Starting to think @NEARProtocol might be the first chain actually designing for agents instead of just throwing AI words around for marketing.

$NEAR Intents already processed $19.7B+ crosschain volume across 32 chains.
– 24.3M swaps
– 580k monthly active addresses
– $77M average daily routed volume
– $37.8M cumulative fees
Users don’t even need to map out the execution anymore. Just say the outcome , then solvers fight to fill it.
This is quietly becoming agent-native behavior.
Agents probably gonna love their Chain Signatures design too.
It lets a #NEAR account control native accounts on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Sui, XRP, Doge and 30+ other chains through MPC signing.
So an agent can hold BTC, trade on Solana, LP on Ethereum, settle through NEAR and manage the whole thing from one execution environment.
Most #AI larps in crypto still focused on launching agents as speculative assets.
NEAR focused on building rails for agents to actually operate economically. They already added #TEEs with Shade Agents and IronClaw.
Meaning agents can run inside hardware-secured environments where keys and memory stay isolated even from the infra provider itself.
Everything NEAR building kinda sits between all the emerging standards right now.
– x402 trying to become payment rails for agents
– MCP becoming the connectivity layer
– Google pushing UCP/AP2
– Visa building agentic commerce APIs
– Stripe launching Tempo + MPP
→ NEAR trying to become the settlement and orchestration layer underneath all of it.
One of the few L1s that pivoted early enough toward the agent economy and agentic commerce future.