Here’s everything you need to know about NEAR:
✦ What NEAR is today, from NEAR Protocol to $NEAR token, Intents to IronClaw
✦ Why NEAR matters
✦ Why now
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The quantum threat to blockchains is straightforward:
If signature schemes become breakable, private keys can be derived from public keys.
Quantum-safe cryptography exists.
The challenge is migrating users, assets, and applications. NEAR’s account model address this by design.
Old crypto: lots of wallets, different chains, gas tokens, bridges, blind sign
New crypto: near(.)com to hold, trade and use all your crypto across 35+ chains confidentially by just having Intent
Future: agentic commerce on the same rails
“Agents will be your interface to use blockchain, and you may not even know you are using blockchain” - @ilblackdragon
NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin joined The @SmartEconomyPod to discuss how AI agents will become blockchain’s primary users.
“You cannot imagine a business doing commerce onchain where everybody can just go into Block Explorer and see how much revenue they're getting, how much they're paying their suppliers, what the salaries are, right?"
- @ilblackdragon on @Unchained_pod
Privacy is defining the next generation of apps, both financial and agentic.
Privacy-first AI platform @AskVenice ($VVV) has 3M+ users and is growing fast. NEAR is the infrastructure making it possible, from private inference to confidential execution.
How NEAR powers Venice 🧵
Big day for @near_intents today!
$20B cumulative volume milestone just hit.
To mark the moment, we’re launching the new official Intents T-Shirt.
Grab yours ↓
NEAR Intents is more than cross-chain execution. It's confidential execution, powered by a NEAR private shard.
You can now go confidential on https://t.co/YBUSFVdjxE and tap into this privacy-preserving layer.
Daily Confidential TVL is growing. Be part of the renaissance.
$20B is where the rails start, not where they end.
NEAR Intents is expanding to more asset classes, more liquidity venues, and the agent economy: settlement infrastructure for wherever value moves next.
All-time volume on NEAR Intents just crossed $20 billion.
This milestone is the result of a series of technical breakthroughs that removed some of the biggest constraints in cross-chain execution.
A deep dive on Intents' rapid momentum 🧵
This is how NEAR Intents compounded as the universal liquidity layer:
- Expand the assets
- Expand the access
- Improve execution
- Simplify user experience
- Increase distribution
- Make integration easier
- Keep execution confidential
Repeat.