There are ton of new and old devs building on NEAR in the past couple of weeks. Building itself got easier too, so it's really about what to build and how stand out to get distribution. Few ideas I wanted to share: - AI Tamagochi - use @near_ai to run verifiable inference from prompt encoded onchain, have each character as NFT with some $NEAR attached that pays for it's inference, add gamification with feeding, dressing. Can add all kinds of things on top with battle arena, competitions, etc. - Universal checkout widget - let any merchant/app to add "checkout" button that allows to pay via intents from whatever wallet and chain user has. Offer it to merchants, try to get it into Shopify. - AI encyclopedia with prediction markets - instead of community curation, every fact becomes a perpetual truth seeking market (Augur style). The final pages are generated by AI based on current market understanding. - Private OTC market using 'private deals' from NEAR Intents. Currently there is no way to find counter party unless you already know you are transacting with. Create a more open way to communicate what are deals open and allow people to fill them via NEAR Intents. - "Never get liquidated" - manage positions via NEAR Intents to keep lending and perp positions to maximize interest while not getting liquidated - Event registration where funds get escrowed and let the host to check in guests. If guests have showed up - they split all contributed funds (prev project was called Kickback). Make crypto side events signups reliable again, now across any chain and any asset. - Code review that is fully private - agent that verifiably privately runs code review on private PRs using @near_ai - Company cap table + all instruments around it to raise funds, accept crypto and support banking - Delta neutral anything - take spot + perp controlled via NEAR contract that manages it via NEAR Intents. - Private trading where you sell your viewing keys for people to follow/copy trade. NEAR Intents confidential trading is all private and so one can have a social trading app where people sell "keys" for only select people to see. PnL can be publicly displayed so people can choose to buy-in. - Private medical second opinion - medical frontend that e2e encrypts and sends your data to NEAR AI to get second opinion from AI in guaranteed private way. Use it in combination with crypto and fiat payments. Allow to have custom prompts in NFTs that people can use as a way to get better expertise out of agents. - Private Granola - desktop app that uses @near_ai to do private transcriptions but keeps all your records with you (and encrypted with your key backups). Use $NEAR staking as an alterantive to pay subscriptions. - AI benchmarking with private test sets. Submit harness (or new model in hosted privately in @near_ai) and evaluate on private tests sets and see results that are certified for given model and given hash of test set, without revealing any data. Distribution: - Engage @NEARLegion - Make sure your app supports every wallet via @aurora Intent Connect, so user from any chain can engage with it without bridging/figuring out NEAR - Engage other communities by cross pollinating - Don't forget about Product Hunt & similar product distribution - And ofc X

Things i genuinely think could happen on $NEAR in a full-blown bull market. pure speculation, but hear me out. > a $100M meme coin nobody took seriously at launch. > a launchpad that becomes the centre of the entire NEAR ecosystem. > a random dog coin doing 50x and onboarding more users than a serious protocol. > an AI agent token becoming the face of NEAR’s AI narrative. > a project on NEAR getting listed on a major CEX out of nowhere. > a launchpad creator making more money from fees than their biggest traders make from trading. > a NEAR native token doing a BONK style comeback and bringing the whole ecosystem with it. > Intents becoming a major entry point for people who don’t even know they’re using NEAR. > a cross-chain trading app becoming the next big consumer product. > AI agents trading, paying for data and hiring other agents without human intervention. > a meme coin built around an AI agent that actually does something useful. > a NEAR project raising millions without needing a traditional VC round. > a tokenised stock or real world asset becoming a serious trading narrative on NEAR. > confidential DeFi becoming a reason people choose NEAR over other chains. > a DeFi protocol offering incentives that pull liquidity away from competing ecosystems. > a points campaign bringing thousands of users who end up staying after the rewards. > a small team shipping something so good that bigger projects start copying it. > a prediction market taking off and attracting people who have never used NEAR before. > a wallet or consumer app making chain switching completely invisible to normal users. > an agent marketplace where people pay AI agents to do real work. > a NEAR meme becoming a recognised ticker across CT, not just inside the ecosystem. > a new project turning into the ecosystem’s breakout success story within weeks. > a trading meta emerging that nobody is paying attention to today. > a random partnership sending a NEAR native project into price discovery. > the market finally connecting NEAR’s infrastructure to the applications being built on top of it. And the one i really want to see: @NEARProtocol getting to a point where people aren’t just buying $NEAR. they’re actively looking for the next big thing being built on it. we’ve seen this movie on Solana, Base and, Bnb other chains. why should NEAR be any different? what am i missing? 👀

India is going through its toughest challenge in the recent times. Yet, I'm more hopeful than ever. The youth has finally woken up. Their future is at the line, after all. They just needed someone to take the first step. The world is watching, democracy will win once again.

gm i haven’t been online because i’ve been looking after my dog he has stage 3 heart failure and his tranchea is collapsing his condition is deteriorating 🥺 pls pray for him

did everyone but me get accepted into this? 😭😭

I am going to give a contrary, controversial, but pragmatic advise: If you an NRI with a stable job outside India, please don't go back. Surely go back to India if you are an entrepreneur who can create jobs, an innovator, or researcher. India needs you and India is booming with opportunities for you. But for the rest of us workers, it is better to stay outside as long as opportunities exist. Those calling you back won't give you the jobs you are qualified for. Even if they do, quitting jobs and going back to India will only increase competition for Indians in India unrealistically. It will reduce remittances and add to inflation in India. Also, I had posted this before and will say this again: If you are an Indian in India capable to get a job outside India, by all means take it. Nothing unpatriotic or bad about it as it's always made out to be. Enjoy your opportunity outside, keep India in heart always, and earn well to support family back home. Indian govt has signed numerous bilateral agreements recently for improve the ease of Indians getting visas to work and study abroad. Make use of the opportunities if you can.

Mr. Vembu, I came back after my Harvard programme wanting to build in India. I still do. But my experience has shaken my faith in the system. I’m working in AI and healthcare. Even getting clarity on the regulatory pathway for a clinical validation study has been a struggle. In education, I’ve encountered resistance to adopting AI. My qualifications feel irrelevant when institutions won’t engage with the work. And when basic civic issues arise, police support has been difficult to secure. Where is the conducive environment we’re asking people to return to? Who is accountable for giving founders clear regulatory answers? How do educators evaluate new technology responsibly? Where does a citizen turn when local authorities don’t help? What recourse exists when nobody takes ownership? You’ve built here. What concrete governance reforms would you push for and how can people like us help make them happen? “Come back, let’s build” is a call I believe in. How do we make the system support those who answer it?

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building in public is killing your brand. i know a lot of you will disagree, but hear me out… you livestream and post every tiny update as it happens. you breadcrumb feed your users the entire product over months. then launch day comes and nobody gives a shit. why would they? they’ve already seen everything. you murdered the biggest attention and revenue event in your business before it even happened.

women who hate women are some of the worst people ever 😂😂 like?? this makes NO SENSE

a question we don’t ask enough is why do so many private medical institutes have politicians as owners/investors/trustees. this is politicians across all parties btw. this is a direct conflict of interest. politicians need to serve the country, not profit off of it.