💥 The NEAR Foundation is launching a $20M AI Agent Fund The fund will make dedicated investments into decentralized AI usecases and mass market consumer solutions Read the latest blog post to learn more

gm NEARians! 🌟 ✨ Quiz Night is #near — are you ready? 🗓 When? Thursday, 6 February, 5 PM UTC 📍 Where? NEAR Protocol's Discord chat 🎁 Prizes: 10 NEAR & HOT FIREDROP for all participants 🔥 ✨ Pro tip: Read the NEARWEEK Newsletter #197 to prep for the quiz. You'll thank us later! Check the event rules here and bring your A-game to ace the quiz! 💬 alpha: Participate in the Near Fitness League

💥 The latest version of Chain Signatures is now LIVE on NEAR mainnet! IBRL - ⬆️ 300x Improved Bandwidth, ⬇️ 50% Latency Chain Signatures - One NEAR account, many blockchains ⛓️ 🔗 https://x.com/BowenWang18/status/1887198109094314300

🌟 Join us tomorrow Thursday, February 6 4PM UTC for another exciting NEAR Town Hall! Speakers: Illia Polosukhin, Bowen Wang, Aurora, Proximity Labs, Asimov Protocol, Meta Pool, Satoshi Port & Hackbox ➡️ Catch the live stream on Youtube | X 🔗 Register for the event on Luma!

🌟 NEAR AI Office Hours #34 - Whiteboard Session with NEAR AI Learn more where the world is going with AI and what NEAR AI is cooking to make sure we have User-Owned AI. ➡️ Tune into the Live Stream on X

🌟 NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin is LIVE with Solana Co-Founder Anatoly Yakovenko to discuss AI, Stablecoins, US Policy, Intents, Growth and more. ➡️ Catch the live stream: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1nAKEpErowXxL

💥 Announcing NEAR Dev: a NEAR DevHub spinout NEAR Dev is a new, independent entity supporting top application developers and partners within the NEAR ecosystem. The team, comprised with extensive NEAR tech experience, will deliver expert support, tools, and resources to accelerate Web3 innovation ▶️ Learn more in our latest blog post

💥 We're LIVE with a Bitcoin Workshop by Proximity Labs Tune In: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mrGmMBdVlwGy

gm NEARians! 🌟 ✨ Quiz Night is #near — are you ready? 🗓 When? Thursday, 30 January, 5 PM UTC 📍 Where? NEAR Protocol's Telegram chat 🎁 Prizes: 10 NEAR & HOT FIREDROP for all participants 🔥 ✨ Pro tip: Read the NEARWEEK Newsletter #196 to prep for the quiz. You'll thank us later! Check the event rules here and bring your A-game to ace the quiz! 💬 alpha: Participate in the Near Fitness League & NEAR Lunar Year Giveaway.

💥 NEAR One released the latest Chain Signatures Roadmap IBRL - 300x Improved Bandwidth & 50% Reduced Latency Learn more about what's to come next in the blog post

🌟 GM NEARians! Ready for an AMA with Lisa? Join Joshua, Operations Lead at Lisa—a liquid staking platform for Bitcoin Staking—as he shares how they’re leveraging NEAR’s tech stack to enhance cross-chain compatibility and improve user experience. 🗓 When? Friday, Jan 31 📍 Where? @cryptonear on Telegram 🕔 Time: 2:00 PM UTC 🔘 Rewards: Participate and win a share of upto $50 in rewards! ✍️ Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to ensure you’re all set.

A(I) New Frontier Join the NEAR Ecosystem at ETH Denver 2025 for a premiere AI Roadshow - The Road to One Trillion Agents - alongside happy hours, mixers, and more! Check out the blog for a full list of events from around the NEAR Ecosystem

🧧 Announcing the NEAR Community Lunar New Year Giveaway! Celebrate the Year of the Snake 🐍 with red packets filled with NEAR memes including BlackDragon, Lonk, Shitzu and Neko! 🗓 28th Jan to 2nd Feb How to participate? 1️⃣ Vote for your favorite projects & individuals at the NEAR Year Awards - powered by Potlock. Each vote increases your chances (up to 5 votes) 2️⃣ Send DragonMail red packets to your friends on and get a surprise red packet from us! 🧧 🔗 More details on participation rules and prize pool can be found under this tweet Celebrate, vote, and share for a chance to win! 🎉 Happy Lunar New Year! 🐲✨

