Totally agreed that $NEAR is doing what ETH sold years ago, just without the L2 mess
ETH wanted sharding, one unified chain, programmable accounts, and money apps could actually run on.
Then execution got kicked to L2s and the “one chain” pitch broke.
@NEAR Protocol is shipping that stack for real:
– scale: Nightshade + dynamic resharding, splits when full, no hard fork
– hub: Intents + Chain Signatures, one account signs BTC/ETH/SOL/ZEC
– accounts: native AA, function-call keys, human-readable names
– money: 2026 positioning is AI money, unit of account for agents, inference, settlement
Proof: ~$30B Intents volume, ~$840M last 7d, confidential Hyperliquid perps live with $70M private TVL.
ETH wanted sharding, one unified chain, programmable accounts, and money apps could actually run on.
Then execution got kicked to L2s and the “one chain” pitch broke.
@NEAR Protocol is shipping that stack for real:
– scale: Nightshade + dynamic resharding, splits when full, no hard fork
– hub: Intents + Chain Signatures, one account signs BTC/ETH/SOL/ZEC
– accounts: native AA, function-call keys, human-readable names
– money: 2026 positioning is AI money, unit of account for agents, inference, settlement
Proof: ~$30B Intents volume, ~$840M last 7d, confidential Hyperliquid perps live with $70M private TVL.
