Alex Shevchenko says that for the first time ever, crypto can actually compete with banks. "We as blockchain are behind traditional financial systems." "With confidential intents and the advances in ZK, we are finally able to get to the position that is on par with what modern banks are offering to people." "For the first time ever, we're able to compete with them." @NEARProtocol @AlexAuroraDev @near_intents @auroraisnear

Full video of our discussion with @jessepollak @tarunchitra from @token2049 on Why AI Needs Crypto. Blockchains can provide a much-needed coordination layer to take AI from today's single-player mode to multiplayer mode, unlocking security & markets. youtube.com/watch?v=1flFvL62…

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NEW LAUNCH Introducing NEAR Business: a confidential multisig treasury for crypto-native teams. Pay teams and vendors, swap, and allocate capital across 35+ chains, with every move approved by your signers. Built on NEAR Intents. business.near.com How it works ↓

NEW LAUNCH Introducing NEAR Business: a confidential multisig treasury for crypto-native teams. Pay teams and vendors, swap, and allocate capital across 35+ chains, with every move approved by your signers. Built on NEAR Intents. business.near.com How it works ↓

Sharing my keynote from @token2049 Singapore: "Making AI and Finance Private By Default." I outlined the @NEARProtocol privacy vision across near(.)com with confidential @near_intents, @near_ai with confidential inference, plus NEAR MPC & post-quantum. youtube.com/watch?v=GYl2-Ijc…

Things i genuinely think could happen on $NEAR in a full-blown bull market. pure speculation, but hear me out. > a $100M meme coin nobody took seriously at launch. > a launchpad that becomes the centre of the entire NEAR ecosystem. > a random dog coin doing 50x and onboarding more users than a serious protocol. > an AI agent token becoming the face of NEAR’s AI narrative. > a project on NEAR getting listed on a major CEX out of nowhere. > a launchpad creator making more money from fees than their biggest traders make from trading. > a NEAR native token doing a BONK style comeback and bringing the whole ecosystem with it. > Intents becoming a major entry point for people who don’t even know they’re using NEAR. > a cross-chain trading app becoming the next big consumer product. > AI agents trading, paying for data and hiring other agents without human intervention. > a meme coin built around an AI agent that actually does something useful. > a NEAR project raising millions without needing a traditional VC round. > a tokenised stock or real world asset becoming a serious trading narrative on NEAR. > confidential DeFi becoming a reason people choose NEAR over other chains. > a DeFi protocol offering incentives that pull liquidity away from competing ecosystems. > a points campaign bringing thousands of users who end up staying after the rewards. > a small team shipping something so good that bigger projects start copying it. > a prediction market taking off and attracting people who have never used NEAR before. > a wallet or consumer app making chain switching completely invisible to normal users. > an agent marketplace where people pay AI agents to do real work. > a NEAR meme becoming a recognised ticker across CT, not just inside the ecosystem. > a new project turning into the ecosystem’s breakout success story within weeks. > a trading meta emerging that nobody is paying attention to today. > a random partnership sending a NEAR native project into price discovery. > the market finally connecting NEAR’s infrastructure to the applications being built on top of it. And the one i really want to see: @NEARProtocol getting to a point where people aren’t just buying $NEAR. they’re actively looking for the next big thing being built on it. we’ve seen this movie on Solana, Base and, Bnb other chains. why should NEAR be any different? what am i missing? 👀