love thorchain, but this post here is ridiculous. especially coming from a core thorchain dev. "salty founder is bearish," as i often say 1) NEAR is a decentralized L1 (more than thorchain, fwiw, by objective decentralization metrics) 2) NEAR doesn't censor (and the network has never had a consensus outage like thorchain already had) 3) NEAR is as neutral as a decentralized L1 can be and as vulnerable as decentralization allows it to be (same principles around thorchain's neutrality and vulnerability, adjusted by decentralization metrics) there is a very important distinction to be made between NEAR and NEAR Intents. jp is using both interchangibly because it works for his goal, which is attacking a competing chain -- this creates confusion and misleads his followers. jp should focus more on improving thorchain than on attacking another project with misleading claims. that said, education is important and i wouldn't mind if he properly differentiated near intents and near, because there are valid concerns and decentralization criticisms to be made against near intents. they are different systems, with diff trust assumptions, built for different goals. there is nothing wrong about that. both can (and should) coexist. there is value in both and users win with both existing.