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Joined August 2018
- NEW NEAR.COM LAUNCH Your USDC can now earn yield confidentially with Earn vaults curated by @gauntlet_xyz and @talerfinance. Your $USDC keeps working with you: swap it, send it, spend it. No withdrawing from the vault first. Every near.com launch
- Preparing multi-chain assets for a post-quantum future. Illia Polosukhin explains how NEAR gets there. With Chain Signatures, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and stablecoins held via NEAR Intents can be secured with post-quantum cryptography and kept confidential, with protocol
- Major AI labs have cut third-party agent tools off from their models through consumer subscriptions and moved that usage to a metered tier in under a day's notice. Workflows built on that access broke overnight.
- “The beauty of NEAR Intents is it focusses on satisfying the INTENT of the user – and abstracts the choice of chain/product away in the background." — @RobertSagurton, Co-founder, @fogo Fogo Chain, an SVM L1, connects to 30+ EVM and non-EVM chains through NEAR Intents.The beauty of @near_intents is it focusses on satisfying the INTENT of the user – and abstracts the choice of chain/product away in the background. Yes, the L1 or L2 is still important in terms of being optimized to win the AI agent competition – but those with their heels dug
