💥 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

💥 Say gm to Infinex — the crypto everything app! Infinex now supports NEAR Intents, unlocking seamless DeFi access for legacy assets like BTC, DOGE and XRP Learn more about Infinex and NEAR Intents in our latest blog post 📺 Bonus Podcast: Catch Illia and Kain break down the future of crypto & AI

🌟 NEAR TOWN HALL JUNE 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, Crynux, More Markets, IQ AI, Rhea Finance & Crosspost. 🗓 June 12 | 3 PM UTC ➡️ Set your reminder on Youtube | Sign up for the event on Luma

🌟 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, 13th June ⏰ Time: 3 PM UTC ⛓ Sign Up: LINK 🔘 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!

📣 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.

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night is here! Think you know NEAR? Prove it! Join us tonight on Discord for a quiz where only the sharpest win. 🧠 ➡️ Today, April 17 ❓ 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 #207 & NEAR DEV NEWS #57 —your future self will thank you. ✅ Check-in: Make sure to go through the event rules here before joining!

Join DapDap and NEAR tomorrow for a discussion on seamless cross transactions using NEAR Intents with Bintent Express! 👀 📆 Tuesday 8 April, 3PM UTC 🔗 X Spaces

🌟 GM NEARians! Ready for an AMA with Pumpopoly? Join us as we dive into the Pumpopoly - a virtual real estate simulator reminiscent of classic real estate board game, built on NEAR. What to Expect? • Deep dive into Pumpopoly Treasury Bonds & Land Mechanics. • How to get started and buy your first land? 🗓 When? April 9 | 2pm UTC ➡️ Set a Reminder: Pumpopoly X Space 🔘 Rewards: Win a share of up to $50 for participating! ✍️ Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to ensure you’re all set. Expect real talk, no overpromises, and no financial advice!

Goodbye 🌈 bridge, gm Omni 🌉 This upgrade expands bridging beyond just NEAR <> Ethereum. It's a core feature of Chain Abstraction, bringing more flexibility and scalability to crosschain transfers. All users of the legacy Rainbow Bridge will be migrated to the new Omni Bridge with locked tokens being seamlessly transferred to the new bridge contract. Devs and builders will need to update to the new Omni Bridge contracts. For more info, please reference the docs

🌟 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, April 3 📹 3 PM UTC - NEAR Town Hall ⚡ 4 PM UTC - Dev Hub Live ❓ 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 #205, NEAR AI Ecosystem Recap #1 & NEAR DEV NEWS #54 —your future self will thank you. ✅ Check-in: Make sure to go through the event rules here before joining!

We couldn’t afford a guest due to US tariffs, so instead we are bringing straight gas for 60 minutes tomorrow. We’re going deep on how blockchain fits seamlessly as part of your tech stack—just like any API, database, or serverless function. Join Joe and bring your questions. Stream on: YouTube:

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Replays on our YouTube, as always.

🌟 The NEAR Foundation Ops Team will be hosting their 4th open Q&A session on X TODAY! Members of the community are invited to submit questions or topics related to the NEAR Foundation or the ecosystem. Please note that due to the volume of questions we receive, we may not be able to address every one. Questions will be selected based on their relevance and alignment with current priorities ➡️ Submit your questions here 🗓 April 2, 1PM UTC 🔗 Link to the Spaces

🌟 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 rewards! 🗓 Date: Friday, 4th April 🕔 Time: 3 PM UTC ⛓ Sign Up: Register Here 🔘 How to Participate: 1️⃣ Join NEAR Discord & Telegram before the game. 2️⃣ Use your Discord username as your poker player name. 3️⃣ Pass Nada bot verification (20+ points) – Verify Here 4️⃣ Reach the Top 10 in the game to win! 5️⃣ Claim your prize by opening a support ticket in Discord with your final rank. 🏆 Prize Pool: $100 for the Top 10 Players! Get your game face on — let’s shuffle up and deal!

🌟 NEAR TOWN HALL APRIL EDITION Join us this Thursday, April 3 at 3PM UTC for the latest NEAR Town Hall, hosted by NEARWEEK! Speakers: Illia Polosukhin, NEAR AI, Proximity, Aurora, IQ AI, Strawberry AI & Xtrace ➡️ Set your reminder on Youtube | Sign up for the event on Luma

Whiteboard session w @aztecnetwork /i/broadcasts/1eaKbWyPWzjGX

On March 20, @NEARProtocol hit 11.6M daily transactions — the highest in 6 months. Bit of a delayed reaction, but when a chain moves like that, it’s worth a second look.

NEAR is now available in @wallet_tg Track and trade directly inside Telegram. Here’s a quick walkthrough to get started👇

NEAR mainnet has upgraded from 6 shards to 8. Congratulations to @BowenWang18 and the NEAR One team! Spend some time watching the block visualizer to see real-time interactions across all shards. /i/broadcasts/1OyKALqmeXaxb

NEAR ( @NEARProtocol ) hits its new all-time high max TPS per 100 blocks: 4135.18 tx/s. Blocks #142303027 — #142303126 Follow for more ATHs.

NEAR AI Office Hours #38 w @e2b /i/broadcasts/1mrGmPDlZkLKy

The Zcash x NEAR Intents Hackathon is live with $70k in prizes. Build across AI agents, private DeFi, and crosschain interoperability. Unstoppable private money + unstoppable liquidity = ??? Well, that's up to you. ➡️ Learn More

🌟 Announcing the Initial Committee of Endorsed Delegates for NEAR Governance! After an extensive review process, we're excited to welcome the first set of endorsed delegates for the House of Stake. 🔹 Reminder: Governance on NEAR is permissionless. You don’t need to be a delegate to vote, and you’re free to participate without delegating your veNEAR. The delegate system exists to make governance more efficient and to save everyday network users the time and effort required to participate in day-to-day governance. ➡️ Read the full announcement