About
NEAR is the open infrastructure powering the agent economy. NEAR unifies liquidity across 35+ chains, keeps execution and inference confidential, and scales to over 1 million TPS.
Value proposition
NEAR is open blockchain infrastructure pitched at the agent economy: NEAR Intents for cross-chain execution across 35+ chains with sub-second settlement and $19B in volume, confidential execution and private inference through NEAR AI, and a protocol built to scale past a million transactions per second. Co-founded by Illia Polosukhin, one of the researchers who introduced the Transformer architecture.
- Business
- Crypto protocol
- Who it’s for
- Founders For Developers







