🌟 NEAR Quiz Night: Prepare for NEARvana! Join this week’s Quiz Night and flex your NEAR knowledge! 🗓 Every Thursday | 5 PM UTC 🎁 18 NEAR + HOT Firedrop 📍 NEAR Protocol Discord ✍️ Alpha alert: NEARWEEK #221 & DEV NEWS #75 might just save your time ✅Bonus: Have you pledged 1% of your net worth in $NEAR to the NEAR Legion Pledge now Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

🚀 Stellar $XLM is now live on NEAR Intents ↔️ Unlock bridge-free swaps across 20+ chains and 100+ tokens. Bridges are a thing of the past. Fork that! The future of multichain is seamless & intent-driven. Try out NEAR Intents today!

🌟 AMA with Treasury Management WG: Building the Foundation for NEAR’s Governance 🎙 Join our AMA with Cole & Yuen from NEAR Treasury Management WG to learn about their principles, goals & processes. Have any questions for Governance on NEAR? Submit your questions here or join the weekly X spaces and ask them right away! 🗓 Aug 21 | 3 PM UTC ➡️ Set a Reminder

🌟 NEAR partners with IQ AI to advance tokenized AI Agents 📝 IQ AI’s ATP (Agent Tokenization Platform) now integrates NEAR Intents & specialized MCP servers for direct NEAR blockchain access 📝 IQ AI will integrate NEAR Shade Agents for advanced autonomous smart contract execution 📝 Economic alignment: BrainDAO acquires NEAR; NEAR Foundation acquires IQ & FRAX 📝 Liquidity boost: NEAR/FRAX pairs launching on Fraxtal with Fraxswap 🚪 Keep an eye on upcoming NEAR Town Hall events for live demos of cross-chain AI agents. Read the blog post to learn more.

🌟 AMA with ConsumerFi: Go-To-Market Strategy Unpacked Join our twitter spaces with Dleer, Co Founder of ConsumerFi as we explore: • Consumer Graph’s Place in the NEAR Ecosystem • Incentives for Early Adopters • Data Ownership & Monetization 🗓Aug 12 | 3 PM UTC 📍NEAR Quant X Spaces Link 🔘 Rewards: Participate and win a share of upto $50 in rewards! ✍️Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to be ready.

🌟 Fork That NYC starts tomorrow! Before ETHGlobal, NEAR is hosting a builder hackathon at Station3 Hub NYC. AI, intents, local devs. Food, merch, mentorship, $10K in prizes. 🗓 Aug 9–10 ➡️ Are you ready to build? RSVP here

🌟 House of Stake Alpha Release is LIVE on NEAR mainnet The first iteration of House of Stake allows the community to get a better understanding of both the governance framework and the proposal lifecycle. You can now lock your NEAR, stNEAR or liNEAR for veNEAR, perform delegation actions, create and vote on proposals. During the Alpha Release; the Agora team will be collecting feedback, fixing bugs and encouraging the endorsed delegates to create their delegate statements. ➡️ Explore & test: NEAR House of Stake Alpha 📬 Drop feedback: Agora Feedback Board Note: Whilst all the core requirements for HoS are live, proposals during this period cannot pass. 🗓 Official launch is tentatively scheduled for August 14th

🌟 NEAR Town Hall: August Edition Join us for the next NEAR Town Hall featuring: • Illia Polosukhin • Everclear • Rhea Finance • ASIMOV Protocol • NEAR DevHub 📌 Get foundation updates, ecosystem intel, and live demos from the builders shaping NEAR. 🗓 August 7 | 3 PM UTC ➡️ Set Reminder on YouTube | RSVP on Luma

🌟 AMA with Intear Wallet: Making Crypto UX Human Again Join our twitter spaces with Slime, Founder of Intear Wallet as we explore: • Intear Smart Wallet • Rhea Airdrop for Bettear Users • Intear Dex Aggregator 🗓Aug 5 | 3 PM UTC 📍NEAR Quant X Spaces Link 🔘 Rewards: Participate and win a share of upto $50 in rewards! ✍️Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to be ready.

