every time Chain Signatures come up, I have the same reaction:
> wait, a NEAR account can sign native txs for other chains without those chains needing to change anything?
that still feels insane ๐ฏ
With Chain Signatures, NEAR became the only protocol capable of deterministically triggering native transactions on both Bitcoin and Ethereum through threshold cryptography.
No contracts required on destination chains.
That expanded the addressable liquidity universe overnight.
Running payroll on a public multisig means every salary is public.
Every vendor payment. Every trade size.
Not every team signed up for that level of transparency. Trezu lets you choose.
Public treasury for open governance. Confidential treasury for everything else.
NEAR NEP-639 Walkthrough: Automatic Shard Splitting
The recording is up ๐บ
Watch it to understand how automatic shard splitting is designed to work on @NEARProtocol and the details worth paying attention to
Simple rule:
S = try first
A = use for harder tasks
B = use with a clear reason
C = donโt make it default
Utility = use around the main LLM
Pick the one that fits your stack: https://t.co/cL7g24qssv
Utility: not worse, just different jobs
Privacy Filter
Whisper Large v3
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
Qwen3-Reranker-0.6B
FLUX.2-klein-4B
> use before/around the main LLM
> privacy, audio, RAG, reranking, images