NEAR Protocol

The unified commerce layer for assets and agents.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Submissions are now open for the NEAR Hackathon.

Two weeks to build across 13 tracks. $250,000 in prizes.

No sign-up required. Build a working prototype, publish a public repository and demo post, then submit by November 14 at 23:59 UTC.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes.

No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC.

Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more.

Full details: https://t.co/mkP9hKatU4

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

What NEAR shipped last month:

✦ NEAR Intents crossed $37B+ in all-time volume and 37M+ total swaps.
✦ Confidential Intents TVL crossed $145+ million.
✦ 1,000,000+ $NEAR is now staked to power confidential inference.
✦ @brave Leo now runs on private AI inference from NEAR AI Cloud.
✦ Opus 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, Jev1.13, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, Kimi K3.1 Pro, and more are now live on NEAR AI Cloud.
✦ $QTC listed on https://t.co/1n0j8823BT.
✦ @RobinhoodCrypto went live on https://t.co/1n0j8823BT.
✦  NEAR Intents and @SilentSwap teamed up to expand crosschain access.
✦ Cross Margin went live on https://t.co/1n0j8823BT
✦ NEAR took over Token 2049 with Quantum and Privacy Day w/ @therollupco and @QuantusNetwork.
✦ NEAR crossed 6 years on mainnet with 100% uptime.
✦ $NEAR was listed on @Gemini.
✦ @danboneh moderated an expert roundtable with @ilblackdragon, @_bendersgreat_, @drakefjustin, and @P3b7_ on how blockchains and wallets are preparing for the post-quantum world.
✦ $NEAR was listed on @Backpack exchange.
✦ Stellar USDC went live on https://t.co/1n0j8823BT.
✦ NEAR AI Red went live bringing private AI for security research to teams.
✦ NEAR AI took the #1 spot on Lean Eval v1.
✦ NEAR AI’s Trust Center went live.
✦ $QTC lending markets went live on RHEA.
✦ The NEAR Hackathon kicked off with a $250,000 prize pool.
✦ @mert joined the NEAR Foundation Council.

And much more.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

A 5-minute walkthrough of all 13 NEAR Hackathon tracks from @joespano_ (@NEARDevHub): what each one asks for, which docs to open first, and copy-paste prompts for whatever agent you use to get you started.

Watch now and start building, submissions close Nov 14, 23:59 UTC.

[Joe @joespano_]

Most hackathon time gets burned picking a track. So I did that part: all 13 NEAR Hackathon tracks, what each one asks for, and a two-week starter idea with a copy-paste prompt for Claude Code or Codex. https://t.co/jOd8n6Cuob

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Builders gathering across continents for the NEAR Hackathon.

Chicago, Bolivia, Malaysia & NYC meetups this November. Connect, refine ideas, and ship together.

Register for an event near you 👇

[NEAR Legion @NEARLegion]

NEAR Hackathon is going global.

This November, we're bringing builders together across continents.

🇺🇸 Chicago - Nov 4
🇧🇴 Bolivia - Nov 4
🇲🇾 Malaysia - Nov 7
🇺🇸 NYC - Nov 11

Bring your skills. Bring your ideas. Let's build on $NEAR.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

@SilentSwap @NullMaskio @RIFTHQ @creora_ai @CircuitAI @Listedexchange That’s October for NEAR Intents.

Builders: integrate today for cross-chain reach and confidentiality through one API: https://t.co/buQfydyYBm

Traders: swaps, perps, stocks, earn, pay. Confidential by default. https://t.co/sryybkS1b8.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

October was the highest revenue-generating month all-time for NEAR Intents.

Here’s a look back at the full month, including new networks, new launches, and new capabilities on https://t.co/sryybkRtlA.

NEAR Intents in October, by the numbers 🧵

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

October also brought a wave of new protocols onto NEAR Intents.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

@QuantusNetwork @near_intents Quantus wallet got Intents now 🫡

[NEAR Intents @near_intents]

NEAR Intents is now integrated into the Quantus wallet.

Users can now swap to and from QTC with native assets across 35+ chains through Intents-based Confidential Cross-Chain Swaps, all directly from the @QuantusNetwork wallet.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

NEW PROPOSAL PASSED

House of Stake, NEAR’s decentralized onchain governance body, has voted to lower NEAR’s maximum annual issuance from 2.5% to 1.6%, phased in over 24 months.

This is how NEAR’s economics evolve transparently and programmatically: token holders put a core parameter to a public vote, and the new rate rolls out epoch by epoch on a published schedule.

For NEAR’s tokenomics, that means lower long-term issuance and a supply schedule anyone can verify.

What happens next:

✦ The House of Stake Security Council reviews the result before ratification
✦ A ~90-day grace period follows ratification
✦ Validators adopt the change through a protocol upgrade, which makes it binding
✦ Token issuance then steps down every epoch, reaching 1.6% at month 24
✦ Quarterly reports track realized issuance against the schedule

Full proposal: https://t.co/qRFaLqqx4x

[Joe @joespano_]

Most hackathon time gets burned picking a track. So I did that part: all 13 NEAR Hackathon tracks, what each one asks for, and a two-week starter idea with a copy-paste prompt for Claude Code or Codex. https://t.co/jOd8n6Cuob

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Whoever controls the AI interface will end up controlling money too.

@ilblackdragon on why that makes user-owned AI non-negotiable. Out this week on When Shift Happens.

[Kevin Follonier - MR SHIFT 🦁 @KevinWSHPod]

This week, I’m releasing a 50-minute conversation with @ilblackdragon - Co-founder of @NEARProtocol and co-author of the original AI transformer paper

Illia helped build the technology behind ChatGPT and Claude, and now argues that whoever controls the AI interface will end up controlling money too.

We talk about:
- Why one AI company could become more powerful than owning the world’s banks
- How a single system prompt could nudge a billion people at once
- What user-owned AI actually means
- How NEAR plans to combine private AI and blockchain in one stack
- What can be built on NEAR that cannot be built on any other stack
- Why you should think twice before putting legal, medical or financial questions into a frontier chatbot
- What $ZEC teaches us about privacy and how $NEAR extends it
- Why he thinks AI "paranoia" is great marketing
- How he worked at Google and why building disruptive products inside it was so hard

And much more...

Podcast out this week!

[NEAR Legion @NEARLegion]

NEAR Hackathon is going global.

This November, we're bringing builders together across continents.

🇺🇸 Chicago - Nov 4
🇧🇴 Bolivia - Nov 4
🇲🇾 Malaysia - Nov 7
🇺🇸 NYC - Nov 11

Bring your skills. Bring your ideas. Let's build on $NEAR.

[MEME.COOKING @memedotcooking]

We’re partnering on the Memecoins With Mechanics track for the @NEARProtocol Hackathon.

Shitzu has focused on giving memecoins practical utility on NEAR - cross-chain transfers through OmniBridge (powered by Chain Signatures), community staking mechanics, and fair-launch tools via https://t.co/mh9Fm3ut3Y.

Builders working on this track are welcome to build on top of these tools or explore new mechanics around programmable treasuries, community rules, and onchain interactions.

Details and submission info: https://t.co/AoIFzX9B5T
Learn more about our tools: https://t.co/Nbo4ZlBEJk
Read our docs: https://t.co/t1YAJ3NZrO

[NEAR Intents @near_intents]

Namaste, India!

NEAR Intents will be around @EFDevcon this week, showcasing its capabilities and onboarding more of India to near(.)com 😉

We’re also hosting an event on Nov 5. If you’re a project looking to work with NEAR Intents, come catch up!

https://t.co/TR7uHA5Zdb