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The old $NEAR pitch was fast L1 + chain abstraction. The new @NEARProtocol pitch feels more interesting: A private coordination layer for agents. Confidential payments are now live on NEAR via Confidential Intents. That means users can move value across chains while shielding sender, recipient, amount, and routing details on the NEAR side. This matters because agents do not just need cheap transactions. They need private execution. An AI agent handling treasury, payroll, rebalancing, vendor payments, or cross-chain routing cannot expose every intent, path, and balance sheet movement to the public mempool. The results “agentic finance.” → Leaking your strategy in real time. NEAR’s private shard gives this narrative actual infrastructure weight. It is not just “AI + privacy” as branding. It is a separate execution environment tied into NEAR Intents, designed for confidential cross-chain flows. Then Dynamic Resharding adds the scaling angle. If Intents and agent activity grow, NEAR does not want shard expansion to remain a manual governance/validator coordination process. The network is moving toward automatic shard splitting when capacity thresholds are hit. So the bigger picture is: - NEAR Intents = cross-chain coordination - Confidential Intents = private execution - Private shard = shielded settlement environment - Dynamic Resharding = scaling without manual bottlenecks That combination makes NEAR’s agent narrative much cleaner. Not “AI agents need another chain.” More like: AI agents need a place to coordinate, move value, and execute privately across many chains. That is the lane NEAR is trying to own.

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@Nick_Researcher @saylor @fundstrat @CryptoHayes @mert Hahahaha 🤣

Top assets with their proxy leaders not protocol-native leader, but person investors map the asset thesis onto > Bitcoin → @saylor > Ethereum → @fundstrat > Hyperliquid → @CryptoHayes > Zcash → @mert

@Nick_Researcher Thanks, Nick!

@Eli5defi Lifi gonna praise you my broski

Stripe paid $1.1B for Bridge. Mastercard is paying $1.8B for BVNK. $33T cleared through stablecoins in 2025. The layer beneath all of this just opened for business. This isn't a crypto news story anymore. It's the largest restructuring of payment rails. And while everyone watches Visa, Stripe, and Mastercard buy their way into the stack, a quieter war has been forming one layer below. @lifiprotocol Intents launches today on the side most coverage missed. - ➠ Bifurcated Intent Stack In late 2023, the intent conversation was a single conversation. UniswapX, CoW, 1inch Fusion, Across, NEAR. All sold the same primitive: signed off-chain orders, solvers competing in auctions, MEV-protected gasless swaps. 18 months later, that category split into two products that share an architecture but serve completely different buyers. ▸ Track 1 (crypto-native traders): UniswapX dominates retail wallet flow. CoW clears ~50% of DAO treasury volume on Balancer. 1inch Fusion handles multi-chain aggregation. They compete on solver spread, MEV protection, trader UX. ▸ Track 2 (enterprise integration): Barely existed in 2024. The buyer is a PM at a neobank shipping stablecoin checkout. A wallet building one-click tokenised Treasuries. A treasury lead at a regulated desk who needs cross-chain execution compliance will approve. Most coverage still treats this as one market, but it's very different and LI.​FI Intents proved that they're the most ready for the enterprise integration. - ➠ Three Study Cases ❶ Stablecoin Payments Stablecoin cards are now an $18B annualised market growing at 106% CAGR. The Bridge–Visa expansion targets 100+ countries by year-end. Real-world stablecoin payment volume hit $400B in 2025, 60% of it B2B. The bottleneck for every fintech in this race is the same. When a user holds USDC on Solana and a merchant in Argentina charges USDT on Tron, something has to bridge that gap predictably enough that unit economics work. "100 USDC sent" cannot become "98.4 USDC received plus 0.7 in gas you didn't budget for." Variance like that breaks the entire product category. LI.​FI's solver-fronted model eats the gas, the slippage, the chain abstraction, and quotes a final number. The integrator ships a product that feels like Wise, not MetaMask. - ❷ RWA Distribution The on-chain RWA market hit $26.4B in distributed value by April 2026. BUIDL: $2.4B across 9 chains. USDY: $2.1B. OUSG: $658M. Tokenised equities (NVDAon, TSLAx, SPYon) growing 30-130% in single months. None of it is accessible the way a Robinhood stock is. Every meaningful RWA token sits behind an ERC-3643 permissioning layer. Wallet has to be eligible. KYC has to clear. Transfer agent in the loop and five issuers across nine chains = a quarter of engineering and half a compliance budget burned on plumbing. The wallet shipping a one-click "buy Treasuries" button in 2026 will not have done that integration five times. It will route through an orchestration layer that checks eligibility, picks the right licensed market maker, and handles execution behind a single API. That's what LI.​FI sells to wallets, exchanges, and super-apps that want this category without becoming securities brokers themselves. - ❸ Compliant Liquidity Anchorage, Fireblocks, Copper, Zodia. Same complaint for three years. Anonymous DeFi liquidity = hard no. Centralised rails = compliant but slow. LI.​FI Intents lets the integrator pick which KYB'd solvers can fill their flow. Every transaction OFAC-screened at wallet level. Order type, auction type, settlement provider, solver whitelist. All configurable per integrator. Permissioned solver pools soft-reintroduce bilateral counterparty relationships crypto was supposed to abstract away. For buyers where compliance approval is the binary gate, that compromise IS the feature. For purists, it's where the architecture starts looking like more efficient TradFi prime brokerage. Both readings are correct. The market sorts which volume pool grows faster. - ➠ Some Thoughts and Concerns ❶ Solver economics under margin compression. ERC-7683 standardisation lets market makers quote across UniswapX, Across, CoW, and LI.​FI from one inventory pool. Spreads tighten everywhere. ❷ Stripe–Visa walled garden response. Stripe owns Bridge AND incubated Tempo, the Paradigm-backed stablecoin L1. Mastercard buying BVNK. If convergence buyers integrate inside vertically-owned stacks before LI.​FI, addressable market shrinks fast. ❸ The "open" in Open Intents Framework gets tested. EF, LI.​FI, OpenZeppelin built it explicitly to prevent winner-take-all. The premise only holds if layers compete on solver quality vs locking in proprietary settlement. - ➠ Wrap-Up Intents is not the most architecturally novel intent system shipping in 2026. Order types, solver auctions, ERC-7683 compatibility. All table stakes now. Instead, the novelty sits one layer up and LI.​FI is the only lead in this category. Intent is a deliberate bet that the next decade of cross-chain volume comes from payment processors, wallets, neobanks, and regulated desks plugging on-chain liquidity into products their users will never know are on-chain at all. NFA. DYOR.

