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Been researching @Keycard_ for weeks and this is getting wild ➥ Remember when hardware wallets meant chunky USB dongles? Those days are over. What I found in my research changed how I think about crypto security. ✦ The Shell just launched pre-orders in April 2025 ✦ - shipping October. This isn't just another hardware wallet. ➥ It's a modular system where you slip credit-card sized "Keycards" into a Shell device with screen, keypad, and camera. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ✦ Here's what caught my attention: ⪼ 100% MIT-licensed firmware - every line of code is public ⪼ Works with MetaMask, Rabby, BlueWallet, Sparrow, imToken via QR codes ⪼ 18+ hour battery on replaceable Nokia BL-4C (when did you last hear that?) ⪼ Air-gapped QR signing using EIP-4527 standard ⪼ Duress PIN feature - enter special code under threat, generates different wallet addresses ✦ Let's talk Market context how actually big it is. Hardware wallet market hitting $583M in 2025, growing 24.2% annually. North America leads adoption, but everyone's still stuck with USB devices. ✦ The problem they're solving Current wallets force you to trust closed firmware or deal with cables. Shell costs €99 with 2 cards vs Tangem's $59-79, but you get a trusted display and open source everything. ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ✦ Hidden detail nobody talking about so I decided to mention this They have a "Cash applet" - separate keypair for low-security stuff like event tickets. Completely isolated from your main wallet, no PIN needed. Smart move for everyday interactions. ✦ vs Competitors breakdown: ⪼ Ledger/Trezor: USB-dependent, closed ecosystems ⪼ Tangem: Had genuine-check bypass vulnerability in 2024, closed firmware ⪼ Shell: Open source, works everywhere via QR ➥ Team behind it: Built by the Status Network crew (@ethstatus) - the decentralized messaging people. @keycard_. Been building since 2018, now on applet version 3.1.0. What's happening right now: Pre-sale launched April 23rd with exclusive discounts, global release October 2025. First batch selling fast. The genius part is Cards work without Shell too - just tap your phone's NFC or use USB reader on desktop. Lose the Shell? Buy another. Cards are your real security. ✦ Look at some technical specs that matter ⪼ EAL6+ JavaCard secure element ⪼ 1.8" OLED display + keypad ⪼ NFC, QR (ERC-4527/UR 2.0), optional USB-C ⪼ Supports Bitcoin (SegWit & Taproot), Lightning, all EVM chains ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ This isn't just another hardware wallet launch. It's the first truly open, modular approach to self-custody. When the market's projected to hit $3.3B by 2033, betting on transparency feels right. My take: Hardware security shouldn't be a black box. Shell makes it crystal clear. CC ♡ @0xcyp, @PajicF, @theCyberMonkX @0xnadeem @ethstatus @statusl2 Team

I want to share why I delegated to @_fiatisabubble for NEAR House of Stake <br>He is an active community mod and provides exceptional service to members of the Legion by helping them with missions. You should too! Delegate to fiatisabubble.near nearblocks.io/txns/9muNNVfHT…

Ya , i guess you are right bcz $NEAR has near intent who crossed 18 billion dollars revenue as swap is inside a dead project It has IronClaw agent which provides privacy and safety as in agent is from dead project It has near. com for confidential swaps and people using it and it is from dead project Are u serious right now, stop spreading this much hate and wrong information People are tired from this

Part.1 Reasons not to invest in $NEAR 1.@NEARFoundation shady transaction ongoing and been like that for some many years 2. NOT TRANSPARENT 3. NO HYPE BEHIND literally all they rely on some ironclaw shit and @near_intents 4. DEAD PROJECTS just look at the old projects…

@Web3Adii @R2D2zen @ripchillpill @AlitaIntel yoooo thanks adeel

@R2D2zen @ripchillpill Here we go @AlitaIntel @rishuz321

Working on a new [redacted] with @ripchillpill Watch his account tomorrow…

> have been using IronClaw for a while now and can confidently say the security holds up well. the credentials do not come into contact with the model; they only come into play when there is an actual request from the network side. no telemetry whatsoever, all encryption local and most providers say these things, but IronClaw actually works this way. > however, I think the skill library in ClawHub is still limited and is not enough for practical workflows. any speciality and you have to write your own WASM tools for that purpose. > then the TEE attestation issue should be fixed as well. currently, all I can do is take on face value IronClaw's claims about running inside a secure enclave. user-verifiable remote attestation would make the privacy promise completely trustless.

