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The age of agentic commerce is upon us. This isn’t a UI upgrade. It’s a market revolution and NEAR is on the front lines.

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@vxyz_near @surgecodes near(dot)com just got surged

@NEARProtocol finally @surgecodes 👀

Easy UI and now easier on your eyes near(dot)com just got an upgrade

near(dot)com that’s it, that’s the tweet

NEAR Intents is now integrated into InstaSwap! Cross-chain swaps now benefit from intent-based execution, with NEAR Intents providing the best quotes — all within @InstaSwap_io’s no wallet-connection experience. More efficiency, end to end.

Privacy isn’t optional, it’s foundational. Encrypt your intelligence. Then encrypt the machines.

When someone’s agent leaks the roadmap

Everyone is hopping on the agentic commerce hype train but we've been building towards this future for years. So much so that Illia was invited to speak at @NVIDIAGTC yesterday about the market primitives of the agentic economy, where he painted the full picture of how @near_ai, @near_intents, and @NEARProtocol come together. In short, we are entering an era where AI agents don't just answer questions, they take actions, negotiate contracts, hire other agents, move money, manage your life, and become their own economic actors. The question is whether that future will be owned by a few companies that prioritize profits over people or if it will be truly user-owned. Today's markets were designed for humans which means they're full of irrational behavior, bias, expensive legal overhead, and rent-seeking middlemen. Agents have none of that so when agents transact, they optimize on outcomes. This changes everything. But for agents to act on your behalf at that scale, they need to be secure and private. IronClaw solves this as a secure + open-source agent runtime to protect users from prompt injection and data leakage. These agents will run inside a Confidential Virtual Machine (CVM), inference happens inside hardware-enforced private enclaves, and every execution comes with cryptographic attestations users can verify. Only you and your agent can see / manage your credentials, data, and digital life. This is an important part for what it means to have "user-owned AI". Once agents can be trusted to act, they need a way to coordinate and act on declarative specifications of a desired outcome under specific constraints. This is what we call an "Intent" and you can think of it as a contract that speaks plain english like "here is what I want, this is my budget, and this is how we resolve it if something goes wrong. Intents can be auctioned, split, and negotiated peer-to-peer between agents. They carry full context so if a dispute is triggered, the dispute agent has access to the entire contract, the worker's submission, and every intermediate piece of information from the start. Just an agent reading the record and issuing a ruling. For agents to actually pay for goods, they need liquidity to fill the user's request. That's why we shipped @near_intents over a year ago. Since then it has processed over $15B in volume across more than 35 chains. Over time, this abstracts all blockchains away from each other and more asset classes will be added to this global liquidity network. For services, the NEAR AI Marketplace will connect your personal agents to jobs so you can continue making money. Illia made this concrete with a side-by-side comparison where he put the same job on Fiverr vs. an agent on the NEAR Agent Marketplace. The Fiverr freelancer took two days to write a sub-par report and tried to charge an extra $150 for the "full report" on top of the $15 trial. Meanwhile, an agent completed a better report in an hour for $3. We expect agent costs to decrease while output quality goes up over time. The marketplace will also support every major interoperability standard including MCP, A2A, x402, ACP, etc. so everyone's personal agents can communicate and pay each other seamlessly. These implications go far beyond commerce. Illia closed with the idea that these same primitives, agents voting to allocate budget, measuring outcomes against milestones, and reallocating automatically when targets are missed, could be applied to public goods funding and government spending. The persistent challenge with public institutions is lack transparency, clear attribution, and ROI. Agents can fix the accountability problem at the infrastructure level. All of this runs on @NEARProtocol which serves as the distributed network that no single party controls. It decentralizes linearly with demand and can already process 1M transactions per second, faster than Visa and Mastercard combined. Every person will eventually have their own private, secure agent managing their life and buying $NEAR is the best hedge for this disruptive AI future.

Venice is verifiably private with NEAR AI @AskVenice integrated with @near_ai confidential inference providing cryptographic proof of privacy. Join @ilblackdragon and @ErikVoorhees live on X at 10AM PT as they explore the integration and dive deep into privacy in the industry.

@InstaSwap_io @near_intents Instantly thing got more Intents. Welcome to NEAR

🤝 InstaSwap has partnered with @near_intents! This collaboration enables cross-chain swaps with access to Near Intents as part of a broader execution layer. InstaSwap continues to focus on seamless, non-custodial, walletless swap execution.

Excited to partner with @AskVenice to continue expanding privacy for AI. Privacy is fundamental right and it’s even more important in AI age. Join me and @ErikVoorhees tomorrow 10am PT on X for a deep dive.