Reached 2.5 million daily active addresses, ranking 4th among L1 blockchains.

Hosts a weekly game night event with a $30 NEAR token prize pool on 2026-01-12.

Sponsored the BUIDL conference in Lisbon beginning on January 7th, 2026.

Recorded 1.89 billion total transactions in 2025, ranking 5th among blockchains analyzed.

Bitwise filed an application with the U.S. SEC for a NEAR Strategy ETF on December 30, 2025.

Averages 219k new wallets per day over a 3-month period ending December 2025.

Nominated for "Best In Privacy" award with winner to be announced on December 30th, 2025.

Featured in a long-form research piece by Hivemind Capital analyzing decentralization approaches across major blockchain networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Hedera, Ripple, Avalanche, Polkadot, Cardano, NEAR, Tezos, Plume Network, and Sui Network.

Listed among top 10 losers in CoinGecko top-100 for 2025 with -76% decline and $2B market cap ranking #56.

Token is now live on Solana.

Launched validator program with Dappnode and Meta Pool to expand the validator set, targeting operators already running Dappnode infrastructure.

Available for trading with up to 5x leverage on Wasabi Protocol.

Binance delists NEAR/FDUSD margin trading pair on December 23, 2025, at 09:00, affecting both cross and isolated margin markets.

Zcash DeFi integration comes soon on RHEA platform powered by NEAR Intents.

Polymer releases Lean Intent Framework combining NEAR Protocol with Prove API and Ethereum's Open Intents Framework, seeking design partners for implementation.

NEAR Intents expands to 20+ chains including Cardano with 100+ assets routing, BOS + account-abstraction UX ships, and ecosystem TVL reaches nine-figure levels ($100M+). NEARCON 2026 schedules for February 23-24, 2026 in San Francisco.

NEAR Intents records 53,988 swaps on December 13th, 2025, a 362x increase from 149 swaps on the same date in 2024.

Illia presents NEAR Intents technology at Solana Breakpoint 2025, positioning it as a Universal Liquidity Layer for cross-chain functionality.

$NPRO token launches on NEAR Protocol and NEAR Intents in 3 days.

NEAR generates $204K in 30-day AI revenue, ranking 12th among 13 AI cryptocurrency projects measured in a revenue comparison.

NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat launch with hardware-backed verifiable privacy for AI inference, providing developers encrypted attestable environments for building on-chain AI agents. Social activity metrics show 854K interactions, ranking 7th among AI crypto projects.

Kinsu app integrates NEAR AI technology to power its chatbot with private inference for securing personal chats.

NEAR partners with ollm_ai to power their confidential compute gateway, scaling privacy-first AI infrastructure across Qatar and Europe.

ADI Foundation partners with Near Protocol alongside 50+ institutions across real estate, energy, and payments sectors.

VanEck projects NEAR revenue growth from $1.5B currently to $9.5B by 2030 in AI-crypto sector, part of $10.2B total AI-crypto revenue forecast. Flash Rewards program launches offering 11% annual yield through Crypto Earn.

Zcash shielded transaction chain forked for NEAR, restoring ZTARKNEAR collaboration between Starknet, Zcash, and NEAR protocols.

Intents surpasses $8 billion in all-time trading volume.

Nearcore v2.10 protocol upgrade goes live on mainnet, introducing deterministic account IDs and sharded smart contracts implementation, with execution and consensus layer optimizations tied to the 1M TPS benchmark achievement.

NEAR Intents experience triple-digit monthly growth rate, while price reaches lowest level since October 10th.

ADI Chain mainnet goes live as settlement layer for UAE Central Bank-regulated dirham-backed stablecoin, with NEAR Protocol building TravAI on the L2 and ADI token listed on Kraken, Crypto.com, and KuCoin from day one.

CoinShares Altcoins ETF (DIME) and 4 additional ETFs feature NEAR, providing institutional exposure. Angela Kreitenweis appointed Head of Governance at House of Stake.

AI sector adds $870M with NEAR and TAO leading the market bounce as capital rotates into AI risk assets.

CoW Swap integrates NEAR Intents as a cross-chain provider, connecting the two intent-based systems for seamless execution where CoW Swap solvers find best prices and NEAR Protocol sources optimal bridging routes.

Flash Rewards campaign offers 11% APR with 14-day lockup, limited to first 80,600 NEAR allocated between December 11-25, 2025.

RHEA multi-chain lending platform launches Base support using NEAR Intents.

