Open, Verifiable, and User‑Owned AI
The platform powering the agentic future. NEAR makes it easy for AI to take action — to own assets, make decisions, and move across networks with speed, privacy, and reliability.
Why NEAR for AI?
Open & Permissionless
Verifiable Compute
Mass‑Market Ready
NEAR is the only purpose-built blockchain for AI
Protocols, compute, and infrastructure for running autonomous agents. Supports encrypted model execution, verifiable compute, and multichain action.
MCP and AITP
AI-driven commerce requires a universal protocol for AI-to-AI transactions. NEAR’s AITP enables verifiable AI interactions and autonomous contract execution. Along with multi-part computation.
Privacy-Preserving AI Transactions
AI must be able to transact confidentially to prevent front-running and ensure secure decision-making. NEAR’s confidential compute and encrypted AI models allow for privacy-first AI transactions.
Shade Agents
Shade Agents are multichain, AI-powered smart contracts that enable autonomous execution of financial transactions, smart contract interactions, and off-chain data access. They use NEAR’s Chain Signatures and Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) to ensure secure, decentralized key management.
NEAR AI
The Front-End and Execution Layer for Agents
For AI to function as an independent economic actor, it must be able to transact, manage assets, and make automated financial decisions—all while maintaining user privacy. NEAR AI provides the infrastructure to make this possible.
Built for Builders
Even though NEAR’s blockchain AI stack is crafted for mainstream users, it’s also engineered for developers who need power and flexibility.
AI-Native Infrastructure
NEAR offers pre-built AI tooling, SDKs, and privacy-enhanced execution environments to help developers create scalable AI applications faster.
Low-Cost, High-Speed Execution
Developers benefit from low gas fees, fast finality (400ms), and parallelized execution, making NEAR ideal for AI-driven workloads.
AI & Multichain Web3 Integration
NEAR’s chain abstraction layer enables developers to deploy AI agents that operate across multiple blockchains without friction.
Built on NEAR. Powered by AI.
Explore how builders are using NEAR to ship AI‑powered apps at scale—with lower costs, faster speeds, and verifiable results.
