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NEAR Protocol
@NEARProtocol
The unified commerce layer for assets and agents.
Joined August 2018
- Agent-driven transaction volume will exceed what human-scale systems were designed to process, on infrastructure expected to run for decades. NEAR 2.13 addresses both conditions in production: a network that adds capacity without coordination, and signatures built to withstand
- You can now stake NEAR to get confidential inference from 40+ models, spanning Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and more. You keep the NEAR. It funds your compute while it’s staked.
- “Frontend” implies a layer on top of the system. near.com is where all of NEAR converges into one account: swap, earn, perp, stake, in one place you actually use. 69% of its swap volume ran confidential in July. Confidentiality is the default.Replying to @NEARProtocolnear.com is NEAR's flagship frontend, powered by NEAR Intents. The July headline: 69% of trades ran confidential.
- Can you verify the model, the prompt, and the data, or are you just trusting someone’s word for it? NEAR Co-founder @ilblackdragon breaks down everything sovereign AI actually requires in his @StanfordSBA keynote.Here's my talk from @StanfordSBA BASS last week on how to build a sovereign AI stack. Open vs. closed is not the only question for AI sovereignty: -Can you trust that you know exactly which model you’re running? -Do you know if the prompt has been rewritten? -Can you verify the
