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Blink and it's final. NEAR Protocol just dropped 600ms blocks + 1.2s finality on mainnet. Blazing-fast performance and secure execution—finally, a chain that delivers both Some chains talk about fast blocks. NEAR delivers real finality in 1.2 seconds. No compromises. No waiting. Just confidence. ⚡ 600ms blocks 🛡️ 1.2s... show more

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Vini Barbosa 🧑‍🚀🏴‍☠️1 year ago

Congratulations! Huge milestone. Any chain not building towards these numbers (or better) will soon see a massive users' and builders' outflow — migrating to those like Near, MultiversX (soon), Sui, Aptos, and Monad. Is the 1.2s finality also true for cross-shard txs?

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Jared not Jerry1 year ago

Faster and better for products building with NEAR

Chainspect1 year ago

Great to see block times and finality improved! 🚀

NEARWEEK1 year ago

!submit @nearwekbot

Modulo Labs1 year ago

Congrats, team!

ℯ𝓁3𝓃𝒶 🎀🫧✨1 year ago

gNear

George Axell1 year ago

Are you mocking @MultiversX ? :))

finiola•1 year ago

Lfg gNEAR

GCRYPT🦇🔊1 year ago

You can never go wrong using near protocol🔥🔥

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🚀 NEW EPISODE 🚀 Scaling the Agentic Internet Friederike Ernst 🦉 chats with Bowen Wang, Head of Protocol @ Near One, about blockchain scaling, AI, and how NEAR Protocol sets the ground for AI-native apps & the agentic economy. ‘Attention Is All You Need’, co-wrote by Illia Polosukhin in 2017, laid the foundation for arguably one of the most consequential tech breakthroughs in our recent history. 1 year later, Illia founded Near AI, which later became NEAR Protocol. They were visionaries ahead of their time and, although AI took several more years before becoming a viable product, the experience of scaling databases would later prove valuable and applicable in blockchain world. As a result, NEAR Protocol is one of the first blockchains to implement execution layer sharding, asynchronous execution and stateless validation, bringing the finality time down to 1.2 seconds, with a block time of 0.6 seconds. Don't forget to RT & follow Epicenter Podcast! Topics discussed in this episode: 0:00 - Introduction 3:30 - Bowen’s background 4:47 - Near’s pivot from AI to blockchains 8:26 - The role of Near One 9:13 - Near’s tech stack upgrades 13:39 - Optimizing network architecture 17:08 - Stateless validation & block propagation 21:10 - Sharding & asynchronous execution 29:12 - Message passing between shards & shard ‘equality’ 35:51 - Challenges of implementing stateless validation 41:05 - Applications benefiting from Near’s finality speed 44:18 - Intent-based infrastructure 47:10 - AI use cases on Near 52:27 - Expanding Near’s ecosystem 54:43 - Development challenges 57:55 - Near’s vision and goals

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57,107 views • 1 year ago

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Soubhik Deb

100,874 views • 6 months ago

We put TRON mainnet inside a Star Fox level. Then we let the news cycle write the final boss. Meet TRXFOX: a browser rail shooter flying escort over live TRON DAO data, powered by ChainGPT. Most blockchain games wear the chain like a skin. A logo on a billboard, a token in the corner, nothing underneath. We built the opposite: a game where the mechanics are the chain's mechanics. You're a pilot. Your job is escorting USDT transfers to finality, five blocks and a boss per run. The chain is genuinely live under you: → The HUD streams TRON mainnet in real time, block height and transactions per block, refreshing every ~3 seconds because that's TRON's actual block time → Your briefing shows the exact block you're defending at takeoff. Mine just read #84,619,787 → Your cannons run on Energy. Hold SHIFT to stake and recharge, mirroring how staked TRX provides Energy on the real network → Every zone cleared is a block hitting ~3 second finality The enemies are the network's real threat model. Your wingmate is SR-27, named after the 27 Super Representatives producing TRON's blocks while you fly. Now the good part. The boss doesn't exist until you take off. ChainGPT's news API pulls a live TRON or USDT headline. The LLM turns it into a villain attacking the network. The image API paints its pilot's portrait. The name lands on the health bar before you reach the final block. Yesterday it was TRONIC TERROR, Master of USDT Mayhem, born from a real exploit story that morning. Next week's boss hasn't happened yet. Score is TX Secured, the count of transactions you protected. No tokens, nothing to buy, just Star Fox with a working diagram of TRON's plumbing inside it. The whole thing was lab-coded with the ChainGPT Claude Code skill. One prompt wired the news API, the LLM and the image generator into the boss pipeline. Another turned TRON's staking model into the Energy meter. What used to take a game team a sprint now takes a prompt and an afternoon. Install: /plugin install ChainGPT-org/chaingpt-claude-skill Anyone can build on TRON with ChainGPT.

