Near Protocol (NEAR)

Crypto media is a joke Hayes buys NEAR → front page everywhere. Hayes sells NEAR → front page everywhere. NEAR ships post-quantum keys and dynamic resharding → silence. This industry is going to zero - the one headline it will never run

🐅 Daily Recap | Jul 21 What happened in blockchain in the last 24 hours 🤖 AI / AI Agent - @ekko_924 🔸x402 Foundation: Two Korean payment companies, Galaxia Moneytree and Hecto Financial, join simultaneously 🔸NEAR: Quantum-Resistant signatures activated on mainnet, Dynamic Resharding launched simultaneously 🔸Agent Economy: x402 surpasses 157M cumulative transactions and $41M in cumulative volume 🔸Robinhood chain: Releases 7 SDKs for agent development (TS, Python, Rust, MCP, x402, ElizaOS, Solana Agent Kit) 💰 DeFi / Stablecoin - @Fromadistance11 🔸Washington judge blocks @Kalshi's sports prediction markets over state gambling laws 🔸@Kalshi, @Polymarket open interest falls 20% as World Cup frenzy winds down 🏦 RWA / Stablecoin - @ryanyoon_eth 🔸Hanhwa Group becomes largest shareholder of @Securitize with 9.6% stake 🔸Bank of Korea: CBDC transaction test in September, 9 banks participating 🔸Hana Financial & Dunamu: Expanding cooperation on stablecoins and RWA

NEAR mainnet had 9 shards yesterday. It has 10 today. Nobody forked, nobody paused, nobody coordinated. A shard got busy - the protocol split it in two, live, with blocks flowing. That's dynamic resharding: shipped this Monday, working by Tuesday. Adding capacity elsewhere is a research program, a governance vote and a hard fork. On NEAR it's a background process. Demand grows → chain grows.

Two AI tokens are sitting in almost the same place right now, and only one of them is getting out. $NEAR sits near $2.5B. $TAO sits near $2.2B. The entire decentralized AI sector is still valued under $20B heading through 2026. Read that again slowly. Every subnet, every inference network, every tokenized slice of compute, priced smaller than one mid cap tech stock. One of these coins flips $5B while the market is still calling it too early to matter. The other prints the same market cap two years from now and nobody bothers to ask why. The gap will not come from the louder narrative. It comes from which network actually turns real usage into revenue instead of selling the promise of it. So put yourself on record. Which one crosses $5B first, and which one never escapes this range? Drop your pick below, because the people who called it in this thread will be screenshotting it later.

Oscar, not bad not bad, keep it up.

Quantum resistance is not the hottest topic in crypto rn – but it's 100% the one that will matter long-term. Yesterday, @NEARProtocol launched quantum‑safe signing and dynamic resharding on mainnet. This pair targets two distinct protocol credibility vectors: → cryptographic longevity → operational scaling. Quantum‑safe signing is intended to reduce the risk that future quantum advances could retroactively compromise signatures. Dynamic resharding is described as automatically adjusting shard boundaries and capacity to shifting load. If robust, it could reduce manual coordination and localized congestion. All this is focused on ensuring that NEAR Protocol can support agentic commerce – chain's main bet for the upcoming years.