Been a
$NEAR @NEARProtocol proponent since 2019. The world wasn't ready for "NEAR AI" in 2017, and what it could offer AI back then; so it "self-relegated" to one of fastest L1s until the time was right.
Their privacy layer, confidential TEEs, intents, and cross-chain execution are in use and needed now.
Look at the team, mission, moat, users and especially
$NEAR pristine tokenomics then decide for yourself.
near protocol is building the privacy layer for AI agents and the market hasn't caught up. venice AI running 4m users through near cloud TEEs for confidential inference. confidential intents shipping private cross-chain swaps via ZK MPC. paradigm, a16z, and multicoin backed the ZODL wallet integrating zcash with near intents. $1.41, still 80% below ATH. tornado sanctions lifted, grayscale filed a privacy ETF, and near is the cross-chain privacy router connecting all of it. when AI agents hit scale and need to transact without leaking strategy to MEV bots, the infrastructure has to already exist. it's being built right now on near and priced like it doesn't matter