🌟NEAR AI is kicking off the One Trillion Agents Hackathon with $100K in prizes Join to build autonomous AI agents from Jan 31 to Feb 21, 2025 and shape the future of autonomous AI The best submissions will be get a chance to pitch to funds managing over $7B as well get featured during ETH Denver 👨‍💻The hackathon will be fully remote with 3 tracks: DeFi, Social & Absurd (AI chess battles, betting markets, experimental systems, etc.) Submissions will be evaluated on their implementation with NEAR, thoughtful user experience, ecosystem impact, innovative approach, and long-term sustainability. ➡️ Register Here: https://1t-agents.devpost.com/

🌟 NEAR AI Paper Club - DeepSeek V3 & R1 Join the NEAR AI Paper Club as Alex Skidanov dives into DeepSeek V3 - a groundbreaking 671B parameter Mixture of Experts (MoE) model pushing AI boundaries! 🗓 Jan 27, 6:30PM PT 📍 SF led by Alex Skidanov 📁 Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.19437 ➡️ Register Here: https://lu.ma/nz91xvkd

gm NEARians! 🌟 👀 Quiz Night is almost here—are you ready? ✨ ⏰ When? Thursday, 23 January, 5 PM UTC 📍 Where? NEAR Protocol's Discord chat 🎁 Prizes: 10 NEAR & HOT FIREDROP for all participants 🔥 Happening in ~12 hours; after the AMA with DeltaBot. ✨ Pro tip: Read the NEARWEEK Newsletter #195 to prep for the quiz. You'll thank us later! Check the event rules here and bring your A-game to ace the quiz! 🗓 Mark your calendars—we do this every Thursday at 5PM UTC!

🌟 GM NEARians! Ready for an AMA with DeltaTrade? Discover how DeltaTrade is enabling DeFi on Bitcoin with NEAR Chain Signatures as Aescobar, BD Lead at DeltaTrade, joins us for the discussion. ➡️ Join us on January 23 | 3:00 PM UTC (Thursday) to ask your questions and qualify for rewards. 500 DELTA Points will be shared among 5 participants. ✍️Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to ensure you’re all set.

📺 Episode #32 of the NEAR AI Office Hours is now LIVE with PIN AI, the first personal AI network ➡️ Watch Here

🌟 The Singularity has never been this NEAR. 2025 is the year of NEAR AI.

🌟 GM NEARians! Ready for an AMA with Veax Join Iain, CGO of VEAX to learn about how Veax is shaping the next phase of DeFi on NEAR . 🗓 When? Tuesday, Jan 14 📍 Where? @cryptonear on Telegram 🕔 Time: 3:00 PM UTC 🔘 Rewards: Participate and win a share of upto $50 in rewards! ✍️ Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to ensure you’re all set.

📺 Highlights from [REDACTED] It was more than a conference; it was an IRL movement 🔥 What do you want to see in 2025? The return of [REDACTED] or back to the roots with NEARCON?

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How many crypto wallets do you have? How many different seed phrases do you have written down, or stored on your phone 🥸? Why can't we just interact with web3 from one wallet, and one's wallet of choice? Chain signatures are the path forward. Dive into the latest edition of NEAR Dev News, to see the latest developer happenings in the ecosystem. If you would like to receive the newsletter by email each week, consider subscribing.

📙 NEAR Catalog, the directory to discover all the projects on NEAR has received a massive UI revamp! ➡️ Check out their website: https://nearcatalog.xyz/ It's sleek, snappy and even features a flying dragon 🐉 🌟 The NEAR Catalog is run for the community, by the community. Do share feedback on their website for any projects that might be missing or any other suggestions.

💥 Potlock's AI-PGF Grants Program is now live! Potlock launched the AI powered Public Goods Funding — initially a proactive grants program designed to be replaced by the AI-enabled funding agents it supports, offering funding ranging from $1,000 to $20,000. ➡️ Learn more about the vision behind "Funding AGI", case studies, practical agents, and ideas here.

