$NEAR : The underestimated AI intent engine is being revived

If 2023 is the starting point of the AI narrative, then by 2025, NEAR may become the experimental ground for the real implementation of AI + Intent.

This chain has been repeatedly debated, misread, and then noticed by the market again over the past few months.

But when we look at its structure again, we find that the value of NEAR lies not in the concept, but in execution.

🌐 1. The underlying genes of AI native public chains

The founder of NEAR, @ilblackdragon, was a co-author of the Transformer paper.

This is not a background introduction, but the starting point of the entire NEAR architecture.

It is not meant to access AI, but to make AI the operating system of the ecosystem.

In the new roadmap of NEAR, Shade Agent Sandbox becomes a key product:

It allows developers to deploy on-chain AI agents to execute automated strategies, oracle updates, and even DAO decisions.

This means that what NEAR wants to do is not an AI chain, but an AI autonomous economy.

🔒 2. ZK and Privacy: A Leap from Functionality to Ecology

ZK has not been prominent in the NEAR ecosystem in the past,

But with the launch of the NEAR Intents protocol, everything started to change.

Intents is NEAR's cross-chain and abstraction system, allowing the transaction logic between chains to be intent-driven.

For example, Zcash achieves cross-chain transfer and privacy enhancement through this protocol,

Last week, ZEC-related transactions reached $65M,

NEAR Intents generates about $1.7M in fee revenue weekly, accounting for 47% of the entire cross-chain market.

This makes NEAR a new privacy liquidity layer,

serving both AI and benefiting from the technological dividends of ZK.

📈 3. Economic Model: Halving, Repurchase, and Potential Deflation

From the perspective of the token model, $NEAR has been running in the halving cycle.

If the repurchase mechanism is officially enabled in 2026, it will become one of the public chains with deflationary attributes.

Meanwhile, the DAT concept discussed in the community is gradually being implemented,

AI Agent will have a self-sustaining economic cycle on-chain.

This kind of ecological evolution means that NEAR is no longer just a technical story, but is gradually entering the economic system stage.

Ideology is not a lifeline, but it can help you not let go in the mud.

When it rises, everyone starts talking logic; when it falls, logic is treated as a joke.

But when you really understand NEAR's direction, you will find this is not a review of hype,

but rather the process of the AI autonomous network trying to be born.

NEAR is not a follower of narratives, but the first experimental field in the era of AI intentions.

The cycle of opportunities, but some things are indeed worth revisiting.