$NEAR The protocol, an integrated commerce layer for digital assets, has presented a new blockchain and AI infrastructure stack focused on cross-chain execution and confidential computing. This update was announced at NEARCON in San Francisco. The event brought together representatives from OpenAI, Google, Intel, AWS, Oracle, and Brave.
This release includes a consumer super app built on near.com $NEAR intention. Connect over 35 blockchains through one account, enabling cross-chain swaps, peer-to-peer transfers, and optional confidential transactions without manual bridges.
Confidential Intents limit visibility of cross-chain transfers, deposits, and withdrawals. Transactions will still be verifiable on-chain, but the details may be shielded. This feature is aimed at institutions that require privacy to reduce front-running and copying of strategies.
$NEAR We also introduced IronClaw, an open source AI agent runtime that runs inside encrypted enclaves. $NEAR AI cloud. The agent can run continuously with credentials protected at the hardware level. In parallel, the Confidential GPU Marketplace enables TEE-secured computing for enterprise and government workloads.
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