Bowen Wang

@familiarcow @NEARProtocol Welcome Tyler!

After over four years building THORChain, I’m starting a new chapter. I’m joining @NEARProtocol to build NEAR Intents, focusing on BD & growth. This is a conviction bet on DeFi, Privacy, AI, and the NEAR team. I couldn’t be more excited to join a strong ecosystem of builders. I think NEAR has several advantages that will help us accelerate the next wave of DeFi adoption (and far beyond) through Intents: 1) Market structure: There is no single unified marketplace. Instead, a competitive solver network sources the best price from anywhere. Competition is the edge. It’s why NEAR achieves strong price execution and continues to improve as the network grows 2) Privacy: Private transactions extend privacy to any connected asset without sacrificing self custody. Institutions and serious individuals don’t want their business to be your business. Ironically, many rely on centralized exchanges today for that privacy. We can bring that activity onchain without making everyone’s transactions public 3) Compliance: If DeFi wants broad adoption, sensible compliance is unavoidable. The challenge is doing it without compromising censorship resistance and permissionlessness. Serious actors will not come onchain unless their safety and users are protected 4) Deposit channels: This is gold standard UX. Send assets to an address and top up your onchain account. Simple & familiar, giving CEX-like parity without giving up self custody. That removes friction and accelerates adoption 5) Brand and trust: Branding is underrated infrastructure. NEAR is in the perfect position for this 6) Narrative alignment: Stablecoins as USD rails. Native Bitcoin rails. Blockchains as infrastructure. Onchain privacy. Agents transacting onchain. NEAR sits at the intersection of every major narrative that continues to gain momentum 7) AI alignment: Agents will play a growing role in everyday life. NEAR sits at the intersection of AI coordination and crypto rails. That convergence is only beginning and has yet to meaningfully play out, as the space is still very young. NEAR is an AI org at its core. 8) Builders who ship: I’ve been consistently impressed by the team’s velocity and focus on real products that improve users’ lives. Not vaporware. In the arena, trying things 9) A superset of all finance: Today the focus is crypto to crypto rails. The end state is much larger. Stocks, derivatives, forex, prediction markets, commodities, lending. Intents can become coordination infrastructure for all financial venues as they move onchain. 10) Beyond just finance: Intents are not limited to capital markets. They enable subjective requests executed by agents. Find an apartment, book a trip, sell a car, coordinate logistics. Intents as programmable infrastructure for real world coordination, not just finance. This is largely unexplored space which will grow massively in the coming years and Intents is the perfect coordination layer I still fully intend to remain a THORChain community member. That’s who I am and what I considered myself since Day 1 over five years ago and I don’t see that changing. I’m immensely proud of what we built over the last few years. I also will continue maintaining Rune Tools as the network continues to evolve. I’m infinitely grateful to those who helped me along the way, especially Chad, Gavin, and the 9R team who gave me the opportunity to work on the cutting edge. Personally, it’s very bittersweet for me and I’m sad to leave the team, but also very excited to start on a new chapter for myself. One where I think I have a major opportunity to help to accelerate DeFi, Bitcoin, AI alignment, & the principles that helped keep me in this space. Infinite thanks and gratitude to my friends and colleagues (you know who you are) I feel like I have so much more I want to accomplish and I couldn’t be more excited to be in the arena at the cutting edge of crypto rails, privacy, and AI at NEAR Much love ❤️ Tyler FamiliarCow

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Leo Nightly now runs GLM-5 inside NEAR AI's Trusted Execution Environments, upgrading from DeepSeek V3.1. GLM-5 is currently one of the best open weight models from Z.ai that leads every other open model on reasoning, coding, and agentic benchmarks. It's running inside Nvidia-backed TEEs via NEAR AI, which means your conversations are processed in a hardware-secured enclave where no one, not Brave, not NEAR, not anyone, can see your prompts or responses. Every computation is cryptographically signed so you can verify the model running is actually the model you selected. This is what we mean by moving from "trust me bro" to "trust but verify." Most AI assistants ask you to take their privacy claims on faith. Leo with NEAR AI TEEs gives you cryptographic proof. Update to the latest Nightly build and select GLM-5 with the "Verifiably Private with NEAR AI TEE" label in Leo to try it.

@zacodil @jmack53855265 @ilblackdragon Timeline about what

@jmack53855265 @BowenWang18 @ilblackdragon I don't remember the timeline. @BowenWang18 ?

Nightshade 3.0 - the biggest architectural upgrade since NEAR launched 5+ years ago. Most people will see the headline and scroll past. Don't. Here's what it actually is and why it changes the game 👇

Underrated but keeps delivering

NEAR is money for agents

NEAR.com is here! For the first time, you can transact confidentially with any asset, across all chains, with one account – powered by @near_intents.

It is worth highlighting that the paper discusses the partial TEE case when the GPU is untrusted (no TEE inside GPU) and does not affect the approach of @near_ai where CPU and GPU TEE work together

@MSBIntel Can you send me a DM

@BowenWang18 Hey @BowenWang18 trying to reach you brother?

Please let us know if the increase in gas limit would affect your smart contract

I think this is especially important for agents like @openclaw that have a lot of accesses to personal information

Going from 0 to 10b in a year is incredible. It's only going to accelerate from here and we will see intents expanding beyond digital assets this year

Unified liquidity through @near_intents!

It's like Stripe but for crypto

BREAKING: $NEAR, the @NEARProtocol token, is now live on Solana 🔥

Attention is All You Need

@mert Thank you ser. This made my day. We are working on GTM

NEAR seems to me a top 2-3 underrated team in crypto it's the only technical team as talented as Solana with the results to show for it, v smart devs it is also still founder-led with Illia (the guy who helped invent LLMs) if their GTM gets fixed, no reason why it's not top 10

@ben_kurrek Thank you ser

1M TPS at 1 block per second is insane. GG team. Love the work.

Excited to see the enhancements from the recent 1M TPS milestone roll onto NEAR mainnet. Sharded contracts also went live on mainnet, which allow smart contracts on @NEARProtocol to benefit from horizontal scaling as well. In the past, a smart contract is confined to a single shard, so there is a problem of a single smart contract getting too large and degrading the scalability of a shard due to state growth. Now smart contracts can also be fully sharded with global contract code and state stored under user accounts. It is a huge step towards complete blockchain scalability!

@mihaieremia Around 15k

@BowenWang18 What was the max TPS per shard ?

1M TPS is a serious milestone not just for NEAR but for the entire blockchain industry. Traditional payment processors like Visa and Mastercard can only handle around 80k transactions per second. This scaling feat proves blockchain infrastructure is more than ready for mainstream adoption. This benchmark used real nearcore code, affordable hardware (only 8 core CPUs per node), and realistic cross-shard traffic. We used 70 shards in the benchmark and it showcases that horizontal scaling through sharding truly works and you don't need expensive machines to get to 1m TPS. Our scripts are open-source and publicly verifiable so the wider blockchain ecosystem can validate these claims. Very proud of the NEAR One team’s work here. These runs helped us analyze and make numerous engineering enhancements across NEAR’s execution and consensus layers that we’ve rolled into the latest version release. And 1M TPS is not nearly the limit. Between sharded smart contracts, dynamic resharding, and separation of consensus and execution, NEAR will keep scaling even further horizontally. We will continue to open-source our benchmarks and performance as we discover the full possibilities of sharded infrastructure.