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By Jean-Luc Maracon
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Confidential Trading Goes Live on Near.com. Near Protocol made deposits and withdrawals for perpetual futures trading on near.
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Zcash Integration and ZODL's Surprising Role. One of the stranger storylines here is how Zcash fits into all of this.
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NEAR AI Adds Staking-Based Anonymous Payments. The privacy push doesn't stop at trading. Near introduced NEAR AI, a service that lets users stake…
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NEAR is up 80% in a week. That's not a typo.
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Near Protocol's native token hit roughly $4.29 as of Monday, a 78.2% jump over seven days and a 22% spike in just the past 24 hours.
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The numbers are hard to ignore. NEAR Intents, which handles cross-chain swaps across multiple blockchains, has now logged $29.3 billion in cumulative volume.
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Near Protocol made deposits and withdrawals for perpetual futures trading on near.com confidential by default. What does that actually mean?
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The confidential total value locked on near.com crossed $70 million. That number matters for another reason: it triggered the first milestone snapshot for the NEAR@3.
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One of the stranger storylines here is how Zcash fits into all of this. ZODL, a privacy-focused Zcash wallet, ranked as the third-largest referral source by volume over a recent…
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Camran Khosravi, a research analyst, said the Near and Zcash relationship is complementary — Near's infrastructure gives ZEC holders better liquidity access, and the privacy…
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See also: Grayscale Zcash ETF Splits Shares 3-for-1 After 2,800% Token Surge
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The Zcash integration isn't accidental. ZEC is one of the few cryptocurrencies with a genuine, long-standing reputation for transaction privacy, and Near seems to be leaning into…
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The privacy push doesn't stop at trading. Near introduced NEAR AI, a service that lets users stake NEAR tokens to earn credits, which they can then spend on confidential AI…
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It's an unusual model. Most AI service platforms charge flat fees or subscriptions. Tying access to staking is a way to drive demand for the token itself while also giving users…
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Privacy-focused blockchain services have been gaining ground broadly across the industry. Users and institutions alike have grown warier of on-chain transparency, especially as…
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