🌟 In line with the NEAR ecosystem’s commitment to decentralization; the NEAR Foundation announces two new ecosystem nodes: NEAR One and a Chain Abstraction team. These verticals have achieved sufficient maturity and will now serve the ecosystem as independent companies. NEAR One (Pagoda) will oversee protocol development for the NEAR Protocol, supporting a wide range of activities in the NEAR ecosystem that require a performant and scalable blockchain Chain Abstraction Spinout (Pagoda & Proximity Labs) will continue developing the technology powering Chain Signatures to make the Chain Abstraction vision a reality. These transitions mean that Pagoda will be winding down and funding for other ecosystem services provided by Pagoda will be distributed via an RFP process run by the Infrastructure Committee. 👀 Keep an eye for the upcoming mainnet launch of Nightshade 2.0 later this week! Read the blog post for more details: ➡️ https://pages.near.org/blog/ecosystem-update-announcing-near-one-chain-abstraction-spinouts/

🌟 Live Now! NEAR AI Office Hours Ep 13 ft. Atlas Computing Join AI Office Hours with the NEAR AI team & Atlas Computing, a nonprofit fostering an ecosystem for researchers, companies, communities, and governments to advance Safeguarded AI. ➡️ https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/1823397142272327770

$NEAR contract address on AURORA Network 0xC42C30aC6Cc15faC9bD938618BcaA1a1FaE8501d $NEAR contract address on Ethereum Network 0x85F17Cf997934a597031b2E18a9aB6ebD4B9f6a4 $NEAR token contract address on BNB Chain 0x1fa4a73a3f0133f0025378af00236f3abdee5d63

🌟 Tune into NEAR AI Office Hours Ep 11, with this week's guests Sphere One and TICLE if you either: - Love open source AI - Wanna fight the fight against big tech - Are an alpha hunter - Are lonely and just need background noise so you don't have to face your own thoughts ⏲️ 4:30 PM UTC ➡️Watch Here

🌟 Chain Abstracted Podcast: Ep 12 ft Lava Network 🌋 Yair Cleper, Co-founder of Lava, discusses the importance of chain abstraction and the role of Lava in providing a data access layer for blockchain networks. ➡️ Watch here

🌟 Restaking: Any asset, any chain. Allstake is the world's first meshed restaking protocol that brings restaking to all chains. From NEAR and Solana to Bitcoin and Ton, Allstake allows users to restake their tokens to provide security with their actively validated service. ➡️ Read More

🌟 Join the IRL Movement at Bangkok from Nov 9-11. Witness the birth of user-owned AI. 🔘 Hack for $500k+ in prizes. Tickets are free. Spaces are limited. The stakes are at an ATH. Bangkok. Nov 9-11. Sign up here ⬇️ https://redactedbangkok.ai/

🌟 The third Chain Abstraction Day in Brussels was a resounding success with 250+ in attendance and prepping to build a better Web3 for everyone 🤝

We just wrapped up Q2 with a live review and blog post. Learn more about what goes on at DevHub and what we have cooking 🧑‍🍳.... (https://x.com/NEARDevHub/status/1810341811094704595) 📰 Read the blog: https://bit.ly/devhubQ2 👀 Watch the commentary: https://x.com/NEARDevHub/status/1806367904222564697

Hey everyone! Check out the latest on fetching receipt outcomes with nearcore’s RPC, the fresh features in near-sdk-rs v5.2.0, and some useful tips on handling NEAR transactions. 👉NEAR Dev NEWS #19

🌟 The latest from the quill of Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol. "Regulation Alone Will Not Save Us from Big Tech" ➡️ Read about humanity's race against time. The race for our minds. And the role user owned AI, through NEAR, plays.

🎉 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗔𝗟𝗣𝗛𝗔 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪 Bringing you the latest alpha updates from the NEAR ecosystem today at 5pm UTC! Speakers: Bitte Protocol, Shitzu Community, TENAMINT, Luacantu, Monza; hosted by Cade Bergman. 🗓 June 26 | 5 PM UTC ➡️ Set a Reminder

🎙 Live Now! NEAR AI Office Hours with Bitte & Exabits! ➡️ https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1ynJOyDqVQkKR

🌟 Ref Finance & Burrow Merge is NEAR! gm degens! Join Ref Finance in the NEAR DeFi Takeover and win $150 in rewards! ➡️ Get Started: Campaign Link

