NEAR Protocol Builds Privacy-Secure Agentic AI Experience
NEAR Protocol is developing an Agentic experience centered on privacy and security, based on verifiable compute, to address the current issues of AI infrastructure harvesting user data without oversight.
ilblackdragon points out that existing Labs allow Agents to access user accounts to perform actions, but users find it difficult to know the specific behaviors, while NEAR is committed to preventing such risks.
NEAR positions AI as a new computing interface, with Intents supporting commercial layers for shopping, Hyperliquid positions, supply chain procurement, etc.; the Agent marketplace is now live, allowing users to hire Agents to complete real tasks, aiming to cover the entire workforce and supply chain sectors.
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ABAB AI Insight
NEAR Protocol, previously focused on cross-chain and developer experience as a Layer 1 public chain, is now shifting towards a privacy-centric Agentic infrastructure, continuing its path of expanding from foundational protocols to application layers, proposing a decentralized alternative to centralized AI data monopolies.
In terms of capital pathways, NEAR is investing resources into verifiable compute and the Agent marketplace, utilizing the Intents mechanism to mobilize on-chain liquidity and real-world execution resources, with the aim of building a user-sovereign AI ecosystem that attracts payment and agency fees in labor and supply chain scenarios, forming a new revenue loop.
Similar to early privacy data projects like Ocean Protocol and Solana's attempts in DeFi Agents, NEAR is currently at a critical stage of transforming AI infrastructure from data-harvesting models to user-controlled ones.
Essentially, this represents a restructuring of the industry chain: shifting from centralized Labs dominating data harvesting to privacy Agents on verifiable compute, with mechanisms provided by blockchain ensuring execution transparency and proof of ownership, breaking the monopoly of AI interfaces by a few giants, and promoting the migration of computing resources, agency services, and commercial intents to decentralized networks.
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