{"id":"svES8cphHTM","title":"NEAR Popup Events, Nvidia H200s to China, 1mm TPS on NEAR for Agentic Commerce","description":"Join the NEAR Legion at https://nearlegion.com/\n\nFollow us on X:   / nearlegion  \n\n#NEAR #nearprotocol #NEARAI #ai #ainews","channel_name":"NEAR Protocol","published_at":"2025-12-10T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/svES8cphHTM/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":"Good morning Legion. Today is the eco collab calling just a couple of hours. It will feature a nice walkthrough of NEAR Private Cloud’s business thesis, an update on the Calyx Launchpad, and a look ahead at 2026 for the NEAR ecosystem. A couple of important stories today as we get back into the news cycle. First up, Trump says that Nvidia can sell H200s to China. This is an important story because it will be interesting to see the extent to which access to better GPUs in China changed their overall AI strategy. To date, the Chinese model for AI has been to build cost effective open source models that require significantly less compute than their Western counterparts. With this new opportunity, let's see how Chinese models evolve. Next up, a nice blog from Balaji on how pop ups are the new start ups and IRL is the new URL. If you've been following the Legion events planned for 2026, you'll know we're well ahead of this trend. Planning ten pop ups around the world in various cities. If you're looking to host a pop up for the Near Legion, reach out to us. It's more important than you think, and our goal is to identify the right type of person to join different communities, build on NEAR, and become a fundamental part of our ecosystem. Read the full story link below for Balajoi’s entire thesis. It's a good one. Last but not least, two days ago NEAR announced achieving 1 million transactions per second. The big brains in NEAR ONE, led by Bowen, have delivered on a huge technical milestone. For those of you asking why does this matter? Think of it like this. With NEAR Intents becoming the universal liquidity layer, and with NEAR AI building out the foundations for private intent and agentic commerce, the NEAR blockchain is shaping up to become the universal superhighway for future AI, commerce, intents, and the transfer of assets 1 million transactions per second. Allows NEAR to sustain this vision on a long term time horizon. Stick around. We'll do this all again real soon.","transcript_synced_at":"2026-11-03T04:46:06.608Z","segments":[{"start_seconds":0,"text":"Good morning Legion.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=0s"},{"start_seconds":1,"text":"Today is the eco collab calling just a couple of hours.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=1s"},{"start_seconds":4,"text":"It will feature a nice walkthrough of NEAR Private Cloud’s business thesis, an update on the Calyx Launchpad, and a look ahead at 2026 for the NEAR ecosystem.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=4s"},{"start_seconds":13,"text":"A couple of important stories today as we get back into the news cycle.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=13s"},{"start_seconds":17,"text":"First up, Trump says that Nvidia can sell H200s to China.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=17s"},{"start_seconds":21,"text":"This is an important story because it will be interesting to see the extent to which access to better GPUs in China changed their overall AI strategy.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=21s"},{"start_seconds":29,"text":"To date, the Chinese model for AI has been to build cost effective open source models that require significantly less compute than their Western counterparts.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=29s"},{"start_seconds":38,"text":"With this new opportunity, let's see how Chinese models evolve.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=38s"},{"start_seconds":41,"text":"Next up, a nice blog from Balaji on how pop ups are the new start ups and IRL is the new URL.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=41s"},{"start_seconds":48,"text":"If you've been following the Legion events planned for 2026, you'll know we're well ahead of this trend.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=48s"},{"start_seconds":53,"text":"Planning ten pop ups around the world in various cities.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=53s"},{"start_seconds":55,"text":"If you're looking to host a pop up for the Near Legion, reach out to us.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=55s"},{"start_seconds":59,"text":"It's more important than you think, and our goal is to identify the right type of person to join different communities, build on NEAR, and become a fundamental part of our ecosystem.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=59s"},{"start_seconds":68,"text":"Read the full story link below for Balajoi’s entire thesis. It's a good one.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=68s"},{"start_seconds":73,"text":"Last but not least, two days ago NEAR announced achieving 1 million transactions per second.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=73s"},{"start_seconds":78,"text":"The big brains in NEAR ONE, led by Bowen, have delivered on a huge technical milestone.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=78s"},{"start_seconds":82,"text":"For those of you asking why does this matter? Think of it like this.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=82s"},{"start_seconds":86,"text":"With NEAR Intents becoming the universal liquidity layer, and with NEAR AI building out the foundations for private intent and agentic commerce, the NEAR blockchain is shaping up","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=86s"},{"start_seconds":94,"text":"to become the universal superhighway for future AI, commerce, intents, and the transfer of assets 1 million transactions per second.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=94s"},{"start_seconds":102,"text":"Allows NEAR to sustain this vision on a long term time horizon. Stick around. We'll do this all again real soon.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM&t=102s"}],"youtube_url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=svES8cphHTM","url":"https://near-pedia.xyz/videos/svES8cphHTM"}