One final call for the Mailbag mission. 📥 Share your feedback on @IronClawAI, secure, open-source agents on @near_ai cloud. ⏰ Deadline: Sunday, 17 May, 11:59 PM UTC Complete it to reach Ascendant before the next set of missions. Agentic Era missions begin next week. Share your feedback below 👇

> ngl every other L1 you are picking one narrative and hoping it wins. > NEAR you are just long everything at once. crypto, AI agents, stablecoin rails, privacy one asset. and then the grayscale ETF staking provision on top of that. BTC ETF earns nothing ETH never got staking approved NEAR filing includes it from day one. > pension funds earning protocol yield is a different game entirely.

fixed the typo for you NEAR is the only asset that lets you go long crypto, AI agents, stablecoin rails, and privacy all at the same time 🧵

> the agent wallet part is undersold. > every AI agent needs its own scoped key and today you're either hardcoding secrets or praying your custodian doesn't get breached. derived key per scope that dies after one call is exactly what agentic infra needs. and it only works because NEAR is the only L1 running a production MPC network anyone can actually query today. > no ETH research paper does this. NEAR ships it

MPC Vaults are live on OutLayer. Every embedded-wallet provider (Privy, Magic, Dynamic, Web3Auth) controls the key infrastructure. You bring the users. Try to leave and you find the trap: per-user export, most users never move, you forfeit the base. The lock-in is the whole moat. We wanted to ship this without the moat. Here's how MPC Vaults work: you set up a tiny contract on your own NEAR account. That contract anchors every wallet OutLayer generates for your users. The actual keys live inside a secure enclave, get derived only when needed, and never persist anywhere - not even with us. The master they all flow from is tied to your contract, not ours. You own the anchor. We just do the work. The exit is the point You can stop using OutLayer at any time. Run the same derivation in your own TEE (we ship the exit code). Query NEAR MPC from your vault, get the exact same 32-byte master, regenerate every wallet, every key, every secret. None of your users notice anything. We can't lock you in. The master was never ours to hold. Why it has to be NEAR This only works because NEAR ships a production MPC network anyone can query. No other L1 has it. You can't replicate this with ETH MPC research papers or threshold ECDSA experiments. You need a live network deciding "yes, this contract can request this master." NEAR has it shipping today. What you actually build - Mint NEAR, EVM, Solana, and Bitcoin addresses for users from a single OAuth login. Custodial or non-custodial, your call - Gasless transactions via NEAR Intents. Users never touch a gas token on any chain - Wallets for AI agents and sub-agents, each with its own derived key per scope - Encrypted secrets (API keys, env vars) decryptable only inside the TEE - On-demand signatures, the key lives in the enclave for one call and dies there Same UX as Privy. Self-custody underneath. No vendor moat. Building AI agent infra or anything that mints wallets at scale? DM us. We integrate hands-on with the first teams. Docs in the reply.

This is one of my best things that happened to me like I am a very unprofessional person but after using IronClaw I do my whole day task as per schedule, i got notification time to time for my task and it is amazing that it doesn't leak my credentials too So it's easy to use and a privacy agent which does work on my behalf so always grateful to IronClaw and also one thing I want to tell u that sometimes it took time to give answer like answer is great but sometimes it takes 40-50 sec to give answer so if this thing will change then it will be best for everyone

> the ZEC volume is just one asset flowing through it. > Brave already integrated NEAR Intents with 80M users, that's not a thesis that's already live. > and with the fee switch on since february every single one of those transactions is buying back NEAR. > the toll booth isn't being built, it's been collecting for months

The $NEAR TLDR 📌What NEAR Intents actually is 📌Why $1.5B in shielded $ZEC volume runs through it 📌The fee switch that flips NEAR deflationary The toll booth on the privacy migration, breakdown 👇

@laurashin the fee switch already went live february 23rd, fees are already converting to NEAR buybacks. hayes is describing it like it's coming but it's literally already running. zcash volume is just the accelerant

Arthur on why the Zcash and NEAR integration is the quietly building mechanism that flips NEAR from inflationary to deflationary "Shielded Zcash lets you swap and send any coin, USDT on Tron, Bitcoin, anything, and that transaction will not point back to you. Completely anonymous" "The integration between shielded Zcash and NEAR intents means every time one of these transactions happens the NEAR protocol earns a fee" "If volumes grow that fee accumulates over time and flips NEAR from an inflationary to a deflationary protocol. That is what will cause the price to rocket higher"

