Blink and it’s final: NEAR blocks are now 600ms, with 1.2 second finality. That’s 10x faster finality than Solana. 600x faster than ETH and L2s. Without the need for more expensive hardware. This is a major upgrade that truly sets a new performance standard for blockchains. Now

Massive upgrade to the $NEAR protocol today. $NEAR is now 10 times faster than $SOL The token is definitely undervalued, it won't take long before the true power of Near is recognized🤝

Uber bullish on $NEAR 💥 10x faster finality than Solana, 600x faster than ETH & L2s. THE BEST BLOCKCHAIN! 💯

Everyone's chasing launchpads, memes, and airdrops right now. Meanwhile, $NEAR just shipped tech that quietly *changes the game* for what crypto can actually do and almost no one’s talking about it. Let’s fix that 🧵👇🏼

gNear - it's been a great year, and the next one is going to be even better! 🎉

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NEAR Intents is the latest NEAR product to cross 1 million total swaps, $450 million total volume, with support for over 100 different native assets. What’s the big deal? Let’s break down how NEAR Intents is a game changer for liquidity and DeFi composability across all chains:

Call me delusional but $NEAR to $150 is happening soon. Drop a ❤️‍🔥if you believe in NEAR Protocol 👇

$NEAR just flipped Solana in daily active users. 🔥 By hitting 3,000,000 daily active users, NEAR Protocol is now ranked 2nd among all L1s.

Everyone's building AI. Only one is building the future of AI. Not for platforms. For people. Private, open, autonomous, and yours. Fork that. NEAR is the next major AI company. Watch this.👇

. NEAR Protocol Intents feels like the prologue to a new economy. Today, it swaps native assets across chains fast, private, effortless. Tomorrow, it could let your personal AI trade anything: tokens, real-world goods, even data streams… instantly, across any network. From

Used NEAR Protocol Intent for the first time. Took me 30 sec to deposit from $Near protocol to Arbitrum. Paid 0.01$ in fees. Never imagined something so smooth & seamless exists. A life saver i must say. NEAR Intents should be bookmarked in every web3 browser.

San Francisco is back. AI’s rising. Crypto’s building. The frontier is alive again. That’s why we’re bringing NEARCON to SF: Feb 23–24, 2026. This year’s theme? “The Internet Wants to Think.” AI. Intents. Chain abstraction. Open-source everything.

Glad to be working with NEAR. They are a great team and intents are the future of crypto

It's just the beginning of an exponential growth. Expect to get more adoption once we have escrow, lending, and borrowing built in

Private DeFi + Private AI = NEAR

NEAR AI has joined the NVIDIA Inception Program to accelerate verifiable, privacy-preserving AI. The program provides advanced access to NVIDIA’s GPU resources, developer tooling, and technical expertise to help NEAR AI power secure, enterprise-grade AI systems at scale.

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.

Not many are talking about this yet. NEAR Intents is being integrated into institutional platforms that process trillions in annual trading volume. Worth paying attention.