ChainGPT

41,658 views • 1 month ago

I tried to open a simple trade the other day. Moved funds… swapped an asset… realized I had to bridge again before I could even trade perps. By the end, I’d hopped across three platforms and paid fees three times. And I just sat there thinking… there has to be a better way. That’s when I found Xyra Labs. It’s not just another DeFi app … it’s building a cross-chain super-app designed to make trading seamless, efficient, and human. Here’s what stood out: ➤ Seamless swaps across 9+ EVM & non-EVM chains with Split Routing for CEX-level pricing and low slippage ➤ Perp futures via Xyra Perps: on-chain CLOB trading, gasless transfers, and keyless smart accounts ➤ Borderless liquidity: bridge assets across chains effortlessly for unified DeFi ➤ The future: Perps V2 with cross-chain deposits, cross-margin trades, higher leverage, and new markets Trading here finally feels smooth. No extra confirmations, no juggling chains, no friction .. just execution. If DeFi is about efficiency, capital, and speed, Xyra Labs is building the infrastructure that actually delivers. Try it yourself ➥ Wizz

I tried to open a simple trade the other day. Moved funds… swapped an asset… realized I had to bridge again before I could even trade perps. By the end, I’d hopped across three platforms and paid fees three times. And I just sat there thinking… there has to be a better way. That’s when I found Xyra Labs. It’s not just another DeFi app … it’s building a cross-chain super-app designed to make trading seamless, efficient, and human. Here’s what stood out: ➤ Seamless swaps across 9+ EVM & non-EVM chains with Split Routing for CEX-level pricing and low slippage ➤ Perp futures via Xyra Perps: on-chain CLOB trading, gasless transfers, and keyless smart accounts ➤ Borderless liquidity: bridge assets across chains effortlessly for unified DeFi ➤ The future: Perps V2 with cross-chain deposits, cross-margin trades, higher leverage, and new markets Trading here finally feels smooth. No extra confirmations, no juggling chains, no friction .. just execution. If DeFi is about efficiency, capital, and speed, Xyra Labs is building the infrastructure that actually delivers. Try it yourself ➥ Wizz

𝓣𝓪𝓼𝓱𝓪

35,652 views • 6 months ago

🚀 The Impossible, Made Native. Kima just shattered a long-standing barrier in finance and Web3 infrastructure. For the first time ever, atomic settlement can happen across fiat → cards → stablecoins → wallets in a single, seamless, on-chain transaction. 💳⚡ No intermediaries. No bridges. No popups. Just pure protocol-level settlement. With Kima On-Ramp: ✔️Users buy stablecoins with a card ✔️Funds land directly on-chain in seconds ✔️Developers integrate it all with one SDK ✔️And fees? Lower than anything you’ve seen, because there’s no middleman to pay! This is not “just another on-ramp”, but the first universal financial rail built for the real world of crypto, apps, wallets, and programmable money! If you're building the future of fintech, the rails are finally here. 🌍 🔗 Read the full story:

