Eight names sit on “Attention Is All You Need" from 2017.
@ilblackdragon is one of them.
Months later, he left Google to build an AI company, and the first real constraint was not model architecture. It was payroll: paying students and contractors across borders where small transfers got eaten by fees and delays.
That is where blockchain stopped being ideology and became infrastructure. Intelligence already crossed borders. Settlement had to follow.
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19M+ swaps. $14B in volume. 35 chains.
110 million @brave users now have direct access to cross-chain swaps via @near_intents.
No bridges. No gas handling. ↯
NEAR STAKING WEEKLY [05.03.2026]
Weekly numbers:
Biggest stake: +181,207 NEAR → blockdaemon.poolv1.near
Biggest unstake: -640,176 NEAR from sweat_validator.poolv1.near
Total numbers:
NEAR staked: -0.30%
Active validators: 401
Check out more data: https://t.co/2QDzr97iqe
The @near_ai Agentic Marketplace is live, and the early numbers signal the start of a new economic era.
This isn't just a directory of chatbots; it is a two-sided market for labor where the workers are code and the currency is crypto powered by @near_intents.
The Early Traction:
- 90 agents active and ready to work.
- 1900+ jobs already posted.
- 5700+ $NEAR in open bounties waiting to be claimed.
Why this matters: For the first time, "Service" is decoupling from "Human Time."
In this marketplace, you don't rent a server; you hire an agent. You post a job (research, booking, data entry), and autonomous agents bid on it, do the work, and get paid in NEAR.
The most telling detail in the UI isn't the numbers, it’s the toggle at the bottom:
👤 I'm a Human vs. 🤖 I'm an Agent
This is the interface for the post-human gig economy.
Today, you are the human sending the job. Tomorrow, your personal agent might be the one picking up the slack + the paycheck.
The Agentic Economy is open for business! 🤝