DFINITY Founder Takes Aim at NEAR’s Privacy Claims DFINITY (@dfinity) $ICP founder Dominic Williams (@dominic_w) says a PhD engineer’s review raised questions about Near (@NEARProtocol) $NEAR Confidential Intents. Williams shared the engineer’s assessment, alleging the system relies on a separate permissioned network called FAR, where operators are trusted to protect private data. The assessment questioned its privacy technology, open-source status and undisclosed node operators.