ilblackdragon

Fundamental property of web3 is low switching cost. No need to call and cancel things, no lock on single entity, block producer, wallet provider, DeFi protocol.

Assets, data and choice is yours.

So if you don’t like how it’s done - FORK THAT!

Global commerce is slowed down in many ways trying to prevent fraud, crime and poor service.

While noble this creates over 500B in legal spent directly attributed to commercial transactions. It slows down business and increases cost of products.

New way of doing business is coming - binding agreement between parties that is constructed and adjudicated by AI. Settled onchain, allowing for composing financial instruments (like trade finance).

Creating a better commerce infra for businesses and agents is what NEAR Intents is working toward.

Just saw in my feed that there was a OTC scam running for months.

I urge eveyone to use onchain escrow for OTC transactions.

NEAR Intents offer that as an option with support of 90+ assets and continuously growing number of chains.

DCML is actually a set of technologies built by different teams coming together:
- TEEs for CPU and GPU by @PhalaNetwork
- Proof of Response built by Martian Engineering
- Key reconstruction via MPC by Near One
- Model marketplace and Benchmarking by Stealth
- Agent Hosting by Stealth

And more joining.

User Owned AI is built by coalition of vision aligned teams and I’m excited for the work in trenches that has been happening.

NEAR Intents has doubled its volume in every month of 2025 so far.

Transact seamlessly across 18 chains, 88 assets supported and counting. All Web3 liquidity in one place.

Recent reviews of the UX: "astonishing," "impressive," "seamless."

What are you waiting for?

NEAR Intents has doubled its volume in every month of 2025 so far.

Transact seamlessly across 14 chains, 88 assets supported and counting. All Web3 liquidity in one place.

Recent reviews of the UX: "astonishing," "impressive," "seamless."

What are you waiting for?

If you are a founder and want to engage with NEAR ecosystem to leverage the best blockchain & AI tech - https://www.near.org/founder-hub

Looking forward to @EthCC – I'm speaking in the AI track on 3 July. We'll have a big showing from the @NEARProtocol eco and are proud to sponsor again this year! À bientôt, anon

Exciting to see @NEARProtocol as the subject of a case study in @HarvardBiz: "Self-Sovereignty In the Age of AI" by Prof. Shikhar Ghosh. It unpacks the story of starting the protocol and the vision for blockchain + AI.

Link (paywall): https://store.hbr.org/product/near-protocol-self-sovereignty-in-the-age-of-ai/825115

One of the critical outcomes of agentic protocols going to be demise of farming as a way to attract capital to DeFi.

Products like @moremarketsxyz will become ultimate mercenary capital that automatically sells farmed tokens and rotates when there are better rates.

I'm still excited about the @NEARProtocol upgrade to 600ms blocktime and 1.2s finality – improving NEAR's already industry-leading tech with even better performance and Web2-fast latency.

Meanwhile, the NEAR One protocol team is already working on further optimization to make NEAR blocks EVEN FASTER...we're looking at 200ms blocktime by the end of the year.

That's even faster on-chain actions for AI agents, onchain payment channels for novel service delivery, and more DeFi use cases you can't build on any other blockchain. Just build on NEAR.

ICYMI, @NEARProtocol just launched 600ms blocktime and 1.2s finality. Some use cases unlocked by lightning-fast finality:

–High-frequency DeFi loops: delta-neutral rebalancing, cross-CEX/DEX arbitrage, oracle-free perps. Every leg can be closed and collateral recycled 5x per minute on NEAR (vs. maybe once on Solana). Smaller latency means tighter spreads for strategies that require super-fast turnover.

–AI agent-to-agent settlements: agents can trigger on-chain actions and receive feedback or confirmation almost instantly. NEAR is truly the blockchain for AI, allowing agents to transact quickly and autonomously across any chain with NEAR Intents and fast finality.

–Credit-card-like checkout on-chain: NEAR is now on par with Visa/MC terminals, so you could charge on-chain directly with no intermediaries and get a final confirmation at the moment of purchase.

–Also works for pay-as-you-go content, API metering, bandwidth, EV-charging, sensor data feeds: a contract can stream funds every block and cut flow when payment stops, no need for escrow or side channels.

Blink and it’s final: NEAR’s speed lets you use a blockchain for use cases that didn’t seem possible before. Just build here.

Blink and it’s final: NEAR blocks are now 600ms, with 1.2 second finality. That’s 10x faster finality than Solana. 600x faster than ETH and L2s. Without the need for more expensive hardware.

This is a major upgrade that truly sets a new performance standard for blockchains. Now you don’t have to choose between a fast chain and a secure chain: NEAR is both.

Fast blocks and fast deterministic finality means virtually no wait time for blocks to become irreversible. Better UX, stronger reliability, and greater confidence for real-world apps & enterprise use cases.

Build user experiences where multi-step transactions can finalize in seconds. Reduce wait times and complexity around tx confirmations, reorgs, and network delays.

In a Chain-Abstracted world where agentic interfaces will further abstract blockchains away from users, it’s an easy choice of where to build: just build on @NEARProtocol. It’s secure, super-scalable, truly multichain, and really really fast. I’m proud of the Protocol team for continuing to ship the best tech in Web3!

SF Bay Area: I'm speaking (virtually) at the Stanford Blockchain Governance Summit this weekend with @StanfordLaw @StanfordCrypto.

I'll talk about upgrading blockchain governance with AI & our progress on @NEARProtocol House of Stake.

https://lu.ma/sbgs25