🚀 The Impossible, Made Native. Kima just shattered a long-standing barrier in finance and Web3 infrastructure. For the first time ever, atomic settlement can happen across fiat → cards → stablecoins → wallets in a single, seamless, on-chain transaction. 💳⚡ No intermediaries. No bridges. No popups. Just pure protocol-level settlement. With Kima On-Ramp: ✔️Users buy stablecoins with a card ✔️Funds land directly on-chain in seconds ✔️Developers integrate it all with one SDK ✔️And fees? Lower than anything you’ve seen, because there’s no middleman to pay! This is not “just another on-ramp”, but the first universal financial rail built for the real world of crypto, apps, wallets, and programmable money! If you're building the future of fintech, the rails are finally here. 🌍 🔗 Read the full story:

Kima Network

111,250 views • 10 months ago

Here's why $NEAR is a no-brainer in 2025 👇 Everybody loves NEAR Protocol and there is a reason for that (or many). Near is well-positioned to be one of the leading blockchain ecosystems this year. Let’s explore the “whys”. TIMESTAMPS Quick Bio – 00:00:15 Inflation Reduction Proposal – 00:00:43 Technically Speaking – 00:02:40 Near Intents – 00:03:37 Chain Signatures and AI – 00:04:39 Decentralization and DeFi – 00:05:59 I have my Near account since March 2023, but it has been inactive for a while, as I was focused on other stuff. However, the recent inflation halving proposal by HOT DAO (HOT Protocol 🔥) and LiNEAR (LiNEAR Protocol) brought my eyes back to the project and I really like what I’m seeing. So, here’s my first point. If this proposal passes, NEAR could lead the way in what appears to be a market trend of improving the tokenomics, as more and more experts realize holders have been overpaying for these networks' security, with a too high supply inflation. Solana tried something similar, but the proposal was rejected. In my opinion, validators voting favorably to that show a commitment to the chain for the long term. On the other hand, voting against it signals a short-term vision focused on milking the emissions as much as possible, at the ecosystem’s expense. The voting currently goes with 28% “YEA” votes, needing 66.76% to pass. Most of the validators who already cast their votes went with the yes. 2pilot, avb, openshards, qbit, sicmundus, fox, and intear are, so far, the only seven who voted “NAY”. This proposal has the vocal support of most influential figures in the Near ecosystem, including the Near Foundation (NEAR Foundation), led by Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈), which makes me believe it will pass and show the power of the halving in getting the market’s attention and presenting a huge investment asymmetry for the native token right now. Is this everything I like about NEAR? Definitely not. This is just what got me looking at it again, just to discover a (very much) thriving ecosystem, full of interesting things happening at the same time. I’ll mention a few, but there is (much) more. Technically speaking, Near is a high-performance blockchain, with really low fees and one of the fastest finalities, with 600ms block time and approximately 1.8s finality. It also has my favorite architecture for internet-scale scalability, using sharding, while keeping a high decentralization standard. As a learning programmer, Near also has one of the best dev experiences (in my limited opinion). The documentation is clear, has a logical journey, presenting from the basic anatomy in details to more complex SDKs