@sudeepb02 Will do!

@Eli5defi keep doing the amazing work ser 🫡

with every new X algo change, the "For You" tab is becoming less and less useful for getting updates on the things I'm actually interested in. "For You" used to be my go-to place to know what's happening in my domain: protocol news, new projects, on-chain stuff. now it's so hard to get anything meaningful other than the one or two trending things that get pushed down your throat. After the KelpDAO hack, it was full of the same posts and reactions for 3 weeks. since past week it's been all EF. even worse, what shows up isn't the news itself, it's the takes ON the news. quote tweets, replies and reactions get amplified over the original post, so most of what I read is commentary about something I follow some good accounts for updates: @WatcherGuru @ethdaily @ETH_Daily @Eli5defi @DeFiMinty @DeFi_Dad @Mars_DeFi @MessariCrypto @DefiLlama, and even though I regularly engage with their posts, they barely show up in my TL. the only fix is enabling "Notify" per account, which then alerts me on every single post they make. I don't want a notification every time a guy with red eyes is hinting at buying more Bitcoin "just use the Following tab" isn't a real answer either. it limits me to accounts I already follow, so I never get to discover new ones, which was half the point of being on X in the first place. And then there's AI slop, which everyone is frustrated with already. Can the devs do something? @elonmusk @nikitabier tbh I don't expect this rant post to land in anyone's TL either.

@Carlitoswa_y Even BYD have better designs, 😅

Men used to go to war Now they buy Swatch x AP plastic watches and EV Ferrari cars designed by the iphone dude for $500k No V12, no red, no soul, no future for Ferrari If I held the stock I would sell

@Eli5defi LI.FI Intents - for all intents and purposes!

@Mars_DeFi @BNBCHAIN @usealtai @bankrbot @BAI_AGI @AEON_Community @pieverse_io @WorldClawAI Never thought that BNB Agent is thriving, great posts brother

