The unified commerce layer for assets and agents.
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Here’s everything you need to know about NEAR:
✦ What NEAR is today, from NEAR Protocol to $NEAR token, Intents to IronClaw
✦ Why NEAR matters
✦ Why now
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The best infrastructure disappears into the background.
NEAR Intents powers swaps across wallets, aggregators, and trading interfaces, connecting liquidity from 35 chains through one unified network.
One liquidity layer. Reachable everywhere.
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When access to advanced AI systems can change overnight, privacy and user ownership become core requirements, not a nice-to-haves.
"As AI moves from answering questions to taking actions, the privacy of the inference layer stops being a preference and becomes a requirement. You cannot build a resilient agentic economy on infrastructure that requires you to trust the provider. NEAR AI is that infrastructure." - @ilblackdragon
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
Frontier AI access just became an acute geopolitical and sovereignty issue.
The alternative path is to be open source and governed by decentralized community. Not relying on a single government or developing organization to make decisions when and how this tech can be used.
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Every restriction reminds us of the same thing:
If access can be taken away at an instant, it was never truly yours.
The future of AI needs open networks, open infrastructure, and user-owned agents.
NEAR has been building for sovereignty from day 1.
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Here’s how @near_ai is building the foundation for user-owned AI.
May 26
Verifiably private AI is NEAR AI.
Major platforms and nation-scale systems like Venice, Brave, Abound, and the Government of Bermuda are integrating NEAR AI to bring confidential inference to their users 🧵
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The future isn’t users managing dozens of wallets across dozens of chains.
The future requires agents, users, and businesses to operate everywhere from a single account.
Chain Signatures are the tech making this possible.
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Jun 13
Value was already fragmented, crypto added more.
Chains. Bridges. Liquidity silos.
In the agent economy, fragmentation is a failure point.
NEAR unifies assets and agents into a single stack: confidential AI, cross-chain execution, sharded infrastructure.
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Jun 12
Most private AI infra runs on trust, you can’t verify what happens inside is secure.
Venice AI runs on NEAR AI infra: prompt is encrypted before it leaves device & decrypted in hardware enclave.
Confidential inference. Signed attestation in <30s. Each request verifiable.
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Jun 12
Check out all of the ways @AskVenice and NEAR are working together 🤝
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May 29
Privacy is defining the next generation of apps, both financial and agentic.
Privacy-first AI platform @AskVenice ($VVV) has 3M users and is growing fast. NEAR is the infrastructure making it possible, from private inference to confidential execution.
How NEAR powers Venice 🧵
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
Jun 11
The IronClaw Hackathon kicks off our June events 🌍
Over the next few weeks, we'll be meeting builders across Asia, Europe, and North America to explore the future of secure AI agents, verifiable execution, and agent infrastructure.
Deploy Secure Agents. Join us at an event near you.
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Jun 12
Your favorite assets.
Your favorite perps.
Your favorite chains.
All in one place on near.com.
What should we add next?
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Jun 11
“Intents is the next level of abstraction from blockchain.” — @ilblackdragon
Every technological revolution removes another layer of complexity. Intents removes the need to think about execution itself.
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Jun 11
The deepest perps liquidity in crypto is now just one tap away inside your near.com account.
Before: bridge to a chain, find the venue, fund a new wallet, then trade.
Now: open near.com, turn on perps, trade.
It’s that easy.
Jun 9
Hyperliquid perps are now live on near.com.
Deposit any asset from 35 chains directly into @HyperliquidX to access 50 markets with up to 40x leverage.
What’s next: confidential perps. Today is step one. 🧵
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
Great episode of Chopping Block this week with @mert @hosseeb @tomhschmidt -- watch for takes on:
-why code vulnerabilities are easier to find with AI and we need to formally verify everything
-how DeFi needs to evolve: detection systems for responding faster to exploits, offering more safety features for users, AI-augmented governance
-why blockchains will take AI from single player mode to multiplayer mode and eventually underpin all commerce and interfaces
this week: saylor sold 32 bitcoin and broke the market, an AI found a money printer inside zcash, defi got told it's terminal, and illia says robots will do your shopping.
Ep. w/ @ilblackdragon & @mert
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:17 Weekend Crypto Meltdown & Bitcoin Crash
02:52 Saylor, STRC & the DAT Death Spiral Fears
11:51 "No Sell Button" — Saylor's Lesson Learned
13:14 Zcash Bug: 50% Crash Explained
20:30 The Fix: Ironwood Pool & Formal Verification
23:11 AI vs Crypto Security: The Attacker Advantage
27:21 What Is Formal Verification?
30:07 Spaceship-Grade Smart Contract Security
31:36 OPSEC, Oracles & Anomaly Detection
36:08 Cypherpunk Dilemma: Stop the Hack or Not?
38:37 Will DeFi Survive? Long Math
42:49 NEAR's AI Agents & Intents Vision
48:43 Is Agentic Commerce Real? Mert's Skepticism
🔥Stay updated with all the latest hot takes by following and subscribing to @_ChoppingBlock and @unchained_pod!
🎥 YouTube: youtu.be/Y2lyeoL-vK8
🎧 Spotify: bit.ly/3wiIOyy
🍎 Apple: bit.ly/3w9HQ7J
🎙 Podcast Home: choppingblock.xyz
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Jun 11
NEAR Intents is now integrated into SimpleSwap, a self-custodial aggregator which has processed 20M swaps.
NEAR Intents powers cross-chain swaps across @SimpleSwap_io's web app, mobile app, and API ecosystem, already integrated by 150 applications.
More flow. More Intents.
Jun 11
SimpleSwap is integrating @near_intents 🤝
The integration adds intent-based cross-chain execution to SimpleSwap’s liquidity pool. You declare the outcome – send X, receive Y – and a solver network handles routing, cross-chain settlement, and execution under the hood.
No wallet connect, no bridge to configure, no approval flows. Funds move from a wallet you own to a wallet you own, with no interface connection in between, which fits how SimpleSwap has been built since 2018.
For larger positions it matters more directly: intent-based routing runs through solver competition, adding a different source of depth on cross-chain pairs alongside the existing CEX and DEX providers.
👉 Read more about the SimpleSwap × NEAR Intents integration: benzinga.com/pressreleases/2…
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Jun 11
Near@3.33 is live: an incentive milestone program for people using Confidential Intents on near.com.
If you've been swapping confidentially, you're already in for Drop 1.
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Jun 11
This is not a one and done program. Round two is coming.
Each future milestone calibrates to higher community activity. The floor moves up.
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