“Illia, so while everyone was calling NEAR a dead chain, you kept building crosschain infrastructure?”
“That’s correct Dave.”
“And you used that infrastructure to process $20B+ through Intents across chains?”
“I did, Dave.”
“So when you actually shipped privacy, Confidential Payments and chain abstraction, the market still didn't fully price it in?”
“Sadly true, Dave.”
"And you kept shipping AI infrastructure, IronClaw and integrations even during slower market conditions?"
"Yes, Dave."
"So in the process of building crosschain rails, privacy infrastructure and AI tooling... you ended up creating one of the strongest theses in crypto?"
"Very astutely observed, Dave."
NEAR Intents just crossed $20B in all-time volume.
And it got there fast. The first $10B took until January. The second $10B took four months. The line isn't rising, it's bending.
One day last week cleared over $2B in cross-chain swaps. In January, that was a full month of volume.
25M+ swaps, 70+ assets, any chain to any chain, nothing to sign up for. It quietly turned into one of the busiest settlement layers in crypto while everyone argued about L2s.
Twenty billion, and the curve's going vertical.
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Trade perps on any EVM or non-EVM chain — 1 click, 1 wallet, 1 account.
No bridging, no switching networks. Just trade.
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Privacy feature coming soon 🛡️
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NEAR released something during a bear market which solved one of crypto's main problems - privacy
swap pretty much any coin to any chain - privately
how many charts look like this in crypto atm
even most perp dex metrics are trending down
🆕 Grayscale Research: @NEARProtocol went into building mode after the last cycle.
In 2026, it's back, and the story runs through AI.
↳ Chain abstraction
↳ NEAR Intents
↳ Roadmap built for AI agents.
Read the full article from @LowBeta on the Stack:
https://t.co/yKsxXTgMXG