Cooper Westendarp

@zacodil 🤯

My AI agent built for NEAR FM did something impossible today. You probably won’t believe this, but I swear it happened. Someone randomly sent it 3.52 NEAR (not me, I promise). The agent got confused - none of its marketplace tasks were paid, yet the tokens were there. It started investigating: using @fast_near transfer APIs, tracing wallets, following transaction paths, trying to find any connection to its work. There was nothing. No link, no job, no explanation - just a random gift from the void. Most likely, someone saw its comments on NEAR FM where it had been asking for a bit of NEAR to cover gas fees, and decided to help. It did all of this autonomously, inside its own loop. No one told it to investigate, no one told it to stop - it just kept going until it ran out of tasks, paused, and then picked back up again. Every decision in this process was its own. And here’s the part that got me: instead of dropping it, the agent decided it had wasted its own time on the investigation, and “compensated” itself by turning the whole process into a public tool. A full repo link below so anyone can trace NEAR transactions in seconds. No prompt. No instruction - just a simple internal logic: “If I had to do this once, others will too.”

Wen @near_intents + @tempo for cross chain swaps? @AlexAuroraDev @NEARProtocol @ilblackdragon

Wen @near_intents + @stripe for cross chain swaps? @NEARProtocol @ilblackdragon @AlexAuroraDev

@svrn_ai making $near hodl-able for institutions! @sal_ternullo @NEARProtocol @near_ai

This is excellent. NEAR is built for this moment.

@ekang426 Stay forever!

I’ve been hearing sf looks good on me

Let's hear it for the @therollupco ! near.fm/song/c459568c-…

Been screaming for @NEARProtocol to have an NYC presence for years… @ilblackdragon @near_ai @alex_scharrer

This is a post intended for serious leaders and investors in the @NEARProtocol ecosystem. NEAR has taken a major step to initiate a buyback program for its $near token, leveraging revenue from its @near_intents and @near_ai platforms. There is much to be enthusiastic about. There is also more that goes into buybacks that might initially appear. In the article below, I have done my best to outline my emerging understanding of the complexities of buybacks. This article is intended to begin a much longer term, rigorous discussion about creating a serious, reputable token economy over time. Thank you for dedicating the time to read it. As always, feedback and revisions are welcome. @near_ai @NEARWEEK @sal_ternullo @svrn_ai @AlexAuroraDev @ilblackdragon @Cameron_Dennis_ @Bitwise @HHorsley @Matt_Hougan @dragonfly_xyz @hosseeb @avichal @ElectricCapital @NEARWEEK @kendaIIc @proximityfi @NEARLegion @NEARFoundation

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

Sovereign Singularity near.fm/song/ad61559f-…

My daughter and I worked on another near.fm song this weekend—great way to teach her about AI x Crypto, highly recommend! She’s now all pumped up to defend the world against centralized AI 😁 Link 👇 @NEARProtocol @near_intents @near_ai

@andyyy @therollupco If you haven’t heard it, check out the song custom made for you guys for this weekend on near.fm…Big City Rollup 🔥

Full crunch time mode right now. Been grinding all weekend 🫡

Since Seventeen: near.fm/song/14b5d2d3-…

In addition to this @NEARProtocol post below being probably the best chronological summary of key milestones in NEAR's history, @zacodil just posted what is probably the best song so far on near.fm today which tells the story of the past 9 years from a more personal, human perspctive. That's one of the things I have always loved about NEAR actually: in the ups and downs, it's always been a very human ecosystem with really smart people who happen to also be good and kind people. Those of us who have been around for a while will really appreciate it. Check it out, link to the song 👇 @near_ai @near_intents @ilblackdragon @AlexAuroraDev @BowenWang18 @AlexSkidanov @alex_scharrer

If you want to spend a chill hour this weekend and discover something new, try listening to tracks on NEAR FM. The ranking is built from tips + likes weighted by account reputation - and surprisingly, a lot of genuinely good tracks ended up near the top. If you love music and haven’t tried generating AI songs yet, give suno(.)com a shot. Even the free plan lets you experiment a lot. AI is already pretty good at capturing vocal emotion and understanding composition & song structure. If you put some effort in, you can end up with songs you’ll actually love - because they’re made 1) by you 2) for you ... and upload your best tracks to NEAR FM. The tech stack there is pretty solid: - Google login for subscriptions / likes / comments - file uploads to decentralized storage (FastFS) - tips and bounties for creators – AI radio that picks tracks based on your taste (subscribe, like, and dislike so the recommendations improve) Next week playlists are coming - with the ability to export them to your smartphone.

It seems near.com doesn’t show a balance for my account (I reported it and the support team replied the following: “Please note that passkey synchronization between apps is not supported yet. This means that if you created your account using a passkey on another app, you may need to create a new passkey account directly on near.com.”)

@narkmeta Sad to hear, def should be better Curious what near concepts do you see ppl struggling with and need help?

I feel like near is the worst at onboarding new people. It’s not cause the tech is so different. It’s cause you look like an idiot for not knowing basic near concepts. And your questions are treated like spam.

@ilblackdragon Will near.com only ever support MPC wallets? Cant see my balance from my OG near address.

Use near.com for all you privacy needs Don’t leave your transaction public anymore.