🌟AMA with Bitte, an AI-powered ecosystem that simplifies blockchain onboarding and transactions for users, brands, and developers through the Bitte Wallet, Agent API, and Sponsored Relayer. Built by the Mintbase team known for their NFT Market and Creator Suite. GM NEARians! We've got something special for you – an AMA with @staRpauSe, the director of growth at Bitte 🗓 When? Friday, June 28th 📍 Where? @cryptonear on Telegram 🕔 Time: 4:00 PM UTC ⭐️ Rewards: Participate and win a share of $100 in NEAR! Get ready to dive into exploring Bitte, it's journey, impact on defi and future plans ✍️ Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to ensure you’re all set.

The 17th edition of NEAR Dev NEWS has been released 🚀 This week, we cover the significant performance improvements in QueryAPI, the success of the NEAR Toronto Hackathon, and the introduction of the new NEAR Wallet Selector for a better user experience. 👉 Read here

gm NEARians! 👀 NEAR Quiz Night is back! - When? Thursday, 5 PM UTC. - Where? @cryptonear on Telegram. Prizes? Yes, $100 in NEAR tokens! 🏆 Check the updated rules here. Get ready for quiz this Thursday! 🎉

🌟 gm NEAR Community, NEAR.AI unveils its Master Plan for Open Source and User-Owned AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)! The vision is to create AI that belongs to everyone. Here’s the plan: ✅ AI Developer: Teaching machines to code. ✅ AI Researcher: Advancing research with AI Developer. ✅ User-Owned AGI: Bringing AGI to benefit everyone. As a non-profit, the NEAR Foundation is committed to open source. The focus starts with the AI Developer, creating secure applications from user intents, including Web3 apps. This is about empowering users with control, privacy, and customization. Join in building a future where technology truly belongs to all. ➡️ Read More

The bois are back for another AI Office Hours ft. Alex Skidanov & Illia, Co Founders of NEAR 🐉 Special guests include EQTY Lab & Theoriq AI - get to know a 'lil more about AI x Web3 with some of the builders at the front of it all. 🗓 18th Jun, 16:30 UTC. ➡️ Set your reminders

The NEAR ALPHA SHOW is live now with POTLOCK, Meta Pool and ecosystem frens! 💥🔮 Tune in: https://x.com/nearweek/status/1800936175055864150?s=46

gm NEARians! 👀 NEAR Quiz Night is back! - When? Thursday, 5 PM UTC. - Where? @cryptonear on Telegram. Prizes? Yes, $100 in NEAR tokens! 🏆 Check the updated rules here. Get ready for quiz this Thursday! 🎉

🌟 Chain Abstraction Day @ EthCC 2024 The NEAR Eco is heading to ETHCC. Alongside speakers, side events, and more. The ecosystem, in association with Agoric, will be bringing back Chain Abstraction Day. If you're heading to Brussels next month, come along - free food, drinks, and, of course, an opportunity to learn all about Chain Abstraction. ➡️ Register Here

🌟 AMA with Tradeport, the leading NFT marketplace and developer platform on Near, Sui, Aptos, and Stacks GM NEARians! We've got something special for you – an AMA with kailani.btc, the Lead Customer Success Team at Tradeport. 🗓 When? Friday, June 14th 📍 Where? @cryptonear on Telegram 🕔 Time: 2:00 PM UTC ⭐️ Rewards: Participate and win a share of $100 in NEAR! Get ready to dive into exploring Tradeport, it's journey, impact on defi and future plans ✍️ Prep Work: Check out the AMA Rules to ensure you’re all set.

🏏 The ICC T20 Cricket World Cup is back with NEAR enabling an immersive Web3 fan experience for cricket enthusiasts If you're a fan of cricket and you're hyped up for the biggest sporting event of the year, tune into the ICC x NEAR Livestream tomorrow 12 PM UTC to learn how NEAR is shaking up fan engagement in sport 💯 🗓 June 7 | 12 PM UTC The stream will be available both on Twitter X and on Youtube

🌟 Live Now! Illia Polosukhin and Alex Skidanov, Co Founders of NEAR unpack NEAR AI and discuss the latest AI topics in NEAR's User Owned AI Ep. 4. ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/live/7kc4Mv75u5Y?si=y1T0XhwF86IYMBbV