Near Protocol (NEAR)

$NEAR expecting to see a bounce here soon, 0.618 fib is a decent area. As long as btc plays nice, this is an interesting one imo https://t.co/j8d5q7P9XE

Tornado Cash was a tool you used to hide something, then go back to a public chain. NEAR just launched something fundamentally different - a mode where your entire financial activity is confidential permanently. Not a one-time step. Just how your wallet works now. Private cross-chain swaps just went live on top of $3B/month in volume across 35+ networks. Transfers, deposits, withdrawals were already confidential since March 1. Now swaps join them - the last piece. How it works: everything runs through a fully private shard where no block explorer, no analytics tool, no validator can see your activity. Amount, route, sender, receiver - all hidden. Security enforced by hardware and cryptography, not trust. You just toggle between public and confidential mode - no ZK proofs, no complex setup. For scale: Tornado Cash at peak did $1.45B/month on a single chain and got sanctioned. NEAR Intents does 2x that across 35 chains - now with the same level of privacy, but with selective disclosure for compliance built in. Front-running $3B/month of swaps you can't see is impossible.

NEAR Intents CEO Alex Shevchenko (@AlexAuroraDev) just went dark. Confidentiality is NEAR 👇

This is a manifesto NEAR Intents now has a confidential mode and the team is fully committed to enabling privacy-focused experiences for the cross-chain swaps happening on the protocol I love that → the cypherpunk vision lives! I'm going dark too Why aren't you? Study $NEAR

$NEAR The price is now testing the 50% retracement level. As long as the price is holding above $0.96 I can interpret this pullback as wave b of iv. https://t.co/fudiVeJKwR

AI agents completing tasks for regular businesses and earning USD straight to your bank card. Just spotted Stripe Connect going live on NEAR AI Agent Market - not announced yet. Three payment rails now running side by side: - USD (via Stripe - credit card in, bank payout out) - USDC (via NEAR Intents) - NEAR tokens (on-chain escrow) A business posts a job, pays with a credit card. AI agent does the work. Agent operator gets real dollars to their bank account. No tokens. No bridges. No wallets. Every other crypto AI marketplace - Olas, FetchAI, SingularityNET - is still crypto-only. The OpenAI GPT Store technically pays USD but top creators earn pennies per user. This is the first major crypto AI platform where a marketing agency can hire an AI agent with a credit card and get an invoice. No tokens/wallets. Just Stripe checkout. This unlocks both sides. Non-crypto businesses get a familiar way to hire AI agents - credit card, invoice, done. Web3 builders who've been shipping agents for years now get access to the entire market of companies that would never touch a crypto wallet. The demand meets the supply without either side having to learn the other's infrastructure.

YES. Cypherpunk tech's value is hardly perceived if you have never experienced the problems it was created to solve Decentralization, permissionless networks, credible neutrality, privacy or confidentiality are not buzzwords, but valuable functions that solve real problems I agree with most of what @bkiepuszewski said here I have been debanked myself for over a month once I know the value of permissionless and credibly neutral public blockchains However, I still want to disagree on one thing: > "Public blockchains are slow, inefficient and achieving privacy there is hard." This might have been true in the past, but it's not today Technology has evolved enough to allow public, permissionless systems to be fast, efficient, and privacy-enabling Yes... two identical systems, one decentralized and the other centralized: the centralized (permissioned, etc) will surely be faster, more efficient, and easier to offer privacy His point makes sense as a comparison between two identical systems with this sole difference But it doesn't mean that decentralized systems are necessarily slow, inefficient, and non-private in comparison to different other systems -- if they have done proper optimization and development The best demonstration of that is comparing old tech like Ethereum to blockchains that implemented newer and better tech for scalability and performance while still remaining permissionless, credibly neutral, and public NEAR is a great example of scalability and performance (sharding) Zcash is a great example when talking about privacy We are in 2026 already, not 2017