🌟 Curious about what’s next for NEAR Governance? Join the House of Stake X Spaces with Lane Rettig, Head of Research at NEAR Foundation and Jack Laing, AI Product Lead for HoS for your latest governance recap! Have any questions for Governance on NEAR? Submit your questions here or join the weekly X spaces and ask them right away! 🗓 Wednesday | July 30 | 2 PM UTC ➡️ Link to the Spaces

🌟 NEAR Foundation Backs Everclear to Scale Cross-Chain Clearing for Stablecoins “We're happy that Everclear will utilize NEAR Intents for cross-chain clearing and settlement amid the proliferation of stablecoins, chains, and new asset types in the market today—we see a great opportunity in our work together", said Illia Polosukhin, Co Founder of NEAR. ➡️ Read more in the blog post.

🌟 NEAR House of Stake AMA with NF Legal Join Bianca from the NEAR Foundation Legal Team as she breaks down the HoS entity formation, legal framework, and more. Have any questions for Governance on NEAR? Submit your questions here or join the weekly X spaces and ask them right away! 🗓 Thursday | July 24 | 4 PM UTC ➡️ Link to the Spaces

🌟 Say gm to SUI now live on NEAR Intents. Swap native $SUI, $ETH, $BTC, $SOL, $XRP, $DOGE, $NEAR, $ZEC and more – instantly. No bridging. No slippage. Just liquidity on tap. This is the first step towards Agentic Payments. Fork your CEX life. Fork that to friction. ➡️ Try it out at NEAR Intents today and learn more in the blog post.

🌟 NEAR Firehose Content Hackathon Winners Announcement The results are in! Thanks to everyone who locked in to shoot, cut and ship! From over 85 entries, we've selected five winners and ten honorable mentions, sharing a $10,000 prize pool. ➡️ Meet all the winners here.

🌟 NEAR House of Stake AMA with Gauntlet Join our discussion with Tnorm, Governance Lead at Gauntlet, and Jake Au Jus, Sr Protocol Strategist at Gauntlet for your NEAR governance updates! Have any questions for Governance on NEAR? Submit your questions here or join the weekly X spaces and ask them right away! 🗓 Thursday | July 17 | 3.30 PM UTC ➡️ Link to the Spaces

🌟 Token Season is NEAR In the coming months 12 top-tier projects will be launching or listing a token in the NEAR Ecosystem on Calyx, the first intents based launchpad. ➡️ Read up on the projects overview in the blog post.

🌟 NEAR TOWN HALL JULY EDITION The future is NEAR - the blockchain for AI. It's time to lock in. We're forking it all. Speakers: Illia Polosukhin, Proximity, Public AI, Silverstream, IQ AI, Intear & Omnilane. 🗓 July 10 | 3 PM UTC ➡️ Set your reminder on Youtube | Sign up for the event on Luma

🌟 AMA with Ecosystem Growth WG: Building the Foundation for NEAR’s Governance 🎙 Join Fin & Charlie from the House of Stake Ecosystem WG for a discussion on how they plan to drive NEAR adoption, boost ecosystem liquidity, and aim to support builders on NEAR. Have any questions for the contributors? Submit your questions here or bring them with you to the Spaces and be part of the conversation. 🗓 Thursday | July 10 | 4 PM UTC ➡️ Link to the Spaces

🌟 Cross chain, native DeFAI is NEAR Bitte's DeFi Agent now supports NEAR Intents. No bridging UI. No manual inputs. Just one message. The agent does the rest, across 15+ chains. Connect your Intear Wallet and express intents in natural language on Bitte AI to win a share of the $300 prize pool! Earn a raffle ticket for every $5 traded — with no max limit 😎 Campaign runs from 5 July to 18 July (UTC) with 15 Winners. Note: Only transactions signed using Intear Wallet are eligible for this campaign. ➡️ Get Started

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night is here Join this week’s Quiz Night and flex your NEAR knowledge! 🗓 Every Thursday | 5 PM UTC 🎁 18 NEAR + HOT Firedrop 📍 NEAR Protocol Discord ✍️ Alpha alert: NEARWEEK #215 & DEV NEWS #67 might just save your time ✅Check-in: Make sure to go through the event rules here before joining! Come for the fun, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!🚀

💥 The NEAR community is stepping up. It’s time for YOU to act — and help govern NEAR. HOT DAO & Linear Protocol have submitted their first proposal on the governance forum 🔽 Proposal: Reduce NEAR’s inflation rate from 5% → 2.5% Goal: Support long-term sustainability & improve ecosystem alignment 🧾 Read the proposal. If you're a validator, cast your vote (for/against) on behalf of your stakers here. ⏳ Voting ends 31 July 23:59 UTC 📝 Once House of Stake is fully operational, it will regularly conduct reviews on NEAR’s inflation and vote to adjust it if necessary.

