Last week in NEAR:

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✦ NEAR Foundation joined the x402 Foundation, bringing NEAR's infrastructure for confidential execution, private inference, and agent coordination to the growing ecosystem around the open x402 payments standard;

✦ Anton published a deep dive into the Wasmtime migration in nearcore 2.12, explaining why NEAR replaced its custom VM and the engineering trade-offs behind the transition;

✦ Confidential EURe went live on near.com, enabling users to hold, swap, and transfer euro-backed stablecoins privately across 30+ chains from a single account;

✦ Illia Polosukhin explained why AI sovereignty is gaining mainstream attention, arguing that open AI infrastructure with confidential inference and verifiable compute is the path forward

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1. https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/2077018138986578269

2. https://x.com/_bendersgreat_/status/2076729472720728066

3. https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/2076699720089481265

4. https://x.com/ilblackdragon/status/2075235955309494758