and tools. I’m also in love with the near-cli-rs. A command line interface program written in Rust for seamless interaction with the Near blockchain. Allowing wallet creation, chain query, sending transactions, staking, smart contract calls, and more. Near Intents. This was the second thing to get my attention, while studying the project again, and it sets a whole new standard for blockchain interactions, especially cross-chain. Basically, users can declare an intention (for example, swap Ethereum-USDT to Bitcoin) and a network of solvers, running on Near, will find the best path to accomplish this task. We recently saw an impressive 465k-worth swap happening in exactly this example, paying 0.55% of trading fees to thorswap.near and swapkit.near. According to a Dune Dashboard, the protocol accumulates nearly $400 million in volume since its launch not long ago, in November 2024. *obs.: half this volume was achieved in the last month. Massive! Near Intents is possible due to two other very interesting things: (i) Chain abstraction, and (ii) a solid AI infrastructure. Chain abstraction (via Chain Signatures) is a powerful interoperability feature, allowing Near to friendly connect different blockchains as if they were part of a single network. Users and devs benefit from wallet, address, fees, and cross-chain bridges abstractions - not even noticing they are interacting with multiple chains. One wallet that powers everything. Powered by Near. On AI, Near is just built differently. Not for the hype, but for the solution. The team has been looking for AI solutions much before the ChatGPT fever. Actually, they started as an AI company, pivoting to blockchain later. So, being one of the most promising networks for the growing AI economy was just the natural path to follow. There is an extensive and super complete research piece on that topic, recently published by Reflexivity Research (Reflexivity Research) on July 1st. It presents Near as an AI-optimized blockchain, covering AITP, Shade Agents, x402, Near Intents, and more. Definitely worth the reading. Wrapping up this content with one more aspect that really matters to me is how Near remains truthful to decentralization, data ownership, censorship-resistance and open-source primitives that have been increasingly abandoned by other key players. A simple example of that is how the Near Foundation decided to deprecate its public APIs, encouraging the surge of a more decentralized and competitive market of SaaS projects, with a highlight to Lava Network, that recently appeared in my timeline talking about that. DeFi is also huge on Near, leveraging all the previous properties I mentioned, creating a truly decentralized liquidity pool via Rhea Finance, connected with other chains like BTC, Ethereum, ZCash, and more. All that contributes to Near having the second-largest monthly active addresses, with nearly 50 million, only losing to Solana’s nearly 90 million. In the meantime, NEAR, the token, is not even at the 30rd position by market cap. Crazy stuff. To (finally) wrap it up, I also want to mention Near’s consensus decentralization. While having a low node-count, the network has a Nakamoto Coefficient of 11, which is not bad at all. Surely, there is still room for improvement, which is possible as becoming a validator is accessible staking and hardware-wise. If you liked this content, make sure to click the like bottom and share it around. Follow me on X or subscribe to my YouTube channel, both at vinibarbosabr. See ya!

