Back to collectionNEAR Connects Confidential Inference With Agent Tools
NEAR's updates join a custody roadmap, workplace integrations and cross-chain market access.
NEAR presented a post-quantum path for asset custody, with block-production and Chain Signatures upgrades described as future work. It also described staked NEAR funding confidential inference access across more than 40 models. The custody roadmap concerns cryptographic protection, while inference access concerns computing capacity.
IronClawAI 1.2 added Slack and custom MCP connections, Gmail access through OAuth and confidential inference verification through Intel Trust Authority. NEAR also described access to more than 50 Hyperliquid perpetual markets, on-chain deposits and withdrawals, and reduced address linkage, with the United States and Canada excluded.
The combination brings private computation into communication and financial interfaces. Confidentiality concerns who sees the content; availability concerns whether the records needed to recover an action remain obtainable. Tool access, verification and market availability therefore describe different capabilities, and neither the model count nor the market count measures completed agent work.