NEAR Protocol (@NEARProtocol)

You can’t call a product secure without a way to measure it. NEAR AI’s George Zeng on trusting agents that hold credentials and move value: formal verification for what the code does, adversarial benchmarks for how it holds up against attackers that constantly adapt.

AI agents and models are now capable enough to discover and exploit novel attack paths in live systems, autonomously, as a side effect of pursuing a narrow goal. As agents take on more sensitive work, the infrastructure they run on has to factor in these risks and behaviors.

One account. Deposit any asset from 35+ chains straight into Hyperliquid. Trade 50+ markets. No separate bridge, no wrapping, no second wallet to fund. Start trading:

What NEAR shipped last month: ✦ NEAR Intents crossed $22B+ in all-time volume and 28M+ total swaps. ✦ Confidential Intents TVL grew to over $28M. ✦ Hyperliquid perps went live on ✦ GLM-5.2 went live on NEAR AI. ✦ NEAR@3.33: an incentive milestone program for Confidential Intents users on kicked off. ✦ Virtual NEAR Backers Summit highlighted momentum across the stack. ✦ NEAR Intents began powering cross-chain swaps in Unstoppable Wallet. ✦ NEAR Intents began powering cross-chain swaps for SimpleSwap. ✦ Movement went live on NEAR Intents. ✦ The expanded NEAR Revenue Dashboard went live at ✦ NEAR previewed SPICE the next major protocol upgrade. ✦ Hypercore went live on NEAR Intents. ✦ Hinkal Pay and Hinkal Prime integrated NEAR Intents. ✦ NEAR Legion hosted an IronClaw hackathon and events. ✦ NEAR AI Cloud integrated across 17 open-source AI projects, including Goose, Eliza, and the Vercel AI SDK. And much more.

NEAR is leading post-quantum safety at the protocol level, where security has to start, beginning with the NIST-approved FIPS-204 signing scheme. We're excited to be working with NEAR to align hardware wallet security for the quantum era.

NEAR Protocol upgrade 2.13 is live on testnet. This includes 2 upgrades that have been years in the making: post-quantum safe access keys, so accounts can defend against cryptographic threats ahead, and dynamic resharding, so the protocol scales automatically as demand grows 🧵

Centralized AI inference runs on one provider. NEAR AI's confidential inference draws from multiple compute partners distributed across regions instead of a single data center. No KYC required. No visibility into what you're running. Intelligence owned by the user.

The demand for user-owned AI is here. NEAR AI encrypts prompts before they leave your device, processes them in secure hardware enclaves, and delivers signed attestation in under 30 seconds making every request verifiable. Already powering Venice, Brave, Abound, Bermuda & more.

Every onchain transaction tells a story. You should decide who gets to read it. Toggle confidential mode on Swap natively across 35+ chains. Reclaim your sovereignty. See what confidential cross-chain feels like. 👇

For two decades, convenience won. Now privacy is becoming a core feature people demand. The more personal AI gets, the more concerned with data control users become. That’s why NEAR AI is building confidential, verifiable AI infrastructure.

GLM-5.2 delivers frontier level open-source performance at a fraction of the cost. On NEAR AI, that comes packaged with: - Verifiable privacy - Hardware-signed attestation Try it today:

A confidential swap on doesn’t just hide your transaction. It hides the amount It hides the route It hides the wallet addresses It hides the token pair Settle across 35+ chains in seconds. Confidentiality without sacrificing UX.

ICYMI: From Bankless to The Rollup to the Defiant, the wider industry has been recognizing NEAR's critical role as confidential infrastructure for both crypto and AI, and turning to NEAR Co-founder @ilblackdragon to understand what's at stake in the agent economy. A roundup 🧵

How to trade perps on - Turn on perps in your near​.com account - Fund your account from any supported chain - Place your trade - Set your SL and TP - Monitor your position Refer a friend and you both earn on every Hyperliquid trade.

Near@3.33 is an incentive milestone program for users of Confidential Intents on How to qualify: - Hold $100+ in confidential balance - Make 1 confidential swap You have until Confidential Intents TVL reaches 70M to qualify for drop #1#.

Private, verifiable inference built into tools devs already use. NEAR AI Cloud is now integrated across 17 open-source AI projects, including Goose, Eliza, and the Vercel AI SDK catalog + more on the way. TEE-backed inference. Cryptographic proof. User-owned AI infrastructure.

Dynamic resharding: Adding shards has historically meant a full protocol upgrade: validator coordination, a vote, a staged rollout. The upcoming upgrade makes it automatic so the infrastructure powering Intents can scale with demand. Full thread:

Quantum readiness: NEAR accounts are decoupled from cryptography and controlled by rotatable access keys so becoming quantum-safe is one key rotation, not a migration. NEAR is adding FIPS-204 as the first post-quantum signing option. Full thread: