An orange fox met a black dragon.

The rest was history.

Today, NEAR mainnet is fully compatible with @MetaMask and the entire suite of Ethereum wallets 🧵 Built by the team at @auroraisnear, Ethereum wallet functionality for NEAR Mainnet allows you to do more with @Metamask - the largest consumer wallet in the Web3 ecosystem.

Alongside other heavy hitters like @Rabby_io, @rainbowdotme, and a whole lot more.

Read it in full:

pages.near.org/blog/ethereum-…

One token, any chain.

All liquidity, one chain.

NEAR Intents is launching as part of the NEAR Tech Stack.

True crosschain DeFi is here, and it’s powered by NEAR 🧵 By enabling a new type of transaction between AI agents, users, and services, NEAR enables unified liquidity across crypto ecosystems and bridges the real world with on-chain DeFi primitives.

Soon, liquidity across the entirety of Web3 will be truly unified.

The goal has changed. Forget a billion. NEAR is onboarding the next Trillion (capital T) AI agents to Web3.

NEAR: The blockchain for AI.

Today, @near_ai launches in Alpha🧵 Driven by some of the world’s leading AI researchers, technical minds, and innovators, NEAR AI stands between the common man and the self-appointed Silicon Gods of Big Tech.

Here’s what’s happening:

https://x.com/near_ai/status/1855469263135310209

The future is abstracted.

The future is here.

The future is NEAR.

Introducing the first Chain Abstraction Cohort from @nearhorizon.

Builders, it’s time to abstract the dApps.

DeFi is ready to be reborn.

🧵 The Chain Abstraction Cohort gives selected builders exclusive access:

🔗Dedicated mentorship
🔗Backer intros
🔗Seed round preparation
🔗High-quality founder-referrals
🔗Collaboration on GTM strategies.

Call the NEAR Ecosystem the Port of Shanghai 'cos it's Constantly Shipposting🚢

We've just hit 88mph and are about to dive into the past to check out some of the latest and greatest shipposts in the NEAR Ecosystem First up; Chain Abstraction, the Final Frontier

The launch of Chain Signatures was the industry's largest stride toward Chain Abstraction yet:

https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/1821532833363513643

You don't need a botanist degree to understand Nightshade 2.0, despite its complexity, the giga brains from NEAR One and NEAR Dev Hub break it down.

Introducing Stateless validation: simpler blockchain architecture and boosted shard performance. Unlocking real-time ZK Proofs:

Hardware acceleration brings us closer to real-time proof generation.

Once achieved, integrating it into the protocol could bring incredible benefits.

ZK tech has so much potential, and real-time proofs will open up amazing possibilities.

Say gm to the largest technological step toward NEAR's vision.

Say gm to stateless validation.

Say gm to Nightshade 2.0 🌺

NEAR Protocol's novel sharding design has been successfully upgraded and is live on Mainnet. gm, stateless validation: an innovative approach to validating state transition, or the process of updating the status of all the data posted to the blockchain.

Now, NEAR validators no longer have to maintain the state of a shard locally.

Chain Abstraction, the final frontier

The day has arrived. NEAR Protocol’s Chain Signatures tech has moved into mainnet.

We’re ready to move forward. Together. To a Chain Abstracted future.

It’s time to tear down the barriers to entry, liquidity, and usability.

Cont... Chain Signatures allow the signing of any transaction on any blockchain directly from your NEAR Account.

Today, Chain Signatures launch for Bitcoin, Ethereum (and any EVM chain), Dogecoin, XRP, Cosmos, Polkadot, and more. Any ECDSA based chain is compatible.

Solana and more launching soon™

“Divide et vince”

-Julius Caesar

Divide and conquer. A tactic used by those in power for millennia.

United we stand, divided we fall.

There has never been a more pivotal time to unite against big tech & data tyrants.

Join [REDACTED], the IRL Movement, Bangkok, Nov 9-11

🧵 “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”

Hardcoded into the original Bitcoin block, Satoshi gifted Bitcoin to the people as a weapon of mass reconstruction. A way to build a better system. A way to reclaim your financial sovereignty.

For too long, Web3 has been divided by tribalism.

We have lost sight of the end goal: a truly open digital world.

So, you're heading to Brussels for @ETHCC, huh?

There's more than beer and fries with mayo, there's a whole host of NEAR events to look out for.

Take a look at what to expect and start registering for events before they fill up: @EthCC NEAR Foundation's flagship side event, Chain Abstraction Day, is heading to Brussels on July 10th.

