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Co-Founder @NEARProtocol. LLM co-inventor. @ekang426 husband.

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1May 22, '24Today we announced that we will focus on making NEAR the home for User-Owned AI. We need AI that optimizes for the privacy and sovereignty of users. NEAR Foundation commits to incu18×292k1.1k282184
2Apr 8, '24I spoke to @CNBC Crypto World about the launch of Chain Signatures on @NEARProtocol to enable: -DeFi on Bitcoin -Multichain transactions from single account/smart contract -Liquidi14.6×237k38210921
3Oct 15, '24North Star - all people and all GMV are in User-Owned Internet powered by NEAR13.9×226k89411633
4Nov 8, '23I made 2 exciting announcements at #NEARCON23 today about how the @NEARProtocol ecosystem is increasing alignment with the modular Ethereum stack: a collaboration with @0xPolygonLa13×210k48813520
5Mar 27, '24Chain Signatures launched on @NEARProtocol today, enabling NEAR accounts & smart contracts to sign transactions for any blockchain – no bridges required. Supports Bitcoin, Ethe12.9×209k1.3k367107
6Nov 22, '24To congratulate Solana with ATH - we have launched Solana DEX Best cross-chain liquidity across union of CEXs and DEXs at your fingertips. Powered by NEAR Intents.12×195k5589280
7Mar 2, '23Today we announce that NEAR is the Blockchain Operating System: a common layer for browsing and discovering open web experiences, compatible with any blockchain. #NEARisTheBOS Now 10.9×178k36213339
8Apr 6, '24I want to give a huge shout out to @BowenWang18 and everyone working on NEAR Protocol. NEAR network has went through an amazing growth over past 3 months, which led work group to a9.3×151k57611033
9Apr 24, '24People still ask how is crypto better than fiat? As a Ukrainian it's pretty much a monthly occurrence that some financial platform (incl crypto) de-platforms me out of the sudden a7.6×124k323367
10Dec 30, '212022 is NEAR7.6×02.3k38527
11Mar 20, '24I was honored to speak at the @nvidia GTC event today with Jensen Huang and all the "Attention Is All You Need" coauthors! I got to share some of we've built at @NEARProtocol. Sess7.5×122k1.1k253102
12Nov 7, '23News: I'm excited & honored to join NEAR Foundation as CEO. The NEAR ecosystem is always evolving. My goal for our next phase is to help our teams work together more efficientl7.0×114k6677912
13Nov 15, '25Good or bad market day, NEAR Intents growing anyway. 54% of cross chain market share yesterday.6.8×110k5156422
14Feb 5, '24I don't think this needs words.6.7×108k321604
15May 13, '25Blink and it’s final: NEAR blocks are now 600ms, with 1.2 second finality. That’s 10x faster finality than Solana. 600x faster than ETH and L2s. Without the need for more expensive6.4×104k65112430
16Jul 7, '25Today I got to ring the bell at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange – founded 1585! – to celebrate the @bitwise @NEARProtocol Staking ETP. We're excited that more investors and institutio6.2×101k62212321
17Dec 31, '22Happy New Year and Holidays everyone! 2022 has been a crazy year, let’s recap and sneak preview of 2023!5.7×92k3128112
18Apr 26, '24Compared to other blockchains, NEAR is designed to not have limited capacity but instead scale with demand. This means there is generally no expectation that blockchain will be ful5.6×91k8503365
19Dec 20, '23Today @NEARProtocol is #1 in daily active users across all of Web3 – super exciting to see!5.5×90k62015014
20Feb 11, '24ChatGPT got to 1m users in 5 days. HOT got to 1m users in 10 days. May be not fastest growing app ever, but definitely fastest in web3.5.4×88k283445
21Jun 27, '24Thank you @CNBC and @katietarasov for the interview on how transformers work and why the world needs User-Owned AI! We need to ensure that the power of intelligence is open and own5.4×88k45012123
22Aug 8, '24Chain Signatures is live on all mainnets! Huge step towards Chain Abstraction: Chain Signatures enables @NEARProtocol smart contracts to sign transactions on any blockchain. Wherea5.3×87k4798949
23Feb 28, '25Welcome Open Agents Alliance! Mission: The Open Agent Alliance is a shared commitment to make the future of AI agents and assistants open, user-owned, and globally available to all4.8×78k3877865
