PANews Feature | DFINITY Founder Challenges NEAR’s Privacy Design; The Community Pushes Back @dfinity founder @dominic_w questioned whether @NEARProtocol's Confidential Intents relies too heavily on trust in permissioned node operators. NEAR’s response: those design choices were disclosed from the start. The dispute quickly escalated, with community members even launching a memecoin to mock Williams. Behind the clash are diverging market and ecosystem trends: capital is returning to NEAR, while ICP faces weak price performance and a struggling DeFi ecosystem. DFINITY is shifting its focus toward sovereign cloud services and AI infrastructure. Its comeback will depend on turning that technical vision into products people actually use. #DFINITY #ICP #NEAR