🐉 NEAR Town Hall: January Edition 🐉

Join us for the first NEAR ecosystem Town Hall of 2026!

Hear directly from Illia, NEAR One, and NEAR AI as they share protocol updates, ecosystem intel, and what’s shipping next.

🗓 Tomorrow | 4 PM UTC

✍️ Mark your calendar: RSVP here | Watch on Youtube

🐉 Introducing the NEAR Legion Merch Store (Pilot Phase): Your go-to place for all things NEAR merchandise. 🧢

The journey begins, Legionnaires!

We are opening the Merch Store for a Pilot Test. Grab some gear, test the flow, and help us refine the experience. Designed for those building the NEAR ecosystem.

Let’s spread the word of NEARVANA in style (and share your feedback). ✨

⚠️ Pilot Phase: For testing & feedback purposes.

Shop now: https://merch.nearlegion.com/

Huge shout out to our co-development partner Pingpay for enabling NEAR native payments!

🐉 Road to NEARVANA: The NEAR IRL Community Meetups 🌍

The Legion is gathering IRL. 4 cities are hosting meetups this weekend:
✦ Abeokuta: Encrypted AI & Intents at Olumo Rock.
✦ Ibadan: Female-led meetup in the Botanical Gardens.
✦ Frankfurt: Connecting the European hub with Beer+NEAR.
✦ Bali: Coffee & Crypto in paradise.

➡️ RSVP here: Legion Events

🐉 The Legion activation continues IRL.

From landmarks to local hubs, we are activating communities globally on our path to NEARVANA.

✦ Today: Abeokuta, Ibadan, Frankfurt
✦ Tomorrow: Bali 🏝️
✦ Next Week: Chicago, Jakarta, Uyo, Lampung, New Delhi

The road to NEARVANA is built by the people, IRL.

🐉 The NEAR Weekly Highlights are here! 🌐

✦ NEAR AI joins Nvidia Inception Program
✦ NEAR Intents hits $10B Volume
✦ PingPay is LIVE (Seamless NEAR-native payments)
✦ The NEAR Legion Merch Store opens its doors (Pilot)
✦ Upcoming Legion Global IRL Meetups: Chicago, Jakarta, Uyo, Lampung, New Delhi.
✦ NEAR Intents Day - v1 is coming on Jan 22. Register here.
✦ The STRK token is now live on Solana, enabled by NEAR Intents.

✍️Subscribe to https://t.me/NEARLegion for all the latest NEAR ecosystem news and updates.

🐉 NEAR Legion #IRL Meetups - Jan Week #3

The Legion keeps moving. After meetups across Africa, Europe, and SE Asia, we’re continuing the next wave this week in:

✦ Chicago 🇺🇸 → Jakarta 🇮🇩 → Uyo 🇳🇬 → Lampung 🇮🇩

If you’re NEAR, join us for casual conversations, ecosystem updates, and catching up with local blockchain friends.

Onboarding the next wave of NEAR Leaders, one city at a time.

➡️ Find all events here: NEAR Legion Events

🐉 NEARCON 2026: Innovation Sandbox 🐉

The Countdown to NEARCON Innovation Sandbox Begins. We’re calling all builders to ship real-world demos using NEAR’s stack: AI, Privacy, Intents, and Account Abstraction.

✦ The Prize: $15,000 + a global stage at NEARCON 2026
✦ The Tracks: Private Web, AI That Works for You, Open Society, and "Only on NEAR".

📅 Online Hackathon: Jan 26 - Feb 16

➡️ Register today: NearCon Innovation Sandbox

🐉 NEARCON 2026: The AI × Privacy x Open Web Convergence 🌉

We’re gathering the pioneers of AI and open technology to define an AI economy built on trust, transparency, and user ownership.

✦ Alpha: Visionary keynotes + live agent demos you can actually use.
✦ Deep Dive: Why privacy is the non-negotiable key to user-owned AI at scale.
✦ Debates: Industry leaders on adoption, ethics, and billion-dollar use cases.

📅 Feb 23–24 | San Francisco

➡️ Apply to Attend | Apply to Speak | Become a Partner

🐉 The Countdown is ON. 3 days to the NEARCON Innovation Sandbox.

Calling all NEAR Builders. Tune in for a live event where we'll introduce the bounties, talk the tech, brainstorm ideas, and answer your questions about the hackathon.

Ship real-world products using NEAR’s stack: AI, Privacy, Intents, and Account Abstraction. Win $15,000 in prizes.

➡️ Register here and set a reminder for Innovation Sandbox Kickoff on YT.

Near Legion - Weekly Ecosystem Guide 🐉

HOT Wallet just leveled up with HOT PERPS. You can now trade perpetuals instantly within your Hot wallet on telegram! 🤘

Tap the video to learn how to! 👀

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🐉 The Legion doesn’t just talk about the agentic future - we ship it.

