The unified commerce layer for assets and agents.
Almost every account you rely on is issued by someone who can take it away. Your handle, your business's name, the credentials your AI agent runs on: all of it exists at a platform's discretion, and
Anton Astafiev, CTO at Near One, and Mally Anderson, writer at NEAR NEAR began its post-quantum security upgrades in Q2 2026. Step one was updating NEAR to support its first quantum-safe signature
Jeremy Koch (@ItsFloe), Market Intelligence at NEAR Key Insights The industry has shifted from vision to execution. Across scaling, accounts, execution, and interoperability, the meaningful question
Confidential computing has a verification gap. Providers that run AI workloads inside trusted execution environments all make the same claim: code and data are protected in memory, and the machine
Key Insights NEAR AI launched a staking-based payment mechanism that converts staked NEAR into recurring AI compute credits. Users retain ownership of the underlying stake, which can be withdrawn upon
TL;DR The agent economy is far bigger than payments. Global commerce runs on outdated rails. From supply chains to contracting to treasury and settlement, agents can make numerous industries
Jeremy Koch (@ItsFloe), Market Intelligence at NEAR On what happens when a bank account stops being something a company holds for you, and confidentiality stops being a premium feature and becomes
TL;DR The Revenue Engine Is Already Running and Accelerating: Protocol fee capture has scaled from near-zero to over 30% of fees in a matter of months, with a meaningful share of all lifetime net
Jeremy Koch (@ItsFloe), Market Intelligence at NEAR For most of crypto’s history, every blockchain has been its own island. If you wanted to participate across ecosystems, you were expected to
Privacy has moved to the center of the crypto conversation, and this past month NEAR highlighted its central role in the privacy narrative, from confidential execution to private inference. Universal
What Is Authorship? And Why Our Choices Decide Everything Jeremy Koch (@ItsFloe), Market Intelligence at NEAR Sometime in 2022, a product manager at a mid-sized logistics company started typing her
This morning, at NVIDIA’s GTC AI Conference in San Jose, California, NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin presented new research from NEAR AI to enable confidential, decentralized AI computation. This
