the $NEAR privacy stack: probably the most underrated thing they shipped this year.
your account can hold BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT, SOL - all confidentially. swap them private. pay with them private. withdraw to any chain. no shielded wallet UX, no single-coin trap.
zcash gives you private money. NEAR gives you a private wallet for every asset.
different problem. different solution.
No more bridging, routing, or juggling transactions manually. Just express an intent and let the system handle execution.
Join NEAR Head of Partnerships Dillion Freeman for this space hosted by @Ledger on how NEAR Intents removes the complexity.
https://t.co/FjeXlOSg44
looks like the market is finally getting what $NEAR has been building, for those of you who haven't read my article here is what is important to understand about NEAR:
agents finally work โ opus 4.6 runs 100+ tool calls, closed 13 issues across a 50 person org in a single day, autonomous agent traffic grew 7,851% YoY, 2.3% is already hitting checkout pages, the customer agent infra has been built for in advance has finally shown up
agents legally cannot use visa/stripe/ach โ every KYC framework on earth defines a customer as a natural or legal person, software has no passport, banks cannot onboard it, this is not a policy problem it's a definitional one
which is why stripe (the most sophisticated payments co alive) didn't just bolt agent support onto its own rails โ instead they co-shipped ACP with openai, shipped USDC on base via x402, AND incubated their own L1 tempo with paradigm, three simultaneous bets telling you the answer is crypto and the answer is plural
every serious team is now launching their own chain (hyperliquid, unichain, monad, megaeth, tempo, base, robinhood), the BIS documented in 2022 that fragmentation is endogenous to blockchain economics, this isn't a phase it's permanent and getting worse
humans tolerate bridging pain for a hot mint, agents cannot โ one user request might touch 6 chains in 8 seconds, no agent is sitting there collecting gas tokens to pay for the next hop
https://t.co/Na3CuOJLjs already solves this for humans today โ one account, one identity, transact natively across any chain without bridging or wrapping โ a nice UX for a human, a mandatory UX for an agent
the reframe: near is not a destination chain competing for app deployment, it's a coordination layer sitting above every chain, and the metrics that matter are completely different
intents has routed $15B+ across 31+ chains, 97% of that volume moves between OTHER chains, near's own L1 is just 3% of throughput, 95%+ of protocol fees now come from intents
this is why TVL and DEX volume are the wrong scoreboard โ the market has been pricing near like a dead L1 that lost the solana race, when it's actually the only chain whose volume measures activity between every other chain
fee revenue ($30M/yr) is also closing in on post-halving emissions ($40M/yr), token is on the cusp of net deflationary while still early on the adoption curve
and the team โ illia polosukhin co-authored "attention is all you need," the paper that created modern AI, he started building near in 2018 because he saw the agent economy coming earlier than almost anyone alive, alex skidanov spent a decade at memsql building sharded databases before co-founding it, that combination of AI-native founder vision + distributed systems pedigree does not exist anywhere else in crypto
everything converged in one twelve month window โ anthropic shipped the first deployable agent, stripe ratified crypto rails, every defi team launched their own chain making coordination more valuable not less, near shipped nightshade 3.0 + confidential intents + ironclaw + https://t.co/Na3CuOJLjs, tokenomics just inflected post-halving
this isn't a roadmap moment it's a now moment, near has been building this tech for YEARS and the thesis is finally playing out -- in this agentic future the coordination layer is structurally the largest take-rate position in the entire stack ($NEAR), since everything flows through the point of lowest friction
crypto has lost over $1.3 billion to just five major cross-chain bridge hacks. Wormhole. Ronin. Nomad. Multichain. Harmony. all drained the same way.
every lock-and-mint bridge uses the same model that's been getting rugged for four years.
$NEAR doesn't bridge. it signs.
through Chain Signatures, a NEAR account can hold native BTC on Bitcoin. native ETH on Ethereum. native SOL on Solana. no wrapped assets. no custody contracts. no honeypot.
35+ chains supported.
five hacks. one and a half billion dollars gone. NEAR has settled over $18 billion through the model that doesn't need a bridge.
"And then of course there's something like NEAR Protocol, where you have Intents and you're able to swap in from any chain, swap out from any other chain."
The latest @Bankless episode on NEAR's role in the privacy megatrend ๐
Introducing the Maple Borrower Hub - the operating layer for institutional borrowing onchain.
Smart contracts power the credit. The Borrower Hub powers the experience.
Now live at https://t.co/ZvF5xX6dpg
โค peace in the Middle East
โค higher inflation
โค non-hawkish Fed
โค Blue wave
โค S&P up 10%
โค BTC up 25% to 33%
This is all happening. In fact, if anything, prices will run even higher. Stocks in particular. Don't fight the trend.
๐ Backpack launched Airdrop Checker ahead of today's TGE
Points converted to tokens at roughly 1:0.5 ratio. When users claim, tokens are automatically staked - but users can unstake instantly during the first 7 days.
Check your eligibility: https://t.co/XtozJR6r0d
25% of total supply is allocated to the airdrop, worth approximately $70M at the current pre-market price of $0.27 ($270M FDV). That translates to a point value of roughly $0.14 per point.
@Backpack, a centralized crypto exchange built by former @ftx_app and @AlamedaResearch leaders. Previously, it raised $37M from Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, Placeholder VC, Wintermute, Robot Ventures, and others.
No exact TGE time announced yet - watch official channels.
@benjamincowen What about stocks and the snp500 has it been a bear matket for equities since 2022? Seems like u been screaming bear market since last yr and yet global liquidity is still at an ATH.
@HoussamLak36071@benjamincowen Guys been telling you we are in a bear market but global liquidity is still at an ATH snp 500 is at an ATH crypto is down and he is using crypto metrics to gauge a bear market. ๐คฃ
@APompliano We are already running a $2 trillion deficit with National Debt recently crossing above $38 trillion from $36 in July. If you give away the tariff tax revenue you are effectively borrowing/printing more money to send out stimulus checks. That's as inflationary as it gets.
Maple Finance within the first 15 days of October has generated $936k with the previous month earning $1.5M.
Getting close to $2M per month being $24M annualised. Will put it a quarter of the way there where I think this scales to over the next 1-2 years.
If AAVE lists syrupUSDC as collateral then the leveraged looping will send this well above $30M annualised. The multiples are getting cheaper every month.
$SYRUP