Here's why $NEAR is a no-brainer in 2025 👇 Everybody loves NEAR Protocol and there is a reason for that (or many). Near is well-positioned to be one of the leading blockchain ecosystems this year. Let’s explore the “whys”. TIMESTAMPS Quick Bio – 00:00:15 Inflation Reduction Proposal – 00:00:43 Technically Speaking – 00:02:40 Near Intents – 00:03:37 Chain Signatures and AI – 00:04:39 Decentralization and DeFi – 00:05:59 I have my Near account since March 2023, but it has been inactive for a while, as I was focused on other stuff. However, the recent inflation halving proposal by HOT DAO (HOT Protocol 🔥) and LiNEAR (LiNEAR Protocol) brought my eyes back to the project and I really like what I’m seeing. So, here’s my first point. If this proposal passes, NEAR could lead the way in what appears to be a market trend of improving the tokenomics, as more and more experts realize holders have been overpaying for these networks' security, with a too high supply inflation. Solana tried something similar, but the proposal was rejected. In my opinion, validators voting favorably to that show a commitment to the chain for the long term. On the other hand, voting against it signals a short-term vision focused on milking the emissions as much as possible, at the ecosystem’s expense. The voting currently goes with 28% “YEA” votes, needing 66.76% to pass. Most of the validators who already cast their votes went with the yes. 2pilot, avb, openshards, qbit, sicmundus, fox, and intear are, so far, the only seven who voted “NAY”. This proposal has the vocal support of most influential figures in the Near ecosystem, including the Near Foundation (NEAR Foundation), led by Illia (root.near) (🇺🇦, ⋈), which makes me believe it will pass and show the power of the halving in getting the market’s attention and presenting a huge investment asymmetry for the native token right now. Is this everything I like about NEAR? Definitely not. This is just what got me looking at it again, just to discover a (very much) thriving ecosystem, full of interesting things happening at the same time. I’ll mention a few, but there is (much) more. Technically speaking, Near is a high-performance blockchain, with really low fees and one of the fastest finalities, with 600ms block time and approximately 1.8s finality. It also has my favorite architecture for internet-scale scalability, using sharding, while keeping a high decentralization standard. As a learning programmer, Near also has one of the best dev experiences (in my limited opinion). The documentation is clear, has a logical journey, presenting from the basic anatomy in details to more complex SDKs and tools. I’m also in love with the near-cli-rs. A command line interface program written in Rust for seamless interaction with the Near blockchain. Allowing wallet creation, chain query, sending transactions, staking, smart contract calls, and more. Near Intents. This was the second thing to get my attention, while studying the project again, and it sets a whole new standard for blockchain interactions, especially cross-chain. Basically, users can declare an intention (for example, swap Ethereum-USDT to Bitcoin) and a network of solvers, running on Near, will find the best path to accomplish this task. We recently saw an impressive 465k-worth swap happening in exactly this example, paying 0.55% of trading fees to thorswap.near and swapkit.near. According to a Dune Dashboard, the protocol accumulates nearly $400 million in volume since its launch not long ago, in November 2024. *obs.: half this volume was achieved in the last month. Massive! Near Intents is possible due to two other very interesting things: (i) Chain abstraction, and (ii) a solid AI infrastructure. Chain abstraction (via Chain Signatures) is a powerful interoperability feature, allowing Near to friendly connect different blockchains as if they were part of a single network. Users and devs benefit from wallet, address, fees, and cross-chain bridges abstractions - not even noticing they are interacting with multiple chains. One wallet that powers everything. Powered by Near. On AI, Near is just built differently. Not for the hype, but for the solution. The team has been looking for AI solutions much before the ChatGPT fever. Actually, they started as an AI company, pivoting to blockchain later. So, being one of the most promising networks for the growing AI economy was just the natural path to follow. There is an extensive and super complete research piece on that topic, recently published by Reflexivity Research (Reflexivity Research) on July 1st. It presents Near as an AI-optimized blockchain, covering AITP, Shade Agents, x402, Near Intents, and more. Definitely worth the reading. Wrapping up this content with one more aspect that really matters to me is how Near remains truthful to decentralization, data ownership, censorship-resistance and open-source primitives that have been increasingly abandoned by other key players. A simple example of that is how the Near Foundation decided to deprecate its public APIs, encouraging the surge of a more decentralized and competitive market of SaaS projects, with a highlight to Lava Network, that recently appeared in my timeline talking about that. DeFi is also huge on Near, leveraging all the previous properties I mentioned, creating a truly decentralized liquidity pool via Rhea Finance, connected with other chains like BTC, Ethereum, ZCash, and more. All that contributes to Near having the second-largest monthly active addresses, with nearly 50 million, only losing to Solana’s nearly 90 million. In the meantime, NEAR, the token, is not even at the 30rd position by market cap. Crazy stuff. To (finally) wrap it up, I also want to mention Near’s consensus decentralization. While having a low node-count, the network has a Nakamoto Coefficient of 11, which is not bad at all. Surely, there is still room for improvement, which is possible as becoming a validator is accessible staking and hardware-wise. If you liked this content, make sure to click the like bottom and share it around. Follow me on X or subscribe to my YouTube channel, both at vinibarbosabr. See ya!

