Bowen Wang

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

@familiarcow @NEARProtocol Welcome Tyler!

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

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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[Brave Nightly @BraveNightly]

Leo Nightly now runs GLM-5 inside NEAR AI's Trusted Execution Environments, upgrading from DeepSeek V3.1.

GLM-5 is currently one of the best open weight models from https://t.co/f9gJojmeso that leads every other open model on reasoning, coding, and agentic benchmarks.
It's running inside Nvidia-backed TEEs via NEAR AI, which means your conversations are processed in a hardware-secured enclave where no one, not Brave, not NEAR, not anyone, can see your prompts or responses. Every computation is cryptographically signed so you can verify the model running is actually the model you selected.

This is what we mean by moving from "trust me bro" to "trust but verify." Most AI assistants ask you to take their privacy claims on faith. Leo with NEAR AI TEEs gives you cryptographic proof.

Update to the latest Nightly build and select GLM-5 with the "Verifiably Private with NEAR AI TEE" label in Leo to try it.

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

@zacodil @jmack53855265 @ilblackdragon Timeline about what

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

Underrated but keeps delivering

[mert @mert]

near still feels like the most underrated team in crypto to me

new feature releases basically every other week on an actually scalable chain

privacy, ai, trading verticals focus

founder not checked out

yet xrp/ada is way above them. idk man

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

NEAR is money for agents

[Arthur @arthur0x]

Been experimenting with Ironclaw and honestly surprised at how @NEARprotocol was able to build a version of Openclaw that actually improves on privacy, speed, and security.

We’ve reached a point where we can approve high-risk external requests while keeping our data completely siloed. This is the only viable path to using AI agents safely and securely.

In the near future where agentic commerce is the norm, I foresee AI agents will be able to transact cross-chain via NEAR intents, complete jobs and get paid via Near's agent market.

All of these activity will accrue value to NEAR token as well.

The team have come a long way since 2024 trying integrate AI and blockchain and they might have just done it.

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

https://t.co/aESBLZuVAb is here! For the first time, you can transact confidentially with any asset, across all chains, with one account – powered by @near_intents.

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

It is worth highlighting that the paper discusses the partial TEE case when the GPU is untrusted (no TEE inside GPU) and does not affect the approach of @near_ai where CPU and GPU TEE work together

[Jay @jayendra_jog]

huge blow for TEE believers

the dominant approach to splitting LLM inference between TEEs and untrusted GPUs is fundamentally broken

big breakthrough from a paper that came out this morning

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

@MSBIntel Can you send me a DM

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

Please let us know if the increase in gas limit would affect your smart contract

[NEAR DevHub @NEARDevHub]

⚠️ Heads-up: possible increase of function call gas limit ⚠️

We’ve received information about a potential change to increase the maximum gas that can be attached to certain function calls from 300 TGas to 1000 TGas (1 PGas).

While this change aims to improve flexibility for more complex calls, a possible compatibility issue was highlighted:
✦ Some existing contracts may have callbacks that rely on a hardcoded gas assumption (e.g. 300 TGas)
✦ If more gas is attached to the original call, such callbacks could receive more gas than expected
✦ This may lead to unexpected behavior in contracts that depend on strict gas limits

At this stage, we are collecting feedback from developers to better understand whether this change could affect existing contracts ✍️

Please share your thoughts if:
✦ Your callbacks assume a fixed gas limit
✦ Your contract logic depends on gas-based assumptions
✦ You see any potential risks if callbacks are executed with more than 300 TGas

Any insights or examples would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance for your feedback 🙏

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

I think this is especially important for agents like @openclaw that have a lot of accesses to personal information

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

NEAR AI infra allows to run agents in fully private way.

It’s paid with fiat or crypto.

Which means agents can already use it to run fully autonomously by paying for themself

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

Going from 0 to 10b in a year is incredible. It's only going to accelerate from here and we will see intents expanding beyond digital assets this year

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

✦ $10B NEAR INTENTS VOLUME ✦

In 2025, NEAR Intents became the fastest-growing infrastructure for cross-chain swaps. Now, Intents is on its way to becoming the universal venue for trading crypto and more.

More chains. More assets. More liquidity. More users. More commerce.

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

Unified liquidity through @near_intents!

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

There's a 1st time for everything.

Starknet’s token STRK is now live on Solana, enabled by NEAR Intents.

This integration uses NEAR's cross-chain infrastructure to power a first-of-its kind connection between @Starknet ↔ @solana, unlocking unified liquidity and 1-click swaps.

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

It's like Stripe but for crypto

[mert @mert]

gonna glaze where it's deserved

I just added the ability for anyone to deposit onto my solana app from any chain with a single click NEAR intents API by just giving claude the docs

near cooked here

[Solana @solana]

BREAKING: $NEAR, the @NEARProtocol token, is now live on Solana 🔥

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

Attention is All You Need

[Solana @solana]

Attention is All You Need

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

@mert Thank you ser. This made my day. We are working on GTM

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

@ben_kurrek Thank you ser

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

Excited to see the enhancements from the recent 1M TPS milestone roll onto NEAR mainnet.

Sharded contracts also went live on mainnet, which allow smart contracts on @NEARProtocol to benefit from horizontal scaling as well. In the past, a smart contract is confined to a single shard, so there is a problem of a single smart contract getting too large and degrading the scalability of a shard due to state growth. Now smart contracts can also be fully sharded with global contract code and state stored under user accounts. It is a huge step towards complete blockchain scalability!

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

NEAR's latest protocol upgrade is now live.

The nearcore v2.10 release introduces deterministic account IDs, the implementation of sharded smart contracts on mainnet.

v2.10 also includes execution + consensus layer optimizations that helped achieve the recent 1M TPS benchmark.

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

@mihaieremia Around 15k

[Bowen Wang @BowenWang18]

1M TPS is a serious milestone not just for NEAR but for the entire blockchain industry. Traditional payment processors like Visa and Mastercard can only handle around 80k transactions per second. This scaling feat proves blockchain infrastructure is more than ready for mainstream adoption.

This benchmark used real nearcore code, affordable hardware (only 8 core CPUs per node), and realistic cross-shard traffic. We used 70 shards in the benchmark and it showcases that horizontal scaling through sharding truly works and you don't need expensive machines to get to 1m TPS. Our scripts are open-source and publicly verifiable so the wider blockchain ecosystem can validate these claims.

Very proud of the NEAR One team’s work here. These runs helped us analyze and make numerous engineering enhancements across NEAR’s execution and consensus layers that we’ve rolled into the latest version release.

And 1M TPS is not nearly the limit. Between sharded smart contracts, dynamic resharding, and separation of consensus and execution, NEAR will keep scaling even further horizontally. We will continue to open-source our benchmarks and performance as we discover the full possibilities of sharded infrastructure.

[NEAR Protocol @NEARProtocol]

NEAR protocol has achieved 1 million transactions per second (TPS) in a publicly verifiable benchmark, a monumental milestone for blockchain scalability 🧵