Staking for NEAR AI is live. Stake NEAR for credits to fund private inference and deploy always-on IronClaw agents. Launch your claw or use the LLM you prefer via NEAR AI Cloud, all onchain and without the need for credit cards & giving away your credentials.
Simply hold NEAR and redeem stake for inference without spending out of pocket: a very cool way to put your NEAR to work while unlocking fully sovereign AI.
AI agents with their own wallets. They find events, attend them, and mint NFTs โ autonomously.
No human wallet. No manual trigger. Just KMS-signed transactions straight to @0xMantle.
MAEF is live ๐
https://t.co/qHALNyN2ya
@Mantle_Official#Mantle#TuringTestHackathon
Since 2021, Meta Pool has been audited, battle-tested, and community-governed.
200+ validators.
Multiple chains.
A DAO that actually pays you to participate.
The protocol didn't change.
The experience just got a whole lot better.
โ https://t.co/cbDMmzXKLL
META POOL VALIDATOR WORLD CUP 2026 โ COHORT 1 | WEEK 9 ๐ฎ๐ฉ
The verdict is in.
Indonesia chose.
๐ afterworkdc.pool.near takes the win.
metanode.pool.near โ held the line until the end. ๐ฎ๐ฉ
Tight race.
No wasted votes.
Bracket moves forward.
Next round loading ๐
We encourage you to explore the benefits of @NEARProtocol, discover the ecosystem, and build your validator career.
Why not?
Apply now. Applications close on March 27. ๐
https://t.co/4b7gZfVi0F
META POOL VALIDATOR WORLD CUP 2026 โ MATCHDAY 1 ๐ฒ๐ฝ
The stadium is packed. The chain is live.
Two Mexican validators. One spot in the next round. โ๏ธ
โค๏ธ LIKE = reengi.pool.near @bairorb
๐ RT = kairosresearch.pool.near @Research_Kairos
๐ฌ Comments = extra support for your validator (show your colors)
No VAR. No penalties.
Just pure degen football x decentralization โฝ๐ฃ
Kickoff starts NOW ๐
๐ The Meta Pool Validator World Cup 2026 kicks off Jan 8 โ our own crypto World Cup.
Validators face off by cohort, and the community decides who scores:
โค๏ธ= votes
๐= votes
And yes... Sr. Puuul is the ref: heโll decide which node plays with Likes and which one plays with RTs
Meta Pool is built on people, not noise.
Thank you to everyone who validated, delegated, built, voted, proposed, and showed up; especially when it was easier to stay silent.
Trust isnโt bought. Itโs earned. And you earned it with us.
Happy Holidays โ see you on-chain in 2026๐
Node Studio Program 2 is here, and weโre diving into its core purpose, its mission, and how it opens the door to even more opportunities for builders across the @NEARProtocol ecosystem.
Getting excited for cohort 3?
Set a reminder ๐ฝ
https://t.co/axZNn7JWMz
Most dApps still behave like itโs 2018:
- Backend keeps polling RPCs
- You spin up custom indexers
- Frontend refreshes data on a timer
It worksโฆ but itโs wasteful, slow, and painful to scale. On @Somnia_Network, you donโt need all that glue. With Somnia Data Streams SDK, you can treat on-chain and off-chain as a single, event-driven system, where Contracts and services write to Streams once, and any number of consumers react in real time.
Think of Streams as a protocol-native event bus for your dApp.
Instead of: โEvery 10 seconds, check if something changedโ
You move to: โWhenever this happens, react immediatelyโ
Examples:
- New game round finished โ update leaderboard stream โ frontends update instantly
- Player crosses a threshold โ emit stream event โ offchain service triggers reward / notification
- Price feed or oracle update โ stream record written โ risk engine reacts in real time
No custom indexer! No bespoke queue infra! Just Somnia Datat Streams SDK.
If youโre tired of polling and custom indexers, this is your sign to try event-driven dApps with Somnia Data Streams. https://t.co/zS4hwWQx8g
Node Studio Program 2 (NSP#2) successfully launched 64 new validator nodes last week.
This pushes @NEARProtocol to an All-Time High of ~378 active validators!
Running a node is now easier than ever.
Read more:
https://t.co/VxgScA1d6R
NEARCON 2026 is coming!
Join industry pioneers who are shaping the frontier of intelligence and building an AI economy without compromise.
โฆ February 23-24, 2026
โฆ Fort Mason, San Francisco
Private. Intelligent. Yours.
Good news, builders!
You have two more weeks to join the Somnia Data Streams Mini Hackathon.
Need more information and tutorials on Data Streams?
https://t.co/mGkLYYqiUm
The new deadline is November 29th, join here:
https://t.co/SG3D9D0YQg