How NEAR Enables AI to Transact Across Any Blockchain
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NEAR Protocol is building the infrastructure for true chain abstraction—where any application can interact with any blockchain, from Bitcoin to Ethereum to Solana, using a single account. NEAR's Chain Signatures technology allows developers to write apps once and access the entire multi-chain world.
With Chain Signatures, NEAR validators act as a secure computation network that enables smart contracts to control accounts on other blockchains. That means AI agents and users can perform actions on any chain and verify the results—without juggling wallets or interfaces.
For developers building the next generation of multi-chain, agent-powered apps, NEAR offers a scalable, composable way to unify Web3.
NEAR is the Blockchain for AI
Learn more at near.org
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This is a chain abstraction stack that enables to use any blockchain in any application anywhere through the whole network of cryptographic guarantees. The way that near facilitates this is primarily through a technology called chain signatures technology that allows you to control different accounts on different blockchains uh with the same account on near. This allows developers who are building on near to build applications that interact with bitcoin
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with salana with ethereum with near and with anything else that might exist. And the best part is that they really only have to build their application one time. And that account can also not doesn't have to be just a simple account. It can actually be a smart contract. Meaning that you can have complex logic of like multi-IG or managing like how much you can spend on some specific chain. You can have very customized logic built into that. The way that chain signatures works is by uh
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utilizing a subset of the near validator set. It acts as the participants in a multi-party computation flow. Given that you have the chain signatures, you can build a lot of applications on top of it like you know the multi-chain uh financial applications. So you can also do this multi-chain bridging. People don't have to worry about the difference between tokens on different chains. You can have one token that can can simultaneously exist on multiple chains.
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This is something that allows near protocol to both connect to other blockchains and to the outer world and also hide itself and not stick itself to the face of the users and the agents that are working with it which is going to enable these agents to interact with any chain that exists and you know even go beyond chains where these AI agents can basically take any action on behalf
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of the users and prove to the users that they've completed that action as the user intended. It supports unifying the whole web 3 plane through chain signatures and chain abstraction making sure that any agent any AI system any wallet that integrates uh AI is able to go and transact everywhere. The future will be that the wallets are effectively fully chain abstracted.