🌟 One chain. Built for AI. We say fork that to building in silo on separate chains and zero sum game. ➡️ Talk about it: near.org/forkthat

🌟 Curious about what’s next for NEAR governance? Join our House of Stake AMA with Lane Rettig, Head of Research at NEAR Foundation, for your monthly governance recap! Bring your burning questions, Lane will be answering them live and sharing the latest on NEAR’s evolving governance framework. 🗓 Wednesday | June 25 | 2 PM UTC 🔗 Link to the Spaces

🌟 NEAR Infrastructure Committee Announces Chain Abstracted Relayer RFP Winners We are pleased to announce that two teams, Rath and HOT Labs, have been selected to build a Chain Abstracted Relayer providing builders with multiple options for Chain Abstracted tooling. The Chain Abstracted Relayer SDK(s) will enable applications, wallets, and users to seamlessly utilize existing infrastructure for meta-transactions, gas stations, and account abstraction services across all supported chains in the Chain Signatures ecosystem. ➡️ Read more in the blog post.

🌟 Live Now! NEAR AI Ecosystem - What Did You Ship This Week? #16 by NEAR AI & NEARWEEK 🚢 Join the weekly check-in on what’s shipping, what’s evolving, and what’s pushing the ecosystem forward. ➡️ Watch the live stream here

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night: Be a Nearian! Join this week’s Quiz Night and flex your NEAR knowledge! 🗓 Every Thursday | 5 PM UTC 🎁 18 NEAR + HOT Firedrop 📍 NEAR Protocol Telegram Chat ✍️ Alpha alert: NEARWEEK #215 & DEV NEWS #65 might just save your score. 🎬 Bonus: Creating video content? The Firehose Hackathon is now LIVE with $10K+ in bounties up for grabs! Join, learn, and help BUIDL the Agentic Web!

🌟 AMA with Network Economics WG: Building the Foundation for NEAR’s Governance 🎙 Join our AMA with the NEAR Network Economics & Security Working Group to discuss NEAR’s token issuance, inflation rate, and staking rewards. Share your thoughts through our community survey! 🗓 June 19 (Thursday) | 4 PM UTC ➡️ Set a Reminder

🎬 Calling all video creators. 🔥 Firehose is open - a two-week NEAR content hackathon. 2 tracks 🔽 • NEAR Intents • NEAR Ecosystem 💰 $10K+ in bounties up for grabs! Create videos that showcase what’s being built on NEAR and how it works. 📥 Submit your entries on NearN

📣 Welcome RuneShot to the NEAR Ecosystem! We’re excited to announce that RuneShot by Mine Labs is launching on NEAR bringing the first usable Bitcoin-to-NEAR bridge into action. To celebrate, we’re dropping a $20K BTC DeFi campaign that is now LIVE on Kaito ⬇️ 🧠 Just yap. 🔘 Earn from a $20K pool. Here’s what RuneShot x NEAR enables: ✅ all in one tracker for your BTC assets (even cross-chain) ✅ gasless trading with fully abstracted user experience ✅ anyone can create and launch their own Bitcoin native token (Rune) cross chain! 🗓 RuneShot TGE: June 10 Get ready to build and explore the next evolution of Bitcoin DeFi - now powered by NEAR.

🌟 Live Now! NEAR AI Ecosystem - What Did You Ship This Week? #14 by NEAR AI & NEARWEEK 🚢 Join the weekly check-in on what’s shipping, what’s evolving, and what’s pushing the ecosystem forward. ➡️ Watch the live stream here

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night: It’s Raining Rewards! It’s yappin' season! NEAR has teamed up with Rhea Finance and KaitoAI for $150,000 in rewards for top NEAR Yappers! But while you yap, make sure you can back it up. Join NEAR Quiz Night to test your NEAR knowledge so you can yap smarter, not louder. 🗓 Every Thursday | 5 PM UTC 🎁 18 NEAR + HOT Firedrop 📍 NEAR Protocol Telegram Chat 🧠 Alpha alert: NEARWEEK #213 & DEV NEWS #63 might just save your score. ⚠️ Quiz 101: Read the rules here. Win smarter. If you can’t out-yap them, outsmart them.