We recently dropped a 1,000 NEAR bounty in the Legion chat for the first 10 builders to deploy a Clawdbot to Moltbook. The response? 12 agents live and promoting NEAR.

➡️ The Legion keeps shipping. Join us to find the next alpha and build your way to NEARVANA. Join Here.

🐉 NEAR Town Hall: February Edition 🐉

Join us tomorrow for the second NEAR ecosystem Town Hall of 2026!

Hear directly from Illia, NEAR Intents, PingPay, Aurora, Klaus Brave, Artem and Citizen House as they share protocol updates, ecosystem intel, and what’s shipping next.

🗓 Feb 5 | 4 PM UTC

✍️ Mark your calendar: RSVP here | Watch on Youtube

Share your feedback and complete the Legion missions to rank up your way to NEARVANA.

🐉Welcome to the Agentic Commerce

Post task → agents bid → pick a bid → escrow → deliver the task → paid in NEAR.

Powered by NEAR Intents & NEAR AI Cloud.

➡️Live on alpha: market.near.ai

NEAR AI is shipping. Legion is organizing biggest AI community. Join us at nearlegion.com

🐉 $12,000,000,000 all-time volume for NEAR Intents!

17M swaps.
$20M in total revenue generated.
$3B volume in the last 30 days alone.

Plus: LiFi & SafePal integrates Intents.
Believe in something.

➡️ Try it today at Near Intents.

The Universal Trading Layer is NEAR.

Near Legion Weekly Ecosystem Guide: DCA Space! 🐉

Everyone wants the “perfect entry.” Meanwhile, smart players just automate the entry. 🤖

Start $NEAR DCA with dca.space 💎

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NEAR Merch Store is LIVE -> your go-to place for official NEAR gear. 🐉

Just in time for NEARCON. If you’re attending, you’ll get the first look at the merch IRL.

Follow NearMerch on X for updates. Let’s spread the word of NEARVANA in style.

Shop now at nearmerch.com! 👀

🐉 NEAR Legion: Welcome to the Next Phase⚔️

Legionnaires - the foundation is set. Now, we execute.

NEAR Legion is evolving from amplifying ecosystem updates to actively shaping the ecosystem narrative.Our focus is clear: Visible Impact.

💡 Mission: Growth & Ownership

We are pioneers of the Open Web.
• Building toward User-Owned AI — trust, privacy, ownership.
• Launching City Nodes — local Legion hubs. Step up and lead your city.

🎙 NEAR Legion Open Mic

30-minute bi-weekly Spaces covering:
• Legion updates
• AI debates
• Community collaboration
(First session with DCA Space)

✈️ The Arena: Telegram

• Builders helping builders
• Share projects, collaborate, grow
• Subscribe for ecosystem updates

📼 Content & Events

More opportunities to host, contribute, and earn.
This is hands-on. Pitch ideas. Lead initiatives. Build with us.

👀Sneak Peek
• Mission Updates
• Distinguished Service NFT
• Reward Upgrades
• Ambassador Program (monthly payouts)
• Event SBTs

Join the NEAR Legion.
Build the community.
Own the AI. ⚔️

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🐉 Introducing NEAR Legion Open Mic 🎙

We are live later today for the first community discussion. Legion Updates. AI Debates. Ecosystem Alpha.

✦ Guest: Artem from DCA Space
✦ Alpha: Cross-chain DCA powered by NEAR Intents.

🗓️ Friday | 4 pm UTC

➡️ Set a Reminder

🐉 LEGION WEEKLY UPDATE!

The ecosystem is moving fast. Here’s what shaped the conversation this week

📖 Main Discussion
🟢 Wallet UX and ecosystem onboarding experience need improvement.
🟢Adoption of Crypto Payments
🟢Talks around validators:
🟠Last call to get into MetaPool Node Studio
🟠Every project should have its own validator
🟠Costs of running a validator
🟢New AI models releases

👥 Community Builders
🟢Jakub working on adding paxg gold to Shadelink
🟢Jemartel trying to bring back Near Social back to life.

🗓Event and News

🟢Degen Arena is moving to Blackdragon, featuring launches of bots, airdrops, and boss fights.
🟢Illia speaks at NVIDIA GTC on Agentic Economy Market
🟢NEAR AI releases Markets Agents
🟢New Designs on Merch Store is Live
🟢Meteor USDC Giveaway
🟢$Rhea listing in Binance US

🔒Alpha
🟢NFT staking on Hotcraft
🟢Stay Tuned for Ambassadors News
🟢Intents Redesign coming soon

Join the Legion now

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