Private by design, cross chain by NEAR

Zcash privacy expands beyond its own chain through NEAR Intents.
Developers can now enable private automated payments across ecosystems without revealing the sender 🗯

Zcash today. Any token tomorrow 💯

👇 Start building:
Intents 101 & Intents 102

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Ledger now supports NEAR Intents via SwapKit

Through SwapKit, NEAR Intents add intent based execution, gas abstraction, and multi provider routing to Ledger’s swap engine, expanding cross chain coverage to ecosystems like Solana, Base, TRON, and NEAR 🗯

Built on Chain Abstraction and integrated via SwapKit, it turns complex cross chain logic into one clean programmable layer.

👇 Learn how NEAR Intents work:
Docs, Intents 101 & Intents 102.

NEAR is infrastructure that just works 🧠

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✉️ NEAR Dev News #81 — The October Issue

From Halving and AI Treasuries to new SDKs and the next chapter of Open Web development, here’s what’s new in NEAR.

Here’s the rundown:
✅ Halving approved
✅ SovereignAI launches with $120M
✅ Swift & Kotlin SDKs for NEAR JSON RPC
✅ HTTP Fetcher for real-world data
✅ NEAR Docs & Playground updates
✅ NEAR Intents & Calyx bounties
✅ Governance live with House of Stake
…and more inside the full issue.

🔗 Read the full & subscribe: https://docs.near.org/newsletter
🔖 Explore active freelancing opportunities: https://nearn.io/

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🚨 AI DAO Demo

Owen from Proximity Labs showcases a verifiable AI-powered DAO built with NEAR and Shade Agents. It’s autonomous, transparent, and makes on-chain decisions through verifiable AI.

📺 Watch how autonomous governance works in action

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Public Goods for NEAR Protocol — 2025'Q4

We are accepting new proposals for public goods for NEAR Protocol 😁

What we’re looking for:
⚪️ Developer tooling: SDKs, frameworks, debugging and testing tools
⚪️ Documentation: structured, technically deep, easy to navigate
⚪️ Onboarding: guides, starter kits, interactive walkthroughs
⚪️ Integrations: bridges, APIs, middleware, ways to extend NEAR’s capabilities
All proposals must be open and freely accessible 💯

Include objectives, deliverables, timeline, and budget. You’ll get a response within 7 days.

If you’re working on something that benefits developers across NEAR, this is your moment 🔥
👉 Details & submission here

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🖥 A fast way to get up to speed with NEAR

NEAR Quests gives you short lessons followed by quick tests that reinforce what you just learned. Protocol basics, smart contracts, frontend flows. All broken into tiny steps that don’t slow you down.

Read a bit. Answer a few questions. Move to the next challenge.
Start with the intro quest and level up your NEAR knowledge 🚀

👉 It’s easy to start building on NEAR. Start learning here

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🚨 We’re improving NEAR Treasury and testing new design flows

To shape it properly, we need feedback from people who use it OR are interested in tools like it.

It’s a short form and every response helps us improve the new design experience.

👉 Fill it out: https://tripetto.app/run/GF8SYFMRNR

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🚨 Building In Public on NEAR

Elliot, Ester and Jay kick off the NEAR Merch Store project as they walk through early decisions, design sketches and the first practical steps of bringing the idea to life in public.

A quick look behind the scenes at how the team shapes direction, tests assumptions and forms the foundation of the store.

📺 Watch the highlights from Episodes 1-3

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New design. Same Treasury. One more reminder.

Thank you to everyone who has already filled out the form and will fill it out ❤️

Your feedback helps the team understand what feels clear and what could be easier to use 🗯

The team is continuing to collect perspectives from people who use NEAR Treasury or similar tools. Different points of view help them see where the experience can be made more comfortable for everyone.

If you haven’t shared your perspective yet, here is the form 👈

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🚨 OutLayer unlocks a new execution model

Smart contracts can run off-chain compute inside a single on-chain transaction. TEE execution, external APIs and ML models all work natively, without servers or SDK integrations.

👉 Read the full thread

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🚨 Leo now runs through NEAR AI TEE

Brave now runs LLM inference inside a trusted execution environment with verifiable privacy. A straightforward example of TEE powered AI compute reaching the browser layer.

A short technical breakdown is here 👈

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Multichain dev work often feels like assembling a LEGO set with missing parts

NEAR Chain Abstraction fixes the model: the account stays on NEAR while execution and authorization can operate across different chains without extra keys, networks or wallets ⛓️

➡️ NEAR Intents define the goal.
➡️ NEAR Account provides identity.
➡️ Chain Signatures authorize cross-chain actions.
➡️ OmniBridge verifies and moves assets.

