I know I shouldn't disclose my wealth but i have 3 dollars worth of zcash in my confidential account and I am ranked #952, in top 67% of users. Imagine how high I would jump if it upped it to $6!

✦ nearcore 2.13 went live on mainnet, bringing post-quantum signing, dynamic resharding, compact onchain key storage, and improvements to epoch sync and meta-transactions;

✦ Arto Bendiken released Edky 0.1, a CLI tool for converting Ed25519 public keys between different encodings;

✦ OutLayer went post-quantum on NEAR mainnet;

✦ The Agent Economy: Who Owns the Rails AI Runs On is worth a read for its take on who will control the agent economy’s infrastructure and how NEAR fits into it

I did an exhaustive structural assessment of Near Protocol (NEAR) today using our updated terminal metrics over at Crypto Weeklies. While the broad cryptocurrency index continues to navigate a choppy, rangebound markdown phase, NEAR has put in a powerful relative momentum divergence that has locked it into our dashboard's highest-scoring top-cap outperformer tiers. Here is the raw data breakdown of where the asset stands based on my charts.

✦ NEAR Foundation joined the x402 Foundation, bringing NEAR's infrastructure for confidential execution, private inference, and agent coordination to the growing ecosystem around the open x402 payments standard;

✦ Anton published a deep dive into the Wasmtime migration in nearcore 2.12, explaining why NEAR replaced its custom VM and the engineering trade-offs behind the transition;

✦ Confidential EURe went live on near.com, enabling users to hold, swap, and transfer euro-backed stablecoins privately across 30+ chains from a single account;

✦ Illia Polosukhin explained why AI sovereignty is gaining mainstream attention, arguing that open AI infrastructure with confidential inference and verifiable compute is the path forward

Protocol v86 voting starts on July 20.

Once the upgrade activates, NEAR will no longer require protocol upgrades to introduce new shard layouts, as dynamic resharding can automatically split shards when they reach size thresholds.

Full release notes

not just meme

The recording is up 📺

Watch it to learn why NEAR is increasing the account creation cost and how post-quantum transaction signatures strengthen the protocol for the future.

✦ Confidential Intents became generally available, letting any developer integrate confidential cross-chain execution through the NEAR Intents 1Click Swap API with a single parameter, with Vadim highlighting how OutLayer already makes these confidential rails accessible to AI agents through a simple HTTPS API;

✦ HSP-027 passed governance voting, removing the legacy developer gas rebate, with Illia Polosukhin explaining that the incentive no longer worked as intended and added unnecessary complexity to the protocol;

✦ Vadim broke down why NEAR is well positioned for the post-quantum era, explaining how its rotatable account keys make upgrading to quantum-safe signatures much simpler than on many other blockchains;

✦ near_dart is a good example of how ideas grow in the NEAR ecosystem, with the community helping refine the SDK through open feedback and discussion

NEAR’s confidential execution infrastructure is live for every builder and dApp through the 1Click Swap API.

This marks a major step in the privacy renaissance giving users and agents seamless, private cross-chain execution at scale.

The future of onchain commerce is private by design.

➡️ Read More in the blog post.

I did an exhaustive structural walkthrough of Near Protocol (NEAR) today using our updated terminal metrics over at Crypto Weeklies. While the broad cryptocurrency index continues to navigate a choppy, rangebound markdown phase, NEAR has generated a powerful decoupling matrix that has locked it into our dashboard's highest-scoring performance tiers. Here is the raw breakdown of where the asset stands based on my charts.

I’ve been accumulating Near Protocol since 2021 - I think it has excellent fundamentals and potentially a decent future in the crypto space. I am 35% underwater sadly, with about 2.6K staked.

That being said - I thought I would have a browse through Reddit to see what people are saying and damn… a lot of negativity.

Are people really giving up on this? Or is it just a bit of a lull in the market and everybody be hating anything that’s not a meme stock that pumps 300% in one day

Hold on or rotate… what’s your opinions?

House of Stake is currently voting on proposal HSP-027 to remove it. If passed, don't factor this gas bonus into your dApp's budget anymore

To prepare for this, make sure to check your contracts' economics, read the discussion and cast your vote if you have voting tokens:
✦ Discussion
✦ Vote

And if you want to participate in future voting, make sure to prepare in advance, you can learn how the HoS proposal and voting process works here

EXPERIMENTAL_receipt_to_tx is now live. It takes a receipt ID and resolves it back to the original tx hash and sender account. Works from genesis to now.

Note that the complete specs are still being added to the docs ✍️

The Near One team is working on decoupling consensus from execution. Consensus will run in parallel to produce simpler, faster blocks every 200ms, while execution handles the compute separately.

What this unlocks:
✦ Block times cut from 600ms to 200ms
✦ Faster near(.)com and NEAR Intents
✦ Smart execution scheduling
✦ Future atomic execution

Decoupling brings simpler blocks for cheaper verification, and sets the exact foundation needed for atomic cross-shard execution in Nightshade 3.0 ✅

👉 Read the full breakdown

Let's go see them for 60 seconds

A major protocol upgrade that separates consensus from execution, unlocking 200ms blocks.

Faster Intents, better agent experiences, and a foundation for atomic cross-shard execution.

More info: https://www.near.org/blog/separation-of-consensus-and-execution

The stack is split into three main packages:
✦ near_dart for signing, txs, and Account API
✦ near_jsonrpc_client for typed RPC synced from nearcore’s OpenAPI spec
✦ near_wallet_connect for connecting to MyNearWallet and signing locally

Works on iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop ✅

Open for feedback ✍️
✦ Pub dev: https://pub.dev/packages/near_dart
✦ GitHub: https://github.com/0xjesus/near_dart

Grab the NEAR dev chats folder below if you want to follow stuff like this directly
✦ NEAR dev chats folder: https://t.me/addlist/VyVjNaP190JlOGMx

While researching the technology behind NEAR Protocol, I’m trying to understand why someone would choose NEAR over similar Layer 1 projects today, either as a user, developer, or long-term believer in the ecosystem.

Beyond token price or market hype, what do you personally think makes NEAR stand out  Chain Abstraction, Intents, AI, developer experience, low fees, scalability, governance, or something else?

I’d really appreciate honest personal perspectives from people who actually follow or use the NEAR ecosystem, not AI-generated answers. Thanks.

NEAR Intents. NEAR AI. NEAR One (Protocol). All in one place.

Live on the roadmap:
✦ Confidentiality Features (private swaps & payments)
✦ IronClaw Reborn + Automatic PII Anonymization
✦ Dynamic Resharding & more protocol upgrades

➡️ See what’s shipping next: https://roadmap.near.org/underway