NEAR Protocol is a layer-1 blockchain with a focus on usability and scalability, supporting AI and Web3 applications.
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NEAR announced XRP support on near.com, where users can deposit from the XRP Ledger, swap and pay others with transactions confidential by default. NEAR says recipients get the funds without seeing the sender's address or history.
NEAR launched NEAR Business, a confidential multisig treasury that lets teams pay staff and vendors, swap and allocate capital across 35+ chains with every action approved by their signers. It is free to start and invite-only for now.
NEAR Protocol launched the NEAR Hackathon with more than $250K in prizes. There is no signup: builders ship a public repo and public demo post between November 1 and November 14 (23:59 UTC), building on NEAR Intents, chain signatures, chain abstraction, NEAR AI Cloud and more. NEAR says judges include Illia Polosukhin, Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz and builders and investors from a16z crypto, Electric Capital and Dragonfly.
NEAR Protocol published an article titled 'The State of NEAR: Q3 2026' on X, its review of the third quarter. The post itself contains only a link to the article.
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin announced the 12th Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco, which NEAR AI is co-hosting. He said he will speak on recursive self-improvement with Peter Norvig and on the benefits and risks of open-source AI with Matthew White; the quoted organizer post says the event is this Thursday afternoon, with sign-up linked in the post.
NEAR Protocol says users can update their NEAR accounts to post-quantum readiness now, highlighting co-founder Illia Polosukhin's explanation of how the network is preparing for the migration. The quoted interview clip says NEAR added ML-DSA signing in its July mainnet upgrade, so keys can be rotated without moving assets.
NEAR Protocol says it is joining the Unchained Summit in Mumbai, India, on November 5-6. Harshit Tiwari, VP of Growth at NEAR Intents, is on the speaker lineup and will discuss the growth of the NEAR ecosystem and onchain adoption.
A NEAR blog post explains formal verification and how NEAR AI's Lean benchmark results point toward affordable, provable software.
NEAR said its MPC network, which powers Chain Signatures behind NEAR Intents, now has 17 independent live mainnet operators funded by the protocol, following approval of House of Stake proposal HSP-007.
Brave's Leo assistant now offers private inference via NEAR AI Cloud: chats using GLM 5.3 Flash run inside hardware enclaves (TEEs) that neither Brave, NEAR AI nor the cloud host can read, and Brave verifies the enclave before sending data.
NEAR announced that Helius CEO Mert (@mert) has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, the foundation's governing body. NEAR described him as an early NEAR Intents user and a privacy advocate.
NEAR's NEPs repository merged NEP-652, a protocol proposal to remove a persistently failing chunk producer from its shard's rotation within an epoch instead of waiting for the end-of-epoch kickout.
House of Stake proposal HSP-029, now in voting, would lower NEAR's maximum protocol issuance from 2.5% to a 1.6% target on a 24-month per-epoch ramp, keeping the 90/10 staker-treasury split.