Execution happens on the target chain, while the account and authorization stay anchored on NEAR ⛓️‍💥

The full architecture is mapped out here, finally without the missing parts: https://docs.near.org/chain-abstraction/what-is

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BUIDL AI Hackathon 2026 🦄

From January 9 – 11 in Lisbon, builders will spend 48 hours creating real AI agents and experimenting with new tooling. The event is hybrid: you can join remotely, but each team needs at least one person on-site.

Tracks, bounties, technical kits and mentors are coming to help teams turn a weekend idea into a working prototype. This is the kind of hackathon where you don’t just talk about AI, you ship something tangible by Monday 👨‍💻

🔗 Details and registration

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[Never underestimate a quick question] (the value shows up fast)

Sometimes a simple question in the community chat surfaces details you don’t notice at first glance.

In this case:
The chat revealed how NEAR handles transaction validity and how flexible Chain Signature paths can be. A long validity window and adaptable string-based derivation paths give builders room to design async and cross chain flows without friction ✅

And the best part is how naturally it surfaced. One brief exchange revealed a detail that can shape real application design.

It’s a good reminder that protocol decisions become clearer when you see them discussed in practice, and the fastest way to understand how these mechanics behave is simply to ask the community 💬

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🏊‍♀️ Rust tooling on NEAR received a focused cleanup

near-sdk-rs 5.18.0, contract-standards 5.18.0 and borsh-rs 1.6.0 shipped this week and bring more consistency across the SDK, standards and serialization layer 👨‍💻

The updates address familiar friction points in contract development:
➡️cleaner promise flows
➡️more predictable event logging
➡️more reliable FT and NFT callbacks
➡️stricter and safer serialization behavior

Nothing disruptive. This is targeted refinement that removes small issues developers often work around.

The focus is on quality of life improvements with no compromise on security. Less code you need to write means fewer bugs you will hit ✅

Release notes: SDK, Standards and Borsh.

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[Never overlook the foundations] (they shape everything on top)

Off-chain tooling doesn’t get the spotlight often, yet it quietly determines how smooth the entire developer experience feels 🏌️‍♀️

Right now a lot of effort is going into polishing the OpenAPI spec for nearcore. This work is what enables consistent client libraries across TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift and Rust, and the results are already visible in the expanding suite of low-level JSON-RPC clients.

In parallel the high-level libraries are evolving fast. near-api-rs is approaching its 1.x release with major projects already using it in tests, and the NEAR CLI is being refactored to run on top of it. The TypeScript library is gathering feedback as well, including work on a React adapter and HOT integration 🧗‍♀️

It’s the kind of infrastructure most people don’t think about until they actually use it. When the client tooling is clean and consistent, building on NEAR becomes simpler across the board. And the work happening now is setting that direction for the long run.

Build on NEAR with tooling that actually supports you ✅

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Think building in crypto is complicated? It’s really not.

The easiest way to get started without pressure is to use these 2 resources:

1. NEAR Quests
Short interactive steps that break the basics down into something anyone can follow. You get a real feel for how NEAR works without drowning in theory.

2. Near Protocol Developer on YouTube
Clear, practical walkthroughs. Real smart contracts. Real Rust patterns. Watching someone build removes half the confusion instantly.

⏳ Both are simple to try and don’t require a big time commitment.

You don’t need everything figured out before starting.
Take a small step and progress will follow ✅

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🌐 NEAR AI is live

NEAR introduces an execution layer for AI where privacy and verification come from secure hardware. Inference runs inside Intel TDX and NVIDIA Confidential Computing, keeping data sealed and returning a cryptographic attestation with every request.

On this foundation comes NEAR Private Chat, showing how private AI can work in a consumer interface with the same confidentiality guarantees used in enterprise environments 💬

At launch, Brave Nightly, OpenMind and Phala are already running on NEAR AI Cloud, bringing hardware-verified private AI to millions of users.

Read more details here 🔗

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Help improve the NEAR Treasury experience

The team is updating the NEAR Treasury design and wants to understand how real users interact with it 🏌️‍♀️

Even a short response can highlight something meaningful:
⚪️ a confusing moment
⚪️ an extra click
⚪️ a step that could feel more intuitive

Your perspective matters, whether you use NEAR Treasury or similar tools. If you can spare a minute, here is the form 🔗

And thanks in advance for helping make NEAR Treasury better for everyone ❤️

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Your Data Can and Will Be Used Against You — by Illia Polosukhin

Why our online behavior isn’t as harmless as it feels and why today’s data model is riskier than it looks 💬

Illia breaks down how:
🟢 “Free” platforms turn activity into behavioral profiles
🟢 Centralized data creates structural, long-term risks
🟢 Small digital traces compound into real influence
🟢 The future depends on user-owned, privacy-preserving AI

A sharp look at the fork we’re facing and what it means for the role AI will play in our lives 🧠

🔖 Read the full piece & subscribe

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