The Holy Grail of Smart Contracts: The 5 Flywheels of the NEAR Ecosystem Last night, the cryptocurrency market experienced a major rebound, but NEAR has been continuously attracting liquidity returns with its triple positioning of "chain abstraction+privacy+decentralized AI", and its prices are quite resilient, leading the mainstream public chain sector. But without digging, I didn't know. When I dug, I was shocked to find out that NEAR was actually a public chain forced by a top AI expert! ⬇️ Illia Polosukhin @ ilblackdrag | One of the founders of Transformer: NEAR co-founder Illia is one of the authors of the 2017 artificial intelligence milestone paper "Attention Is All You Need" (the underlying architecture source of large models such as GPT and Claude), a former Google machine intelligence researcher, and has been deeply involved in TensorFlow development and large-scale deep learning algorithm optimization. Alex Skidanov @ AlexSkidanov | Distributed database architecture expert: Another co-founder Alex has won the ACM-ICPC global gold medal and served as a Microsoft engineer and engineering director for the well-known distributed memory database MemSQL (now SingleStore), leading the system architecture of NEAR's dynamic state shard (Nightshade). Moreover, the origin of NEAR is a 'pure AI company'. When the two founders founded the project in 2017, the name was http://NEAR.ai The core direction is to teach AI to write code independently. But due to the extremely congested Ethereum network and high transaction fees at the time, the team ultimately decided to build their own high-performance public chain that balances extreme throughput and silky smooth experience. This gives NEAR extremely pure AI and full chain abstract genes. Today, the co-founder of Bankless also publicly wrote an article in support of NEAR, stating that NEAR will attract "smart contract buying", further igniting community and funding sentiment 。 Amidst the recent rebound in market trends and attention, NEAR's official portal and ecosystem matrix have also launched multiple new interactive mechanisms. The editor has sorted out the top 5 core ecosystems that are currently receiving the most attention in the NEAR ecosystem one ⃣ http://(((near.com))) Confidential Positioning: Launched by the official NEAR portal (http://((near. com))), it is used to provide on chain privacy asset storage and anonymous Swap interaction without leaving the main network. Core gameplay and threshold: Recharge and continuously retain any supporting assets worth $100+(USDT/USDC/NEAR, etc.), and complete at least one privacy swap within the module. ⭐ Mechanism highlight: Adopting an independent privacy ledger to isolate external on chain tracking, directly integrating native account abstraction, without the need to configure dedicated privacy wallets or plugins. Potential opportunity: Locking in the ecosystem NEAR@3.33 The reward pool (333333 NEAR) qualification can now be claimed in the first round. The conditions for the second phase have not been officially announced yet, and early trading volume weights can be accumulated to compete for airdrops. two ⃣ Privacy and secure cross chain asset routing Positioning: Built by NEAR in collaboration with ecological intention networks such as Defuse, it is used to achieve "no cross chain bridge" swaps between BTC, ZEC, and stablecoins. Core gameplay and threshold: There is no hard threshold for funds, and users declare their intention to exchange directly through Solver's matchmaking; Advanced privacy gameplay allows you to exchange NEAR on chain assets for native ZEC and withdraw them into the Zcash official blocked wallet Zashi, and vice versa. ⭐ Mechanism highlight: Based on Chain Signature, MPC nodes issue native transactions on the target chain, avoiding the risk of traditional cross chain bridge theft and packaging token (such as WBTC) disconnection; Off chain matching brings the sliding point closer to CEX flash trading. Potential opportunity: Low wear and secure allocation of native large assets, while utilizing Zashi blocking pool to cut off fund clustering analysis and address tracking between EVM and UTXO chains. three ⃣ Privacy+Perpetual Contract Positioning: Built by combining chain signatures and Hyperliquid interfaces in the NEAR ecosystem, it is used to enable NEAR wallet users to directly cross chain transaction heads for decentralized perpetual contracts and hide the real identities of traders on the chain. Core gameplay and threshold: No need to transfer gas across chains, no need to open an Arbitrum account or configure multiple sets of mnemonic words, directly use NEAR account to adjust positions. ⭐ Mechanism highlights: The transaction intention is physically isolated from the underlying actual ordering address, and external analysis tools are unable to associate orders with the user's main wallet; Directly reuse the high liquidity order book depth of Hyperliquid. Potential opportunity: Effectively prevent large positions from being copied or targeted "whale hunting" on the chain, while also accumulating the interactive weight of NEAR chain signatures in high-frequency derivative scenarios. four ⃣ Pledge and Decentralized AI Positioning: Led by the NEAR official and ecological AI team, it is used to directly convert PoS staking profits into decentralized confidential AI computing power and inference limits. Core gameplay and threshold: Normal staking of native NEAR (with an annualized return of about 8% to 10%), enabling income stream mapping in the background, automatically settling staking interest into the private inference limit of AI nodes. Currently, domestic models such as Qwen and DeepSeek can be called. ⭐ Mechanism highlights: "Principal preservation and interest consumption", changing the business model of burning cash/tokens directly according to the amount of adjustment; Combining TEE hardware confidentiality calculation to ensure end-to-end encryption of input Prompts and private code without leakage. Potential opportunity: Card position NEAR "User Owned AI" flywheel dividend; Provide computing power support for on chain agents, automated transaction strategies, and security audits with extremely low marginal costs and strong privacy. five ⃣ RWA asset allocation Positioning: Connected by the NEAR ecosystem and Ondo Finance, it is used to enable non US compliant users to directly use on chain stablecoins to allocate tokenized US bond returns and US stock ETFs. Core gameplay and threshold: Compliance with regional access requirements (non restricted IP, Southeast Asia, Europe); Swap idle stablecoins into interest bearing assets (such as USDY) or securities under Ondo with just one click. ⭐ Mechanism highlights: Relying on NEAR's instant block generation and extremely low gas fees to achieve instant settlement, saving overseas securities firms from wire transfers and high friction; Interest bearing assets can continue to serve as low-risk collateral for on chain agreements. Potential opportunity: Obtain 4% to 5% of the risk-free benchmark annualization of the underlying US dollar in real-time on the chain during volatile market conditions, while retaining financial flexibility and exchanging for cryptocurrency assets to buy at the bottom at any time. ⭐ Conclusion At present, near@3.33 This is a relatively deterministic opportunity on the NEAR chain, which can be prioritized through http://((near. com)) to complete $100+privacy asset recharge and 1 Swap, maintain balance accumulation, and lock in subsequent transactions at the lowest cost near@3.33 Qualification and ecological traceability airdrop.