𝐈𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐭, @NEARProtocol 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬. Billions of AI agents are expected to soon manage capital, execute trades, and coordinate business operations. All autonomously. All at unprecedented scale. The infrastructure for this future is being built right now. The trajectory? Consolidation under a handful of mega-cap tech companies. Do people want a handful of firms making critical decisions on their behalf? Controlling their data? Optimizing for their shareholders, instead of their users? Enter @NEARProtocol. Many in the community view NEAR as a highly ambitious blockchain project. Its stated goal: be the "blockchain for AI"—a market measuring in the trillions of dollars. Yet despite these ambitions goals, 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑 seems to be overlooked in today's market. The project's evolving narrative and shifting strategic focus have contributed to its network token’s price trading roughly flat over four years. It currently sits as the world's 34th-largest crypto asset. In our view, the market may be underestimating NEAR's long-term potential. 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑 is addressing a fundamental challenge:. The project is aiming to build infrastructure that helps prevents the most transformative technology in human history from consolidating under centralized corporate control. 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑's co-founder @ilblackdragon co-authored "Attention is All You Need"—the foundational breakthrough research paper behind “transformer models,” which power the likes of ChatGPT, Anthropic, and Gemini. He has a clear thesis on the direction the space is taking. As AI agents are beginning to execute large-scale transactions, manage capital, and route decisions autonomously, the demand for programmable, verifiable, and chain-abstracted infrastructure is expected to therefore grow exponentially. 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑 is aiming at positioning itself to be the relevant infrastructure, and to monetise the AI economy directly. 🔗 If you want to dig deeper into the investment case for NEAR, you’ll find a link to the full deep dive in the comments. @ayush_research @Andre_Dragosch @BradleyDukeBTC @Matt_Hougan @HHorsley @BitwiseInvest @Bitwise_Europe @NEARFoundation @AlexSkidanov @BowenWang18 @AlexAuroraDev @alex_scharrer @markkmii