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Submissions are now open for the NEAR Hackathon.
Two weeks to build across 13 tracks. $250,000 in prizes.
No sign-up required. Build a working prototype, publish a public repository and demo post, then submit by November 14 at 23:59 UTC.
Two weeks to build across 13 tracks. $250,000 in prizes.
No sign-up required. Build a working prototype, publish a public repository and demo post, then submit by November 14 at 23:59 UTC.
NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes.
No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC.
Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more.
Full details: x.com/i/article/2112…
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Only 7 days left to submit to the NEAR Hackathon.
$250K in prizes across 13 tracks.
No sign-up. Just ship and post by November 14, 23:59 UTC.
$250K in prizes across 13 tracks.
No sign-up. Just ship and post by November 14, 23:59 UTC.
NEAR HACKATHON is now live with $250K+ in prizes.
No signup. Just ship a public repo + public demo post between November 1st & Nov 14, 23:59 UTC.
Build on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud, & more.
Full details: x.com/i/article/2112…
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
NEAR.com is now the most liquid venue to buy and sell PEARL spot.
Non-custodial, listed permissionlessly, tradeable in just a few clicks.
I love this because it's the exact same strategy that challenger exchanges use. Binance used to list everything first, then Hyperliquid. Now NEAR.
(Dragonfly is invested in both PEARL and NEAR)
Non-custodial, listed permissionlessly, tradeable in just a few clicks.
I love this because it's the exact same strategy that challenger exchanges use. Binance used to list everything first, then Hyperliquid. Now NEAR.
(Dragonfly is invested in both PEARL and NEAR)
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RHEA Finance is adding to the NEAR Hackathon prize pool.
Build cross-chain DeFi with the RHEA X Chain SDK, powered by NEAR Intents.
Build cross-chain DeFi with the RHEA X Chain SDK, powered by NEAR Intents.
solana:8SMMso8Muv8d6i4WmMDthKt6TN1ysN6937sx3DKLXZqB has been allocated as part of the @NEARProtocol Hackathon Nov 1–14 prize pool
Build the next wave of cross-chain DeFi with the RHEA X Chain SDK, powered by NEAR Intents.
Let's build.
github.com/rhea-finance/r…
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NEAR AI Cloud’s model selection continues to expand with Qwen 3.8 27B Abliterated now live.
Test it out for free 👇
Test it out for free 👇
Qwen 3.8 27B Abliterated is live on NEAR AI Cloud.
Refusals removed, for red teaming and security research, with vision. It runs in a TEE, so your findings stay private.
$0.04/M input, $1.35/M output, 256K context.
Try it free: near.ai/models/Qwen/Qw…
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Yesterday $RELIANCE. Today $JIO.
India’s biggest IPO ever. Trade the perp 24/7, out of public view.
Only on perps.near.com. Powered by @HyperliquidX & @tradexyz
India’s biggest IPO ever. Trade the perp 24/7, out of public view.
Only on perps.near.com. Powered by @HyperliquidX & @tradexyz
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$PEARL on near.com
Deposit it. Swap in or out from 180+ assets across 35+ chains. Hold it. Pay with it.
All of it out of public view. near.com/pearl
Deposit it. Swap in or out from 180+ assets across 35+ chains. Hold it. Pay with it.
All of it out of public view. near.com/pearl
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NEAR Co-Founder @ilblackdragon and GM of NEAR Intents @AlexAuroraDev live now on @MarketBubble covering the full NEAR stack 👇
Market Bubble Episode 25 - Presented by @Polymarket x.com/i/broadcasts/2…
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
Now loading...
Illia, Co- Founder of Near Protocol
Alex, GM of Near Intents
Today @ 2:30PM PT
Illia, Co- Founder of Near Protocol
Alex, GM of Near Intents
Today @ 2:30PM PT
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
APUBCC × Near Legion are bringing the NEAR Hackathon Meetup straight to APU! Join us for a full day of ideation, networking, and hackathon prep with fellow builders.
🗓 7th Nov, Sat
⏰ 10 AM - 5 PM
📍 S-8-2, APU
Register now!
luma.com/onvjzn0z
See you there!
