Gas keys are live on NEAR mainnet. A gas key is a new type of access key that pre-funds its own gas and runs up to 1,024 parallel nonce sequences from a single key. Here's what they unlock for builders and the wider NEAR ecosystem. 🧵

Introducing Builders Cafe ☕️ The idea: turn cafes across NYC into small pockets of builders — local microcommunities connected by the broader Build City ethos. Learn together. Meet people nearby. Build cool shit. We’re kicking things off in Hoboken with @NEARLegion, breaking down Attention Is All You Need together. This is just the first of many. If you’re around, pull up. Luma in comments.

Your feedback shapes @NearBuilders. We’re building the best platform for builders on NEAR - open, community-owned, and permissionless by design. Try it out → Share feedback + screenshot in Legion Chat before Monday EOD. 🔽

This Sunday at Builders Cafe ☕🧠 We’re diving into JEPA, world models, memory, reasoning and Yann LeCun’s vision for how AI could move beyond just generating outputs toward actually learning better representations of the world. We’ll read, discuss, challenge assumptions and connect the research back to what we build. 📍 Haraz Coffee House, Hoboken 🗓️ Sept 6 | 10 AM to 12 PM Luma in bio. @buidlcity x @NEARLegion

Ideas have been coming in on nearbuilders Going to put one up here each day this week. All of them are public, all of them came from people in this community, and all of them are open to back. nearbuilders.org

Big update for Vanguard members. Two new missions just dropped: ✦ Builder Visionary ✦ Legion Identity Time to show what you’re made of, Legion.

Corbits, an AI operations platform that runs open-source agents together in one workspace, has integrated NEAR AI for private, verifiable inference and IronClaw for secure agent orchestration 🧵

The agent economy is an order of magnitude larger than agentic payments. Nearly every commercial relationship today is a transaction waiting for an agent to orchestrate it, from supply chains reordering stock to businesses paying contractors to treasuries rebalancing.

Now let gets the building started !!! You can now upload your footprints in the $NEAR ecosystem, every contributions and impact in the ecosystem’s are getting recorded as activities. If you are creating something in the ecosystem, building or contributing this where to start. I just uploaded mine @NearBuilders nearbuilders.org/builders/en…

Did you know NEAR Intents has an on-chain interface? This works because of NEAR's yield/resume - the contract pauses mid-execution, the swap runs off-chain, and the continuation lands in the same transaction. One tx hash. Send tokens (USDC, etc) to a contract → it runs NEAR Intents off-chain via OutLayer → the swapped tokens come back to you, in the same transaction. No frontend, no solver integration, no second signature. Your contract just asks for a swap and gets tokens. Doing swaps inside a NEAR contract or app? This is the most seamless way there is. Execution runs in a TEE - you get a verifiable result with the attestation, not a trusted API call. Example tx + docs in comments

1/ The Builder Visionary mission is live for NEAR Legion Vanguards. Bring an original idea for what NEAR should build next. Get it approved, rally 10 upvotes behind it, and it's in the running to actually get made. Not every idea is code. Some are design or research, so this is open to builders and creators, not just developers. Here's how it works.🧵

Most people ask where the paid work is. Here's one answer. @_multiagency is standing up a social coordination sector in August. Content, design, community, distribution. Work gets assigned, delivered, and paid. We're sourcing from @NearBuilders . If you're building or creating in the ecosystem and you're not on the directory yet, that's the gap to close. Small first group. It grows with the client work.