NEAR Protocol

The unified commerce layer for assets and agents.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

NEW LAUNCH

Introducing NEAR Business: a confidential multisig treasury for crypto-native teams.

Pay teams and vendors, swap, and allocate capital across 35+ chains, with every move approved by your signers. Built on NEAR Intents.

https://t.co/l61vKNlV3d

How it works ↓

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[MSB Intel @MSBIntel]

NEAR AI's agent solved all 672 PutnamBench math problems at a mean cost of $0.17 each, using DeepSeek V4.

Rival perfect scores built on OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 reported $44.5 and $3.52 a problem.

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ICYMI: @ilblackdragon, @AlexAuroraDev and @_bendersgreat_ go Inside NEAR to break down all of the biggest narratives and updates in Q3.

Privacy. Post-quantum. Bunker mode, AI economy. User ownership.

Catch it all here:

[The Rollup @therollupco]

EXCLUSIVE: Illia Polosukhin, Alex Shevchenko & Anton Astafiev On Confidential AI And The Agent Economy

@ilblackdragon @AlexAuroraDev @NEARProtocol @robbieklages

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:14 Finance And AI Must Be Confidential By Default
03:09 Zcash Led The Privacy Wave For Business
07:38 Blockchain Is Finally On Par With Modern Banks
11:07 NEAR Is Better Positioned Than Bitcoin For Quantum
13:28 Anton Pushes Back On Justin Drake's Message
17:22 Privacy Is Important For AI Not Just Finance
21:46 Open Weight Models Flipped Usage In Three Months
25:54 NEAR Hosting Third-Party Models Confidentially
29:02 Transformation Takes Time Just Like Seatbelts
34:27 Google Built A Manipulation Engine And AI Is Worse
38:56 From Black Mirror To Reflective Mirror
41:37 Bitcoin Proved You Can Align Capitalism With Public Good
43:39 One Frontend Engineer Could Manipulate A Billion Minds
46:30 Free User AI Still Needs A Business Model
49:37 Agents Need NEAR For Civil Resistance And Reputation
52:15 NEAR Builds The Full Agent Economy Cradle

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NEAR Business is live.

Confidential multisig treasury across 35+ chains.

Payroll, vendor payments, swaps, and capital allocation in one dashboard. Hidden from the market, legible to auditors.

Built on NEAR Intents.

[Cryptic @Cryptic_Web3]

🚨LATEST: Crypto teams can now manage their treasuries privately across 35+ blockchains.

@NEARProtocol has launched NEAR Business, bringing payroll, vendor payments, cross-chain swaps, and capital allocation into one confidential multisig dashboard.

NEAR Business combines private treasury management with audit access, allowing crypto teams to manage funds across 35+ chains without exposing sensitive transactions publicly.

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@Param_eth NEAR everywhere

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ICYMI:@Rock_it_Will from @near_intents joined @ThisIsNewWave_ to break down how NEAR Intents is connecting crypto.

How solvers compete for your best price, moving money across chains, building https://t.co/1n0j882Brr, and how AI agents fit with NEAR Intents.

Watch the full episode:

[New Wave Podcast @ThisIsNewWave_]

The $33B App Powering Crypto

An interview with @Rock_it_Will, BD Lead at @near_intents 🎙️

2:09 What NEAR is and the fragmented chain problem
4:13 Illia Polosukhin, the Google paper and NEAR's AI origins
5:23 Confidential AI and why agents suit blockchains
7:51 Moving money across chains without bridging
8:32 How it works: solvers competing for your price
10:42 What you actually receive, and the wallets using the API
13:38 The volume numbers and how the growth happened
14:53 Making Zcash easy and building https://t.co/ZJh6W5Y0jD
16:29 NEAR Foundation, NEAR Intents and the wider ecosystem
18:15 Why revenue became the North Star
22:33 One Click Earn and the next types of intents
24:01 Why AI agents fit intents so well
27:19 Two futures for crypto, and the bankers showing up
30:13 Trading stocks on the weekend
33:32 Brokerage friction and the Ondo partnership
36:38 Institutions on chain, gold and room to grow
41:47 Distribution as a moat
43:45 Launching Quantus QTC on https://t.co/ZJh6W5Y0jD
46:39 Confidential Intents and compliant privacy
49:23 Limit Orders, NEAR Business and what's new

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Join the NEAR Q3 Backers Summit on October 28.

What we will cover:
✦ Tokenomics: House of Stake issuance proposal, institutional access
✦ Intents: confidential by default, agentic payments, new integrations and markets
✦ NEAR AI: private inference growth, formal verification, agents coming to https://t.co/1n0j8823BT
✦ Protocol: post-quantum accounts, dynamic resharding, and more

Special guests and live team Q&A to follow.

[Alex Scharrer @alex_scharrer]

Our virtual Q3 Backers Summit is next Wed, Oct 28.

