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NEP-641 has been just approved. "Offchain Authorizations for Smart Contracts" This standardizes the flow for signing and verifying offchain messages for smart contracts that power Passkey, EVM, multisig, and other wallet contracts. The first version of this standard was live and tested on Trezu, and now it is a standard for the whole NEAR ecosystem. Summary A view-function convention, w_resolve_auth, that lets any NEAR contract attest to offchain authorizations — dApp logins, offchain action approvals — without requiring a NEAR access key on the account. It defines: 1. the resolution interface: w_resolve_auth(path, authorization) -> { payload, pending } 2. recursive, caller-side resolution through pending sub-authorizations, so multisigs, extensions, and delegated wallets compose with any wallet type; 3. a standardized signable envelope, OffchainMessage, binding chain_id, signer_id, resolution path, signing timestamp, and the authorized payload; 4. a standardized full-access-key authorization (built on NEP-413), so regular NEAR accounts resolve through the same procedure. Full standard is here. If you want to see it in action, check out the sign-in flow for FaceID/TouchID or EVM wallets at http://trezu.org (NOTE: it uses a slightly older version of the standard right now, but that is not too far from the approved version and soon it will be updated to follow the final version of the standard) What is coming next? Passkeys and Wallet Connect (EVM wallets) will become available for every dApp on NEAR via NEAR Connect

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Last week in NEAR: ✦ nearcore 2.13 went live on mainnet, bringing post-quantum signing, dynamic resharding, compact onchain key storage, and improvements to epoch sync and meta-transactions; ✦ Arto Bendiken released Edky 0.1, a CLI tool for converting Ed25519 public keys between different encodings; ✦ OutLayer went post-quantum on NEAR mainnet; ✦ The Agent Economy: Who Owns the Rails AI Runs On is worth a read for its take on who will control the agent economy’s infrastructure and how NEAR fits into it 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

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Agent Market: Early Access, Cohort #1 Agent Market is opening early access ahead of general availability, and NearBuilders has been asked to bring the first cohort. The build is early. Cohort members will run real flows against live infrastructure, report what breaks, and see that feedback shape what ships next. You get working knowledge of the stack before the rest of the ecosystem does. Places are limited. Sign-ups close July 26. Link

Last week in NEAR: ✦ NEAR Foundation joined the x402 Foundation, bringing NEAR's infrastructure for confidential execution, private inference, and agent coordination to the growing ecosystem around the open x402 payments standard; ✦ Anton published a deep dive into the Wasmtime migration in nearcore 2.12, explaining why NEAR replaced its custom VM and the engineering trade-offs behind the transition; ✦ Confidential EURe went live on near.com, enabling users to hold, swap, and transfer euro-backed stablecoins privately across 30+ chains from a single account; ✦ Illia Polosukhin explained why AI sovereignty is gaining mainstream attention, arguing that open AI infrastructure with confidential inference and verifiable compute is the path forward 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

nearcore 2.13.0 has been released Protocol v86 voting starts on July 20. Once the upgrade activates, NEAR will no longer require protocol upgrades to introduce new shard layouts, as dynamic resharding can automatically split shards when they reach size thresholds. Full release notes 🖥 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

NEP-642 & NEP-645 Walkthroughs The recording is up 📺 Watch it to learn why NEAR is increasing the account creation cost and how post-quantum transaction signatures strengthen the protocol for the future. 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

The State of NEAR: Q2 2026 📊 The latest quarterly report is out, covering where NEAR stands today and what's coming next. Highlights: ➡️ Protocol fee capture surpassed 30% ➡️ near.com continues growing as a key revenue engine ➡️ Confidential Intents are becoming the default experience ➡️ Dynamic resharding & post-quantum cryptography are live on testnet ➡️ The report explores what's next for NEAR AI and the agent economy Read the full report 🖥 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

