NEAR AI

Confidential, verifiable AI infrastructure for a user-owned AI economy.

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

Today at NEARCON 2026, NEAR AI introduced two major products—IronClaw and the Confidential GPU Marketplace—alongside new multimodal and privacy capabilities.

This is the stack—confidential by design, verifiable at runtime—for building the AI economy without compromise 🧵

[The Rollup @therollupco]

Sal Ternullo on Near's role in the Venice private AI stack:

"Venice sits almost like middleware with a consumer front end, users can select different trust assumptions and privacy levels for how they interact with AI."

"Near's private inference is one of the underlying providers, the greatest degree of cryptographic verification over which AI models users are actually touching."

"Confirmation that those models are running inside TEEs. More B2B integrations of Near private inference are coming. This is just the beginning of the architecture."

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

Everyone is building AI agents.

Few are testing how they fail.

Join NEAR AI, @getfailsafe, and AWS in SF to see how AttackBench changes that. 👇

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Creating AI agents is one thing.

Deploying them in production is a different frontier entirely.

Join @getfailsafe, @near_ai, and AWS on June 4th for an evening focused on the security, reliability, infrastructure, and trust requirements for enterprise agentic systems.

[IronClaw @IronClawAI]

"NEAR has built IronClaw, an AI agent framework integrated with NEAR AI’s confidential inference infrastructure. This enables AI agents to securely execute tasks while ensuring that underlying data, credentials, and user activity remain private." - Grayscale Research

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

3M+ Venice users already expect privacy.

NEAR AI provides it through confidential inference.

Now $VVV trades confidentiality on https://t.co/xgTveGWrvf.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

$VVV is now live on NEAR Intents and https://t.co/YBUSFVdjxE.

@near_ai is also providing private inference to @AskVenice.

Swap into $VVV and stay confidential today on NEAR.

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

“AI is national defense.”

Once inference becomes a sovereignty issue, confidential and verifiable AI infrastructure stops being optional.

NEAR AI is building the strategic infrastructure for user-owned AI.

[The Rollup @therollupco]

The @NEARProtocol, ZEC, HYPE Trifecta Bull Thesis with @CryptoHayes & @ilblackdragon

Timestamps
00:51 Arthur's Macro Thesis
01:32 AI Is National Defense
04:10 Full Port NEAR Zcash Hype
05:23 L1 Consolidation Has Begun
08:26 Why Arthur Loves Zcash
10:03 Naval Changed Arthur's Mind
12:56 Intents Enable Anonymous Swaps
13:45 20x NEAR vs 5x ZEC
14:51 $19B Volume $33M Fees
15:47 Privacy Enables Mass Adoption
19:07 NEAR Fully Diluted Now
21:01 AI Blockchain Vision 2017
26:31 HyperLiquid Fulfills DeFi Dream
28:43 No VC Sales Revenue Share
32:02 AI Labor Displacement Thesis
38:39 AOC 2028 Risk Scenario
44:39 When Does NEAR Deflate?
46:52 $150 Price Target Hype

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Verifiably private AI is NEAR AI.

Major platforms and nation-scale systems like Venice, Brave, Abound, and the Government of Bermuda are integrating NEAR AI to bring confidential inference to their users 🧵

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

One header. Opt in.

Use frontier models without handing them your secrets for free.

Build what you want. Ask what you need. Keep it to yourself.

In Beta. Improving fast.

https://t.co/3FKm21pAgz

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

New on NEAR AI: automatic PII anonymization.

Paste whatever you want into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini; your real passwords, API keys, and emails never leave your machine.

One header turns it on. 🧵

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

On top of that, we already ship TEE based encryption that makes your prompts cryptographically invisible to Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, even to the cloud provider itself.

Not a policy. Not a promise. Proof.

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

We prefer to make AI private and verifiable.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

We prefer to unify the assets and the agents.

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

With NEAR AI:

— Agent tools run inside WASM sandboxes w/ @IronClawAI. Credentials sit in encrypted vaults, injected at the network proxy.
— Inference runs in attested Intel TDX and NVIDIA H200 Trusted Execution Environments. Each call is signed inside the enclave.
— Settlement occurs on @NEARProtocol.

Three independent failure domains for defense in depth. Confidentiality and verifiability are enforced by the architecture itself.

[IronClaw @IronClawAI]

"The insecure edge pieces will be run in sandboxes, and trusted with the minimum authority they need to do their job. The secure core will administer everything."

- @VitalikButerin

This is the foundational principle behind IronClaw.

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

@NEARProtocol @Cameron_Dennis_ me three

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

USDC is live in the NEAR AI Agent Market and integrated with Confidential Intents.

Agents can now be paid in stablecoins for dev work, research, translations, deliveries, and more without exposing transaction details or commercial relationships onchain.
https://t.co/Lbhx81NZkX

[USDC @USDC]

USDC 🤝 @near_ai

USDC is now live in the NEAR AI Agent Market.

Individual users and businesses can post jobs, agents can complete tasks, and payments can settle natively through NEAR Intents.

With USDC supported through Confidential Intents, AI agents can transact with a transparent dollar-denominated stablecoin without exposing transaction details, counterparties, or financial relationships across 34+ networks.

https://t.co/UQhuUvosEY

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

A major validation point for NEAR AI.

Governments adopting confidential inference infrastructure is a clear signal that privacy-first AI matters.

The next generation of AI services won’t just need to be intelligent.

They’ll need to be trusted.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

The Government of Bermuda is deploying AI-powered public services on NEAR AI's confidential inference infrastructure.

The partnership launches with a NEAR-powered AI assistant that keeps public servants’ personal data confidential 🧵

[nikshep @nikshepsvn]

near-hydra crossed 1,000+ npm downloads

also v0.5 is live today

your agent now:

→ has a hard spending cap (literally can't exceed)
→ auto-funds for gas on any chain
→ logs in to any crypto app as you
→ sends SPL tokens on solana

install: npm i -g near-hydra@latest