Hear the numbers, strategy, and roadmap directly from the NEAR team, and ask your questions.

We’ll cover Intents revenue, NEAR AI, institutional growth, and AI money, plus two special guests 👀

Funds: DM me for an invite ✉️

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Start shipping, the submission window opens Nov 1st. https://t.co/Tug3dEKWrH

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Humans and AI models share the NEAR hackathon judging panel.

@ilblackdragon (NEAR),@Mert (Helius), @eddylazzarin (a16z crypto), @avichal (Electric Capital),@kain (Synthetix & Infinex), @hosseeb (Dragonfly), @cyntro_py (cyber fund).

Claude Code and Codex join as AI Judges.

[New Wave Podcast @ThisIsNewWave_]

The $33B App Powering Crypto

An interview with @Rock_it_Will, BD Lead at @near_intents 🎙️

2:09 What NEAR is and the fragmented chain problem
4:13 Illia Polosukhin, the Google paper and NEAR's AI origins
5:23 Confidential AI and why agents suit blockchains
7:51 Moving money across chains without bridging
8:32 How it works: solvers competing for your price
10:42 What you actually receive, and the wallets using the API
13:38 The volume numbers and how the growth happened
14:53 Making Zcash easy and building https://t.co/ZJh6W5Y0jD
16:29 NEAR Foundation, NEAR Intents and the wider ecosystem
18:15 Why revenue became the North Star
22:33 One Click Earn and the next types of intents
24:01 Why AI agents fit intents so well
27:19 Two futures for crypto, and the bankers showing up
30:13 Trading stocks on the weekend
33:32 Brokerage friction and the Ondo partnership
36:38 Institutions on chain, gold and room to grow
41:47 Distribution as a moat
43:45 Launching Quantus QTC on https://t.co/ZJh6W5Y0jD
46:39 Confidential Intents and compliant privacy
49:23 Limit Orders, NEAR Business and what's new

[Alex Scharrer @alex_scharrer]

Our virtual Q3 Backers Summit is next Wed, Oct 28.

Hear the numbers, strategy, and roadmap directly from the NEAR team, and ask your questions.

We’ll cover Intents revenue, NEAR AI, institutional growth, and AI money, plus two special guests 👀

Funds: DM me for an invite ✉️

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

What Vaults do you want to see next?

[Taler @talerfinance]

Managed on-chain capital, for the everyday user, built to institutional standards.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

ICYMI: NEAR Co-Founder @ilblackdragon joined @BitcoinSuisse_ to discuss the NEAR Protocol economy, and why preparing all systems for a post-AGI world matters more than trying to pace the frontier.

Watch the full episode 👇

[Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) @ilblackdragon]

New episode with @BitcoinSuisse_: how the @NEARProtocol economy works, why open source always wins, why I think pacing the frontier isn't possible and we need to focus on preparing all systems for a post-AGI world.

https://t.co/DfnAjYeMM4

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash just went live on NEAR AI Cloud.

Not all models are private, if you are looking for fully private inference look for Private TEE models listed in the catalog.

[NEAR AI @near_ai]

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is live on NEAR AI Cloud.

This version is better at coding, agentic tasks and reasoning, and finishes tasks faster with shorter outputs.

$0.30/M input, $1.20/M output.

Try it free in the playground: https://t.co/Fn1B2Kjujo

[NEAR Agent Market @NearAgentMarket]

Job Board: Video Dubbing Agent

Build an AI agent that translates a video into other languages with natural-sounding dubbed voices, keeping the original timing, background music, and sound.

You keep ownership & earn every time someone hires it.

Bid now: https://t.co/wxJDXCjzHW

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@ilblackdragon @matthew_d_white @build_planet @near_ai @open_intel_fdn Event details: https://t.co/Eb3QiGsiUJ

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Open Source AI Summit #12 takes place today in SF.

@ilblackdragon is on stage multiple times:

- Fireside with @matthew_d_white on Benefits and Risks of Open Models
- Solo talk: “What can’t your AI do?”
- Fireside with Peter Norvig on Recursive Self Improvement

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

CROSS MARGIN NOW LIVE

Positions now share your perps balance as margin instead of each holding its own. Confidential as always: nobody can tell they’re yours.

Only on https://t.co/9gmALOKZOX powered by @HyperliquidX

[Vultisig @vultisig]

Something close became NEAR 👀

Native $NEAR in your Vultisig Vaults.
Send, swap and receive. No seed phrases.

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New jobs are being added to the NEAR Agent Market.

Build a video clipping agent, retain ownership of it, earn every time someone hires it.

[NEAR Agent Market @NearAgentMarket]

Job Board: Video Clipping Agent

Build an AI agent that turns a creator’s long-form video into short, platform ready clips. Finding the best moments, cutting and formatting them, and explain why each one was chosen.

Bid now: https://t.co/2wBO9VjIYU