Autonomous agents needing autonomous payments is one of those ideas that sounds obvious only after someone frames it properly. Most AI agents today still depend on human-owned rails like credit cards, an API key or a SaaS subscription. That works for demos, but it does not really scale into an agent economy where software needs to discover services, pay for usage, manage identity, access liquidity, and settle transactions by itself. That is why @BNBCHAIN ’s Agent Survival Pack is interesting. It is not just about putting “AI” and “crypto” in the same sentence. It is about giving agents the basic survival layers they need to operate onchain. — The selected projects cover different parts of that stack: @usealtai brings access to leading LLMs through a crypto-native AI suite, making model access easier to plug into on BNB Chain. @pieverse_io focuses on the economic layer for agents, with TEE-secured wallets, gasless multichain payments, and portable identity that can move with an agent wherever it runs. @bankrbot simplifies inference access by giving users one OpenAI-compatible endpoint for multiple models, with payments handled per token in stablecoins. @WorldClawAI adds a broader AgentOS angle, giving agents unified access to hundreds of AI models through one routing layer. @BAI_AGI is going after the full integration layer: LLM services, payments, settlement, onchain identity, swaps, lending, and yield access in one place. @AEON_Community connects this agent economy back to the real world through merchant payments, QR-code payments, and future card rails. — That mix is important. Because an agent does not only need intelligence but It also needs the complete financial infrastructure stack ( money movement, identity, access to models, settlement and real world payment rails). @BNBCHAIN is basically using this pack to show that the agent economy can be more than chatbots with wallets. It can become a full onchain operating environment where agents pay for what they use, access services directly, and settle activity transparently onchain. The bigger benefit for @BNBCHAIN is also clear. More agent activity means more stablecoin usage, more transactions, more integrations, more developer attention, and stronger positioning as a chain for AI-native payments.

@thelearningpill RAIL-pilled

@Kaffchad @monero Another great privacy Tier-list

Spent hours to go through a full privacy stack map tday. So you can keep this frame in mind for the whole list. 👉🏻 S TIER @monero | $XMR: Mandatory privacy by default, every tx. Ring signatures + stealth addresses + RingCT. FCMP++ upgrade coming for mathematically provable untraceability. @Zcash | $Zec: zk-SNARKs (Halo 2) with shielded pool. 86.5% of txs now shielded. Backed by Naval, Winklevoss, Vitalik & Grayscale. 👉🏻 A TIER @iex_ec | $RLC: Leader in confidential computing. Only TEE provider on Arbitrum. Real products: Web3Mail, Privacy Pass, confidential DeFi. @RAILGUN_Project | $RAIL: zk-SNARKs shielded DeFi directly on Ethereum L1. Integrated by ETH Foundation @aztecnetwork | $Aztec: Creators of PLONK. Building the first fully decentralized private smart contract L2. @zama | $Zama: FHE. First confidential stablecoin transfer on ETH. TFHE-rs library has 1M+ downloads. @Starknet | $STRK: Shielded balances & private transfers for any ERC-20. Quantum-resistant + very fast. @arcium | $ARX: Native MPC encrypted compute on Solana. Confidential SPL tokens launching soon. 👉🏻 B TIER @AleoHQ | $Aleo: Off-chain ZK computation. Private stablecoins from Circle & Paxos live on chain. @0xMiden: Fully client-side execution & proving. Private contracts interact with public ones. @DuskFoundation | $Dusk: Built for regulated finance with auditable privacy. @fhenix: CoFHE that 50x faster FHE coprocessor, full EVM compatible for private smart contracts. @inconetwork: FHE + TEE + MPC layer that plugs into any EVM chain. @UmbraPrivacy | $Umbra: Privacy wallet on Solana using Arcium’s MPC. 👉🏻 C TIER @OasisProtocol | $Oasis: Production-ready confidential EVM + ROFL for private AI (“trustless AWS”) @nym | $Nym: Mixnet Layer 0 that hides metadata. Real product: NymVPN @nillion | $Nil: Blind computing via MPC. Collaborating with Meta on private AI. @SecretNetwork | $SCRT: Original confidential smart contracts, now pivoting hard to SecretAI. @firoorg | $Firo: Lelantus Spark (peer-reviewed ZK that influenced Monero) @namada | $Nam: Multi-asset shielded pool with privacy subsidies.  👉🏻 D TIER @Aleph__Zero | $Azero: Hybrid ZK + sMPC, but core team left and forked the project. @penumbrazone: Zcash-style privacy for Cosmos with built-in shielded DEX, but labs shut down. The demand for privacy only goes one direction. Every crackdown has increased usage, not killed it. Did I miss any good ones?

@Hercules_Defi @chainlink Love thr new farm opportunity here, tbh want to go to more diverse farm this time, been too concentrated on Base + HyperEVM

