NEAR Protocol (NEAR)

The demand for user-owned AI is here.

NEAR AI encrypts prompts before they leave your device, processes them in secure hardware enclaves, and delivers signed attestation in under 30 seconds making every request verifiable.

Already powering Venice, Brave, Abound, Bermuda & more. https://t.co/vvBDn5BuRr

great read on token-powered governance by @akrtws on her Substack: Unstable Equilibria -- AK is the head of governance at NEAR’s house of stake @NEARGovernance

i love the vision she very well explained there:

citizenship not being limited by were someone was born, but by a network they voluntarily decided to join and be part of

i also agree on the problems mentioned in this article:

baking citizenship into liquid tokens blurs the incentives and may create undesired risks and consequences when tourists are added to the equation -- or, even worse, threat actors

and i find the proposed solution very interesting, in general (quoted in the image below)

governance is one of the biggest challenges for humanity, which translates the same way to onchain/decentralized governance

i believe NEAR’s HoS under AK’s leadership is doing well and making the right steps in trying to find the working solution. one of the reasons i’ve been getting involved so much with it all as an independent community delegate

looking forward to seeing where this road will take us to!

following AK’s writings there now, and recommend everyone interested in governance to do the same -- link in the comments