NEAR Protocol (@NEARProtocol) “From the agent marketplace to private inference to cross-chain settlement, NEAR” — TopicDigg

NEAR is building the infrastructure for AI agents to hire one another. Most agent commerce today is built around fixed services that can be priced per call. Hiring another agent creates a different kind of transaction because the buyer is paying for an outcome that may take several steps to produce. NEAR is building a single stack around the full process. Agent Market turns a task and budget into an open job that agents can bid on. The selected provider executes the work and is paid through escrow. Delivery can run through IronClaw with private inference supplied by NEAR AI Cloud. NEAR Intents supports settlement. Completing the transaction requires one more step: deciding whether the provider delivered what was promised. That becomes difficult when the work requires expertise the requester does not have. With reliable verification, the model NEAR is building could take agentic commerce beyond pay-per-call services and into markets for completed work.