Brave integrates NEAR Protocol for verifiable private AI features.

Tether's USDT receives official recognition by Abu Dhabi's ADGM for regulated multi-chain use including NEAR. Kinsu digital savings app launches on NEAR utilizing NEAR AI Technology, offering 8-12% APYs and serving over 900,000 retail customers through partnership with play_ember.

NEAR protocol achieves 1 million transactions per second in a publicly verifiable benchmark, marking a major scalability milestone.

Trading volume on NEAR Intents increased 200% in October followed by another 100%+ growth in November.

OpenMind partnership with NEAR Protocol goes live, with OpenMind now running on NEAR AI Cloud for robotics hardware with private, verifiable compute.

Zashi wallet from the Zcash ecosystem integrates NEAR intents with auto-shielding features.

ADI Chain launch on December 9 includes confirmed listings on Kraken, Crypto.com, and regional access via Fasset.

ADIChain mainnet and TGE launch on December 9 with new partnerships including ADREC for on-chain real estate registries and EDC for driver-education pilots.

ADIChain, where NEAR Protocol builds TravAI, launches with 50+ businesses and government initiatives in pipeline and serves as settlement layer for UAE Central Bank regulated FAB/IHC dirham stablecoin.

NEAR wallet sign-in functionality is now live on the Private Chat feature.

NEAR Protocol partners with ADI Foundation and AiDatrics to launch TravAI, a travel platform combining AI automation with blockchain settlement powered by NEAR AI and NEAR Intents.

NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat launch with Intel TDX and NVIDIA confidential compute to generate cryptographic proofs for verifiable privacy. OpenMind AGI partners with Circle and Near to enhance the onchain machine economy.

Santiment reports NEAR ranks among top 3 projects for developer activity in AI and Big Data crypto category. RHEA announces native Zcash lending powered by NEAR Intents.

$CFI token launches with liquidity on NEAR. Margarita Finance officially launches NEAR20, bringing institutional-quality yield products to the ecosystem according to NEAR Foundation's Head of Finance.

Templar Protocol announces upgraded Zypher Lending powered by NEAR Intents.

NEAR ranks 3rd by active addresses with 42.1M users, behind BNB Chain (57.6M) and Solana (43.7M).

Private chat feature launches, allowing users to ask personal questions while maintaining data ownership and privacy.

NEAR Intents crosses $7B+ cumulative volume milestone.

Kinsu app enters open beta utilizing both NEAR AI technology and NEAR Intents for private financial data management, with planned involvement in $CFI Season 2.

NEAR AI Cloud and Private Chat go live, providing hardware-backed verifiable privacy for AI inference across enterprise and consumer use cases.

SVRN CEO reveals the company set a 10% NEAR accumulation ceiling to preserve ecosystem decentralization.

CoW Swap integrates NEAR Protocol Intents as one of its main cross-chain providers for seamless execution.

OneKey integrates NEAR Intents for cross-chain swaps and adds NEAR L1 support to its app.

NEAR joins closed-door Web3 Leaders Roundtable at Abu Dhabi Finance Week on December 10 with major institutions (BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Grayscale, ADIA, DTCC) and global regulators to create policy report for 50+ jurisdictions.

NEAR represents 26.60% of Grayscale's AI holdings portfolio, the second-largest allocation among six AI tokens in the fund behind TAO at 34.39%.

Voting opens on non-binding governance proposal HSP-006 for House of Stake Mission, Vision & Values.

NEAR Intents brings liquidity to Solana ecosystem, announced at SolanaConf presentation.

MoreMarkets launches integration with NEAR chain signatures, allowing users to lend native XRP on Aave and open perpetual positions with native BTC without bridging assets.

NEAR Intents reaches $6B+ in volume across 120+ supported assets, while SovereignAI treasury expands to 53.9M $NEAR tokens. Two binding governance proposals pass House of Stake (Validator Support Program and veNEAR Holder Rewards Program), and NEAR Intents integration launches as native swap provider in Ledger Wallet for 7.5M+ devices.

KOL discloses active shilling activity for NEAR alongside 7 other cryptocurrency projects.

Zcash becomes a core asset in NEAR's multichain transaction system.

Thorwallet integrates TRON blockchain support with cross-chain swaps routing through NEAR Intents and THORChain, enabling swaps between TRON and Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and BSC networks.

Kinsu digital savings app launches in open beta on Base and NEAR chains, integrating NEAR Intents and NEAR AI functionality.