🗓 7th Nov, Sat
⏰ 10 AM - 5 PM
📍 S-8-2, APU
Register now!
luma.com/onvjzn0z
See you there!
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
@buidlcity x @NEARLegion : Private AI Hackathon NYC
Build with AI. Protect your data. Ship something real.
A full day in NYC to learn, find a team and start building with private AI 👇
→ Private AI inference through NEAR AI Cloud
→ TEEs and confidential computing
→ Data secure sharing
→ Building AI agents with private inference
→ Talks on ICM, confidential computing and agentic commerce
→ Demos and showcase to close the day
Kick off your project for the global NEAR Hackathon (Nov 1–14, $250K prize pool, 13 tracks) 🚀
📅 Wednesday, Nov 11
⏰ 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET
📍 The Wilson, 132 W 27th St, NYC
Bring your laptop and your favorite AI coding assistant. Solo builders and teams up to 4 welcome.
@NEARProtocol
Luma link in comments 👇
Build with AI. Protect your data. Ship something real.
A full day in NYC to learn, find a team and start building with private AI 👇
→ Private AI inference through NEAR AI Cloud
→ TEEs and confidential computing
→ Data secure sharing
→ Building AI agents with private inference
→ Talks on ICM, confidential computing and agentic commerce
→ Demos and showcase to close the day
Kick off your project for the global NEAR Hackathon (Nov 1–14, $250K prize pool, 13 tracks) 🚀
📅 Wednesday, Nov 11
⏰ 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET
📍 The Wilson, 132 W 27th St, NYC
Bring your laptop and your favorite AI coding assistant. Solo builders and teams up to 4 welcome.
@NEARProtocol
Luma link in comments 👇
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New Interview: NEAR Co-Founder @ilblackdragon joins @KevinWSHPod to discuss his background, the NEAR stack, the future of user-owned AI, and how AI and blockchain move forward together.
Watch the full conversation below 👇
Watch the full conversation below 👇
E193: @NEARProtocol: NEAR Is Encrypted Ethereum
@ilblackdragon is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and one of the inventors of the Transformer, the technology behind every AI LLM. Today we talk about why he left Google, how a payments problem pulled him into crypto, and why he n have to be built together.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:52 - Illia's Mission, Explained To An Uber Driver
03:46 - The Fire In Illia's Belly: Where It Came From
05:46 - How Illia Got Out of Where he Started from
06:54 - Moving out of Google That Changed Everything
07:55 - Attention Is All You Need, Explained Simply
10:59 - Did Illia Know He Was Starting A Revolution?
12:13 - Sponsor: @variational_io , @Bitwise
13:02 - Why Walk Away From Google's Fortune?
14:44 - Illia's Reaction When ChatGPT Exploded
15:55 - What Smart AI People Still Get Wrong
17:29 - How AI Led Illia To Crypto
19:50 - Did Illia Drop AI For Blockchain?
21:00 - 6 Years Of NEAR And How It Survived
22:14 - Why Stay In Crypto With An AI Edge?
24:42 - NEAR In One Sentence: Today And Tomorrow
26:39 - Sponsor: @KASTxyz
27:26 - What You Can Build On NEAR And Nowhere Else
29:03 - What's Happening Inside Centralized AI
30:48 - Does Illia Use Claude Or ChatGPT?
31:36 - What You Should Never Use ChatGPT Or Claude For
32:25 - The Danger Of A Few Companies Owning All The Intelligence
34:35 - How Cryptographic Guarantees Actually Work
35:58 - Is There A NEAR GPT?
36:50 - ZEC Explained Simply: Why It Matters
38:24 - $ZEC Is Private Bitcoin. What Is near:native?
39:32 - Is Owning The AI Interface Bigger Than Owning Banks?
40:29 - User Owned AI, Explained
42:05 - Sponsor: @JupiterExchange , @ethena
42:45 - Can User Owned AI Sustain An Economy?
44:55 - The Best Argument Against User Owned AI
46:13 - Open Weight Models, Explained
47:20 - Is AI Doom Further Off Than We Think?