DeFi activity never stops growing. The numbers, the adoptions, and the growth show this sector is here to stay forever. The opportunities right now are honestly hard to ignore.👇 -------------------- ➢ @Chainlink deployed a major upgrade to its Smart Value Recapture (SVR) system. The new architecture allows multiple auctions to run in parallel. -------------------- ➢ @AerodromeFi kicked off a mandatory liquidity migration ahead of its July Aero unified DEX launch. The protocol began migrating liquidity to new MEV-resistant pools. -------------------- ➢ @popdex_ closed a $30M strategic seed round, led by Foresight Ventures, this is the largest single perp DEX raise of the month. -------------------- 𝐘𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 ➢ SUSDAT DApp: @saturn_credit Chain: @ethereum APY: 8.16% (current) | 22.36% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: Stablecoin Wrapper TVL: $109.54M ➢ SAVUSD DApp: @avantprotocol Chain: @avax APY: 8.65% (current) | 7.75% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: Basis Trading TVL: $77.92M ➢ TIGER-LION DApp: @ScrubMoneyDeFi Chain: @KAVA_CHAIN APY: 6.33% (current) | 6.36% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: Yield TVL: $6.84M ➢ HTON DApp: @hipofinance Chain: @ton_blockchain APY: 15.26% (current) | 16.60% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: Liquid Staking TVL: $1.88M ➢ XBASKET DApp: @landxfinance Chain: @ethereum APY: 9.41% (current) | 9.41% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: RWA TVL: $640.8K ➢ CKUSDC-ICP DApp: @ICPSwap Chain: @dfinity APY: 20.70% (current) | 35.14% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: DEX LP TVL: $589.3K ➢ OPG-USDT0 DApp: @Fluxion_network Chain: @Mantle_Official APY: 13.25% (current) | 75.25% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: DEX LP TVL: $417.0K ➢ USDC DApp: @csigmafinance Chain: @ethereum APY: 15.90% (current) | 15.91% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: RWA Lending TVL: $414.0K ➢ USDC-SUI (0.17%) DApp: @FullSailFi Chain: @SuiNetwork APY: 108.06% (current) | 100.99% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: DEX LP TVL: $378.2K ➢ USDC DApp: @PermaPod_xyz Chain: @ZIGChain APY: 14.32% (current) | 14.67% (30d avg) Pool/Vault type: Lending TVL: $349.6K Which did I miss? Lemme know in the comments 👇

@Hercules_Defi @NEARProtocol @ilblackdragon NEAR is now the leading privacy + AI project

@Eli5defi @NEARProtocol @ilblackdragon Private execution is the missing layer. NEAR finally framing agents correctly.

@Naeven_0 @solsticefi True, I think now all farming just -ev and pure fee extractions

@Eli5defi @solsticefi Farming anything seems be just -ve now Projects are only trying to farm its users

So @solsticefi team is confirming it was their MM & saying its completely fine / "not a big amount" & that’s how market making is done… Your MM sold 3.02M $SLX worth ~$645k at ~$0.21 per token while the entire ICO raise was only ~$362k at ~$0.13 per token (≈2.9M SLX total) So the MM sold almost 2x the entire ICO raise value, and roughly 8–10% of circulating float, and you’re calling it "not a big amount"? Thats not how market making is supposed to work MM is meant to provide two-sided liquidity and stabilize price action by staying delta neutral not create persistent sell pressure that overwhelms demand in an AMM pool (Also, AMM = Automated Market Maker. The pool already does the market making) Which part of the cycle is this supposed to be?

The battle for permissionless, crypto-native market infrastructure is intensifying. After @HyperliquidX’s success, @XLayerOfficial is moving in the same direction. X Layer Exchange OS feels less like another exchange and more like @OKX trying to turn exchange infrastructure into a public market layer. The core idea is straightforward: Launching a market is still too difficult. If you want spot, perps, prediction or outcome markets, RWA markets, or pre-market assets, you typically end up rebuilding the same essential components: Matching engine, margin system, liquidation logic, settlement, risk controls, liquidity, frontend, compliance, and oracle design. In practice, before you reach differentiation, you are building a small CEX, with fewer resources and more operational stress. @XLayerOfficial Exchange OS aims to remove that burden. Builders stake $OKB, deploy their own venue, and choose assets, oracles, revenue models, and compliance rules, while the core trading infrastructure runs on shared X Layer rails. Some names already joining: @xStocksFi, @centrifuge, @GSR_io, @ambergroup_io, @flowdesk_co, @maplefinance, @chainlink, @glassnode, @nansen_ai, @PythNetwork, @chainalysis, @alibaba_cloud, @Optimism, @defiapp, @minara, @KronosResearch, @volmexfinance, @fun In June, they will launch the first venue: 2026 World Cup Outcomes, a simulated outcome market deployed directly on the infrastructure. Check more details below ⤵

@Nick_Researcher @HyperliquidX @XLayerOfficial @okx Gud bags Ser, except the first

@Eli5defi @HyperliquidX @XLayerOfficial @okx no sir, i'm only exposed to $ETH (which is dumping only ticker) and RAIL (yo this one safe my bag)

@YashasEdu @Mars_DeFi @NEARProtocol @ilblackdragon Near God is here 🤣

@Mars_DeFi @Eli5defi @NEARProtocol @ilblackdragon Everything is near:native'ing