NEW LAUNCH Introducing NEAR Business: a confidential multisig treasury for crypto-native teams. Pay teams and vendors, swap, and allocate capital across 35+ chains, with every move approved by your signers. Built on NEAR Intents. business.near.com How it works ↓

NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes. No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC. Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more. Full details:

NEW EPISODE with @NEARProtocol co-founder and co-author of the 2017 transformer paper @ilblackdragon at @token2049: "We want agents to hold as much NEAR as possible." - what NEAR is today and where it wants to be by 2030 - why crypto is still too hard for most people - why anyone you pay can see your whole balance - how NEAR AI keeps AI requests private - AI agents hiring other AI agents and paying per job - bank transfers that land as stablecoins - how the NEAR token earns from AI agents - why an AI agent needs a spending limit - why traditional stocks may miss AI medicine THE VISION: "The vision always been AI is the front end and blockchain markets is the back end... Back when it started in 2017 as an AI company... And then we realized we needed the back end economic layer and we started working on blockchain." PRIVACY: "The real bottleneck I always believed has been privacy... when you pay people they should be able to see how much money you have But that's not normal, right? And if you talk to anyone outside of crypto, they will be like, this is insane." MACHINES: "I think the reality is blockchain always was built for machines. And so I think where the next wave of this is coming is agents now becoming the primary user." AGENTS FOR HIRE: "Your GitHub or whatever can hire my agent to review it. My agent will run all your data. I actually will not see it because everything run privately... And then you just pay for the outcome, right?" THE TOKEN: "We want agents to hold as much NEAR as possible... This is like your store of the AI value right? So this and then on the other side all of the Intents infrastructure as it generates revenue buys back NEAR as well." SPENDING LIMITS: "You hire a new person, you're probably not going to give them full access to all the bank accounts of the company, or your personal account, right? You're going to give them, okay, here's a spending limit... You cannot go and buy a random meme coin." AI MEDICINE: "This is a bit controversial, but I think traditional stocks will probably not capture this as well because the traditional stocks actually, they are designed to be more like centralizing and average out thing... I do think this can actually be really well done on kind of decentralized." Timestamps: 0:00 Coming up 1:02 NEAR builds AI and private payments 5:14 Crypto is still too hard 9:11 NEAR AI keeps AI requests private 14:11 AI agents hiring other AI agents 20:10 Bank transfers straight into crypto 21:56 Renting out an AI code reviewer 24:39 NEAR's token earns from AI agents 26:26 Spending limits for AI agents 29:17 Sending crypto like a bank transfer 31:01 AI medicine made for one person

Idea 2 is live. Universal checkout from Ping: one button, pay from any asset, any chain, any wallet. Settled confidentially via @near_intents. Already powering credit top ups on @near_ai Cloud and product purchases on @nearmerch.

We just launched the reimagined near​.com. Crypto, stocks, perps, and yield share one consistent design. Home rolls it all into one total. ⌘K searches everything. Same features. But an amazing new experience. We hope you love using it as much as we loved building it. ❤️

Now is probably a once in a decade window of opportunity for each and every team in the NEAR ecosystem to lock the fuck in and get things done. We must outwork everyone, single-mindedly focused on making NEAR a top 10 crypto asset. The tailwind will take care of the rest.

Ping is now Confidential by default! Every payment settles confidentially, direct to your wallet, from any asset on any chain. Powered by @near_intents

The @NEARProtocol is currently the hottest AI Crypto in the market at the moment I got @elliot_braem from the @NEARFoundation on to break down what's happening over at $NEAR Timestamps: 0:00 The New #1 AI Coin 7:12 NEAR x ZEC (Intents) 12:31 Where The Fees Go 17:52 The AI Connection 23:14 Is AI Selling Your Data? We go over: >the privacy dilemma in AI >why NEAR is the "best" blockchain out there >why he got into NEAR >what's the current focus >prior narratives >ironclaw, near intents, near(dot)com

🍕 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 ↓

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! 🍕 16 years ago it took a forum post and 10,000 BTC to buy two pizzas. Today it's as simple as scan & pay, from any wallet, any chain, any asset. Ping POS: powering pizza payments in Chicago tonight!

"we accept crypto" irl usually means "we accept one stablecoin on one chain or you're out of luck" Ping POS means merchants accept anything, customers pay anything.

Ping crypto point of sale. IRL payments made simple. →no sign-ups →no wallet connections →just scan & pay from any asset on any chain, in person →merchant settles in what they want →both screens confirm payment in real time more coming in the run up to Bitcoin Pizza Day 🍕

Offering crypto subscriptions as a merchant today typically means relying on users manually renewing, paying upfront amounts, just using fiat options, or other layers of uncertainty for your business. Here's how we are solving that at Ping 🧵