Great week in Abu Dhabi at Breakpoint and ADFW, talking to founders about NEAR Protocol Intents and private AI. Here's Finance Middle East on how we see AI and blockchain working together to enable privacy-first Web3 governance and the agentic economy. financemiddleeast.com/investments/cr…

Here's my full talk from Solana Breakpoint on how NEAR Intents enables universal liquidity across chains. 130+ assets supported. Powering ZEC<>SOL on Raydium, encrypt.trade, Orca 🌊, and many more. youtube.com/watch?v=eKVklQ…

ShapeShift, a top-tier DEX aggregator has integrated NEAR Intents into its trading app as a cross-chain liquidity source. This brings a new intent-based execution layer to ShapeShift’s multichain stack, enabling smarter routing, improved finality, and better fills for traders.

$NEAR, now on @Solana. Powered by NEAR Intents × Orb Markets

OpenOcean plugged into NEAR Intents. OpenOcean - An EVM + Solana DeFi Aggregator's bridge widget, now powered by Intents.

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.

Your NEAR account now has an email address. alice.near → [email protected] No signup. No password. Connect wallet - inbox is there. In this demo: Gmail → NEAR → Gmail. Zero wallet popups. Feels like normal email. The difference? Server literally cannot read your messages.

Checkout Ping Links by PING! Set price, asset & details → share a link → get paid. Tips, invoices, subscriptions… all covered. Payments your way. One Ping at a time. Powered by NEAR Intents ⚡

Here’s how NEAR secures Openclaw with TEEs encrypting your data & memory. ✦ Your code, memory, and credentials stay encrypted from the OS and the cloud provider. Run the internet’s favorite AI agent with Near AI Cloud. Apply for early access at near.ai/openclaw

NEAR MPC Proposal Livestream ✦ Join SVRN and NEAR One for an upcoming livestream on Feb 2 at 7 PM UTC. The discussion will focus on NEAR House of Stake proposal, which outlines a framework for establishing a sustainable MPC Node Infrastructure Financing Program utilizing

OpenClaw is officially LIVE on NEAR AI Cloud. Stop compromising on your privacy. Now, you can run the internet’s favorite AI agent with total cryptographic privacy. ✦ TEEs: Secure enclaves that even the provider can't inspect. ✦ Built for Agent Workloads, Not Just Inference.

Confirmed: Physical assets are coming to NEAR Intents-oil, steel, gold, and more.

.NEAR Intents is now live as a SafePal swap provider, powered by SwapKit.dev ⚡ Swap via NEAR Intents in SafePal with unified liquidity and intent-based routing Try it now in the SafePal app

Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈) Read the full story here: cointelegraph.com/magazine/ironc…

Tether announced it will discontinue support for the offshore yuan stablecoin CNH₮: effective immediately, no new tokens will be issued; redemption support will end one year after the announcement, with a prior reminder. The decision was based on market conditions and limited

Aurora Labs just shipped the NEAR Intents Widget. Devs can now plug-and-play NEAR Intents into practically any third-party application. They also introduced a Claude Code skill, guiding teams through setup via conversational prompts. Start shipping the universal commerce layer

🚨 BIG: ZachXBT says a major investigation is set to drop February 26 alleging employees at one of crypto’s most profitable firms abused internal data for insider trading.

⚡️ NEW: Bitwise acquired staking provider Chorus One, adding $2.2 billion in staked assets and expanding support across 30+ proof-of-stake networks.

🔥 LATEST: NEAR Protocol introduces Confidential Intents, a privacy layer allowing users to execute cross-chain DeFi transactions confidentially.

🚨BREAKING: 🇰🇷South Korea is proposing a bill that would force "influencers" to disclose their crypto holdings and any compensation received when promoting crypto.