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Democratizing AI: Introducing PublicAI

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The digital world isn’t what it used to be. Consumer empowerment is shifting, driven forward by AI-powered platforms. The challenge? Making this…

NEAR is the blockchain for AI. Over the past year and a half the focus and scope of that mission has expanded significantly: AI is now becoming autonomous…

Blockchain's greatest challenge isn't technological advancement, it's user complexity. We talk about decentralization and openness, yet too often we…

Discover RHEA Finance's $RHEA token, merging Ref Finance and Burrow Finance into a unified DeFi protocol offering cross-chain liquidity, AI-driven yield optimization, and seamless BTC, EVM, and Zcash integration powered…

NEAR Foundation is pleased to announce a partnership with Everclear, the cross-chain clearing and settlement protocol for stablecoins and major digital…

Discover how NEAR’s "Fork That" campaign transformed Permissionless IV and EthCC Cannes into rallying grounds for builders, with bold activations, open-source AI thought leadership, and a movement redefining the future…

Explore the future of NEP-141 tokens on NEAR with the new intents-based launchpad. Discover upcoming token sales, listings, and how NEAR is supercharging Web3 with seamless cross-chain participation.

Last week, HOT and LiNEAR Protocol put forward an inflation reduction proposal to reduce NEAR’s inflation by 50% (from 5% to 2.5%). This community proposal…

NEAR names Rath and HOT Labs as winners of its Chain Abstracted Relayer RFP, introducing fast, multichain SDKs to simplify gas relays and account abstraction across NEAR, EVM, and Solana. Learn how these tools reduce…

Discover how NEAR Protocol Rewards helps hackathon participants transition from MVPs to production-ready Web3 projects through cohort-based funding, mentorship, and ecosystem support.

Infinex now supports seamless, self-custodied swaps and cross-chain transactions for Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and XRP using NEAR Intents and Chain Signatures. Explore how this integration simplifies crypto interoperability…

KyberSwap now supports NEAR Intents, unlocking seamless cross-chain swaps with faster finality, better rates, and access to assets like BTC, DOGE, USDC, and NEAR—without bridges or slippage.

NEAR Protocol is deprecating the public RPC endpoints hosted on near.org and pagoda.co. Learn what this means, why it's happening, and how developers should update their configurations.

NEAR Protocol just set a new benchmark with 600ms block time and 1.2s finality—making it one of the fastest blockchains live today. What this unlocks for developers and users alike.

From investor roundtables to AI product showcases, NEAR’s presence at Token2049 Dubai highlights real progress toward open-source, decentralized AI. Here’s what happened on the ground.

Chain Signatures now supports EdDSA, enabling secure cross-chain signing for Solana, TON, Stellar, Sui, and Aptos. A major step toward seamless interoperability across modern blockchains.

Even in a quieter market, BUIDL Asia 2025 proved that momentum never really stops. It simply becomes more intentional. Against the backdrop of prolonged…

Put in a bid for a Chain Abstracted Relayer NEAR Infrastructure Committee just published a request for proposal (RFP) to build a Chain-Abstracted Relayer…

Discover the power of DeFi AI Agents in transforming digital finance, offering intelligent solutions for automated asset management and secure transactions.

In March, NEAR brought together over 100 developers in San Francisco—the AI capital of the world—for the inaugural Useful Agents Hackathon. Co-organized by…

NEAR Foundation is thrilled to announce the results of its recent requests for proposals focused on enhancing NEAR’s wallet infrastructure. After careful…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) today faces a pressing challenge: billions in crypto assets remain idle on their native chains, unable to easily participate…

This morning, at NVIDIA's GTC AI Conference in San Jose, California, NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin presented new research from NEAR AI to enable…

In advance of my presentation at NVIDIA GTC today, we just published a pre-print of “Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning.” We present a novel approach t…

At The Road to One Trillion Agents event during ETHDenver 2025 , NEAR introduced two major upgrades to NEAR Intents : passkeys for seamless authentication…

Denver, the Mile High City, played host to ETHDenver 2025 from February 23 to March 2, turning the National Western Complex into a nexus of Web3 energy…

For the past year-plus, the NEAR ecosystem has worked to advance Chain Abstraction across all of Web3: eliminating the barriers for users to use…

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