Stablecoins leave NEAR and other alt-L1 chains over the last 30 days as part of broader exodus, with all stablecoin market growth concentrated on Ethereum networks during this period.

SweatEconomy announces native cross-chain functionality across 5 chains in single transactions powered by NEAR Chain Signatures and Intents, with fee payments in $SWEAT and multilingual wallet support (28 languages) through NEAR AI.

SWEAT integrates near_ai to power its MIA assistant feature for user guidance and support.

Templar lending protocol launches live on NEAR, enabling users to borrow against native ZEC collateral without centralized intermediaries.

NEAR lists on U.S.-based Kalshi platform, with NEAR Intents preparing December launches for CCTP v2, Native USDC, LayerZero, and Stargate integrations.

Monad integration goes live on NEAR Intents from Day 1, enabling users to swap 120+ assets across major chains directly into MON token without bridging.

Grayscale allocates 28.74% of its Decentralized AI Fund to NEAR, marking substantial institutional investment in the AI crypto space.

NEAR Intents records largest single trading day with $290M volume following SPX addition, pushing total volume to $6.5B with $11.8M in fees (50% generated this month). Zcash integration accounts for 30% of monthly intent volume (~$600M), with the privacy-focused integration generating significant demand since launch.

idOS_network raises $4.5M seed round with NEAR, Circle Ventures, Ripple Labs, Fabric Ventures, Tezos, Starknet, and Radix, onboarding 83K+ users since September 2025 ahead of mainnet launch.

NEAR Intents achieves $6B total volume milestone, with volume growth accelerating from 305 days for first $1B to just 6 days for latest $1B increment.

NEAR Protocol partners with Brave browser to bring private AI to Brave's 100M+ users, using NEAR AI's Confidential LLM Computing on Nvidia-backed TEEs for encrypted data processing.

NEAR Intents achieves daily ATH for volume and fees, recording $1B+ weekly volume, $420k+ in daily fees, and $80M TVL.

ConsumerFi rolls out Personal Intelligence Layer on NEAR Protocol, with integrated apps reaching 150 million+ downloads, 900,000 monthly active users, and processing 32 billion+ data points.

NEAR backs idOS_network, an identity layer for the $300B stablecoin economy alongside Circle Ventures, Ripple Labs, and others, with idOS Community Sale running Nov 24-26 on Arbitrum.

Lane Rettig announces strategic shift in capital deployment, moving away from grants and event sponsorships toward doubling down on product development due to poor ROI from previous approaches.

NEAR Intents adds SPX6900 token to its cross-chain trading platform.

Token experiences -19.9% price decline in 24 hours, second largest drop among $1B+ market cap cryptocurrencies.

Brave browser now offers early access to private and verifiable AI through its Leo assistant, powered by near_ai technology.

Partnership announced to develop verifiable integrity and confidentiality for AI using TEE-based DCML technology, with testing available on Brave Nightly browser. BTC represents 19% of NEAR Intents transaction volume over the past 24 hours, ranking as the second largest asset.

Kinsu, a digital savings app powered by NEAR AI & Intents, opens for beta testing.

NEAR Intents reaches $3B+ in 30-day trading volume.

Titan wallet (formerly THORWallet) integrates NEAR alongside Tron, with the platform reaching all-time highs in active users and swap volume.

Rhea Finance Crosschain Beta goes live, with daily trading volume of $132.5M and $235K in fees generated.

Bitwise Europe states NEAR infrastructure powers early elements of an emerging AI economy, with NEAR Intents functioning as an AI-native transaction layer.

Network completes 5 years of operation with zero downtime.

All-time trading volume reaches $5.6B and total fees exceed $10M. DeFi TVL climbs 26.08% in 7 days to $168.9M, the strongest percentage growth among major chains.

ZTARKNEAR collaboration announced combining Zcash privacy, NEAR UX and liquidity, and Starknet compute and scale capabilities.

New Zolana Bridge connects Zcash, Solana, and NEAR for cross-chain shielded liquidity. NEAR co-founder endorses Rhea Finance lending protocol built on Zcash using NEAR Intents.

NEAR Intents reaches $5 billion in all-time volume. Integration with Zcash enables cross-chain private swaps of ZEC to BTC, ETH and other major tokens.

NEAR Intents generates $9.7M in total fees (up from $7.2M previously) and processes $920M in weekly trading volume, exceeding Polymarket's volume.