51:15 - The Next Shift Nobody Is Watching
54:08 - What Humans Will Struggle With Most
55:29 - Thank You
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
Uncensored models: when an AI refuses a cybersecurity question, who does that actually protect?
Last week we released abliterated models for security work. No application.
NEAR Foundation’s CLO, @AbhishekEsq, takes a side in a new essay.
Read the essay near.ai/blog/the-right…
Last week we released abliterated models for security work. No application.
NEAR Foundation’s CLO, @AbhishekEsq, takes a side in a new essay.
Read the essay near.ai/blog/the-right…
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The NEAR Hackathon is live through November 14, with $250K in prizes.
⠀
Some ideas from NEAR Co-Founder @ilblackdragon on what to build with NEAR Intents and NEAR AI 👇
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Some ideas from NEAR Co-Founder @ilblackdragon on what to build with NEAR Intents and NEAR AI 👇
The @NEARProtocol Hackathon is live through November 14 with $250K in prizes. Here are a few ideas for things I’d love to see built with @near_intents and @near_ai.
––AI encyclopedia with prediction markets: instead of community curation, every fact becomes a perpetual truth-seeking market (Augur-style). The official pages are generated by AI based on the current market understanding.
––Private trading where you sell your viewing keys for people to follow/copy trade. NEAR Intents confidential trading is all private, so you can have a social trading app where people sell "keys" for only select people to see. PnL can be publicly displayed so people can choose to buy in.
––Universal checkout widget: any merchant/app can add a “checkout” button that enables paying with Intents from whatever wallet and blockchain that user has.
––Swarm-for-Hire (with guardrails or governance AI review, please). Put a bid onchain with a description of the work and anyone can add a new agent to the swarm by giving it NEAR (to pay for inference) with a prompt/knowledge base/tools. All agents accept jobs and get NEAR AI LLM inference from their payment for the job.
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
E193: @NEARProtocol: NEAR Is Encrypted Ethereum
@ilblackdragon is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and one of the inventors of the Transformer, the technology behind every AI LLM. Today we talk about why he left Google, how a payments problem pulled him into crypto, and why he n have to be built together.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:52 - Illia's Mission, Explained To An Uber Driver
03:46 - The Fire In Illia's Belly: Where It Came From
05:46 - How Illia Got Out of Where he Started from
06:54 - Moving out of Google That Changed Everything
07:55 - Attention Is All You Need, Explained Simply
10:59 - Did Illia Know He Was Starting A Revolution?
12:13 - Sponsor: @variational_io , @Bitwise
13:02 - Why Walk Away From Google's Fortune?
14:44 - Illia's Reaction When ChatGPT Exploded
15:55 - What Smart AI People Still Get Wrong
17:29 - How AI Led Illia To Crypto
19:50 - Did Illia Drop AI For Blockchain?
21:00 - 6 Years Of NEAR And How It Survived
22:14 - Why Stay In Crypto With An AI Edge?
24:42 - NEAR In One Sentence: Today And Tomorrow
26:39 - Sponsor: @KASTxyz
27:26 - What You Can Build On NEAR And Nowhere Else
29:03 - What's Happening Inside Centralized AI
30:48 - Does Illia Use Claude Or ChatGPT?
31:36 - What You Should Never Use ChatGPT Or Claude For
32:25 - The Danger Of A Few Companies Owning All The Intelligence
34:35 - How Cryptographic Guarantees Actually Work
35:58 - Is There A NEAR GPT?
36:50 - ZEC Explained Simply: Why It Matters
38:24 - $ZEC Is Private Bitcoin. What Is near:native?
39:32 - Is Owning The AI Interface Bigger Than Owning Banks?
40:29 - User Owned AI, Explained
42:05 - Sponsor: @JupiterExchange , @ethena
42:45 - Can User Owned AI Sustain An Economy?
44:55 - The Best Argument Against User Owned AI
46:13 - Open Weight Models, Explained
47:20 - Is AI Doom Further Off Than We Think?
