Near Ai Gateway app is live.
Created by me and @kpoldsam.
It's a super easy way to have run Near's TEE private AI models just a couple of clicks away in Claude, Codex and Open Code.
Near Ai enable you to have full sovereignty over your AI usage including what you do with your data.
You can choose to share your data with the Commons for discounts on your Ai usage.
Get it or have your agent install it from.
https://t.co/5xYqpl4MfS
Conversation with @ilblackdragon to discuss why AI is the front end and blockchain is the back end, why agents will need more than Stripe, Delta League, how value accrues to the @NEARProtocol token, and why NEAR can rotate to quantum-safe keys without moving assets.
00:00 Introduction
01:26 What He Saw That The Other Transformer Authors Didn't
03:22 First Neural Net At 14, And The Path To Google
08:04 Was ChatGPT A Surprise?
10:38 AI Is The Front End, Blockchain Is The Back End
14:35 Why Agents Need More Than Stripe
18:42 When Agentic Commerce Hits The Real Economy
21:00 Agents That Already Work
22:36 Delta League: Editing Model Weights Without A GPU Cluster
29:13 Why NEAR, Not Ethereum Or Solana
32:40 Connecting NEAR To The Real World
36:19 How Value Accrues To The NEAR Token
40:59 What Wall Street Needs For Agentic Finance
44:00 The Next AI Breakthrough: Continual Learning
47:10 Cybersecurity, Uncensored Models And Formal Verification
52:42 Why NEAR Is Quantum-Safe
55:03 Lightning Round
$NEAR Perps @NEARProtocol are now live on @Ouinex ✅
Long or short $NEAR, collateralized with crypto, with your orders hidden from market makers.
Trade now 👇
https://t.co/5DbYhaOl24
👉 New to Ouinex? Get set up today · https://t.co/3U4yBGTOid
been building this one for months, and today it went in for the NEAR hackathon
@NearSaboteur is basically that late night game with friends where nobody trusts anybody
you're on a space station with up to 10 people. most of you are crew doing tasks, a few are saboteurs quietly killing people and cutting the power. someone finds a body, a meeting gets called, and then the real game starts. everyone's arguing, defending, accusing, and you vote someone out hoping you got the right one
few things i'm really proud of:
if there aren't enough people, AI bots jump in. they actually talk in meetings, they remember who they saw near the body and they'll call you out for it
every week the top 3 players get paid in real NEAR, sent automatically by an agent on mainnet. no one sends it by hand
and when the crew catches the saboteur, the game's token burns supply on chain. catch the liar, burn the supply
it's live, you can play as a guest in like 10 seconds: https://t.co/L5UKsHaG1M
would love it if you tried a round and told me what broke 🙏
NEAR Saboteur: a social deduction game with a real economy on NEAR 🔴
Built at NEAR HACKATHON for @NEARProtocol#NEARHackathon
10 crew on a space station. Some of them are saboteurs. Find them, vote them out, and the economy runs on-chain around you.
0:00 What NEAR Saboteur is
0:07 How a match plays
1:00 Meetings & voting
1:47 Before vs during the hackathon
2:10 Weekly Rewards Agent: top 3 paid in NEAR on mainnet via NEAR Intents
3:02 Real-NEAR prize pools + escrow contract v4
3:37 AI bots that talk, accuse and vote (NEAR AI)
3:55 $SABOTEUR: catch the saboteur, burn the supply
4:30 Wallets & Play Pass
4:45 Referrals, Watch Live, Telegram bot
5:11 Play it now
🎮 https://t.co/wZQBOpSqN3
🔥 Token, live from the contract: https://t.co/ElHy2GpGTi
💻 https://t.co/Q7FkFi6JQY
Introducing Buddy, a pocket tamagotchi powered by @near_ai with its own wallet.
Talk to it, it answers. Tell it "send $10 to Plasma” and it just does, swapping and execute contracts across chains via @near_intents and @auroraisnear under the hood.
It can be your piggy bank for small expenses. It also gets hungry every day. Food = any token 🍔
The whole @NEARProtocol ecosystem in one little device.
More use cases below 👇
The lights just went out on NEAR Station !!
Someone in your crew is a saboteur. Catch them before it’s too late.
NEAR Saboteur is now LIVE: https://t.co/vn7uV1Rgcl
Who's getting voted out first tonight?
Market Bubble ep.26: my full conversation with @ilblackdragon and @AlexAuroraDev
on the Binance hack, NEAR Intents, crypto security, Pearl's AI mining, agentic commerce and personalized medicine
0:00 - Binance hack and decentralized liquidity
6:25 - NEAR Intents and private trading
8:04 - Security, AI red teaming and formal proofs
18:22 - Pearl, AI mining and agentic commerce
24:12 - Personalized medicine and open AI
E193: @NEARProtocol: NEAR Is Encrypted Ethereum
@ilblackdragon is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and one of the inventors of the Transformer, the technology behind every AI LLM. Today we talk about why he left Google, how a payments problem pulled him into crypto, and why he thinks AI and blockchain have to be built together.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:52 - Illia's Mission, Explained To An Uber Driver
03:46 - The Fire In Illia's Belly: Where It Came From
05:46 - How Illia Got Out of Where he Started from
06:54 - Moving out of Google That Changed Everything
07:55 - Attention Is All You Need, Explained Simply
10:59 - Did Illia Know He Was Starting A Revolution?
12:13 - Sponsor: @variational_io , @Bitwise
13:02 - Why Walk Away From Google's Fortune?
14:44 - Illia's Reaction When ChatGPT Exploded
15:55 - What Smart AI People Still Get Wrong
17:29 - How AI Led Illia To Crypto
19:50 - Did Illia Drop AI For Blockchain?
21:00 - 6 Years Of NEAR And How It Survived
22:14 - Why Stay In Crypto With An AI Edge?
24:42 - NEAR In One Sentence: Today And Tomorrow
26:39 - Sponsor: @KASTxyz
27:26 - What You Can Build On NEAR And Nowhere Else
29:03 - What's Happening Inside Centralized AI
30:48 - Does Illia Use Claude Or ChatGPT?
31:36 - What You Should Never Use ChatGPT Or Claude For
32:25 - The Danger Of A Few Companies Owning All The Intelligence
34:35 - How Cryptographic Guarantees Actually Work
35:58 - Is There A NEAR GPT?
36:50 - ZEC Explained Simply: Why It Matters
38:24 - $ZEC Is Private Bitcoin. What Is near:native?
39:32 - Is Owning The AI Interface Bigger Than Owning Banks?
40:29 - User Owned AI, Explained
42:05 - Sponsor: @JupiterExchange , @ethena
42:45 - Can User Owned AI Sustain An Economy?
44:55 - The Best Argument Against User Owned AI
46:13 - Open Weight Models, Explained
47:20 - Is AI Doom Further Off Than We Think?
51:15 - The Next Shift Nobody Is Watching
54:08 - What Humans Will Struggle With Most
55:29 - Thank You