Since January 2025, nearly 12.6K new addresses acquired $NEAR for the first time on Ethereum and BNB chains. During this period, about 66% of swappers were new, but returning addresses accounted for 77% of all swaps and 79% of the total volume. The remaining 21% of the volume

The total number of swaps via NEAR Protocol Intents has surpassed 1 million. 🔥 Over the last 30 days, the daily usage of Near Intents has increased significantly, with nearly 700K swaps recorded. In recent days, daily swaps reached a peak of 64K.

The total staked $NEAR in the Meteor Wallet staking pool has reached a new all-time high of 1.95 million. So far, nearly 28.6K unique addresses have staked their $NEAR in this pool on NEAR Protocol. 👇

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Which DEXs are users using to acquire $NEAR on Ethereum and BNB chains? PancakeSwap and Uniswap are the top platforms for trading $NEAR on these chains. Nearly 48% of the total volume has gone through PancakeSwap, 44% through Uniswap, and the rest via other DEXs. By swap

At NEARWEEK, we've submitted a proposal to the Infrastructure Committee for a NEAR Protocol Ecosystem MCP Server. The server provides standardized access to curated on-chain and off-chain NEAR data supporting AI agents, developers, and content teams with full ecosystem context.

✦ 5 years on mainnet ✦ 9 shards ✦ 600ms blocks ✦ 1.2s finality ✦ $2B+ Intents volume ✦ 120+ cross-chain assets supported ✦ 50M+ active addresses ✦ 50+ startups ✦ 500 validator seats ✦ 550M+ staked ✦ 2k+ NEAR Legion members ✦ 100% uptime Huge thank you to our vast

Swap smarter, not harder, and stay secure! NEAR Intents is now available via SwapKit.dev in Ledger Wallet. With NEAR Protocol Intents, you submit your goal (or, "intent"), which is then executed by either human or AI agents across chains like ETH, BTC, NEAR, and more.

We are thrilled to announce the official kickoff of Node Studio Program #2 — an initiative designed to grow the NEAR Protocol validator ecosystem and strengthen its decentralization 64 new validators have been onboarded to the network. Read more: medium.com/meta-pool/node…