Here’s everything you need to know about NEAR:
✦ What NEAR is today, from NEAR Protocol to $NEAR token, Intents to IronClaw
✦ Why NEAR matters
✦ Why now
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Privacy is defining the next generation of apps, both financial and agentic.
Privacy-first AI platform @AskVenice ($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 🧵
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.
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
“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.
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.
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. 🧵
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,
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
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.
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.
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