🌟 NEAR Quiz Night! 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 #239 just save your time ✅Bonus: Join NEAR Intents Day Online to learn, align, and explore intents through live panels with leading builders, researchers, and partners. Register Now Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

🐉 NEARCON 2026: The AI × Privacy x Open Web Convergence 🌉 We’re gathering the pioneers of AI and open technology to define an AI economy built on trust, transparency, and user ownership. ✦ Alpha: Visionary keynotes + live agent demos you can actually use. ✦ Deep Dive: Why privacy is the non-negotiable key to user-owned AI at scale. ✦ Debates: Industry leaders on adoption, ethics, and billion-dollar use cases. 📅 Feb 23–24 | San Francisco ➡️ Apply to Attend | Apply to Speak | Become a Partner

🐉 NEARCON 2026: Innovation Sandbox 🐉 The Countdown to NEARCON Innovation Sandbox Begins. We’re calling all builders to ship real-world demos using NEAR’s stack: AI, Privacy, Intents, and Account Abstraction. ✦ The Prize: $15,000 + a global stage at NEARCON 2026 ✦ The Tracks: Private Web, AI That Works for You, Open Society, and "Only on NEAR". 📅 Online Hackathon: Jan 26 - Feb 16 ➡️ Register today: NearCon Innovation Sandbox

🐉 NEAR Town Hall: January Edition 🐉 Join us for the first NEAR ecosystem Town Hall of 2026! Hear directly from Illia, NEAR One, and NEAR AI as they share protocol updates, ecosystem intel, and what’s shipping next. 🗓 Tomorrow | 4 PM UTC ✍️ Mark your calendar: RSVP here | Watch on Youtube

🐉 Introducing the NEAR Legion Merch Store (Pilot Phase): Your go-to place for all things NEAR merchandise. 🧢 The journey begins, Legionnaires! We are opening the Merch Store for a Pilot Test. Grab some gear, test the flow, and help us refine the experience. Designed for those building the NEAR ecosystem. Let’s spread the word of NEARVANA in style (and share your feedback). ✨ ⚠️ Pilot Phase: For testing & feedback purposes. Shop now: https://merch.nearlegion.com/ Huge shout out to our co-development partner Pingpay for enabling NEAR native payments!

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night! Join this week’s Quiz Night and flex your NEAR knowledge! 🗓 Every Thursday | 5 PM UTC 🎁 18 NEAR + HOT Firedrop 📍 NEAR Protocol Telegram ✍️ Alpha alert: NEARWEEK #238 just save your time ✅Bonus: NEAR AI joins NVIDIA Inception to build secure, private AI using NVIDIA’s GPUs and technical expertise. Know more Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

💥 NEAR AI has joined the NVIDIA Inception Program to accelerate verifiable, privacy-preserving AI. The program provides advanced access to NVIDIA’s GPU resources, developer tooling, and technical expertise to help NEAR AI power secure, enterprise-grade AI systems at scale. 🔗 Read the full announcement

🐉 NEAR Poker Night Returns 🐉 Join the Legionnaires for a community poker night this Friday and win $100 in prizes with a little bit of luck. 🗓️ Jan 16 | 3 PM UTC ➡️ Luck favors the staked. Register here, review the rules, and join the table. 🃏

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night! 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 #238 just save your time ✅Bonus:NEAR AI launches Cloud and Private Chat with hardware backed, verifiable privacy.Experience truly private AI. Try it now Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night! Join this week’s Quiz Night and flex your NEAR knowledge! 🗓 Every Thursday | 5 PM UTC 🎁 18 NEAR + HOT Firedrop 📍 NEAR Protocol Telegram ✍️ Alpha alert: NEARWEEK #237 just save your time ✅Bonus:NEAR AI launches Cloud and Private Chat with hardware backed, verifiable privacy.Experience truly private AI. Try it now Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

🌟 NEAR is now on Solana. Trade $NEAR in your favorite Solana app. Live on Jupiter Exchange, DFlow, Titan Exchange, Phantom, Solflare, and more. Powered by NEAR Intents × Orb Markets.