51:15 - The Next Shift Nobody Is Watching
54:08 - What Humans Will Struggle With Most
55:29 - Thank You
@ilblackdragon is the Co-Founder of NEAR Protocol and one of the inventors of the Transformer, the technology behind every AI LLM. Today we talk about why he left Google, how a payments problem pulled him into crypto, and why he n have to be built together.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:52 - Illia's Mission, Explained To An Uber Driver
03:46 - The Fire In Illia's Belly: Where It Came From
05:46 - How Illia Got Out of Where he Started from
06:54 - Moving out of Google That Changed Everything
07:55 - Attention Is All You Need, Explained Simply
10:59 - Did Illia Know He Was Starting A Revolution?
12:13 - Sponsor: @variational_io , @Bitwise
13:02 - Why Walk Away From Google's Fortune?
14:44 - Illia's Reaction When ChatGPT Exploded
15:55 - What Smart AI People Still Get Wrong
17:29 - How AI Led Illia To Crypto
19:50 - Did Illia Drop AI For Blockchain?
21:00 - 6 Years Of NEAR And How It Survived
22:14 - Why Stay In Crypto With An AI Edge?
24:42 - NEAR In One Sentence: Today And Tomorrow
26:39 - Sponsor: @KASTxyz
27:26 - What You Can Build On NEAR And Nowhere Else
29:03 - What's Happening Inside Centralized AI
30:48 - Does Illia Use Claude Or ChatGPT?
31:36 - What You Should Never Use ChatGPT Or Claude For
32:25 - The Danger Of A Few Companies Owning All The Intelligence
34:35 - How Cryptographic Guarantees Actually Work
35:58 - Is There A NEAR GPT?
36:50 - ZEC Explained Simply: Why It Matters
38:24 - $ZEC Is Private Bitcoin. What Is near:native?
39:32 - Is Owning The AI Interface Bigger Than Owning Banks?
40:29 - User Owned AI, Explained
42:05 - Sponsor: @JupiterExchange , @ethena
42:45 - Can User Owned AI Sustain An Economy?
44:55 - The Best Argument Against User Owned AI
46:13 - Open Weight Models, Explained
47:20 - Is AI Doom Further Off Than We Think?
51:15 - The Next Shift Nobody Is Watching
54:08 - What Humans Will Struggle With Most
55:29 - Thank You
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Delta League is an open competition to make AI models better by editing their weights directly.
Submissions are scored on a hidden test set, and every verified version is open for anyone to build on.
Powered by @near_ai.
Submissions are scored on a hidden test set, and every verified version is open for anyone to build on.
Powered by @near_ai.
Releasing Delta League: edit LLM weights for benchmarking and glory! Join at deltaleague(.)ai
Earlier this week, the idea of editing weights directly with an LLM got a lot of attention —
but it was shunted by limitations in the demonstrated approach.
Delta League is an open e to submit deltas to model weights and get them scored on a hidden test set. Auto-research and hillclimb to make smaller models more performant.
The broader vision for Delta League is creating a platform for open AI research. Beyond just editing weights, this approach offers verifiable evaluation and an open collaborative space for everyone to continue improving Pareto of open source models.
In the coming days, we will extend this platform to support editing model architectures beyond just weights and custom evaluation sets to understand how models perform in specific domains and for businesses.
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NEAR Protocol retweeted
NEAR Intents is firmly positioned as the universal value layer for all SoV assets.
Bullish compute? Buy PEARL on NEAR
Bullish quantum? Buy QTC on NEAR
Bullish privacy? Buy ZEC on NEAR
Bullish Gold? Buy XAUT on NEAR
Bullish BTC? Buy BTC on NEAR
NEAR's TAM is infinite.
Bullish compute? Buy PEARL on NEAR
Bullish quantum? Buy QTC on NEAR
Bullish privacy? Buy ZEC on NEAR
Bullish Gold? Buy XAUT on NEAR
Bullish BTC? Buy BTC on NEAR
NEAR's TAM is infinite.
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Jio listed last week. Now trade its parent company.
$RELIANCE perp is live. Trade it 24/7, out of public view.
Only on perps.near.com. Powered by @HyperliquidX & @tradexyz
$RELIANCE perp is live. Trade it 24/7, out of public view.
Only on perps.near.com. Powered by @HyperliquidX & @tradexyz
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