@LowBeta Arthur Hayes Loves Truly 💕 $NEAR and that's my stand too x402 + agentic commerce is the thesis and NEAR Intents is already live across 35 chains. hayes is early to say it publicly, most still haven't connected the dots

Arthur Hayes ❤️ $NEAR (Me too)

honestly the margin close requirement within 24h is the part people are sleeping on. no new positions, and if you don't act they force close you anyway. at first that sounds harsh but think about it reopening into a volatile market with open margin positions and no liquidation bots running normally is actually the riskiest combo possible. forcing users to close protects both sides. rhea couldve just reopened and let people figure it out, they didn't that's the difference

Phase 3 Controlled Reopen live 12th May in between 5-10PM UTC Expected: • User access is restored • Liquidations are paused for 24 hours — use this window to add collateral or repay debt before the liquidation bot resumes • Margin trading positions must be closed within 24 hours — no new positions can be opened • After 24 hours, all open margin positions will be force closed Note: Normal liquidation thresholds won't apply during this period, but forced liquidation can still occur if your real collateral falls below your real debt.

Let me get this straight anon: every coin $NEAR touches surges like its alt season? * $ZEC on near intents: explodes 💥 * $VVV using near verifiably private inference: explodes 💥 Is your coin going to be next?

Michael pitched $NEAR on stage with me yday Took a look, I like this thesis - particularly with the $ZEC links through NEAR Intents

@Aryanbabariy @NEARLegion @NEARProtocol @ilblackdragon ayeeeeeeee dayuuuummmm 🫶🏻🫶🏻❤️

Just got 200 $NEAR for becoming vanguard of @NEARLegion Always thankful for everything I got from @NEARProtocol I grew myself with NEAR ecosystems more than anywhere I have been NEAR gave me platform NEAR gave me privacy and security NEAR gave me founder @ilblackdragon ( great vision and one of the powerful mind I have ever seen) NEAR gave me confidential swaps NEAR gave me my first AI agent @IronClawAI NEAR gave me mentors like @rahul_goel_007 @_fiatisabubble @halfbld NEAR gave me my first irl event At the end ... NEAR gave me future as NEARVANA I always be with NEAR and support NEAR whole life My target is to make my first $100k with NEAR .... Again thank you for everything

@AlgodTrading ngl private AI is way harder than people think, "we don't store your data" is not the same as proving it NEAR AI runs inference inside TEEs, hardware attestation means you can verify your prompt was never seen. not a policy, math who else is shipping that

With $zec running i think private AI will become a big narrative the next few months People should have the right to privately interact with their LLM’s

announcing near-hydra 🐍 @NEARProtocol's full stack, wrapped into one powerful cli + mcp for ai agents. → 10+ chains, 1 near account → sign btc/eth/sol & more from any agent → swap any → any in one call → no bridges. no extra keys only on $NEAR npm i -g near-hydra-mcp github.com/nikshepsvn/nea…

the list buries the NEAR call tbh everyone watching this space knows TAO and Render. the interesting move is that NEAR is the only one on this list where the AI layer and the payment/settlement layer are the same product. agents built on NEAR AI can transact cross-chain through Intents natively, no third party bridge or middleware that's not a roadmap thing either, $15B+ has already moved through it