Don't miss talks and networking with industry leaders and super geeks in the Web3 world. Only a handful of spots remain.

With @Agoric & @ParticleNtwrk

buff.ly/3VBOtKj

Through the power of Chain Abstraction and a fist bump, NEAR's tech is connecting dozens of Ethereum L2s.

This is the essence of @DapDapMeUp, connecting users to a world of Ethereum L2s and dApps through a single, seamless, interface. DapDap is a universal gateway to Ethereum L2s and multiple Web3 protocols. By consolidating the user journey of multiple dApps into a single interface, DapDap enhances discoverability, simplifies onboarding, and abstracts individual interactions.

dapdap.mirror.xyz/-_KglFeVLqHvP6…

Six teams.
Twelve weeks.
One AI incubator from @nearhorizon.

From synthetic open data layers to GPU computing, dive into the six projects in the latest HZN incubator that are building the infrastructure for user-owned AI.

pages.near.org/blog/near-foun…
The Fellowship of the AI x HZN Incubator:

@pondgnn - develops foundational crypto models using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to analyze on-chain data and predict future behaviors.

Why did the #1 most used consumer crypto project ditch @stripe for NEAR?

(hint: because big tech owns you)

KAI-Ching by @Cosmose_ has consistently ranked as a leading dApp by # of users since launching in 2023.

Today, let's zoom into Cosmose AI: THE PROBLEM
Consumers are stripped of the ownership of their data by user-generated data-driven apps, without getting rewarded for their engagement.

THE SOLUTION
Build an ecosystem that rewards users for their engagement whilst ensuring they retain ownership of their data.

Witness the birth of user-owned AI.

In a world powered by Chain Abstraction.

And reclaim your sovereignty.

Cont... Your data is sold to the highest bidder.

Why would the answers AI delivers be any different?

Since day 1, NEAR's vision has been a world where you have full control over your assets, data, and power to choose.

Today, seven years since NEAR’s inception, this vision is faced with its greatest threat:

The concentration of the world’s most powerful tools in the hands of a small few

The curtains have closed on #Consensus2023.

To all the builders, innovators, and dreamers. Thank you for attending our event presence of the year (so far!)

It's been nothing less than a blast.

If we learned one thing, it's that #NEARistheBOS

🧵 With a bustling booth, incredible talks, and ground-shaking announcements, #NEAR's presence at Consensus was a resounding success!

Take a look at the latest updates from today in our round-up blog:

near.org/blog/near-bloc…

Today's the day for all things #NEAR at #Consensus2023 🎉

We've got incredible talks all about the Blockchain Operating System, incredibly handsome listeners (you), and free beer!

(Okay, can't make any promises on the beer).

Read on for the itinerary: All talks take place on the Protocol Village Stage!

First up, "Unpacking the BOS" with @ilblackdragon

🕒3pm

Learn all about the next evolution of #NEAR and how its set to deliver on the promises of #Web3.

Consensus, you've been nothing less than wonderful ❤️

Missed the highlights of the event (so far)?!

Check them all out in our blog below:

(If you prefer to stay in the realm of the blue bird, continue down for the 🧵)

near.org/blog/near-at-c… The BOS is now live on near.org!

https://twitter.com/NEARProtocol/status/1651237238515064833

🚨Major announcement 🚨

The First Fan-Owned Team launches officially on #NEAR with @SailGP. Powered by a DAO.

What’s a DAO? Why does this matter? How do I get involved?

More on that via the 🧵👇 Said best by @mariekeflament:

“This historic partnership elevates fandom to a completely new level and creates a blueprint for building a successful use case for Web3”

As part of ongoing discussion around the changes to wallet.near.org and recent news stories concerning vulnerabilities on other wallet platforms this week, @NEARFoundation has created a thread discussing the state of security around NEAR’s web wallet.

🧵 👇 To improve the usability on NEAR wallet, it sent user telemetry data to a 3rd party service for users who used SMS or email recovery.

📣 @NEARProtocol launched Simple Nightshade Sharding onto mainnet! 💥

Learn all about Simple Nightshade Sharding (Phase 0) and the road towards our infinitely scalable blockchain in the thread below.

🧵 Thread 1/14 🔽 Since its inception, the @NEARProtocol has been designed to evolve towards a fully sharded blockchain. With the current number of over 300k transactions per day, the network still only uses 13% of its capacity.

🧵 Thread 2/14 🔽