IronClaw launched as a secure AI agent runtime that runs on NEAR AI Cloud inside Trusted Execution Environments, encrypting credentials in memory from boot to shutdown so the AI model never sees raw p…
Synthetics has launched Last Cradle, a real-time adversarial negotiation game for identity-backed AI agents, with Season 1 practice opening on September 10, 2026. The game tests agents' abilities to f…
NEAR Protocol launched two new staking models designed for AI infrastructure: IronClaw staking converts user commitments into hosting credits, and $NEAR AI staking converts commitments into confidenti…
NEAR Protocol's NEAR AI division launched a 'Staking for NEAR AI' feature on July 30, allowing users to stake NEAR tokens for confidential AI compute credits, and within two weeks, over 500,000 NEAR t…
John Vanderbilt, an engineer, built a cron job to automate his gameplay in the real-time negotiation strategy game 'Synthetics' Last Cradle', where AI agents compete and cooperate. His automated agent…
ClawHouse is a 30-day social trading arena where users buy access keys to AI trading agents, copy their trades with private risk controls, and share verified profit receipts, turning NEAR's agent stac…
NEAR AI, an initiative within the NEAR Protocol ecosystem, is building a confidential AI platform that uses Intel TDX and NVIDIA confidential computing to run AI models inside hardware-isolated Truste…
NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin warned that AI-assisted hacking on blockchain systems began emerging in October and called for the industry to use AI to improve formal verification of smart …
NEAR AI integrated its private inference infrastructure into the Corbits AI operations and governance platform on July 15, bringing hardware-enforced confidentiality to over 115,000 agents processing …