The currency of agents
NEAR is the open infrastructure powering the agent economy. NEAR unifies liquidity across 35+ chains, keeps execution and inference confidential, and scales to over 1 million TPS. NEAR empowers users to own their assets and intelligence.
What is NEAR?
NEAR’s open infrastructure combines cross-chain execution, confidential settlement, private inference, and a secure agent harness. Co-founded by Illia Polosukhin, an AI pioneer who introduced the Transformer architecture powering every major AI breakthrough today, NEAR has been architected from day one to be the foundation for a secure agent economy.
The NEAR Stack
near.com: your onchain world in one interface
Trade across 35+ chains and 150+ assets from one account. Toggle on Confidential Mode to execute inside a private shard. No manual gas juggling or bridging required. Powered by NEAR Intents.
NEAR Intents: universal cross-chain execution
Integrated by Ledger, Brave Wallet, Infinex, ThorSwap, HOT Wallet, and leading DeFi protocols for cross-chain execution with sub-cent fees and sub-second settlement. $19B in volume to date.
NEAR AI: private inference and a secure agent harness
Deploy agents using the private inference infrastructure serving Abound, Brave, and Venice AI. IronClaw sandboxes tools and isolates credentials inside hardware-enforced TEEs to ensure your secrets never reach the model.
NEAR Protocol: the settlement layer for the agent economy
NEAR Protocol is fully sharded, quantum-adaptive blockchain infrastructure that has maintained 100% uptime on mainnet for over 5 years. NEAR protocol supports 1 million TPS, with 600ms blocks and 1.2s finality.
NEAR Tokenomics: real revenue, real value capture
NEAR operates one of the most mature and transparent cryptoeconomic systems in the industry, with a fully unlocked token supply, protocol revenue flowing to NEAR buybacks, and a deflationary trajectory.
NEAR House of Stake: decentralized, AI-augmented governance
House of Stake, NEAR’s stake-based governance system, is live on mainnet, coordinating protocol upgrades, economic parameters, and treasury decisions through onchain ratification.
“The infrastructure choices we make now will determine what is possible later. The agentic economy can only take shape if the agents are secure.”
— Illia Polosukhin, Co-Founder of NEAR, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need"
Integrated across enterprises, governments, wallets, and global infrastructure
Venice AI
Venice uses NEAR AI's private inference for verifiably private text and image generation, with prompts processed inside hardware-enforced enclaves.
Zodl
Zodl wallet integrated NEAR Intents for seamless cross-chain swaps from BTC, USDC, and Solana into shielded ZEC.
Abound
Backed by the Times of India Group, Abound is deploying IronClaw agents for AI-powered cross-border financial services in India's $135B remittance market.
Government of Bermuda
The Government of Bermuda partnered with NEAR AI to deploy confidential AI for public services, starting with a secure assistant for processing sensitive citizen data.
Brave
Brave Nightly uses NEAR AI for private inference. Brave Wallet integrated NEAR Intents for cross-chain swaps across Bitcoin, Solana, Zcash, and EVM chains.
Ledger
Ledger Wallet integrated NEAR Intents as a swap provider via SwapKit, bringing cross-chain execution to hardware wallet users.
NVIDIA
NEAR AI joined the NVIDIA Inception program to accelerate enterprise-grade, verifiable AI with confidential GPU compute.
Intel
NEAR AI uses Intel TDX gateways for CPU-level confidential compute, securing inference from edge to cloud alongside NVIDIA GPU TEEs.
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