🌟 Say GM to Infinex, bringing seamless access to legacy assets like BTC, DOGE, and XRP - powered by NEAR Intents Join us for a NEARQuant X Spaces ft. Ben Kurrek & Min Patron from the Infinex dev team, as they dive into how they’re making DeFi feel like a CEX but fully on-chain. 🗓 When? Wednesday, 4 June | 8 AM UTC 📍 Where? NEARQuant X Spaces 🔘 Rewards: Participate and win a share of upto $50 in rewards! ✍️ Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to ensure you’re all set.

🌟 Say gm to BNB Chain now live on NEAR Intents 💰 Swap native $BNB, $ETH, $BTC, $SOL, $NEAR, $ZEC and more – instantly. No bridging. No slippage. No waiting. This is Blockchain for AI. This is a User-Owned future. 💰 ➡️ Try it out at NEAR Intents or SolSwap today.

🎙 House of Stake AMA with Lane Rettig, Head of Research at NEAR Foundation Tune in tomorrow for an open Q&A session covering the latest updates on NEAR's upcoming governance framework! 🗓 Thursday May 29 | 1 PM UTC 🔗 Link to the Spaces

🎙Live NOW: NEAR X Spaces with Rhea Finance The conversation will dive into the recent rebrand, product evolution, as well as interesting snippets for the community 🤫 🔗 Link to the Live Stream

🌟 The 1st Round of NEAR Yap Rewards is now LIVE! NEAR and Rhea Finance have put up $150K in rewards 💸 The NEAR Yapper Leaderboard is available on KaitoAI 🤫 Pro Tip: Yapping about Rhea Finance, the DeFi Hub on NEAR, will earn you boosts 😠 ➡️ Join the NEAR Yappers Community on X and start yapping: yaps.kaito.ai/near

🌟 Live Now! NEAR AI Ecosystem - What Did You Ship This Week? #12 by NEAR AI & NEARWEEK 🚢 Join the weekly check-in on what’s shipping, what’s evolving, and what’s pushing the ecosystem forward. ➡️ Watch the livestream here

🌟 NEARWEEK Issue #212 is live! From House of Stake to agent-native infra, the NEAR ecosystem keeps building. Catch up on the alpha, updates, and protocol developments from the last week. ➡️ Read the full ecosystem newsletter.

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night: Bitcoin Pizza Day Edition🍕 This week, we’re serving up hot trivia in honor of the greatest crypto meal ever bought: 10,000 BTC for 2 pizzas 🍕 Do you know your NEAR history better than Bitcoin lore? Show up. Think fast. Snag the pie. 🗓 This Thursday | 5 PM UTC 📍 NEAR Protocol Telegram 🎁 Win 18 NEAR + HOT Firedrop in rewards And guess what? To celebrate this iconic moment, we’ve teamed up with Plato2Earn to get your pizza covered - paid in BTC via NEAR Intents Giftdrop! Claim your slice here 🥳

🌟 Stake your NEAR. Raise your voice. A new governance era begins: stake-weighted, AI ready, and actually built to work. No drama. Built by FastNear, Gauntlet, Agora, NEAR Foundation and the community for the community. 📁 Read NEAR House of Stake Brief Overview here ✉️ Join the discussion: @NEAR_HouseOfStake ➡️ Follow, Like & RT:

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🎙 Meet the NEAR Endorsed Delegates - House of Stake Join the upcoming X Spaces to meet the second cohort of Endorsed Delegates. As a prospective delegate, this is a great opportunity to learn about their respective visions and value alignment to revamp community governance on NEAR 🌟 🗓 Wednesday, May 21 | 4PM UTC Speakers: Charlie, Cameron, Tane, Yuen and James. ➡️ Link to the Spaces

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night is here! Think you know NEAR? Blink and you might miss a point. Join us tonight on Discord for a quiz where only the sharpest win. 🧠 ➡️ Today, May 15 ❓ 5 PM UTC – Quiz Night on NEAR Protocol's Discord chat 🔥 Prizes: 18 NEAR + HOT FIREDROP for all participants! ✨ Pro tip: Brush up on NEARWEEK #211 & NEAR DEV NEWS #61, it might just be the edge you need (besides reaction time). ✅ Check-in: Make sure to go through the event rules here before joining!

