The future is NEAR. Introducing $NRR—the Bitwise NEAR ETF—giving investors exposure to the emerging agentic economy. $NRR is the first spot $NEAR ETP in the U.S. and offers in-house staking to maximize NEAR's ~5% staking rewards.* Why @NEARprotocol? ↳ Built at the intersection of AI x crypto by foundational AI researchers: The team helped shape modern AI, and now they're building its transaction layer. ↳ Growing quickly: NEAR Intents has processed $32B+ in volume, up from under $1B a year ago. ↳ Designed for security: NEAR Intents settle cross-chain transactions through smart contracts to avoid the potential risks of centralized bridges. ↳ Made for scale: Transactions finalize in ~1.2 seconds and cost a fraction of a cent. ↳ Smart tokenomics: With a ~$6B market cap, NEAR's supply is fully unlocked, inflation was recently halved to 2.5% per year, and fees now fund buybacks. Why in-house staking? Staking in-house brings Bitwise's institutional expertise directly to NRR investing with transparency, security, and oversight. As AI and crypto converge, the Bitwise NEAR ETF ($NRR) gives investors straightforward exposure to the network leading the charge. Learn more at nrretf.com

NEW EPISODE with @NEARProtocol co-founder and co-author of the 2017 transformer paper @ilblackdragon at @token2049: "We want agents to hold as much NEAR as possible." - what NEAR is today and where it wants to be by 2030 - why crypto is still too hard for most people - why anyone you pay can see your whole balance - how NEAR AI keeps AI requests private - AI agents hiring other AI agents and paying per job - bank transfers that land as stablecoins - how the NEAR token earns from AI agents - why an AI agent needs a spending limit - why traditional stocks may miss AI medicine THE VISION: "The vision always been AI is the front end and blockchain markets is the back end... Back when it started in 2017 as an AI company... And then we realized we needed the back end economic layer and we started working on blockchain." PRIVACY: "The real bottleneck I always believed has been privacy... when you pay people they should be able to see how much money you have But that's not normal, right? And if you talk to anyone outside of crypto, they will be like, this is insane." MACHINES: "I think the reality is blockchain always was built for machines. And so I think where the next wave of this is coming is agents now becoming the primary user." AGENTS FOR HIRE: "Your GitHub or whatever can hire my agent to review it. My agent will run all your data. I actually will not see it because everything run privately... And then you just pay for the outcome, right?" THE TOKEN: "We want agents to hold as much NEAR as possible... This is like your store of the AI value right? So this and then on the other side all of the Intents infrastructure as it generates revenue buys back NEAR as well." SPENDING LIMITS: "You hire a new person, you're probably not going to give them full access to all the bank accounts of the company, or your personal account, right? You're going to give them, okay, here's a spending limit... You cannot go and buy a random meme coin." AI MEDICINE: "This is a bit controversial, but I think traditional stocks will probably not capture this as well because the traditional stocks actually, they are designed to be more like centralizing and average out thing... I do think this can actually be really well done on kind of decentralized." Timestamps: 0:00 Coming up 1:02 NEAR builds AI and private payments 5:14 Crypto is still too hard 9:11 NEAR AI keeps AI requests private 14:11 AI agents hiring other AI agents 20:10 Bank transfers straight into crypto 21:56 Renting out an AI code reviewer 24:39 NEAR's token earns from AI agents 26:26 Spending limits for AI agents 29:17 Sending crypto like a bank transfer 31:01 AI medicine made for one person

NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin: "You can literally just update the keys to be post-quantum right now." NEAR added ML-DSA signing in its July mainnet upgrade, with no need to move assets. @ilblackdragon @therollupco

Turning blockchain technology into something people and businesses actually adopt is where ecosystem growth matters. Harshit Tiwari (@chronear), VP of Growth at NEAR (@NEARFoundation), joins the Unchained Summit India speaker lineup in Mumbai, where he leads initiatives focused on expanding the ecosystem and driving blockchain adoption. Working closely with builders, enterprises and communities, Harshit brings experience across Web3, digital assets and emerging technologies, with a focus on decentralised applications and the infrastructure supporting wider adoption. 📍 Courtyard by Marriott, Mumbai | 🗓️ 5–6 November 2026 Get your pass from US$ 149 at unchainedsummit.com/india. #AnEventbyAeternum #UnchainedSummit #HarshitTiwari #NEAR #Web3

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A question from the $VVV telegram: What role does @NEARProtocol play in @AskVenice's product? @near_ai is one of Venice's providers for "nuclear-level privacy" for AI inference @JonShapeShift: "this is a smaller part of Venice overall inference, but it's really important and critical to our offering"