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Welcome to the NEAR Legion.
A global community built to prepare the world for secure & private SuperIntelligence.
Follow Us To NEARVana.
3.3K+ active members • 125+ countries → and growing fast. Read the lore ↓
Everybody gets an agent.
Everybody needs a little NEAR to run it.
‘You do the math.’
Intents buybacks live. Compute payments coming.
Who else is stacking for the $NEAR season?
Legion Malaysia 🇲🇾 is not slowing down.
Validator Workshop 101 lands at 3 university blockchain clubs (Nov 11–13) in partnership with @AvaxTeam1 and @SuiCommunity_MY.
Building the next generation of validators and Web3 builders.
You thought we were done? The mission continues!
We're teaming up with @AvaxTeam1 and @SuiCommunity_MY to bring Validator Workshop 101 to 3 university blockchain clubs!
Empowering the next generation to secure, decentralize, and build the future of Web3!
Illia on why people are losing trust in AI labs:
“Every single time there’s OpenAI news that they potentially trained on data they weren’t supposed to……and Anthropic launching Claude Design after being a Figma partner is not helping.”
People want control. That’s exactly what $NEAR's User Owned AI is about - reclaiming your sovereignty.
NYC 🇺🇸 builders: Join @buidlcity this Wednesday for a full-day Private AI hackathon.
Confidential computing, private inference, data ownership & agentic apps.
Kick off your project for the $250K NEAR Hackathon.
Build with AI. Protect Your Data. Ship Something Real.
luma.com/private-ai-hack
NEAR is earning revenue, in real time.
In last 30 days:
✦ Net revenue: $2.05MUSD
✦ Fees generated: $5.59MUSD
Building a protocol that earns and distributes value transparently.
The $NEAR flywheel is accelerating.
Check the dashboard → revenue.near.org
“From connecting blockchains to enabling AI agents to transact onchain - NEAR is building something much bigger.”
Illia on the real problem in crypto and how $NEAR is solving it.
7 DAYS LEFT to NEAR Hackathon.
261 projects already in.
$250K in rewards is waiting for you because great ideas deserve great rewards.
You can ship with AI.
Hand HACKATHON.md to your coding agent - it knows the tracks, dates, and how to submit. You just build.
$NEAR is solving crypto’s biggest problem.
Illia Polosukhin sat down with @cryptomanran for the full breakdown.
$NEAR Builders & Creators, the kitchen is open.
@nearcooking opened the Creator Hub so good projects can land on the menu.
List your collection or launch a mint with them.
Something's being prepped in the back of the kitchen👨🍳
The Launchpad will let you list and launch on your own, and every project we partner with goes to a community vote before it hits the menu.
But the doors don't stay shut while it cooks, The Creator Hub form is open now, and we'll plate your listing or mint with you.
Send in yours now let cook👇
“If one company dominates the consumer interface with AI, they will also centralize money underneath themselves.”
Illia Polosukhin, Co Founder of NEAR calls this an existential threat to Web3.
That’s why $NEAR is building a fully private stack that includes both AI and money.
E193: @NEARProtocol: NEAR Is Encrypted Ethereum
@ilblackdragon is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and one of the inventors of the Transformer, the technology behind every AI LLM. Today we talk about why he left Google, how a payments problem pulled him into crypto, and why he thinks AI and blockchain have to be built together.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:52 - Illia's Mission, Explained To An Uber Driver
03:46 - The Fire In Illia's Belly: Where It Came From
05:46 - How Illia Got Out of Where he Started from
06:54 - Moving out of Google That Changed Everything
07:55 - Attention Is All You Need, Explained Simply
10:59 - Did Illia Know He Was Starting A Revolution?
12:13 - Sponsor: @variational_io , @Bitwise
13:02 - Why Walk Away From Google's Fortune?
14:44 - Illia's Reaction When ChatGPT Exploded
15:55 - What Smart AI People Still Get Wrong
17:29 - How AI Led Illia To Crypto
19:50 - Did Illia Drop AI For Blockchain?
21:00 - 6 Years Of NEAR And How It Survived
22:14 - Why Stay In Crypto With An AI Edge?
24:42 - NEAR In One Sentence: Today And Tomorrow
26:39 - Sponsor: @KASTxyz
27:26 - What You Can Build On NEAR And Nowhere Else
29:03 - What's Happening Inside Centralized AI
30:48 - Does Illia Use Claude Or ChatGPT?
31:36 - What You Should Never Use ChatGPT Or Claude For
32:25 - The Danger Of A Few Companies Owning All The Intelligence
34:35 - How Cryptographic Guarantees Actually Work
35:58 - Is There A NEAR GPT?
36:50 - ZEC Explained Simply: Why It Matters
38:24 - $ZEC Is Private Bitcoin. What Is near:native?
39:32 - Is Owning The AI Interface Bigger Than Owning Banks?
40:29 - User Owned AI, Explained
42:05 - Sponsor: @JupiterExchange , @ethena
42:45 - Can User Owned AI Sustain An Economy?
44:55 - The Best Argument Against User Owned AI
46:13 - Open Weight Models, Explained
47:20 - Is AI Doom Further Off Than We Think?
51:15 - The Next Shift Nobody Is Watching
54:08 - What Humans Will Struggle With Most
55:29 - Thank You
near(.)com is the "holy shit" smoothest experience of using blockchain you have been waiting for.
At TOKEN2049, NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin explained why privacy just became urgent for enterprise AI.
$NEAR launched a private offering in Dec last year, but the market wasn’t ready. Companies were still treating frontier models as experiments.
In the last 3–4 months that flipped. Now they’re feeding contracts, financials, source code, and strategy decks into AI and realizing anyone with the logs can reconstruct the entire company.
The NEAR Hackathon is live through November 14, with $250K in prizes.
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Some ideas from NEAR Co-Founder @ilblackdragon on what to build with NEAR Intents and NEAR AI 👇
The @NEARProtocol Hackathon is live through November 14 with $250K in prizes. Here are a few ideas for things I’d love to see built with @near_intents and @near_ai.
––AI encyclopedia with prediction markets: instead of community curation, every fact becomes a perpetual truth-seeking market (Augur-style). The official pages are generated by AI based on the current market understanding.
––Private trading where you sell your viewing keys for people to follow/copy trade. NEAR Intents confidential trading is all private, so you can have a social trading app where people sell "keys" for only select people to see. PnL can be publicly displayed so people can choose to buy in.
––Universal checkout widget: any merchant/app can add a “checkout” button that enables paying with Intents from whatever wallet and blockchain that user has.
––Swarm-for-Hire (with guardrails or governance AI review, please). Put a bid onchain with a description of the work and anyone can add a new agent to the swarm by giving it NEAR (to pay for inference) with a prompt/knowledge base/tools. All agents accept jobs and get NEAR AI LLM inference from their payment for the job.
Light up your Diwali 🪔 with NEAR India 🇮🇳
3 days of trading on near.com. 3 challenges. $21 Shagun for up to 15 winners.
🪔 This Diwali, celebrate the festival of lights with 3 days of trading challenges on near.com
Silver, Indian equities and gold. Three days. Three challenges. $21 shagun for up to 15 winners
Here's how to participate 🔽
NEAR Hackathon Malaysia 🇲🇾 Meetup is tomorrow at APU.
Full day of ideation, networking & build guidance with @near_malaysia & @apubcc
Tomorrow, we’re kicking off the NEAR Hackathon at APU with @apubcc!
Join us for some alpha, practical tips, and hands-on guidance to start building on NEAR.
Excited to onboard the next wave of builders. See you there! 🔥
