Bankless · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
NEAR is building infrastructure for 'autonomous businesses' that can operate 24/7, accessing intelligence and finances to execute actions. This is enabled by its vertically integrated stack, combining AI inference with blockchain for trust, identity, and settlement.
“And so like if you think of autonomous business, right, you want properties that it's indeed can run 24 seven, it has access to intelligence, right to to operate, and it has access to finances, and it's able to go and execute actions, right, ideally in real, like in in digital world, but also in real world, ideally.”
“And so we have the stack to deliver exactly that. And indeed, you need a monetization way to do this, which doesn't deplete your treasury as an agent to actually run this intelligence. Otherwise, you're effectively going to lose... You lose intelligence, you have no way even to get out of that mode.”
“Blockchain is this backend for trust. identity, settlement, you know, kind of coordination. And so like it is a backend, but it is the core of security. It's a root of trust. It's where the kind of value settles. And that needs the security of the token.”