In short...
@NEARProtocol isn't locked into one ecosystem.
It plays nice with any chain, any asset, any market, any AI model too.
For the liquidity part, they’ve got routing options that don’t exist elsewhere.
Privacy is built in with confidential intents + verifiable AI.
It’s been rock solid for 5+ years with zero downtime.
They’re also going into AI agents with NEAR AI Cloud, this thing called IronClaw (basically a secure personal AI agent OS) and an Agent Market.
So basically, near:native is trying to be the flexible, private, reliable home for crypto and AI agents.
Your trades are public. Your deposits don't have to be.
RHEA Perp Confidential Deposit launches July 15, 2026.
Use your existing @HyperliquidX trade account to trade on RHEA X Chain Perp and enjoy private deposits with Hyperliquid liquidity
Save the date.
@TheDeFinvestor The excitement is only summed up in the near livestream.
Every time they surprise their users with new features of the near ecosystem, I'm sure this time will be the same.
Migrate your Kamino lending position to RHEA X Chain Lending in a single click.
Access improved yield for your solana:Es9vMFrzaCERmJfrF4H2FYD4KCoNkY11McCe8BenwNYB and
ethereum:0xa0b86991c6218b36c1d19d4a2e9eb0ce3606eb48
In three steps:
> Connect your Solana wallet
> Create a RHEA Lending acc (bind your Solana acc)
> Navigate to the Migrate page and sing txn
Link⤵️
A few hours ago #NEAR Testnet went through the first unattended dynamic resharding splitting shard 3 into two halves. A nice side effect is that state sync now takes half the time. Next stop: Mainnet. Keep shipping @NEARProtocol
Shard 3 was the largest one, so anyone syncing their node from scratch needed to get 2356 parts for the state sync and you can only apply these sequentially. New shards now require 1179 parts each. Perfect automated split!
The June 2026 buyback is complete.
Since July 30th, 2025, total buybacks have reached 17,750,000 $RHEA — roughly $250,000 at current value, or about 30–40% of protocol revenue since launch.
Buybacks will continue, and a new RHEA stakers and oRHEA incentive model arrives in early August.
A NEAR founder is drafting a proposal to make NEAR a FIXED SUPPLY coin. No more inflation, a hard cap, the thing that made Bitcoin Bitcoin.
Right now NEAR prints about 2.4% new tokens a year to pay validators/stakers, a quiet tax on every holder. FIXED SUPPLY ENDS THAT. The coins that exist become all the coins there will ever be.
The usual catch is that this inflation is what pays for security. NEAR barely needs it, because the cryptography does the heavy lifting. With SPICE, the upcoming upgrade that splits ordering transactions from computing them, one node executes a state transition and publishes a proof, and everyone else just checks that proof. a single honest prover keeps the chain correct, and a fake proof gets rejected on sight. You can't cheat math, so you don't need inflation to keep the network safe.
So who pays validators without inflation? real revenue does. NEAR already earns serious fees from Intents and apps, more than enough to pay validators a flat, predictable reward, even fixed in dollar terms, for keeping high-uptime infrastructure online. it stays permissionless: anyone can run one, and the pay comes from real usage, not from any foundation's goodwill.
+Bitcoin capped supply but tied its security to a reward that shrinks toward zero. NEAR can cap supply and pay for security out of real usage instead.
near:native , the soundest money thesis in crypto, on a chain that actually gets used.
@NEARProtocol In my view, the growth of Confidential Intents TVL to over $28 million was one of the most important signals last month — because this number isn’t just a nice-looking metric; it shows that the product NEAR has bet on is actually being used.💚🔥
NEAR is the most scalable & decentralized crypto today
Finding the "holy grail" in design & building it! Solving the blockchain trilemma
A great discussion with NEAR's founder @ilblackdragon, as the Bons Review is back! 🔥
Join us as we dive deep into NEAR's incredible design:
$NEAR $VVV $SOL $XPL $MINIMAX
my top 5 bets right now
$NEAR - ultrafast chain that fixes cryptos UX core problems -- native accounts on every chain, native privacy, cross-chain swaps w/ AI cloud for inference, own privacy focused openclaw (ironclaw), insane team and more
$VVV - most undervalued AI company available imo -- 3M+ users, 10x growth in tokens over last 6 months, unique crypto-native compute bond, consumer distribution, enterprise-ready API, every model you can think of, privacy + no censorship as architecture
$SOL - best developers/founders + ecosystem + community imo. ultrafast, scalable, great UX, so many apps, will soon compete for perps/PMs and other categories too -- long way to go
$XPL - bet on stablecoin/global neobank adoption, no equity so all value goes to token, insane team and super young project so lots left to release/see -- will explode with deeper integration with tether if they choose to move away from tron
$MINIMAX - only frontier-level AI company that hasn't exploded post IPO, trades at a much better multiple than $ZHIPU, larger M3 LLM and hailou 3 video model release is coming soon
We are in a crypto bull market for value assets!
Let the dino coins bleed out & join the party: SOL, HYPE & NEAR are booming for their usage, fees & PMF
Privacy chains ZEC, XMR & ZANO rise. The free market is finally working!
The future is decentralized, private & scalable! 🔥
Going LIVE — Sat 27 June, 00:00 UTC / 6PM Mexico time
Live trading the Uruguay vs Spain match on @rhea_finance Predict, straight from X (this account)
Goal: lock in profit before the final whistle.
NFA — just for fun.
A bigger upgrade is coming to @NEARProtocol and if you didn't know... it's called SPICE.
It splits those two jobs apart.
Consensus just locks in the order lightning fast, while execution runs alongside at its own pace.
Ordinary blocks drop from 600ms to 200ms.
AI agents on NEAR Intents can finally transact at actual machine speed.
It’s the first sharded chain to pull this off and the perfect launchpad for Nightshade 3.0 coming next.
Our full conversation with Illia Polosukhin
0:16 The origin of NEAR
3:23 Private AI
6:44 Crypto meets medicine & finance
8:07 The agentic marketplace
11:38 Why NEAR is built different
14:28 Send Solana, get Bitcoin
15:39 Jensen & the AI world
18:40 500K hidden users
20:52 Confidentiality is freedom
23:05 Zcash for every chain
25:31 Open vs closed AI
26:18 The Fable ban
29:16 A decentralized model