AI x Privacy x Intents
At Funding the Commons during Berlin Blockchain Week, @squirrel sat down with NEAR Protocol’s Shai Perednik + Guille on Shade Agents, Chain Signatures, and private cross-chain UX.
What are “intents”? You state an outcome (e.g., “swap ZEC → NEAR”) and a solver network fulfills it—abstracting bridges, hops, and quotes into one flow. Feels like magic; it’s Pub/Sub + on-chain settlement.
Shade Agents = autonomous, verifiable agents that can hold/control assets across chains by combining TEEs with NEAR’s Chain Signatures. Backbone for private payments + automated swaps.
Follow ZecHub and try CrossPay: install Zashi and click the Pay button to convert into shielded ZEC, then make private cross-chain payments via NEAR Intents.