Our team just joined the second-ever ERC-8004 Builder Community Call spearheaded by @ethereumfndn and @MetaMask.
From the tech (finalized specs and L2 testnet deployments) to the business (upcoming Devconnect event and ecosystem map),
Here's everything you need to know 🧵
Big news for on-chain compliance. ERC-3643 just got featured in Forbes as a standard that could unlock a trillion dollar market.
The SEC recognizing smart contracts as enforceable law (and citing ERC-3643) feels like a real turning point.
“code is law” ⚡️⚡️
NEAR House of Stake is officially live on mainnet.
You can now lock your NEAR to gain governance over the NEAR Protocol and receive incentives.
The longer the lock, the greater the voting power and rewards.
It’s crazy how you would onboard someone to @NEARProtocol and they will undo it
Bothers me a lot. So if the chain is for the insiders and their families and friend I really do think they should specify and we can all go back to Solana or even Sui.
Now let’s see how we can Justify this!?!
A friend I onboarded saw a loophole and something that the NEAR protocol needs and he built it, even the the @NEARDevHub posted about it
A VS code extension named NEAR studio, it let’s you build, test, create accounts and generally understand NEAR development from your IDE, He even branded it properly and with attention and enough marketing this could open up NEAR to new developers radar.
In a little over a month by just creating it and no marketing, there’s been 36 Installs and he has released over 6 versions and just trying to make it better and it’s open source.
The least anyone could do is reward him maybe coffee
The least all successful web3 community will do is throw him a grant
But NEAR told him his idea is solid and gave him some serious feedback on how to improve it, posted it on all their channels and rejected a funding proposal from him.
From what I know if it was one of the inner developers that did this they will make sure he gets paid and support him
To me everything here looks good but it’s not meant for everyone
And yes I don’t mean to disturb you sir @ilblackdragon but is this really what NEAR should be like?
A friends and family protocol?
I really wish you can address this going forward and see that anyone bringing solutions that will help expand NEAR gets to smile and not get a backhand because they are not in the circle.
So many useless(sorry to say) projects has been funded and they don’t even get users or have any usecases or potential to expand NEAR but we ignore something like this because he’s not and insider
That shouldn’t be the case
JM!
Great read on NEAR Shade Agents by @auroraisnear
Shade Agents is a @NEARProtocol framework for building AI agents that are verifiable, multichain, and trust-minimized, operating both onchain and offchain ↓
🌎 OFFCHAIN
→ Runs on TEE
→ Accesses APIs and LLMs
→ Writes and signs transactions
→ Registers code hash onchain
🌐 ONCHAIN
→ Stores code hash
→ Verifies attestations
→ Uses Chain Signatures,
controling the same key across different chains
Study $NEAR
Chain Signatures are a very powerful innovation that make @NEARProtocol much more than a blockchain. They underpin systems like NEAR Intents and help turn NEAR into an abstraction layer for executing transactions across many different blockchains.
Rather than managing multiple wallets or addresses, Chain Signatures enable users to interact with different chains from one NEAR account. It’s an integrated approach that combines the strengths of different ecosystems: users can leverage NEAR’s sharded and scalable infrastructure while maintaining control over external accounts and assets and accessing different sources of liquidity.
Chain Signatures ultimately unlock true ownership of cross-chain data and assets through one protocol, NEAR.
It’s a complex workflow under the hood—with Derivation Paths, a Multichain Smart Contract, and the Multi-Party Computation (MPC) service—but it’s completely on-chain and a user only needs to call a smart contract.
MPC ensures secure transaction signing and mitigates the risk of centralized custodianship during multi-chain operations. Our near-term goal is to enforce Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) on node operators through verification on the smart contract and increase the MPC network to about 20 node operators with major infrastructure providers.
We’re also working on improving the scalability of the cryptography that powers chain signatures. Breakthroughs on that front will enable NEAR block producers to become MPC node operators At that point, MPC can just become part of the NEAR protocol, and NEAR will effectively become the core infrastructure securing value across the multi-chain ecosystem.
.@NEARProtocol just dropped one of its most pivotal quarters yet
Major strides in chain abstraction, AI infra, and real user growth
Here’s what stood out from Q2 2025: 🧵
Not just smart, but secure. 🔒
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