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night! 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 #235 just save your time ✅Bonus:NEAR AI launches Cloud and Private Chat with hardware backed, verifiable privacy.Experience truly private AI. Try it now Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

💥 NEAR AI introduces NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat — two products that offer hardware-backed, verifiable privacy and are built around one simple yet powerful principle: users should own their AI! ☁️ NEAR AI Cloud: Every request runs inside Intel TDX and NVIDIA Confidential Computing hardware where data is processed in a sealed, isolated environment. Each inference generates a cryptographic attestation proving the model ran the expected code: https://near.ai/cloud/ 💬 Private Chat: runs on NEAR AI Cloud and introduces verifiable privacy to your everyday questions and research. Everyone deserves access to the benefits of AI without the risk that their chats and data will leak 🔐 Try it out here NEAR AI Cloud is already serving live customers across Brave, OpenMind, and Phala Network, serving 100M+ users in consumer and enterprise contexts that demand strict privacy guarantees. For full details on NEAR AI under the hood and how it unlocks large-scale AI adoption, check out the latest blog post

🌟 Monad is live on NEAR Intents from Day 1! ↔️ Now swap 120+ assets across major chains - $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, $ZEC, & more directly into $MON and back, no bridging needed. ➡️ Get Started at NEAR Intents today!

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night! 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 #231 just save your time ✅ Bonus:Feel the Jambo energy !Just participate in the ConsumerFi sale and join in and unlock your secret $JAMBO rewards! Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

🏛 NEAR House of Stake - Open Office Hours In an effort to improve communication, strengthen transparency, and work towards a thriving community; House of Stake contributors are hosting Open Office Hours every fortnight. This is your space to: • Get updates on progress and deliverables • Learn about the various governance initiatives • Share feedback, get involved and contribute. 🗓 Thursday Oct 30 | 9 AM UTC ➡️ Join on Google Meet - By joining you agree to NEAR's Social Channel Rules Governance is built together, in the open, with the community who show up.

🌟 NEAR Foundation Welcomes Launch of SovereignAI and DAT with $120M PIPE to Build NEAR-Powered AI Infrastructure We are excited to share that OceanPal has completed a $120M private investment in public equity (PIPE) to launch SovereignAI and a Digital Asset Treasury in strategic collaboration with the NEAR Foundation. This marks a major milestone in advancing our vision of open, user-owned AI built on NEAR. Join us for a X space at 9am EST today to learn more! The era of Sovereign AI has begun — and it’s being built on NEAR.

🌟 The NEAR House of Stake Code of Conduct (v0.1.0) & Interim Constitution (v0.1.0) are now LIVE! These are foundational documents shaping how decentralized governance will operate on NEAR under the HoS. They are not final— they represent starting point of an evolving, co-created governance framework. Read: Code of Conduct | Interim Constitution Join us tomorrow for Community Workshops on Evolving Code of Conduct and Interim Constitution, organized by Hack Humanity. 🗓Community Workshops (October 27): 1 PM UTC – Workshop on CoC [Register Here] 7 PM UTC – Workshop on Constitution [Register Here]

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night! Join this week’s Quiz Night and flex your NEAR knowledge! 🗓 Every Thursday | 5 PM UTC 🎁 18 NEAR + HOT Firedrop 📍 NEAR Protocol Telegram ✍️ Alpha alert: NEARWEEK #229 & DEV NEWS #80 might just save your time ✅ Bonus:NEAR’s 2.9.0 upgrade plans to cut inflation from 5% to 2.5%. Validators vote starting Oct 28, and the community can discuss it on Reddit. Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

🌟 Supporting Community Proposals to Upgrade NEAR Tokenomics: Halving Inflation and Introducing Rewards to Support Small Validators and veNEAR Holders The NEAR community has proposed a three-part enhancement to NEAR’s economics to strengthen incentive alignment and ensure network decentralization along with sustainable long-term growth: 1. Halving Upgrade: Reduce NEAR’s maximum annual inflation to 2.5% for more sustainable tokenomics 2. Proposal – HSP-002: Support smaller validators to ensure network decentralization 3. Proposal – HSP-003: Increase rewards for veNEAR holders to reward early governance participation P.S. Halving Upgrade will not be effective until 80% of stake of block producing validators choose to adopt it. ➡️ To learn more about this proposed tokenomics upgrade, read the blog post.

