🚨 Breaking news: @GoogleCloud is integrating Self's proof-of-humanity ZKPs to bring new use cases powering AI adoption & Web3 innovation for human users 🧵 Read more about how Google Cloud & Self are ushering in the era of data privacy ↓

seen a lot of confusion lately about BOS on @NEARProtocol and let me remind you that this chapter is closed. and here is the real story: BOS (blockchain operating system) was NEAR early vision to unify web3 through composable frontends, social apps, and fastauth. but as of mid-2024, it’s been archived. no new features, no updates, it’s read-only. the ecosystem shifted toward to something more powerful: → chain abstraction → intent-based infra → AI agents → modular, composable apps (without a BOS layer) BOS played its part. now it’s time for the next chapter. builders are focused on infra that scales across chains, not just one ecosystem. this is the real NEAR. pd: if you’re not sure about something on NEAR I suggest you use @LearnNear fact checker 👀 total game changer

One of @NEARProtocol’s superpowers is its super lightweight node infrastructure. It takes 7 minutes to sync a chunk validator on NEAR mainnet and about $27/month to operate. This is one of the major unlocks of NEAR’s stateless validation. Bulletproof state transition is at the core of what crypto is about (blockchains are ultimately just state machines). But the state is massive and inefficient to store. Stateless validation on NEAR means validators can prove that a transaction belonged to the previous state without needing to maintain the entire state of a shard locally. A bunch of benefits from this lightweight design: -Reduces devops requirements to support a more decentralized network -Reduces gas costs for storage operations by ensuring that state accesses are all in memory -Enables validator rotation on every single block to ensure security Every NEAR protocol upgrade and product release is really an ensemble of very complex, low-level technological improvements. Grateful to have the opportunity to unpack NEAR’s innovations in depth with @tw_tter on @epicenterbtc.

Everclear has secured a strategic investment from the NEAR Foundation to scale Crosschain Clearing for Digital Assets. Capital has been deployed via equity, $CLEAR acquisition, and an operational loan. Here's what the @NEARProtocol and Everclear partnership unlocks! ↓

I think Intents from @NEARProtocol may have product market fit. I swapped $USDC into $XRP using NEAR Intents in a couple of seconds, without needing to off-ramp to an exchange, swap into XRP, and then on-ramping into the XRP Ledger. I'm loading some XRP to earn through @moremarketsxyz very very very soon. gmore.

We’ve been heads down building @moremarketsxyz over the past quarter. Overall, very excited for what's coming next: - We’ve accumulated $2.5M in $RLUSD, and we’re launching the @moremarketsxyz app this week to fill the other side with $XRP. - This is the first of its kind: users can deposit directly from the XRP Ledger without any bridging mechanics, powered by @NEARProtocol Chain Signatures and intents. - @NEARProtocol makes it super easy to build products like this above. The next asset is NEAR 👀 - Our audits have been completed by @HalbornSecurity, @sherlockdefi, and @sigp_io with more underway. - We’re working on some very interesting RWA products that could open up the largest open interest to on-chain depositors (larger than that of crypto perps). If you haven't signed up for MoreMarkets yet, here is your link, you need it for Wednesday →