{"id":"MSlhet-AAd8","title":"CEO of NEAR Intents Explains Chain Sigs","description":"NEAR smart contracts can now hold private keys.\n\nThat means they can authenticate themselves, connect to APIs, and even control wallets on other blockchains.\n\nCross-chain treasuries just became native.\n\nThe future of interoperable crypto is here.\n\nNEAR is the unified commerce layer for assets and agents. \n\nWebsite: https://near.org/\nNEAR AI: https://near.ai/\nIntents: https://near.org/intents\nChain Abstraction: https://www.proximity.dev/\nSharding: https://nearone.org/\n\nFor the devs\nGitHub: https://github.com/near \nDev Docs: https://docs.near.org/\nDevhub: https://devhub.near.page/ @NEARDevHub\n\nConnect with socials\nTwitter:   / nearprotocol  \nBlog: https://near.org/blog/\nMedium:   / nearprotocol  \n#NEAR #nearprotocol #NEARAI","channel_name":"NEAR Protocol","published_at":"2026-03-03T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/MSlhet-AAd8/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":"One of the core innovations is this technology that is called chain signatures that is developed inside of near. What this technology allows is for near smart contracts to have private keys. The near smart contracts having these keys means that they are able to authenticate themselves. These can be like API keys or alternatively they are able to have wallets on different blockchains. And these wallets on different blockchains can become treasury accounts for people who are willing to move funds inside of near and","transcript_synced_at":"2026-11-03T04:36:45.769Z","segments":[{"start_seconds":0,"text":"One of the core innovations is this technology that is called chain signatures that is developed inside of near. What this technology allows is for","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlhet-AAd8&t=0s"},{"start_seconds":7,"text":"near smart contracts to have private keys. The near smart contracts having these keys means that they are able to authenticate themselves. These can be","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlhet-AAd8&t=7s"},{"start_seconds":15,"text":"like API keys or alternatively they are able to have wallets on different blockchains. And these wallets on different blockchains can become","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlhet-AAd8&t=15s"},{"start_seconds":23,"text":"treasury accounts for people who are willing to move funds inside of near and","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSlhet-AAd8&t=23s"}],"youtube_url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=MSlhet-AAd8","url":"https://near-pedia.xyz/videos/MSlhet-AAd8"}