SWE @NEARProtocol @proximityfi | 1x failed startup @betVEX

Joined September 2017
Managed on-chain capital, for the everyday user, built to institutional standards.
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Helius CEO @mert has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, NEAR Foundation’s governing body. An early NEAR Intents user and leading voice on privacy, Mert brings an operator’s view to how NEAR builds and grows. “For crypto to win, we need connected, unstoppable liquidity at planetary scale. A market of markets. Neither Solana, Zcash, or Bitcoin can win on their own, we must work together. And NEAR is how." near.org/blog/mert-mumtaz-jo…
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✦ 6 years on mainnet ✦ 10 shards ✦ 600ms blocks ✦ $34B+ Intents volume ✦ 3B+ Confidential Intents volume ✦ 150M+ Confidential TVL ✦ 10k+ NEAR Legion members ✦ 100% uptime Grateful to the worldwide ecosystem of validators, devs, dApp teams, researchers, users, community members, legionnaires, and more who have helped shape NEAR into the groundbreaking protocol it is today. Side by side, we continue pioneering the onchain AI economy, connecting ecosystems, and are giving users back their sovereignty.
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Today is the 6th anniversary of @NEARProtocol MainNet! A lot of great tech has shipped since Oct. 13, 2020 – but our vision has not changed: all people should be able to control their own assets, data, and power of choice. We all deserve access to tools and technology that enhance our sovereignty, intelligence, and opportunity – and in many ways this mission feels even more urgent than it did when we started NEAR 8 years ago. The last year has brought some great milestones: –@near_intents has moved $34B in volume, up from $2B this time last year –Intents integrated 15 more chains for a total of 35, with dozens of app integrations –Launched Confidential Intents, which grew to $3B as of today in volume and $170m TVL –near(dot)com launched & shipped tons of new features in under a year –Near One shipped dynamic resharding and post-quantum signing –Achieved 1M TPS in a public benchmark –@near_ai is providing confidential inference to Venice, Brave Browser, and the government of Bermuda – and is now available on OpenRouter –Token economics upgrades shifted towards greater value capture, including inflation halving, the Intents fee switch, and revenue generation –Launched House of Stake 2.0 and formalized tokenholder governance –@alexskidanov made major strides towards cheap, scalable formal verification –First NEAR ETF with @bitwise and first public treasury company launched @svrn_ai This only scratches the surface of our ecosystem’s achievements this year – thank you to all in the @NEARProtocol community, whether you’re a new believer or were there at the beginning. Let’s keep building in a positive-sum mindset and watch everyone else catch up.
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Stablecoins are often treated as one market. They are not. Some start with scale. Others grow through a product, a partner network or demand for a particular currency. Each starting point creates a different path to growth. This analysis looks at those paths and where @near_intents fits: proximity.dev/research/stabl…
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Introducing the agent payments skill for x402. The skill lets agents pay for x402 services in USDC on Base, funded with assets held on any of the 30+ chains supported by NEAR Intents. github.com/NearDeFi/agent-pa… Here’s how it works:
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$25 billion has now moved through NEAR Intents. More chains. More assets. More reasons to route through one place. The flywheel keeps compounding. How we got here, and where it's going 🧵
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NEW LAUNCH Confidential Intents is now generally available, bringing NEAR's confidential execution infrastructure to all builders. Devs and dApps can bring confidential execution to their users through the NEAR Intents 1Click Swap API. The privacy renaissance runs on NEAR 🧵
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near-clear-state is now a near-cli-rs extension 🎉 Wipe large contract state in seconds using the CLI credentials you already have, so you can redeploy contracts fast instead of having to set up a new account Install at docs.near.org/tools/clear-st…
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Huge launch. Standing on the shoulders of the Zcash giants, @NEARProtocol just debuted Confidential Intents allowing confidential execution for cross-chain transactions. This the way. Privacy first.
🧵 Just over a year ago, we unveiled NEAR Intents to the world with one goal — building the universal liquidity layer by giving users access to all asset types and order types across chains. We've always believed that privacy-first should be the norm rather than an exception for anything on-chain and today with the launch of Confidential Intents, we've taken a big leap towards the end game for NEAR Intents. We are standing on the shoulders of giants (h/t Zcash) and commit to furthering individual sovereignty through practical privacy that can serve billions of agents and humans alike. This is our biggest product release till date for NEAR Intents and several nodes across the NEAR ecosystem (DeFuse Labs, NEAR One, Proximity Labs, NF) came together to make this happen. Try near.com today and experience confidential intents yourself. Coming soon to frontends across crypto. We are only getting started. Accelerate. 🛡️
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The next era of NEAR tokenomics is unfolding! 5+ years on mainnet. 100% uptime. Fully unlocked supply. Inflation halved. Onchain governance live. Real product revenue. Now: increasing value capture 🧵
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Live in 2 days: "What Did You Ship?" Ep. 33 with the @NEARProtocol ecoystem on IronClaw! 🚢 Featuring: @near_ai, @proximityfi, @NEARDevhub, @joespano_, @ThePiVortex hosted by @quadron3stat3. The future is NEAR - the unified commerce layer for assets and agents. Lock in! ↯
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NEARCON is time for NEAR Intents fees to go brrr. On February 23, 2026, NEAR Intents will activate an automatic default revenue-sharing mechanism with third-party distribution channels. All fees will be collected in $NEAR.
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$RHEA is officially LIVE trading on @BinanceUS! As the first-ever Zcash lending protocol and the only Cross-Chain lending markets, we’re bringing abstracted DeFi privacy to the US crypto retail. - Compliant & Regulated Joining 300+ assets on Binance.US as a non-security assets and passing all regulations review - Cross-Chain The future borderless DeFi starts here - Deep Liquidity Trade and lend with ease as a user owned DeFi Borderless network for the American🇺🇸
Trading for $RHEA is now live on @BinanceUS! What’s new: 🔸 Trading is available on the RHEA/USDT pair 🔸 Deposit or withdraw RHEA via the BSC network

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People are loosing their funds and credentials using @openclaw. A number of people have stopped using it as afraid it will leak all of their information. We started working on security-focused version - IronClaw. It's Rust-based, all tools run in isolated WASM environment.
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Calling NEAR builders. 💡 Join the NEARCON 2026 Innovation Sandbox, a global, virtual-first builder sprint in partnership with @FundingCommons that is focused on shipping real, working demos on NEAR. Starts Jan 26: nearcon.org/innovation-sandb… Why participate: -Win up to $15k across multiple prize tracks -Build with NEAR technologies used by enterprise AI systems and top DeFi protocols -Get guidance from NEAR engineers and ecosystem experts -Gain visibility across the NEAR developer ecosystem, blockchain space, and AI industry If you’re exploring AI-driven workflows and cross-chain with Intents, the Sandbox is your opportunity to push an idea into a concrete demo.
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