Owen

SWE @NEARProtocol @proximityfi | 1x failed startup @betVEX

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

@KINUonNEAR @ilblackdragon Cool

Don’t you think 1 usdc for reading on chain data is expensive? Claude does this as part of my subscription

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

To add to the list of ideas from @ilblackdragon

- Confidential x402 merchant revenue with confidential intents
- Cross-chain and cross-asset micropayments with NEAR intents for rebalancing in the backend + NEAR as multichain escrow/batch settlement infra
- Agents running in TEEs produce attestations (proof of running in a genuine TEE) and measurements (hash of the code), but linkability between the code and measurements is difficult. Create an agent to audit, summarise, and compute measurements for TEE-based agents.
- Merchant gateway built with NEAR intents to receive Zcash as payment
- Build the best UX for confidential on-ramping flow to Zcash using NEAR intents
- A NEAR intents based wallet, connect your NEAR intents account to any app via Wallet Connect SDK
- Build smart contracts on NEAR that accept NEAR intents assets and any wallet signature to build multichain protocols
- An SDK for linking NEAR agents to deployed ERC-8004 contracts or build an ERC-8004 spec and implementation on NEAR
- A wallet connector for connecting any wallet on any chain to any protocol on any chain, verify signatures in a NEAR contract which produces chain signatures, 1-click API to move funds
- Sell useful services built on top of NEAR via x402

(DYOR whether these ideas fit the tracks)

[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

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

@Freol Don’t forget the opportunity to pitch to Claude and Codex

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

@mert @AlexAuroraDev 💀

[cudam @cudam321]

@mert our goats

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

Helius CEO @mert has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, NEAR Foundation’s governing body.

An early NEAR Intents user and leading voice on privacy, Mert brings an operator’s view to how NEAR builds and grows.

“For crypto to win, we need connected, unstoppable liquidity at planetary scale. A market of markets. Neither Solana, Zcash, or Bitcoin can win on their own, we must work together. And NEAR is how."

https://t.co/BG9gKqDKIU

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

✦ 6 years on mainnet
✦ 10 shards
✦ 600ms blocks
✦ $34B+ Intents volume
✦ 3B+ Confidential Intents volume
✦ 150M+ Confidential TVL
✦ 10k+ NEAR Legion members
✦ 100% uptime

Grateful to the worldwide ecosystem of validators, devs, dApp teams, researchers, users, community members, legionnaires, and more who have helped shape NEAR into the groundbreaking protocol it is today. Side by side, we continue pioneering the onchain AI economy, connecting ecosystems, and are giving users back their sovereignty.

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

Today is the 6th anniversary of @NEARProtocol MainNet!

A lot of great tech has shipped since Oct. 13, 2020 – but our vision has not changed: all people should be able to control their own assets, data, and power of choice. We all deserve access to tools and technology that enhance our sovereignty, intelligence, and opportunity – and in many ways this mission feels even more urgent than it did when we started NEAR 8 years ago.

The last year has brought some great milestones:
–@near_intents has moved $34B in volume, up from $2B this time last year
–Intents integrated 15 more chains for a total of 35, with dozens of app integrations
–Launched Confidential Intents, which grew to $3B as of today in volume and $170m TVL
–near(dot)com launched & shipped tons of new features in under a year
–Near One shipped dynamic resharding and post-quantum signing
–Achieved 1M TPS in a public benchmark
–@near_ai is providing confidential inference to Venice, Brave Browser, and the government of Bermuda – and is now available on OpenRouter
–Token economics upgrades shifted towards greater value capture, including inflation halving, the Intents fee switch, and revenue generation
–Launched House of Stake 2.0 and formalized tokenholder governance
–@alexskidanov made major strides towards cheap, scalable formal verification
–First NEAR ETF with @bitwise and first public treasury company launched @svrn_ai

This only scratches the surface of our ecosystem’s achievements this year – thank you to all in the @NEARProtocol community, whether you’re a new believer or were there at the beginning. Let’s keep building in a positive-sum mindset and watch everyone else catch up.

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

@SterFonseca Looks more like Savaya then Singapore 😅

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

Great to see more and more mainstream companies integrating crypto, not because of hype, but because it’s actually useful.

The problem with x402 was that there were no useful APIs to hit, with Cloudflare making x402 the default payment gateway for resources, more and more agents will rely on crypto rails for payment as useful products becoming available through Cloudflare’s gateway.

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Today, we’re making the Cloudflare Monetization Gateway available as part of a closed beta, and showcasing four customer use cases that are in production today. https://t.co/FeiXo5FBJL #BirthdayWeek

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

@jayythew Huge congrats

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

@_clemens__ I thought you wanted to catch up, luckily I knew it was too good to be true 😢

Good luck taking care of the situation, hectic

[Proximity Labs @proximityfi]

Stablecoins are often treated as one market. They are not.

Some start with scale. Others grow through a product, a partner network or demand for a particular currency. Each starting point creates a different path to growth.

This analysis looks at those paths and where @near_intents fits:

https://t.co/wYwcdQUKQJ

[Proximity Labs @proximityfi]

Introducing the agent payments skill for x402.

The skill lets agents pay for x402 services in USDC on Base, funded with assets held on any of the 30+ chains supported by NEAR Intents.

https://t.co/nillf9cRty

Here’s how it works:

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

$25 billion has now moved through NEAR Intents.

More chains. More assets. More reasons to route through one place. The flywheel keeps compounding.

How we got here, and where it's going 🧵

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

@out_layer Great work!

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

https://t.co/B8y16g0x68

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

NEW LAUNCH

Confidential Intents is now generally available, bringing NEAR's confidential execution infrastructure to all builders.

Devs and dApps can bring confidential execution to their users through the NEAR Intents 1Click Swap API.

The privacy renaissance runs on NEAR 🧵

[Owen @ThePiVortex]

near-clear-state is now a near-cli-rs extension 🎉

Wipe large contract state in seconds using the CLI credentials you already have, so you can redeploy contracts fast instead of having to set up a new account

Install at https://t.co/aa6ueJPca6