24Mar 23, '24Drop ideas for what NEAR ecosystem needs for next 10x usage growth? Feedback and papercuts are welcome.4.7×77k4607932
25Dec 26, '24Merry Christmas from 🐉 family!4.7×76k9782811
26Dec 15, '23Imagine you can trade the whole accounts on BTC, ETH and other chains? With 2s finality and for fraction of a cent. Swap BRC-20 for veCRV? No problem! Account aggregation will powe4.7×76k3229611
27Feb 15, '24Chain Abstraction is about using apps w/o navigating individual chains. Account Aggregation lets users transact across all chains from a single account, abstracting all the complex4.4×72k4427784
28Dec 13, '23I’m often asked what differentiates NEAR's Layer1 and how I think about its place in the broader Web3 eco––here’s a breakdown comparing different networks/layers in Web3 to traditi4.4×71k34711459
29Jun 4, '24NEAR's usage has grown 10x every year. Excited to see end of 2024. @hotdao_ @Cosmose_ @Sweatcoin @play_ember @MeteorWallet @SenderLabs and more (graphs are in log scale)4.3×70k5431235
30Jul 8, '24As a founder - your job is marketing and sales first. This means that you should be thinking as much about communicating who you are and what you are working on as much as what you4.2×68k67889259
31Jan 7, '25Running Python inside WASM on NEAR. Challenge to fit it under 1mb $300k in grants by DevHub4.1×67k4209422
32Dec 30, '24A proper TEE cloud will provide verifiability, privacy and liveness guarantees for all your AI agents. Nothing else does have these properties. @near_ai is building this with @Phal4.0×65k3505927
33Apr 24, '24May be for you crypto is a casino, for me it's the only way forward. Remember we are living in the world where this is happening left and right - TV tower, 50 meters from the home 3.8×61k348329
34Jan 15, '22Probably nothing3.6×093821838
35Oct 13, '23Today the @NEARProtocol ecosystem celebrates 3 years since the community voted to launch MainNet! Today, NEAR has achieved: 700K DAUs 1.7M daily transactions 3.1M monthly active wa3.6×58k3531197
36Feb 12, '25I'm excited to speak at NVIDIA GTC again this year! I'll present @near_ai research on confidential & verifiable AI computation (using NVIDIA Confidential Computing) from a pape3.6×58k39710012
37Oct 13, '24Today marks 4 years of @NEARProtocol MainNet! This has been the best year of NEAR yet thanks to every ecosystem member’s hard work towards the vision: to ensure that all people can3.5×57k4216015
38Jan 24, '24The proliferation of blockchains & rollups has led to a degraded experience for users and devs. We need Chain Abstraction: removing all the blockchain hurdles from the user exp3.5×56k3536548
39Jun 18, '24User-Owned AI stack3.5×56k43975132
40Feb 26, '22Russian army is using telegram and apps to offer people payment to draw targets inside Ukrainian cities for bombing Time for @telegram and @Google to fight back3.4×01k2135
41Apr 20, '24Chain Abstraction is taking over web3, and there is no way back We are moving past chain maximalism and audience fragmentation it created3.1×50k3076513
42Apr 12, '24Soon there will be no bear, no bull, just AI3.0×48k401547
43Jan 25, '25Set of blockchain steps that @DOGE should adopt immediately: - move all government contracts / payments onchain - add ability for anyone to comment on these contracts in decentrali2.9×47k3266721
44Oct 6, '25Become invisible with ZEC and NEAR Intents > on-ramp onto any chain and any asset > use Zashi powered by NEAR Intents to convert it into ZEC > shield ZEC > let it stay 2.8×45k3575388
45Jan 21, '25New era in 🇺🇸2.8×45k668336
46May 9, '24Example why we need decentralized social. Centralized server => not your account2.7×44k3164210
47Apr 6, '24Importantly, I want to encourage everyone to work together. There will be growth challenges and we will discover new bottlenecks. Assume good intentions. Provide constructive feedb2.7×44k396595
48Nov 9, '25NEAR tech stack is not just cross chain trading, it's all the infra in-between to truly abstract chains for users. For example, single chain DEXs can integrate NEAR Intents to get 2.6×41k3714219
49Feb 4, '24500k onchain users with 280k daily active. And continue to grow rapidly. Anyone interested in tapping this audience for their distribution? Something is cooking 🧑‍🍳2.4×39k4751123
50Nov 8, '25HOT is one of the wallets that fully embraced Chain Abstraction and delivered that experience and now it shows in usage. @hotdao_ was an early adopter of NEAR Intents as well, enab2.3×38k3365911