Last week in NEAR: ✦ Confidential Intents became generally available, letting any developer integrate confidential cross-chain execution through the NEAR Intents 1Click Swap API with a single parameter, with Vadim highlighting how OutLayer already makes these confidential rails accessible to AI agents through a simple HTTPS API; ✦ HSP-027 passed governance voting, removing the legacy developer gas rebate, with Illia Polosukhin explaining that the incentive no longer worked as intended and added unnecessary complexity to the protocol; ✦ Vadim broke down why NEAR is well positioned for the post-quantum era, explaining how its rotatable account keys make upgrading to quantum-safe signatures much simpler than on many other blockchains; ✦ near_dart is a good example of how ideas grow in the NEAR ecosystem, with the community helping refine the SDK through open feedback and discussion 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

⬛️ The Big Reveal is LIVE Join Illia Polosukhin and Alex Shevchenko as they unveil what's next for NEAR Intents. 🔈 Tune in now and catch the announcement in real time 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

The Big Reveal is NEAR 👀 ⬛️ What's inside the black box for your business? Find out in few hours at 11 AM EST with Illia and Alex! Streaming on X & Youtube.

Last week in NEAR: ✦ Ivan spotted a wave of 190+ malicious PRs submitted to crypto related repositories, with repo maintainers urged to review incoming changes more carefully for now; ✦ near.com added a MiCA-aligned euro on-ramp, letting EU users move funds onchain via SEPA Instant and access DeFi across 30+ chains from self-custodial wallets; ✦ OutLayer added a self-hosted bare-metal TDX fleet alongside Phala Cloud, with the same attestation flow now reproducible across different Intel TDX environments without changing the worker code; ✦ nearcore 2.13 is now live on testnet, bringing NEAR closer to post-quantum safe signing and dynamic resharding for automatic horizontal scaling 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

🚨 The NEAR Developer Gas Rebate for contract accounts might soon be gone House of Stake is currently voting on proposal HSP-027 to remove it. If passed, don't factor this gas bonus into your dApp's budget anymore To prepare for this, make sure to check your contracts' economics, read the discussion and cast your vote if you have voting tokens: ➡️ Discussion ➡️ Vote And if you want to participate in future voting, make sure to prepare in advance, you can learn how the HoS proposal and voting process works here 🖥 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

News from the nearcore team on the 2.13 testnet release: EXPERIMENTAL_receipt_to_tx is now live. It takes a receipt ID and resolves it back to the original tx hash and sender account. Works from genesis to now. Note that the complete specs are still being added to the docs ✍️ 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

The next step to Nightshade 3.0: SPICE 🫑 The Near One team is working on decoupling consensus from execution. Consensus will run in parallel to produce simpler, faster blocks every 200ms, while execution handles the compute separately. What this unlocks: ➡️Block times cut from 600ms to 200ms ➡️Faster near.com and NEAR Intents ➡️Smart execution scheduling ➡️Future atomic execution Decoupling brings simpler blocks for cheaper verification, and sets the exact foundation needed for atomic cross-shard execution in Nightshade 3.0 ✅ Read the full breakdown 🖥 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

🚨 COMMUNITY UPDATE: @ncriptado shared a Flutter/Dart stack for building NEAR apps in the NEAR Tools Community Group 🗯 The stack is split into three main packages: ➡️near_dart: signing, txs, and Account API. ➡️near_jsonrpc_client: typed RPC synced from nearcore’s OpenAPI spec. ➡️near_wallet_connect: MyNearWallet connection and local signing. Works on iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop ✅ You can check it on pub.dev, and the GitHub repo is open for feedback ✍️ ➡️pub.dev ➡️GitHub Want to catch more updates like this directly? Grab the NEAR dev chats ⚙️ 🟦 Channel | Chat | LinkTree

🌟 Now track what NEAR is actually building! NEAR Intents. NEAR AI. NEAR One (Protocol). All in one place. Live on the roadmap: ✦ Confidentiality Features (private swaps & payments) ✦ IronClaw Reborn + Automatic PII Anonymization ✦ Dynamic Resharding & more protocol upgrades ➡️ See what’s shipping next: https://roadmap.near.org/underway