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Plasma Integrates NEAR Intents for Large-Volume Stablecoin Settlements

Plasma, the L1 blockchain backed by Peter Thiel and Tether, has integrated NEAR Intents to enable seamless cross-chain stablecoin swaps and settlements across multiple networks.

Grayscale Files with US SEC to Launch NEAR Trust ETF, Will NEAR Price Rally Soon?

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By Bhushan Akolkar Jan 21, 2026

Grayscale submitted an S-1 on Jan. 20 to bring its Grayscale NEAR Trust ETF and list it on NYSE Arca under the GSNR ticker.

NEAR Intents Achieves $10B in Swap Volume as Industry Support, Adoption Grow

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By Vini Barbosa Jan 16, 2026

NEAR Intents protocol reaches $10 billion in all-time volume as adoption and industry support continue to grow in 2026.

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NEAR Joins NVIDIA Inception Program for AI Startups, Access to Investors

By Vini Barbosa Jan 13, 2026

NEAR AI has joined NVIDIA’s Inception Program to accelerate its verifiable, privacy-preserving AI tools development with access to advanced resources and networks.

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NEAR Is Now Live on Solana as “Attention Is All You Need” Post Goes Viral

By Vini Barbosa Dec 18, 2025

NEAR Protocol’s token is now tradeable on Solana through NEAR Intents and Orb Markets integration, following viral posts celebrating collaboration between both ecosystems.

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NEAR Achieves 1M Transactions Per Second in Sharded, Test Environment

By Vini Barbosa Dec 8, 2025

NEAR Protocol reached 1 million transactions per second in benchmark tests using 70 shards, demonstrating sharding’s scalability potential far beyond Visa’s peak capacity.

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NEAR, ADI Launch TravAI, an AI-Based Travel Booking Platform

By Vini Barbosa Dec 5, 2025

NEAR Protocol partners with ADI Chain to debut TravAI, where AI agents handle complete travel booking workflows from search to payment using crypto.

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NEAR Foundation Launches AI Cloud, Private Chat for Over 100M Users

By Vini Barbosa Dec 3, 2025

NEAR Foundation introduces AI Cloud and Private Chat solutions with hardware-backed privacy. Brave Nightly, OpenMind AGI, and Phala Network have implemented these tools.

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Prediction Market Kalshi Adds NEAR Support for US Users, Momentum Heats Up

By Vini Barbosa Nov 25, 2025

Kalshi integrates NEAR Protocol, allowing US users to deposit and withdraw NEAR tokens for prediction market trading, with global expansion planned.

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NASDAQ-Listed SVRN Discloses $133M Treasury Holdings of NEAR

By Vini Barbosa Nov 17, 2025

Nasdaq-listed OceanPal subsidiary SovereignAI reveals 53.9M NEAR token treasury worth $133M, representing 4.2% of circulating supply as part of broader 10% acquisition goal.

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NEAR Surpasses AAVE, Trump-Backed WLFI Amid Intents Growth

By Vini Barbosa Nov 7, 2025

NEAR Protocol climbs to 32nd largest cryptocurrency by market cap, overtaking Trump-backed tokens and AAVE with a 24.33% price surge and 232% volume increase driven by NEAR Intents protocol growth.

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NEAR Intents Approaches $3B in Swaps as it Gains Major Crypto Industry Support

By Vini Barbosa Oct 30, 2025

NEAR Intents, a cross-chain protocol on NEAR, approaches $3 billion in all-time volume, with over half achieved in the last month amid growing industry recognition.

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NEAR Inflation Halving Voting Starts, 12% Missing for Approval

By Vini Barbosa Oct 28, 2025

The Near Foundation proposes cutting NEAR’s yearly inflation from 5% to 2.5% through node-level governance voting that started October 28, requiring 80% validator consensus.

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NEAR Votes on Inflation Halving, Cut Emissions From 5% to 2.5%

By Vini Barbosa Oct 21, 2025

Near Protocol validators will vote on halving NEAR’s annual inflation from 5% to 2.5%, requiring 80% approval through node upgrades by October 28, 2025.

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Bitwise Seeks NEAR ETF Approval: Token’s Trading Volume Soars 50%, $3 Next?

By Parth Dubey May 7, 2025

NEAR Protocol saw a 50% surge in trading activity on Wednesday amid Bitwise’s recent SEC filing for a spot NEAR ETF.