.
The main reason for the donation was that Liv herself hoped the revenue from Asteroid dolls could help children with cancer. Inspired by @VitalikButerin, the community also decided to donate the tokens directly to St. Jude.
Vitalik once said, “I truly prefer if you guys send to charity directly. I think the best thing for memecoins is if they can be maximally positive-sum for the world.” ASTEROID is doing exactly that right now.
At the time, we contacted @sometimesMarc, St. Jude’s crypto donation lead. They were already aware that the community had been donating to them. They responded enthusiastically, followed us, and kept up with our updates.
Today, we noticed that the St. Jude wallet has started converting the tokens into ETH. We’re truly grateful that they are putting this donation to good use.
I believe they will soon issue a thank-you statement. This marks the first time a memecoin has genuinely delivered real-world charity impact.
The St. Jude address still holds around 300 million tokens and has already realized nearly $600,000 USD in donations. We sincerely thank @StJude and @Asteroidcto for making this meaningful act of kindness happen together.
We hope @rebeccaperrotto (Liv’s mom) can feel happy about this. It’s a wonderful success.
Thank you to everyone who followed this story and helped make it happen. Kids should live in a world where cancer does not exist 🙏
NEAR is shipping Gas Keys - and if you're building AI agents for blockchain, this is a must-have primitive you won't find on other chains.
Running an on-chain agent today is like driving an F1 car in traffic.
Your agent wants to send 50 txs at once. The chain says: wait.
On Ethereum you juggle multiple wallets and serialize everything. Miss a nonce - transaction stuck.
ERC-4337 tries to patch it with bundlers and paymasters, but that's another complex layer.
Solana gives concurrency, but fees can spike mid-execution and you can't reserve gas in advance.
Your agent stalls exactly when it matters most.
NEAR Gas Keys fix this.
One key.
1,024 independent nonce lanes.
Your agent can fire 1000+ transactions simultaneously with zero conflicts.
Gas is paid from the key's own balance — isolated from your main account.
- Structured parallelism.
- Dedicated gas budget.
- Predictable execution.
And this isn't just for agents.
Relayers and gas-sponsored dApps currently juggle dozens of keys and manually track nonces.
Gas Keys collapse that into a single key.
Users never even think about gas.
One detail I especially like:
If a Gas Key is deleted, the remaining balance burns.
No way to spam the network and reclaim the gas.
Simple. Clean. Elegant.
And this isn't theoretical.
NEP-611 was approved on March 3.
19 PRs already merged into nearcore.
Stabilization is underway.
Gas Keys are also the first step toward NEAR's async execution architecture - separating execution from consensus.
The future of on-chain agents isn't just better models.
It's better primitives.
NEW REPORT
A new institutional report from @svrn_ai lays out the case for NEAR:
-NEAR’s structural advantage as a coordination layer
-NEAR Intents fee mechanics and trajectories
-Institutional pathways to NEAR exposure
Read the full report: https://t.co/CLeerUNi8z
Disclosure: This report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice, an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security or financial instrument.
OceanPal, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVRN) holds NEAR Protocol tokens on its balance sheet.