🌟 NEAR Community Poker Night 🃏 Think you’ve got what it takes at the table? Join us for a fun night of poker and win your share of $100 in NEAR! 🗓 Date: Friday, 16th May 🕔 Time: 3 PM UTC ⛓ Sign Up:

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🔘 How to Participate? 1️⃣ Join the NEAR Discord & Telegram and fill out the form before the tournament starts. 2️⃣ Set your Discord username as your player name within the game. 3️⃣ Play & stay in the game to finish in the Top 10 to secure your reward. 4️⃣ Claim your prize by opening a support ticket in the NEAR Discord with proof of ranking once the game has concluded. 🏆 Prize Pool: $100 in NEAR for the Top 10 Players! Get your game face on — let’s shuffle up and deal!

🌟 Blink and It’s Final: NEAR Launches 600ms Blocks and 1.2s Finality NEAR introduces optimistic blocks, offering world-leading speed and finality, both of which are prerequisites for real-time AI execution and seamless UX across chains. The latest update reduces latency by 2x by allowing shards to act optimistically without waiting for block arrival. “Blink and it’s final” isn’t an exaggeration: in the time it takes to blink, your NEAR transaction can finalize on-chain. While many networks promise fast speeds, NEAR delivers proven numbers on mainnet: ◦ 600-Millisecond Block Time: The time it takes for NEAR to produce a new block has been dramatically reduced, setting a new standard for high-performance blockchains. ◦ 1.2-Second Finality: Finality (i.e., the time required for a transaction to become irreversible) is now 1.2 seconds, which is 10x faster than Solana and over 600x faster than Ethereum and L2s. NEAR is expected to get even shorter block times, approximately 200 milliseconds - by the end of 2025. ➡️ Read More in the blog post

🌟 Say GM to Satoshi Port bringing Trustless Bitcoin Brokerage on NEAR. Join us for X Spaces featuring JB, Head of Marketing at Satoshi Port, as he shares his vision for Trustless Prime Brokerage with Satoshi and how it enables the next billion dollar DeFi Opportunity 🗓 When? Wednesday, 14 MAY | 2 PM UTC 📍 Where? NEARQuant X Space 🔘 Rewards: Participate and win a share of upto $50 in rewards! ✍️ Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to ensure you’re all set.

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night is here! Think you know NEAR? Prove it! Join us tonight on Telegram for a quiz where only the sharpest win. 🧠 ➡️ Today, May 8 ❓ 5 PM UTC – Quiz Night on NEAR Protocol's Telegram chat 🔥 Prizes: 18 NEAR + HOT FIREDROP for all participants! ✨ Pro tip: Brush up on NEARWEEK #210 & NEAR DEV NEWS #60 —your future self will thank you. ✅ Check-in: Make sure to go through the event rules here before joining!

🌟 NEAR TOWN HALL MAY EDITION The NEAR ecosystem continues to evolve, with steady progress across AI, DeFi, governance, and cross-chain tools. Builders are sharing updates, shipping new features, and shaping what’s next. Speakers: Illia Polosukhin, NEAR Foundation, Proximity Labs, IQ AI, Frax Finance & Xtrace AI. ➡️ Set your reminder on Youtube | Sign up for the event on Luma

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night is here! Think you know NEAR? Prove it! Join us tonight on Telegram for a quiz where only the sharpest win. 🧠 ➡️ Today, May 1 ❓ 5 PM UTC – Quiz Night on NEAR Protocol's Discord chat 🔥 Prizes: 18 NEAR + HOT FIREDROP for all participants! ✨ Pro tip: Brush up on NEARWEEK #209, NEAR AI Recap #5 & NEAR DEV NEWS #59 —your future self will thank you. ✅ Check-in: Make sure to go through the event rules here before joining!

🌟 gm near, it's time to yap! Kaito Yapper Leaderboard is live with NEAR Protocol! Find out who's leading the way in the NEAR community. With upcoming rewards for eligible yappers! start yappin', start earnin'! ➡️ Get Started: yaps.kaito.ai/near

🌟 Chain Abstraction Needs Gas Abstraction: RFP Published The NEAR Infrastructure Committee just published a request for proposal (RFP) to build a Chain-Abstracted Relayer infrastructure, marking a significant step toward solving gas abstraction across multi chains. The goal: a self-service platform where devs can sponsor gas or let users pay gas deposits in ETH, SOL, USDT, USDC and more, across multiple chains. 🗓️ Proposal deadline: May 15, 2025 ➡️ Learn More in the blog post & submit your proposals here.