NEARCON Innovation Sandbox — Community Voting 🗳
485 participants. 85 projects. 7 winning slots.
Pick the teams that deserve the win.
Challenges:
✦ The Private Web & Private Life
✦ AI That Works For You
✦ Open Society: From Finance to the Real World
✦ BONUS: Only on @NEARProtocol
✦ Ecosystem Track: @nova_sdk
✦ Ecosystem Track: @hotdao_ Pay
✦ Ecosystem Track: @pingpay_io
21 days of shipping turned into a wall of real MVPs.
Now it’s time to choose the best ones 🏆
👉 Vote here: https://t.co/NoqudZM8Np
Barcelona 🇪🇸 The Legion is calling.
Join us tomorrow for a crypto networking event with the local NEAR builders community.
We're hanging out to discuss the various topics around the intersection of blockchain + AI.
📅 Feb 13 | 6 pm CET
Eat. Drink. Be Merry.
Or just come say hi. RSVP ⏬️
The NEARCON Innovation Sandbox: NOVA bounty is live with $3,000 in prizes.
If you’re building for Hackathon, this is the track with Privacy as a Priority that secures the Agentic Future. It leverages:
✦ Shade Agents: Resolve the "oracle problem" with verified off-chain data.
✦ Intents Integration: Gates solver access to encrypted payloads, enabling private, AI-driven fulfillment.
✦ TEEs: Secures data at rest/transit for confidential compute.
Lock in and start shipping for privacy to win the @nova_sdk bounty. Register today ⬇️
gm NEAR Builders! The NEARCON Innovation Sandbox is in final stage!
We are looking for MVPs that solve real problems across 4 core tracks and ecosystem bounties from @pingpay_io, @hotdao_ & @nova_sdk.
✦ The Tracks: Private Web, AI for You, Open Society, and "Only on NEAR."
Deep Dive into these tracks 🧵🔽
We want web2-level smoothness with web3-level guarantees.
OutLayer payment keys remove transaction friction.
NEAR Intents handles routing.
Our TEE-secured oracle verifies price and protects swaps.
No signatures. No blind trust. No UX tax.
User-owned AI is only real if your data actually stays yours.
@nova_sdk nails this with decentralized, encrypted file sharing powered by @PhalaNetwork 's Shade Agents and verifiable TEEs.
Keys never touch the chain or centralized servers
They remain secured in hardware you can cryptographically verify as legit.
This enables safe, scalable storage for personal datasets, fine-tuning without leaks, and true data sovereignty in AI
A big step toward private AI that actually protects the user.
NOVA is THE recommended secure data layer for the @NEARProtocol's NEARCON 26 Innovation Sandbox!
Use @nova_sdk for private, revocable file/dataset sharing in your AI agents and get a chance to win a $3000 usd bounty.
Calling NEAR builders. 💡
Join the NEARCON 2026 Innovation Sandbox, a global, virtual-first builder sprint in partnership with @FundingCommons that is focused on shipping real, working demos on NEAR.
Starts Jan 26: https://t.co/jj2WzBX9PY
Why participate:
-Win up to $15k across multiple prize tracks
-Build with NEAR technologies used by enterprise AI systems and top DeFi protocols
-Get guidance from NEAR engineers and ecosystem experts
-Gain visibility across the NEAR developer ecosystem, blockchain space, and AI industry
If you’re exploring AI-driven workflows and cross-chain with Intents, the Sandbox is your opportunity to push an idea into a concrete demo.
Strange how few people think about where their AI conversation data is stored
Eight now most AI services store your personal data on centralized servers without privacy guarantees
@nova_sdk is building privacy-first, decentralized file sharing for user-owned AI
They chose Phala specifically because they need hardware security guarantees
@PhalaNetwork provides verifiable trusted execution environments that create hardware-secured isolation for computations
Through Phala integration via Shade Agents encryption keys remain off-chain, hardware-secured and can be verified
This enables cryptographic attestation that computation occurred in a secure environment
Nova SDK uses Phala infrastructure for safe AI data persistence at scale
Seems like Phala's verifiable trusted execution environments are becoming the technical foundation for private AI future
.@nova_sdk is building privacy-first, decentralized file sharing for user-owned AI.
By integrating Phala's verifiable TEEs via Shade Agents, encryption keys stay fully off-chain, hardware-secured, and attestable, unlocking safe AI data persistence at scale.