LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
Formal verification became feasible. That was step one.
@NEARProtocol just made it 250x cheaper.
$111 versus $20,000. That's NEAR's first-place result on Putnam Bench against the next best submission.
Proving code isn't useful until it's cheap. @AlexSkidanov on the benchmark NEAR just topped.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
Stake NEAR and don’t spend money while getting AI privately on @near_ai
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
Virtual NEAR Day is live today on @therollupco, 11am–2:00pm ET.
NEAR Co-founders @ilblackdragon and @AlexSkidanov open on formal verification.
5 panels follow: agents holding keys, confidential execution, private model routing, staking for AI, cross-chain.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
✦ $5.9B+ total volume
✦ 57% of trades ran confidential in August
✦ $22M+ perps volume
One account. Confidential by default. near.com
Replying to @NEARProtocol
near.com is one account for all your crypto. 30+ chains, confidential by default, running on NEAR Intents.
The August headline: Confidential TVL surpassed $50M+
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
How NEAR powers AI.
Illia Polosukhin (@ilblackdragon) joins @Bankless to discuss staking NEAR for compute and the full user-owned stack NEAR is building.
Full episode below.
NEW EPISODE - NEAR Just Turned Staking Yield Into AI Compute
What if staking yield could keep an AI agent thinking?
@ilblackdragon joins @TrustlessState to unpack @NEARProtocol’s new AI economy, where users can redirect staking yield toward private, verifiable inference.
They dig into autonomous businesses with their own treasuries, AI inside blockchain transactions, token value capture, and the coming global market for GPU compute.
TIMESTAMPS
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0:00 Private, Verifiable AI
4:57 Why AI Outputs Need Proof
9:13 From Staking Yield to Inference
16:16 NEAR’s Integrated AI Stack
20:01 NEAR as AI Money
24:27 Autonomous Businesses
28:51 Partners and Real-World Uses
33:26 What NEAR Ships Next
38:01 Where AI Value Accrues
40:56 The AI Operating System
48:07 Turning Compute Into a Market
51:48 Closing Thoughts
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
In Q1 2026, AI spending accounted for ~65% of US economic growth, while hyperscalers accumulated ~$1.65T in off-balance-sheet debt.
Meanwhile, open-weight models have reached frontier performance at a fraction of the cost, challenging the business models that justified all of that spending.
AI needs a different funding model, and @near_ai is committed to build it with $NEAR.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
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Governance update: HSP-027 has officially passed voting! 🗳️
The legacy 30% developer gas rebate is transitioning to 0%, meaning 100% of transaction execution fees will route directly to NEAR’s native protocol fee processing once the update is deployed.
This change simplifies the fee structure, and features zero breaking changes for active builders or dApp users. Deployment is targeted for Protocol Update v2.14, expected in August 2026, subject to testnet validation and governance conditions.
What’s next? 🛠️ Read more below
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
What NEAR shipped last month:
✦ NEAR Intents crossed $22B+ in all-time volume and 28M+ total swaps.
✦ Confidential Intents TVL grew to over $28M.
✦ Hyperliquid perps went live on near.com.
✦ GLM-5.2 went live on NEAR AI.
✦ [email protected]: an incentive milestone program for Confidential Intents users on near.com kicked off.
✦ Virtual NEAR Backers Summit highlighted momentum across the stack.
✦ NEAR Intents began powering cross-chain swaps in Unstoppable Wallet.
✦ NEAR Intents began powering cross-chain swaps for SimpleSwap.
✦ Movement went live on NEAR Intents.
✦ The expanded NEAR Revenue Dashboard went live at revenue.near.org.
✦ NEAR previewed SPICE the next major protocol upgrade.
✦ Hypercore went live on NEAR Intents.
✦ Hinkal Pay and Hinkal Prime integrated NEAR Intents.
✦ NEAR Legion hosted an IronClaw hackathon and events.
✦ NEAR AI Cloud integrated across 17 open-source AI projects, including Goose, Eliza, and the Vercel AI SDK.
And much more.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
ICYMI: From Bankless to The Rollup to the Defiant, the wider industry has been recognizing NEAR's critical role as confidential infrastructure for both crypto and AI, and turning to NEAR Co-founder @ilblackdragon to understand what's at stake in the agent economy.
A roundup 🧵
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
Daily confidential TVL on NEAR Intents is picking up.
The DeFi privacy renaissance is just the opening act of a larger shift to a user-owned economy, where users control their assets, data, and intelligence, and have a real stake in the protocols they participate in.
The market has spoken. Decentralized, open-source, verifiable, and privacy-preserving technologies are the ingredients of the future.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
Introducing NEAR Staking
An open-source web app for viewing and managing stake delegation across validators on @NEARProtocol
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
In trying times like this it was great to see collaboration between 5 different ecosystem teams and also global partners to track down what happened, responsible actor and recover funds.
Security and resilience is going to be an ever more important goals for NEAR overall.
NEAR Intents and near.com have resumed services.
NEAR Intents and near.com were not at risk from the incident involving @rhea_finance.
The pause was a precautionary measure to assess transactions that may have been linked to the exploit and to support the recovery of stolen funds, consistent with Intents’ compliance and monitoring procedures.
We are continuing to work closely with the Rhea team and relevant third parties to investigate the incident, and will share updates as information becomes available.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
🏛 Introducing House of Stake 2.0
Under a refined mission; House of Stake aims to serve as NEAR's Treasury Governance Engine — an independent body responsible for economic policy, treasury oversight and key tokenomics decisions, while remaining compliant and accountable to community governance.
In practice, the focus will be on proposals around NEAR value capture, asset management and long-term economic sustainability.
We're also outlining major improvements in backend upgrades, UX and operational infrastructure in an updated roadmap over the next 6 months.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
Check out the SVRN report.
NEAR token economics has massively changed in the past 4 months.
Between inflation halving and fee switch from @near_intents it’s time to revisit it.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
The Validator Support Program (HSP-002) results are in.
Join us for an X Spaces to discuss the results and the future of Validator Support at NEAR.
✦ Who: @NEARProtocol Community, @meta_pool, & @gauntlet_xyz
✦ Jan 29 | 2:30 PM UTC
See you there! Set a Reminder 🔽
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
The veNEAR governance rewards campaign is ongoing!
Lock NEAR, mint veNEAR, and claim rewards every two weeks.
Rewards scale based on locked NEAR.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
NEAR has successfully completed its halving upgrade on mainnet.
This upgrade reduces the maximum annual inflation rate of NEAR Protocol from 5% to 2.5%, ushering in an era of more sustainable tokenomics and strengthening incentive alignment across the NEAR ecosystem.
LiNEAR Protocol retweeted
It's been nearly two weeks since the launch of House of Stake, @NEARProtocol's new governance framework.
We're proud to have been integral to the development of NEAR HOS and are excited to continue supporting NEAR as it defines the next chapter in onchain governance.
HOS governance is already in action 👇
























