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Welcome to the NEAR Legion.
A global community built to prepare the world for secure & private SuperIntelligence.
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3.3K+ active members • 125+ countries → and growing fast. Read the lore ↓
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Want to hear what NEAR Legion is building in Malaysia? 🇲🇾
Come join us at Industry Night, meet the community, and find out what we’ve been working on and what’s coming next.
🚨 PARTNER REVEAL: NEAR LEGION 🚨
Thrilled to welcome @NEARProtocol @near_malaysia to Industry Night 2.0! They are driving the adoption of the open web and connecting AI and blockchain builders across Malaysia.🇲🇾
Meet them on Oct 2! Secure your spot 👇 luma.com/e2nwl5sk
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POV: You finally understand what $NEAR is building.
Ultrasound Markets.
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Join us for another Legion Open Mic today!
We are going live today for the community discussion at 2pm UTC.
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➡️ Set a reminder: nitter.net/i/spaces/1nJOLQYVEVqxR…
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ZEC encrypts your money.
NEAR encrypts your commerce.
Shielded ZEC makes your money private. For everything else(spending, transfers, swaps), there’s NEAR.
zec and near barbell is the new and improved btc and eth barbell.
thesis; zec competes for bitcoin's store-of-value capital. near competes for ethereum's programmable-finance capital.
bitcoin is valued at $1.6 trillion.
zec is valued at $25 billion.
ethereum is valued at $322 billion.
near is valued at $5 billion.
you see where the flows come from; private money, plus the infrastructure to make it useful.
near intents already lets you spend shielded zec into other supported assets. more ways to use zec means more utility for zec. the more zec activity means more demand for near's infrastructure.
why privacy matters now? businesses don't want competitors seeing their suppliers, payroll and margins. large investors don't want every position broadcast. as more economic activity moves onchain, confidentiality becomes a practical requirement.
then add ai; agents handling money need permissions, confidential execution and access to liquidity across chains. near is building for this market. zec brings the private-money thesis alongside it.
the story is simple enough for the billionaire cabal to understand: private wealth, usable finance, infrastructure for the ai economy.
as zec and near keep outperforming btc and eth, the narrative becomes self-fulfilling.
zec and near could be the kingmaker trades of this cycle.
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NEAR is the new smart contract schelling point.
“I think $NEAR has won the ‘smart contract bid’ trophy of 2026.” - David Hoffman, Bankless
What that actually looks like onchain: Intents across 30+ chains with $30B+ volume, confidential perps via Hyperliquid, ZEC settlement, AI inference paid in stake, all at one place.
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Wear the NEARVANA drip. Read the User Owned AI thesis.
Shop the NEAR collection on @nearmerch
Attention. Attention. Attention.
Fresh fits and a book for anyone who believes AI should belong to its users, not to big tech 👀
NEARVANA, Attention Is All You Need & User-Owned AI merch is now LIVE!
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Legion Video Content Campaign Submission Review #2 nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1qxvveXDY…
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NEAR Legion Video Content Campaign Submission Review #3 nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1qKDzWQOL…
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“One of the thesis around $NEAR is it being a platform for agents to transact on.” - @blknoiz06
Traditional rails were built for humans.
KYC doesn’t work for agents.
NEAR is building the alternative. 👀
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NEAR AI is bringing verifiable, private inference to Venice.
Venice runs production workloads on NEAR AI to give its users end-to-end encrypted inference.
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Intents: you state the outcome, and the network finds the route.
NEAR AI: you send the prompt, the enclave runs it, and the hardware signs a proof.
Two ways to get the same thing: hand off the work, keep the control.
Intents: you state the outcome, and the network finds the route.
NEAR AI: you send the prompt, the enclave runs it, and the hardware signs a proof.
Two ways to get the same thing: hand off the work, keep the control.
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“The biggest unlock has been both Zcash and NEAR bringing, at last, privacy on chain” -Illia Polosukhin
“It’s always been kind of the biggest bottleneck to use day-to-day blockchain for anything”
Zcash + NEAR are bringing a private onchain experience for everyday use.
Kaiz 🐂🀄️
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Happy autumn festival to our frens! 🥮
Thanks to everyone who attended the event today! Follow @near_malaysia for the next one! 🇲🇾
Really grateful to @ccacc_hub for hosting me tonight at the Mooncake Festival, and to @NEARLegion for giving me the opportunity to help grow and expand the NEAR community in Malaysia 🇲🇾
Excited for what’s coming for NEAR! 🫡
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NEAR coded
Our latest research paper explores the growing connection between AI and digital assets and explains why broad AI adoption may drive new demand, utility and applications across the digital asset economy. blackrock.com/us/individual/…
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