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@zacodil One thesis to rule them all

Post-quantum migration is the throughput cliff nobody priced in. Today's chains rely on tiny signatures (~64 bytes - Ed25519 on Solana, ECDSA on Bitcoin and Ethereum). When quantum computers arrive, those break. The NIST replacements are 50-260x bigger - ML-DSA-65 weighs 3,309 bytes vs Ed25519's 64. Verification gets 2-3x slower too. Swap Ed25519 for post-quantum signatures with no other changes: - Solana craters from ~3,000 TPS to a few hundred - Bitcoin drops from ~7 TPS to below 1 - Ethereum L1 falls from ~15 to ~3-5 TPS And that's before Ethereum's real nightmare: BLS signature aggregation - the thing letting 12,000+ validators sign one block compactly - has no post-quantum equivalent yet. Without aggregation, every validator's signature ships and verifies separately. Block size and verification cost both explode. Sharded chains like NEAR have a clean way out. NEAR runs multiple parallel chains (shards), each independent. Post-quantum migration hits each shard the same way it hits Solana. But total throughput is per-shard capacity times number of shards. If 6 shards each drop 90%, total drops from 2,000 to 200 TPS. Scale to 60 shards, you're back at 2,000. The constraint shifts from cryptography to organization - more validators populating more shards. Both are already in the dynamic sharding roadmap. Monolithic chains can't replicate this. Solana has Firedancer - a ~10x client speedup good for absorbing PQ overhead once, but only once. Ethereum can push activity to L2s using quantum-safe proof systems - real strategy, helps user transactions, doesn't fix L1 consensus. Bitcoin has the worst path: no account abstraction, fixed block size, ECDSA-locked. The pattern: sharded chains scale out by adding shards. Monolithic chains scale up once, then wait on research breakthroughs (post-quantum aggregate signatures, hardware-accelerated verifiers). "Quantum threat" is sold as a 2030 problem. The architectural problem is now. The high-TPS narrative was always built on a specific cryptographic floor. That floor moves.

@NearSuperApp @vinibarbosabr Always has

Vini gets it.

@ilblackdragon @near_ai At some point @coinbase needs to recognize who has been paving the way for crypto w/o borders

USDC is now live in @near_ai Agent Market with confidential execution via Confidential Intents. Confidential stablecoin settlement is a baseline requirement for agentic commerce. Businesses will not deploy agents that expose their revenue, counterparties, or financial operations on a public ledger. @NEARProtocol is building the solutions to help businesses use USDC to make the most of their AI agents, without revealing sensitive information.

@ilblackdragon @Keith_in_BZ @near_ai I hope others will follow suit.

Bermuda is setting a standard for governments’ use of AI for handling citizen data with @near_ai. When a public servant submits their personal data to AI, even the infrastructure provider shouldn't be able to see it. AI systems that handle sensitive information should support confidentiality by design.

@shitzuonnear 😆

Me and 25 others when $NEAR back to #ATH When ATM 🤲

@NEARProtocol 💪

Most AI agents are built on trust assumptions. IronClaw is built for adversarial reality. Check out the full IronClaw v0.28 release update 👇

IronClaw v0.28 - IronClaw Reborn is now live. We rebuilt the runtime from the ground up. Now: - Every tool call runs in isolation - Every outbound action needs approval - The host defines the rules, not the agent - WeChat support added - Thinking enabled for Ollama models

Tokyo, let’s build. 🇯🇵 The future of agentic systems will be defined by who truly controls them. Join us for IronClaw workshop on May 13 in Shinjuku & build agents that protect your privacy while acting autonomously. 東京で会おう！RSVP ↓

@NEARLegion ikimashou

🇯🇵 Konnichiwa Japan! NEAR Legion is back in Tokyo for another meetup! Empower your AI. Protect your privacy. Deploy your first secure IronClaw agent in minutes during this hands-on workshop. 📍 Shinjuku | May 13 | RSVP 🔽

WHAT'S GOING ON WITH @CosmoseAI's KAIKAI? 5 kaiching-controlled wallets have just sent over 120K $NEAR to treasury.kaiching amid discussions of the project having ceased operations Here are the transactions from today: + coldwallet.kaiching sent 10.9993 Ⓝ + hotwallet.kaiching sent 15,281 Ⓝ + reserve.kaiching sent 90,010.0504 Ⓝ + users.kaiching sent 7,760.5 Ⓝ + wallet.kaiching sent 10,495 Ⓝ treasury.kaiching has a balance of 1,305,990 Ⓝ In April, NEAR monthly active addresses dropped from >40M to 2.2M KAI-CHING was, knowingly, the largest metric-activity factor in the NEAR blockchain and we also know that gas fess were, to some extent, subsidized by NEAR endowments to abstract the user experience Some people are calling NEAR's activity "fake metrics," because of that, which I strongly disagree with as these were, afaik, real addresses interacting with the NEAR blockchain under the hood of what looked like a popular app Nevertheless, the community would certainly benefit from more clarity here -- either by CosmoseAI or NEAR teams A few questions that should be answered: 1. What has happened to Cosmose, KAIKAI, and KAI-CHING? 2. What does the team intend to do with these 1.3M NEAR in treasury.kaiching 3. Why did the team start to consolidate this money there today? I might have more questions for later

Should have used near.com Confidential trades, no MEV and best prices across 150 assets of 35 chains

The @NEARProtocol is becoming post-quantum-safe. See below for the roadmap to quantum safety, starting with adding a quantum-secure signing scheme in Q2. We originally built the protocol with expectation cryptography will need to change due to progress in quantum computing. We knew there would be a need to expand the cryptography set, so NEAR allows multiple signing schemes by design and users will be able to use whichever one they prefer. We also design NEAR account model to not depend on any particular cryptography and allow to manage keys as "devices". We’re proactively releasing the first quantum-safe signing scheme this spring, the first of many. Allowing wallets and partners to add support to it and users to secure their accounts early. We want to give users as much time as possible to rotate their keys in a proactive way and have piece of mind. In parallel Near One is going to upgrade cryptography across secure the rest of the protocol. More to come on this, but I'm excited for these steps and I feel NEAR is well-positioned to lead in the quantum transition for our space.

@ilblackdragon @Keith_in_BZ @NEARProtocol 🫡

@jp_dawg @BobbyO_ 🫡

I made a fully on-chain game served directly from a smart contract. Only possible on $NEAR. Users say: I can't believe I was lied to. .@BobbyO_ told me this is only possible on $ICP ! - some user I just made up Pretty dope - JP ironclaw.icypee.xyz