Every capability an autonomous agent needs maps to something shown live in an earlier section. Agents need persistent, addressable identities with scoped authority. NEAR's account model supplies human-readable names, rotatable and permission-scoped access keys, and sponsored transactions, so an agent can hold a limited-purpose key while its principal keeps ultimate control and covers its gas. Agents generate orders of magnitude more transactions than humans. NEAR's sharded, stateless architecture already sustains hundreds of thousands of TPS, reshards itself automatically as load arrives, and, with SPICE, is driving finality toward 400ms. NEAR's asynchronous, non-blocking cross-contract calls is the exact execution model that lets many agents fire operations and reconcile results without blocking one another. Chain Signatures and NEAR Intents let a single account act natively across 35+ chains without a bridge, the difference between an agent confined to one ledger and a cross-chain swarm that monitors and executes on Ethereum, Solana, and Bitcoin from one identity, code on NEAR and actions everywhere. Confidential Intents, private shards, TEE-backed inference via IronClaw and NEAR AI Cloud, lets an agent handle sensitive data, credentials, and trades without exposing them to the model provider, the infrastructure host, or the public chain. Because NEAR accounts are decoupled from their cryptography, the post-quantum signing it shipped in 2026 means agent identities meant to run for decades can survive a cryptographic transition their keys otherwise could not.(NEAR Protocol)