🌟 Meet Zolana Bridge, powered by NEAR ZEC is live on Solana, powered by NEAR Intents The people asked for a seamless experience, and it took a true cross-chain effort to deliver. Start swapping and find your way to Zillions through the Zolana Bridge, powered by NEAR 💎 ➡️ Learn more in the blog post

👀 Something big is coming Catch Illia and Lane this Monday, Oct 13 3PM UTC to celebrate NEAR’s 5-year Mainnet Anniversary and a major House of Stake reveal. 🔗 Link to the X Spaces will be updated shortly

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night! 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 #226 & DEV NEWS #80 might just save your time ✅ Bonus:NEAR Legion First missions are live! Mint your SBT and start your NEAR Legion adventure. Complete missions. Upgrade your Ranks . Join now! Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

🌟 NEAR Town Hall: October Edition Join us for the next NEAR Town Hall featuring: • Illia Polosukhin • Calyx • Templar Protocol • Allora Labs • Near Intents 📌 Get foundation updates, ecosystem intel, and live demos from the builders shaping NEAR. 🗓 October 2 | 3 PM UTC ➡️ Set Reminder on YouTube | RSVP on Luma

🏛 NEAR House of Stake - Open Office Hours In an effort to improve communication, strengthen transparency, and work towards a thriving community; House of Stake contributors are hosting Open Office Hours every fortnight. This is your space to: • Get updates on progress and deliverables • Learn about the various governance initiatives • Share feedback, get involved and contribute. 🗓 Thursday Oct 2 | 9 AM UTC ➡️ Join on Google Meet - By joining you agree to NEAR's Social Channel Rules Governance is built together, in the open, with the community who show up.

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night!! 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 #225 & DEV NEWS #79 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!

🏛 NEAR House of Stake - Open Office Hours In an effort to improve communication, strengthen transparency, and work towards a thriving community; House of Stake contributors are hosting Open Office Hours every fortnight. This is your space to: • Get updates on progress and deliverables • Learn about the various governance initiatives • Share feedback, get involved and contribute. 🗓 Thursday Sept 18 | 3 PM UTC ➡️ Join on Google Meet - By joining you agree to NEAR's Social Channel Rules Governance is built together, in the open, with the community who show up.

🌟 Spaces with Jambo Exchange: The Lore Behind JAMBO Join us for a fireside chat between Mister & Mario to hear the story behind Jambo, and why is the community rallying behind this movement 👀 🗓Sept 5 | 2 PM UTC 📍NEAR Quant X Spaces Link

💥 Tron is now available on NEAR Intents! 🪄 Experience bridge-free $USDT, $TRX swaps to/from Tron, across 20+ chains and 100+ tokens ➡️ Live on NEAR Intents, THORSwap, Trust Wallet & more

🌟 Aptos is now been live on NEAR Intents, alongside Shelby's decentralised hot storage protocol joining the NEAR AI stack 🔗Experience bridge-free swaps to/from Aptos, across 20+ chains and 100+ tokens. ➡️Try out NEAR Intents today and learn more about in the blog post.

🌟 Announcing NEARCON 2026: The Internet Wants to Think We’re at a profound crossroads: will the AI revolution play out in the open, or behind closed doors? Welcome to the Agentic Era. NEARCON is a declaration: the future of AI is open source, onchain, and it’s being built right here in San Francisco. Join us February 23-24, 2026, at Fort Mason, a historic waterfront venue on the San Francisco Bay. ➡️ Secure Your Spot: Apply to Attend | Apply to be a Speaker | Sponsorship Interest Form Come build what comes next.

🏛 NEAR House of Stake - Open Office Hours In an effort to improve communication, strengthen transparency, and work towards a thriving community; House of Stake contributors are hosting Open Office Hours every fortnight. This is your space to: • Get updates on progress and deliverables • Learn about the various governance initiatives • Share feedback, get involved and contribute. 🗓 Thursday Sept 4 | 9 AM UTC ➡️ Join on Google Meet - By joining you agree to NEAR's Social Channel Rules Governance is built together, in the open, with the community who show up.

🌟 NEAR Town Hall: September Edition Join us for the next NEAR Town Hall featuring: • Illia Polosukhin • More Markets • Sproutly • Omega Network • Valhalla Security 📌 Get foundation updates, ecosystem intel, and live demos from the builders shaping NEAR. 🗓 September 4 | 3 PM UTC ➡️ Set Reminder on YouTube | RSVP on Luma

🌟 NEAR Quiz Night!! Join this week’s Quiz Night and flex your NEAR knowledge! 🗓 Every Thursday | 5 PM UTC 🎁 18 NEAR + HOT Firedrop 📍 NEAR Protocol Telegram ✍️ Alpha alert: NEARWEEK #223 & DEV NEWS #76 might just save your time Come for trivia, stay to BUIDL the Agentic Web. See you there!

🌟 NEARCON Sessions: Agents in the Real World Join us for the first NEARCON SF Session, an invite-only evening where builders debate the future of the Agent Economy and why NEAR is the chain where agents go from code to impact. 🗓 Aug 25 | 4:30pm - 7pm GMT-7 ➡️ RSVP HERE

🌟 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