Chicago’s @NearProtocol City Node
Chicago, IL
Joined August 2026
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chicago.near retweeted
Some great news, I will participating in the @NEARProtocol Hackathon.
It will be nice to break up the day to think and build something that I am passionate about.
Stay tuned
🏗️🤖🛜
chicago.near retweeted
let's celebrate this one 🍾 $NEAR just landed on Gemini, and it's a bigger deal than it looks.
Gemini is the Winklevoss twins' exchange. it's public on Nasdaq, regulated as a New York trust company, and built on asking regulators for permission instead of forgiveness. when a venue that careful lists a coin, serious money notices.
and it's the real coin. deposits and withdrawals are live, so you can buy NEAR there, send it to your own wallet and actually use the chain.
now zoom out. Robinhood listed NEAR in March. the first US spot NEAR ETF started trading on NYSE Arca in September. Gemini in October. one regulated door after another, all in one year.
each of those doors lets in buyers who were never going to touch a DEX. that's why this one gets the champagne. very bullish $NEAR
Near has landed on Gemini
near:native is now available to trade, with deposits and withdrawals enabled
→ exchange.gemini.com/buy/NEAR
chicago.near retweeted
Sales for Crypto Founders
How to go from cold DM to closed deal with the projects in @DenariiLabs @GenLayer Accelerator
I love teaching 12 years of sales knowledge so more crypto projects get revenue
Comment below for the slides
Let's do it again @ana__vc @jeffreylabs
chicago.near retweeted
Getting three quotes for a local job means three calls and a spreadsheet. This job ask to build an agent that does the chasing: contacts providers, logs who replied and who didn't, and returns a side-by-side on price and availability.
Build it, list it on Agent Market, retain ownership and revenue.
Job Board: Local Services Quote Agent
Build an AI agent that collects and compares real quotes from local providers, returning prices, availability, and requirements side by side.
Bid now: market.near.ai/jobs/481516a5…
chicago.near retweeted
huge launch for $NEAR today
NEAR Business is a confidential treasury for crypto teams. payroll, vendor payments, swaps and rebalancing across 35+ chains from one dashboard, and the market can't watch you do it.
votes and approvals stay onchain, so anyone can verify the rules. salaries, balances and recipients stay private.
it's built for foundations, funds, DATs and web3 teams, and every treasury that moves in sits inside NEAR Intents. that's real treasury money parked on NEAR, with payroll running through it every month.
gigabullish 🫡
chicago.near retweeted
ICYMI: @ilblackdragon’s keynote from @token2049 Singapore: “Making AI and Finance Private By Default.”
He outlined the privacy vision across the NEAR Protocol stack, NEAR MPC & post-quantum readiness.
Watch the full keynote: youtu.be/GYl2-IjcHoM?si=eJCG…
chicago.near retweeted
Gave a @near_ai workshop in the first event sponsored by the @chicago_node, at @drivecapital this past Sunday.
Drawing from experience building @NearBuilders, @nearmerch, @open_crosspost, and the recent city nodes app, my goal was to communicate this: Verifiable execution is a core foundation for community trust
The third installment of the Chicago Creator Hackathon over the weekend at @drivecapital
The thesis is simple: bring together 200 creators that have real communities and pair them with engineers
chicago.near retweeted
RFC from founders and engineers of financial services:
@near_intents offers a simple SDK for a universal liquidity layer; you can use it to quote, swap, and execute trades ("intents") for any on-chain asset, across any network, completely confidentially (your txs are not public). Can be used for RWAs, perps, institutional trading, agentic commerce, etc.
The team is seeking feedback, please reply to @chronear's post below. Relevant links below
chicago.near retweeted
@adem_wheels, let’s organize an initial meeting. Lots to catch up on!
Chicagoan’s, tap in!
I joined the @NEARLegion Chicago Node!
@elliot_braem and I are going to make Chicago @NEARProtocol's biggest community
Chicagoans, comment below to join
chicago.near retweeted
I joined the @NEARLegion Chicago Node!
@elliot_braem and I are going to make Chicago @NEARProtocol's biggest community
Chicagoans, comment below to join
chicago.near retweeted
Love seeing Chicago become City Node #3 🔥
@buidlcity is hyped to build alongside @chicago_node and the rest of @NEARLegion.
More cities, more builders, more cool stuff getting built. Let’s go.
Chicago is officially City Node #3.
We’re here to turn local community into network infrastructure: events, builders, partners, stake, reports, and reusable systems for the broader @NearLegion network.
Stake to chicago.pool.near, and if you’re in Chicago, come build with us.
chicago.near retweeted
🍕 Bitcoin Chicago Pizza Day Recap: A real crypto purchase, live!
Watch how @elliot_braem ordered pizza using POS built by @pingpay_io, powered by @near_intents.
Scan QR → Pay with $NEAR or any of 125 assets across 35 chains → Confirm & paid.
Shoutout to Pizza Boy Billy & Tortorices on Grand Ave! 🙌
Anything-to-anything payments in action. This is usable crypto. Watch ↓
chicago.near retweeted
Chicago showed up. 🇺🇸
The NEAR Legion gathered for an evening exploring the latest in blockchain + dApps and networking.
Thanks to @elliot_braem & @adem_wheels for hosting and to everyone who joined us!
