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ppl are already paying $NEAR fees without even knowing they touched @NEARProtocol. > 26M swaps executed > $19.8B all-time swap volume > $1.9B in the last 30d > 545k unique paying users in 30d > $34.3M protocol fees generated users are swapping through wallets, aggregators, privacy apps, hardware wallets, and partner frontends while NEAR sits under the hood collecting fees. stuff like ShapeShift, THORWallet, Zashi, Brave Wallet, and Ledger already route through $NEAR Intents for any-to-any swaps across chains. Confidential Intents did $18.6M volume. so if $ZEC wins, $NEAR can win too as the cross-chain privacy bet. same thing happening on AI side. Brave and Venice integrated NEAR AI Cloud. their users may not even know $NEAR is underneath. the AI x privacy infra thesis looks pretty strong at a time when ppl are selling their $BTC.

NEAR Intents crosses $20B in cross-chain volume, doubling since February NEAR (@NEARProtocol) Intents has passed $20 billion in all-time cross-chain volume, roughly half of it since February. Independent Dune data tracks the climb, $10 billion in January, $18 billion by mid-May, so the pace is real. Using Chain Signatures, one NEAR account can trigger native transactions on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 35 chains without bridges. That has pulled in Ledger, Brave, and apps like the Zashi Zcash wallet, and feeds NEAR's pitch as settlement rails for the agent economy.

🚨 @NEARProtocol is now Trending on @coingecko $NEAR

Privacy is winning on $NEAR. Since Confidential Swaps launched in March, nearly half of swap volume now uses confidential mode. Privacy should be default and that day is not far away.

one $NEAR account holds native bitcoin, native ethereum and native solana at the same time. most people still assume that's not possible. bitcoin. ethereum. solana. tron. ton. the real asset on the real chain, all from a single near account. not wrapped versions. not IOUs minted somewhere else. the account controls a real address on each chain and signs there through near's mpc network, the same way any native wallet does. no bridge in the middle. no lock-and-mint contract sitting on your funds. nothing to drain. templar and ria already run on it - borrow stablecoins against native bitcoin, nothing wrapped anywhere in the flow. same model across 40 chains, and near keeps adding more. "chain abstraction" sat on pitch decks for years before anyone actually built it. near shipped it and let other apps build straight on top. it happens with no noise. you hold btc, you spend it on solana, you stop thinking about which chain anything is on. real btc on bitcoin, spent on solana, no bridge anywhere in the path. that part already works.

I’m looking forward to the day when near(.)com will remove “confidential” toggle because everything will be confidential. Not that far.

ICYMI: Leading research desks, macro analysts, and reporters have all been covering NEAR's key role in the privacy renaissance, across both DeFi markets and AI. A roundup 🧵

What NEAR shipped this month: ✦ NEAR Intents crossed $19B in all-time volume and 25M total swaps. ✦ Confidential Payments went live on near.com with Universal Send. ✦ $VVV is live on NEAR Intents and near.com. ✦ Illia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon) and Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) discussed the Privacy Renaissance on @therollup. ✦ NEAR AI and the Government of Bermuda partnered to deploy AI-powered public services. ✦ NEAR Intents began powering cross-chain swaps in Ledger Wallet. ✦ IronClaw released version v0.28 “IronClaw Reborn”. ✦ NEAR Intents integrated private USDC payments for the NEAR AI Agent Market. ✦ NEAR Intents
 joined the strkBTC Federation. ✦ NEAR AI shipped automatic PII anonymization. ✦ NEAR introduced Dynamic Resharding. ✦ NEAR AI and FailSafe launched AttackBench. ✦ NEAR hosted events at Consensus Miami and the SALT Digital Finance Forum in Bermuda. ✦ near.com referrals went live ✦ The Bitwise NEAR Staking ETP drew roughly $3M in inflows ✦ Trezu (@trezuapp) launched confidential treasuries And much more.

JUST IN: Grayscale Research says NEAR went into building mode after the last cycle. In 2026 it’s back with a story that runs through AI, chain abstraction, NEAR Intents, and a roadmap built for AI agents

🆕 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: grayscale.com/the-stack/how-…

This is what NEAR AI private inference looks like in production. An @AskVenice ($VVV) user selects a TEE model, sends a prompt, and receives a hardware-signed attestation report. Six cryptographic checks passed and verified in 343ms.

Private payroll. Private balances. Private transactions. Trezu Confidential Treasuries bring on-chain privacy to teams across 35 chains, powered by NEAR private sharding @near_intents The new era of financial infra is confidential by default. Create your multisig treasury👇

near:native is unstoppable.

NEAR has been building toward this moment for nearly 10 years, beginning with @ilblackdragon's pioneering research on the Transformer architecture, which underpins today's frontier AI models. In the agent economy, infrastructure decides everything, which is why it will also capture a lot of value. Agents will use the infrastructure that: -Scales -Unifies the most liquidity -Keeps operations confidential NEAR supports 1M TPS, routes liquidity across 35 chains, and keeps both execution and inference confidential. NEAR has been architected from day one to be the infrastructure the agent economy requires. Tell us where you want to go deeper on NEAR infrastructure. We'll point you to the right resources.

BREAKING: NEAR jumps 28% in 24 hours as the network rolls out confidential treasuries, AI prompt privacy, and dynamic resharding upgrades.

Try near(.)com for holding, paying and trading confidentially 150 assets Doesn't need to be hard.

🚨ARTHUR HAYES PUSHES $NEAR UP 30% NEAR protocol surged 30% after BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes called it part of the “holy trinity” of altcoins. The token traded near $2.23 as traders reacted to one of crypto’s loudest voices backing the move.

The Legion map is lighting up with over 3,300 active members in 125 countries. We’re scaling IRL events to match the growth: ✦ May 22: Global Pizza Party in Chicago ✦ June 1: São Paulo @ Tokennation ✦ June 7 & 14: Moscow AI Agents series ✦ June 18: Barcelona IronClaw Hackathon Add your city to the map and join the movement ↓ nearlegion.com/map

$NEAR and $TAO have secretly climbed into the top 5 trending coins 👀

Last month on near.com: 209M total activity. 87M of it confidential. The default is shifting.