Guide on how to lose your crypto in 2026:
1. Build an AI agent
2. Give it raw API keys via software-only security
3. Get hit by a prompt injection
4. Wake up broke
Or stop gambling and look at IronClaw. Hardware-level security where agents execute but never see raw data. #near
Guide on how to lose your crypto in 2026:
1. Build an AI agent
2. Give it raw API keys via software-only security
3. Get hit by a prompt injection
4. Wake up broke
Or stop gambling and look at IronClaw. Hardware-level security where agents execute but never see raw data. #near
the $zec exploit actually made me more bullish on near. tl;dr a bug let you mint unlimited counterfeit zec for ~4 years and bc the pool’s fully private they literally can’t prove it was never abused – the fix is migrating every coin into a fresh pool one by one. that’s the cost of base-layer privacy: when it breaks you can’t audit it, you rebuild the entire room.
near just bets simpler – private while the tx runs, settles on a transparent chain where the math stays checkable. confidential w/ hardware based TEE instead of complex math, which is what most real usage wants anyway (payroll, funding wallets w/o getting copy traded, etc).
zcash is privacy as a destination chain, near is privacy as a default across the entire crypto ecosystem. imo for most people that’s simpler + more useful.
NEAR Intents just crossed $20B in all-time volume.
And it got there fast. The first $10B took until January. The second $10B took four months. The line isn't rising, it's bending.
One day last week cleared over $2B in cross-chain swaps. In January, that was a full month of volume.
25M+ swaps, 70+ assets, any chain to any chain, nothing to sign up for. It quietly turned into one of the busiest settlement layers in crypto while everyone argued about L2s.
Twenty billion, and the curve's going vertical.
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No bridging, no switching networks. Just trade.
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Privacy feature coming soon 🛡️
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Mando shares the story of how he was struck by the product evolution of Near and got so bullish he messaged @ilblackdragon saying he bought a big bag.
"I was at Miami with @CryptoMichNL. He told me about Near. I looked into it and was like, this thing is the truth."
"Then I used @near_intents."
"Swap any coin to any chain, privately, fast, low fees. One of the best products in crypto since Hyperliquid."
NEAR released something during a bear market which solved one of crypto's main problems - privacy
swap pretty much any coin to any chain - privately
how many charts look like this in crypto atm
even most perp dex metrics are trending down
The @NEARProtocol is currently the hottest AI Crypto in the market at the moment
I got @elliot_braem from the @NEARFoundation on to break down what's happening over at $NEAR
Timestamps:
0:00 The New #1 AI Coin
7:12 NEAR x ZEC (Intents)
12:31 Where The Fees Go
17:52 The AI Connection
23:14 Is AI Selling Your Data?
We go over:
>the privacy dilemma in AI
>why NEAR is the "best" blockchain out there
>why he got into NEAR
>what's the current focus
>prior narratives
>ironclaw, near intents, near(dot)com
Your stables shouldn't be sitting idle.
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$USDT & $USDC ready to go https://t.co/QL2PhvWX1v
check which networks in the next tweet. 👉
and for those of you who are shilling zec and near, I wonder how many of you have used https://t.co/TJqr8Qo4HZ and zodl wallet to buy and self-custody the coins privately (instead of cex). i had some extensive convo with @zooko on this two weeks ago
here are some tips:
- use near confidential swaps
- withdraw to zodl wallet and actually use the rotating shielded addresses (instead of the transparent address even if it is more convenient)
- if you make regular transactions, and want to be extra private, do it across irregular timestamps and amounts
enjoyed nerding this stuff out hehe
INTERVIEW: Why $NEAR is Growing: The AI-Native Money Thesis - Intents, Privacy, & Tokenomics | @sal_ternullo@NEARProtocol is showing up more and more
- Integrated in @zodl_app, right before the $ZEC explosion
- Used in @AskVenice to create private AI inferece
- @infinex uses Near Intents for creating a unified wallet
What's going on over at @NEARProtocol, and how does Near adoption impact $NEAR?
@sal_ternullo, CEO of @svrn_ai, joins us to explain why he thinks the original NEAR 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 is Everywhere Lately
3:58 Pivot or Return to Roots?
7:41 The “AI Money” Thesis
9:54 Intents, Zashi, and Real Product Market Fit
11:38 Tokenomics, Buybacks, and Value Accrual
14:45 NEAR’s Different Approach From Ethereum
18:00 Fees, Scaling, and First-Party Apps
23:04 Cross-Chain Liquidity as NEAR’s Moat
28:27 The Contrarian Investor Case for NEAR
31:43 Privacy, Enterprises, and AI Agents
39:38 What SVRN Is Building for NEAR
46:00 Investor Sentiment and Final Thoughts
$NEAR Confidential Intents TLDR
📌 Private cross-chain payments - sender, recipient, amount, routing all shielded
📌 The unlock: agentic finance is limited if every trade, payment & position is visible as it happens
📌 $15M in TVL in ~3 months
The privacy layer for AI agents. Breakdown 👇
crazy seeing people be short/bearish on crypto x ai when:
- ai generates capability without trust. crypto generates trust without capability. two halves of the same coin. (verifiable inference, on-chain attestation)
- ai centralizes by physics. crypto decentralizes by design. the only counterweight with equal pull in the opposite direction. (decentralized compute, open model networks)
- ai makes everything infinite. crypto re-anchors the things that have to stay scarce - identity, authenticity, ownership. (proof of personhood, content provenance, tokenized data)
- same substrate. zk, signatures, homomorphic encryption - the math that powers crypto is the math ai now needs. (zkml, fhe, private inference)
- ai runs at machine speed. every human institution it touches breaks. crypto is the only rail that natively keeps up. (agent payments, stablecoins, programmable money)
- ai without crypto is unaccountable. crypto without ai is inert. each is the other's missing half. (agent wallets, on-chain audit trails, smart contract guardrails)
the timing isn't coincidence. both technologies have hit escape velocity in the same window because they were always converging. (the whole stack)
and the list goes on.
meanwhile the entire crypto x ai sector trades at ~$10b market cap. less than a single ai seed round. the most important intersection of the decade is being priced like a rounding error.
not bullish enough is an understatement - this intersection is easily the most asymmetric bet on the market right now.