Most people still think of NEAR as another L1. That may be the blind spot. Everyone wants to see a crypto + AI winner. We’re not talking about a chatbot with a token bolted on. Agents won’t just chat, they’ll hold wallets, move money, trade assets, interact across chains, and make decisions autonomously. That creates three major problems: 1. Privacy Agents cannot expose prompts, credentials or sensitive financial activity. 2. Cross-chain coordination Users dont wanna sign 20 transactions every time an agent moves between networks. 3. Verification Users need proof that workloads ran inside secure environments. near:native is building across all three: – Private, verifiable AI inference – IronClaw for secure agent execution – NEAR Intents for cross-chain actions – An Agent Market using Confidential Intents and USDC NEAR Intents has already processed more than $24 billion across 35 chains. Will NEAR become the execution and payments layer for the agent economy, or is another network further ahead?