Vini B |「 thecoding 」

40,183 views • 1 year ago

Every asset you own should be yours to use. Anywhere. On any chain. Without asking permission from a bridge, a custodian, or a wrapper. That's not how Web3 works today. But it's how it should work. And it's why we built Ika. Today, we take a massive leap forward. Mainnet Upgrade: EdDSA Support Here's why this matters: ECDSA is the signature algorithm for Bitcoin, Ethereum, other EVM chains and practically most chains support ECDSA-based account. There are however chains who don't support ECDSA, and only support EdDSA-based accounts such as Solana, Zcash, Cardano, Stellar, Near and others. Together, these two signature schemes cover the vast majority of Web3. Ika launched with ECDSA. Today, we add EdDSA. That means dWallets can now sign transactions natively on practically every major chain in existence. Not through bridges. Not through wrapped tokens. Directly. With Zero-Trust. And because Ika is signature-based, and doesn't require an integration from the supported chains, any chain using these standards is already supported. No custom code. No integrations. No waiting. One network. Native access to all of Web3. The future isn't bridged. It's coordinated. 🦑

Every asset you own should be yours to use. Anywhere. On any chain. Without asking permission from a bridge, a custodian, or a wrapper. That's not how Web3 works today. But it's how it should work. And it's why we built Ika. Today, we take a massive leap forward. Mainnet Upgrade: EdDSA Support Here's why this matters: ECDSA is the signature algorithm for Bitcoin, Ethereum, other EVM chains and practically most chains support ECDSA-based account. There are however chains who don't support ECDSA, and only support EdDSA-based accounts such as Solana, Zcash, Cardano, Stellar, Near and others. Together, these two signature schemes cover the vast majority of Web3. Ika launched with ECDSA. Today, we add EdDSA. That means dWallets can now sign transactions natively on practically every major chain in existence. Not through bridges. Not through wrapped tokens. Directly. With Zero-Trust. And because Ika is signature-based, and doesn't require an integration from the supported chains, any chain using these standards is already supported. No custom code. No integrations. No waiting. One network. Native access to all of Web3. The future isn't bridged. It's coordinated. 🦑

Ika「🦑」

65,124 views • 9 months ago

I made a short Video about something that annoys every single crypto user.... 👉 Waiting... 😑 Did you know that the average person spends about 5 years of their life just waiting for stuff... Waiting in line, Waiting for transactions, Waiting for pages to load, Waiting for food to heat up, We wait for everything and no one likes waiting... At least I know I don't! If you use crypto, you know the pain of waiting for bridge transactions. You select your tokens, pick your chains, hit confirm, and then you just sit there... 5 minutes, 10 minutes... Sometimes it fails completely and you have to start all over again. It's one of the most frustrating things in Web3. That's why I started using Bitget Wallet's bridge and I've never looked back. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's the fastest bridge I've ever used. One tap and your tokens are on the other chain in seconds. Not minutes. Seconds. And it has never failed on me. Not once. Every single transaction goes through. It supports 25+ chains so it doesn't matter where your tokens are or where you need them to go. You just bridge and it's done! If you're still using bridges that make you wait and pray, try Bitget Wallet 🩵. You've waited long enough.

I made a short Video about something that annoys every single crypto user.... 👉 Waiting... 😑 Did you know that the average person spends about 5 years of their life just waiting for stuff... Waiting in line, Waiting for transactions, Waiting for pages to load, Waiting for food to heat up, We wait for everything and no one likes waiting... At least I know I don't! If you use crypto, you know the pain of waiting for bridge transactions. You select your tokens, pick your chains, hit confirm, and then you just sit there... 5 minutes, 10 minutes... Sometimes it fails completely and you have to start all over again. It's one of the most frustrating things in Web3. That's why I started using Bitget Wallet's bridge and I've never looked back. I'm not exaggerating when I say it's the fastest bridge I've ever used. One tap and your tokens are on the other chain in seconds. Not minutes. Seconds. And it has never failed on me. Not once. Every single transaction goes through. It supports 25+ chains so it doesn't matter where your tokens are or where you need them to go. You just bridge and it's done! If you're still using bridges that make you wait and pray, try Bitget Wallet 🩵. You've waited long enough.

Maverick 🧱

16,624 views • 5 months ago