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Staking for NEAR AI is live.
Pay for confidential inference and always-on agents by staking NEAR. No card. No cloud account. No custodian holding your credentials.
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NEAR Protocol
@NEARProtocol
The unified commerce layer for assets and agents.
Joined August 2018
- 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
- Staking for NEAR AI is live, connecting NEAR tokenomics directly to the growing demand for private inference and agent hosting. AI usage denominated through staking increases the amount of NEAR locked while compute is active, creating a utility-driven source of token lockup.NEW LAUNCH Staking for NEAR AI is live. Pay for confidential inference and always-on agents by staking NEAR. No card. No cloud account. No custodian holding your credentials. 🧵
