There are ton of new and old devs building on NEAR in the past couple of weeks. Building itself got easier too, so it's really about what to build and how stand out to get distribution. Few ideas I wanted to share: - AI Tamagochi - use @near_ai to run verifiable inference from prompt encoded onchain, have each character as NFT with some $NEAR attached that pays for it's inference, add gamification with feeding, dressing. Can add all kinds of things on top with battle arena, competitions, etc. - Universal checkout widget - let any merchant/app to add "checkout" button that allows to pay via intents from whatever wallet and chain user has. Offer it to merchants, try to get it into Shopify. - AI encyclopedia with prediction markets - instead of community curation, every fact becomes a perpetual truth seeking market (Augur style). The final pages are generated by AI based on current market understanding. - Private OTC market using 'private deals' from NEAR Intents. Currently there is no way to find counter party unless you already know you are transacting with. Create a more open way to communicate what are deals open and allow people to fill them via NEAR Intents. - "Never get liquidated" - manage positions via NEAR Intents to keep lending and perp positions to maximize interest while not getting liquidated - Event registration where funds get escrowed and let the host to check in guests. If guests have showed up - they split all contributed funds (prev project was called Kickback). Make crypto side events signups reliable again, now across any chain and any asset. - Code review that is fully private - agent that verifiably privately runs code review on private PRs using @near_ai - Company cap table + all instruments around it to raise funds, accept crypto and support banking - Delta neutral anything - take spot + perp controlled via NEAR contract that manages it via NEAR Intents. - Private trading where you sell your viewing keys for people to follow/copy trade. NEAR Intents confidential trading is all private and so one 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. - Private medical second opinion - medical frontend that e2e encrypts and sends your data to NEAR AI to get second opinion from AI in guaranteed private way. Use it in combination with crypto and fiat payments. Allow to have custom prompts in NFTs that people can use as a way to get better expertise out of agents. - Private Granola - desktop app that uses @near_ai to do private transcriptions but keeps all your records with you (and encrypted with your key backups). Use $NEAR staking as an alterantive to pay subscriptions. - AI benchmarking with private test sets. Submit harness (or new model in hosted privately in @near_ai) and evaluate on private tests sets and see results that are certified for given model and given hash of test set, without revealing any data. Distribution: - Engage @NEARLegion - Make sure your app supports every wallet via @aurora Intent Connect, so user from any chain can engage with it without bridging/figuring out NEAR - Engage other communities by cross pollinating - Don't forget about Product Hunt & similar product distribution - And ofc X

🔍It’s time, 170 terrorists who posed as journalists - EXPOSED. For the full list of journalists: idf.il/en/mini-sites/the-pre…

An Emirati pilot and Israeli passengers worked together to thwart fundamentalist terrorism. And this is all you need to know about the Abraham Accords.

NEAR is permissionless programmable money. Permissionless means nobody needs permission to own and transfer assets, or deploy contracts on NEAR. It does not mean every application or liquidity provider must process every transaction. SHIELD is how NEAR Intents applies this in practice: shared, real-time risk intelligence that lets participants identify hacks and other incidents and choose not to facilitate stolen funds. Partners can both consume and contribute incident data. In the Bitget hack, SHIELD identified $50M+ in attempted flows through NEAR Intents and helped stop funds during execution. Open financial infrastructure does not require us to make theft easy. Instead of hiding behind "it's permissionless, what can we do" while sitting on pause button, we should be creative in solutions that are addressing underlying problem. We can have permissionless protocols that have intelligent defense. This is what we are building with SHIELD and invite everyone to join to make SHIELD industry-wide.

This is awesome. NEAR uses SHIELD to detect anomalies and hacked funds, preventing them from getting laundered through NEAR Intents. It's on us an ecosystem to protect property rights on-chain. And if there's one value we as an ecosystem can agree on, it's this: Fuck North Korea.

Oracle and SVRN built a proof of concept that adds stablecoin payments to Oracle Simphony, the point-of-sale system behind more than 6.3B transactions a year. It settles on NEAR, targets checkout in under 3 seconds, and sends settled funds straight into treasury, loyalty and supplier payouts. Oracle named four reasons it chose NEAR: - Fast execution - Low cost per transaction - Settlement across chains through NEAR Intents - Delegated authorization, so one account can act for another within set limits The last two are exactly what AI agents will need to pay on your behalf. svrn.net/news/oracle-svrn-st…

Strategy has acquired 1,665 $BTC and repurchased $152M of $STRC. As of 9/27/26, we hold 847,666 BTC and $6.02B of USD Assets. $MSTR strategy.com/press/strategy-…

What you see in $LINK, $NEAR and many other #crypto is reminding of institutional accumulation, a slow grind up, almost no going down. Bitwise is likely buying before their customers. Many others aren't suckers either. #CryptoMarket #CryptoPump

Bitcoin is getting stronger

If you are using onchain, confidential products, you are probably using NEAR.

We are going to win. We have no other choice.

This is a zoomed out chart of $NEAR. It's the valuation of NEAR vs. #Bitcoin. Essentially, the recent rally is peanuts compared to a real bull market. The all-time high is still 9x away. Enjoy.

Confidential limit orders are now live on near.com, for any assets from any chain. Set your target price. It fills automatically when the market gets there. Your order waits out of public view.

Still heaps of room to run in #crypto and nothing points to sell $BTC $NEAR

NEAR is programmable money

Strategy has acquired 950 $BTC and repurchased $174M of $STRC. As of 9/20/26, we hold 846,000 BTC and $6.09B of USD Assets. $MSTR strategy.com/press/strategy-…

Really solid Bitcoin push here to break the intermediate trend and resume the secular bull trend. As is common in any new move, a nasty shakeout is likely, but I’d suspect it doesn’t come until later and from higher.