Why I Believe Early Opportunities in the Next Crypto Cycle Will Come from AI-Curated Results 👇 I’m convinced that major moves in the next cycle won’t be spotted the old way. What I meant is that early alpha in 2026-2027 will increasingly come from AI-curated results. Traditional discovery is broken by noise, spam, and overload. AI agents and decentralized intelligence layers are becoming the new signal. I see the catalysts accelerating this niche, and the top active projects I’m personally watching. [1] The Problem: Traditional Crypto Discovery Is Dead CT has become the most-muted topic on the platform. Users are drowning in AI-generated spam, “InfoFi” engagement farming, and low-quality promo posts. CryptoQuant’s founder even called out the flood of bot content making it impossible to separate signal from noise. I’m seeing the same pattern everywhere: – Billions of data points from prices, news, onchain metrics, sentiment… hit us daily. – Manual curation via timelines or Discords can’t scale. Meanwhile, the broader AI market is exploding: projected to hit $376B in 2026, with a long-term path to $2.48T by 2034. The crypto-AI subset is smaller but growing insanely fast from ~$5B in early 2023-2025 to projections of $55B by 2035 at a 26.8% CAGR. AI agents already handle up to 45.7% of actions on platforms like Binance AI Pro without human input. In crypto, early experiments show agents spotting patterns and executing faster than humans ever could. The old watch timelines meta is being replaced by AI-curated feeds, autonomous agents, and intent-based discovery. [2] Catalysts Driving Explosive Future Development in AI-Curated Crypto This is real infra and macro tailwinds are aligning: → Decentralized Compute & GPU Shortages: – Big Tech’s AI capex is forecasted to top $700-800B in 2026 alone. Centralized providers can’t keep up, creating massive demand for decentralized alternatives. – Projects providing on-demand GPU power and inference are seeing verifiable revenue. → Agentic Economy Boom: – 2026 is the year of autonomous AI agents with their own wallets. They’ll execute trades, rebalance portfolios, buy compute/data, and participate in DAOs. – Predictions include at least 5% of DeFi managed by agents by EOY 2026 and x402 payment standards powering 30% of Base daily txns. – McKinsey sees agents adding $2.6-4.4T in annual value across use cases. Gartner expects 40% of enterprise apps to feature task-specific AI agents by 2026. → Onchain AI Maturity: – Subnets, verifiable inference, and intent-based UX are going live. Chains are embedding revenue-generating AI apps directly. – DePIN for compute has grown GPU capacity 700%+ since 2023. → Institutional + RWA Convergence: – AI agents need transparent, auditable rails for capital allocation. Blockchain becomes the settlement layer for AI-driven finance. – Reports from KuCoin, Grayscale, and Galaxy all highlight DeAI as the dominant growth sector in 2026, backed by real usage metrics instead of pure speculation. In short: Information overload + exploding AI capabilities + crypto’s programmable trust = a perfect storm where AI-curated results become the dominant discovery mechanism. [3] Top Active Projects I’m Eyeing Right Now I’m focusing on projects with live products, real revenue/activity, and strong positioning in curation, agents, or intelligence layers. Here are the ones standing out to me: > @opentensor | $TAO - “Bitcoin for AI”. – ~$3.2-3.4B cap, 128+ subnets spanning model training, inference, and agents. – Subnet expansion to 256 and new LLM training are key upcoming catalysts. Highest trading volume in the AI sector. > @NEARProtocol | $NEAR - Highest developer activity in AI/blockchain infra. – AI baked into UX with natural language dApp building, automated contracts. – Strong grants for AI projects and decentralized data labeling. One of the cleanest large-cap plays for usable AI onchain. > @rendernetwork | $RENDER - Decentralized GPU marketplace – Solving the exact compute bottleneck Big Tech faces. – Enterprise H100/H200 onboarding and ML training subnets make it a core infrastructure pick for any AI agent economy. > @virtuals_io | $VIRTUAL - Pure-play AI agents narrative. – Cap recovering around $440-740M range. – Focuses on autonomous agents that can create, own, and monetize IP… perfect for curated discovery and execution. > Emerging agent-focused L1s like @GoKiteAI. I’m increasingly allocating research time and conviction here because AI-curated results solve the single biggest friction in crypto. They’ll be the ones surfaced first by intelligent, autonomous systems. 2026 is when this moves from experiment to infra. The data, catalysts, and live projects are all lining up.

@nikshepsvn the fee switch math is what nobody's modeling $30M/yr fees, $40M/yr emissions, and every new billion in Intents volume tightens that gap further. the coordination layer thesis is cool but there's already real tokenomic feedback running right now

Legit coins (non majors) that you can consider buying with longer hold durations: $HYPE $ZEC $NEAR I think everything else is pretty much a trade

Qwerti Seed Round is coming. i don't say this lightly most projects at this stage are still building promises. > @QwertiAI already has a live product 70+ chains, 60M tokens, non-custodial, self-funded from day one. >> the Seed Round isn't the beginning of something. it's the first time outside capital is entering something that already works. ───────── think about what that means for timing. most people discover a project after the raise. after the token. after the hype cycle peaks and early believers have already positioned. ✦ right now before the Seed Round closes is the window that doesn't come back. → the app is live at qwerti.ai → the XP system is running → the leaderboard is active → new partnerships are being secured this week the people who show up now, trade, refer, and build their on-chain history with Qwerti are the ones who will look back at this week as the one that mattered. ───────── i've been in crypto long enough to know that the "i wish i knew earlier" feeling is almost always preceded by a moment exactly like this one. this is that moment for Qwerti. → qwerti.ai