IronClaw Hackathon Workshop live today at 3pm UTC. Hands-on: Setup your first secure agent with verifiable execution. Join builders shipping privacy-first infrastructure. ↓

The world is waking up to the need for user-owned AI.  What user-owned really means: -Privacy: all data belongs to you -Verifiability: when work is done on your behalf, you can prove what ran, on what data, with what model -Neutrality: equal access and neutral markets -Alignment: AI is on your side User-owned AI goes far beyond the model layer. It means a completely user-owned stack, from verifiable inference to private money rails to a secure agent harness to transparent governance and economics for the whole system. Layer by layer, NEAR has been building the user-owned AI stack for nearly a decade. It began with Illia’s pioneering work on the Transformer architecture, which underpins all major frontier models today, and the early recognition that the AI economy needed open infrastructure if users were going to have real power of choice.  NEAR made early architectural bets on sharded scalability, an account model, chain abstraction, and privacy that are now the foundation for agents to transact at scale while ensuring user sovereignty.  The demand for user-owned AI is growing. NEAR AI’s private inference powers Venice’s privacy-preserving AI platform, which has grown to over 3M registered users. Major fintech platforms like Abound and the Government of Bermuda are integrating NEAR AI for applications where protecting sensitive user and citizen data is critical. NEAR AI Cloud also now provides anonymization and TEE-secured confidential inference for over 30 models, across major AI providers and open-source models.  The privacy renaissance we’ve been witnessing in DeFi is the opening act of a much larger, global shift toward a user-owned AI economy, where users demand sovereignty over their data, assets, and intelligence.  NEAR is building for that world, one where everyone has maximum leverage through AI, rather than a few companies owning the models and interfaces that own the data and decisions of billions. Not only are we witnessing a macro shift in user expectations, but also a whole new category of value taking shape. Given the proper rails, agents will not only streamline current value channels but create many new ones. The infrastructure that shares that value back with users is the infrastructure users truly own.

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

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.

🇮🇳 Ahmedabad builders - get ready! Join NEAR Legion India on June 17 for a hands-on workshop on IronClaw blockchain at L.D. College of Engineering. Perfect for anyone planning to deploy secure AI agents! RSVP ⬇️

Frontier models controlled by a few creates exactly the dystopia we’ve been warning about. Decentralized, uncensored AI running on permissionless rails, that’s the way forward. $NEAR is already shipping it: private TEE inference, IronClaw agents you actually own, confidential intents, and more.

$NEAR Intents Confidential TVL is exploding 🔥 In just few weeks of launch, it’s making new highs every week - users are quietly moving real value with full privacy. Privacy is the Priority.

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.

The IronClaw Hackathon has begun! Build automated workflows and ship IronClaw Skills & Tools. Attend the workshops and start building!

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.

NEAR’s deflationary mechanics explained clearly. Intents fees are used to buyback $NEAR. Some days already deflationary. More ahead as volume scales. On top of that, NEAR combines a high-performance L1 with the most mature private AI stack. The flywheel is just getting started.

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.

Using AI shouldn’t require giving up privacy. NEAR AI now automatically detects and anonymizes sensitive information before it leaves your device. You can use popular frontier models without handing them passwords, API keys, and other sensitive info.

Your activity on near.com might matter more than you think. The early cohort for any good product tends to get remembered. Not every open window always appears as such. Sometimes they look like this 👇

Summer just got a whole lot better 😎 NEAR Summer Collection live on the merch store right now! Time to upgrade your wardrobe and rep NEAR all season long. Go grab yours ↓

Class in session for Legion Indonesia 🇮🇩 OpenClaw meets @IronClawAI

You can’t even fud $NEAR anymore. Everybody finding out in real-time $NEAR has no real competitors in technical competency. Reverse engineered and @ilblackdragon basically invented the intersection of crypto x AI. Now everybody that has just been looking around at a graveyard of vaporware and the most obvious standout is $NEAR for the future and now. It’s the most undeniable chain that has ever existed.

Builders, Devs & AI folks - IronClaw Hackathon is coming! June 12-20 | Hybrid Format (Barcelona Remote) Build privacy-first secure agents. Remote participants get full access to workshops, mentorship, and live demo showcase on June 18. Ship the future of secure AI Agents. ↓

Strong breakdown on $NEAR from @PhantomBP_giga: • All-in-one privacy wallet for BTC, ETH, SOL, ZEC major assets with native-chain send/receive • Consistent & growing volume through bear markets (unlike most products) • Fee buybacks putting NEAR on the path to deflation • Leading Privacy momentum real AI/agent infrastructure already shipping NEAR is asymmetric bet with clear product-market fit & founder-market fit. What's your thesis for NEAR?