51May 3, '24Web3 end game is NEAR2.2×36k335434
52Aug 9, '22It's 15 seconds to have your first end to end JS app on @NEARProtocol with npx create-near-app There are 20m JS devs in the world, who are now able to build web3 apps without needi2.2×045312554
53Aug 2, '24Numbers are in for July on @NEARProtocol - 20m monthly active accounts.2.2×35k3015312
54Mar 19, '25Today I presented Decentralized Confidential Machine Learning from @near_ai at @NVIDIAGTC – a system for creating & deploying confidential, verifiable LLMs and agents that enab2.1×34k3316028
55Nov 17, '22Which project you respect the most in @NEARProtocol ecosystem? Don't name yours. Like tweet if it's already mentioned. Will post a thread for top 3 projects2.1×03415910
56Mar 21, '24Although it’s flattering to be recognized for work done in 2017, it was just the beginning. @NEARProtocol is the platform for changing the world at scale with user-owned AI as part2.1×34k5108015
57Oct 13, '22Today @NEARProtocol celebrates 2 years since launching mainnet! I want to unpack our approach to scaling for 1B users & helping builders create without limits. So what sets NEA2.0×047514725
58Feb 24, '22Пиздец2.0×0674633
59Dec 23, '21Want to build a startup in web3 but don’t know yet exactly where to start? Hit me up in DM with ideas/brainstorms/your background and let’s work together to turn it into next unico1.9×04558280
60Nov 15, '24Been happy to skip all the parties and go back to my 8 week old daughter. Bangkok have been fun with lots of meetings, but it's time to go back to training natural and artificial i1.7×28k530177
61May 13, '25ICYMI, @NEARProtocol just launched 600ms blocktime and 1.2s finality. Some use cases unlocked by lightning-fast finality: –High-frequency DeFi loops: delta-neutral rebalancing, cro1.6×27k3446819
62Feb 25, '22For anyone who thinks what is happening is normal… there are kids in subways hiding from bombs and just now a newborn came to life in bomb shelter. There is very small minority is 1.6×04858216
63Sep 29, '21Not all data should live on public chain. Encrypted data can’t be reasoned about. Private shard methodology allows each company to maintain their data while still participate in th1.6×03811423
64Aug 27, '22Why should you build on NEAR? I get this question all the time, so I put my answer in a video! Here’s what makes @NEARProtocol the most accessible protocol for developers and users1.6×033613221
65Mar 10, '25Open Source AI Summit SF is underway with a full house – @VitalikButerin & I kicked off with a fireside chat on AI safety and alignment.1.5×24k410457
66Feb 25, '22We have launched DAO to collect funds for humanitarian purposes: evacuation, food, shelter, and other support.1.5×03711274
67Jan 9, '24Phase 2 of @NEARProtocol sharding design is getting ready for testnet. The core innovation is stateless validation, which brings requirements for most validating nodes down and all1.5×24k3197215
68Sep 22, '22Comparison of @NEARProtocol ecosystem metrics from my presentation today at @MessariCrypto's #Mainnet2022. Ecosystem is growing quickly but we are still only at the beginning of th1.5×03761057
69Jan 14, '22Idea for project on NEAR: turn account into an NFT that can be sold on marketplaces and take royalties It can be done by deploying a contract into any account that mints single NFT1.5×04019122
70Dec 31, '23Happy New Year! The Year of Dragon is coming and we are all going to be swept by technology innovations.1.5×24k372581
71Aug 22, '24Nightshade 2.0 is live on @NEARProtocol's Mainnet! Introducing stateless validation and performance improvements to NEAR sharding, this is the biggest protocol upgrade since mainne1.5×24k3206715
72Dec 27, '21Passed 2M accounts on-chain. On our way to 1B goal. #MassAdoptionIsNear1.5×0451674
73Jan 9, '22Checkout @JeffKauflin of @Forbes walk through the @ElectricCapital's report. Great to see recognition of @NEARProtocol's dev community growth. We are just getting started!1.5×036611810
74Mar 3, '22Read what pretense did Hitler use to start the ww2 and compare with today1.4×03876926
75Apr 22, '22I’ve been wanting to start a degen NFT DAO that uses wisdom of the crowd to buy NFTs. Who wants in?1.4×0320296
76May 10, '22Focusing on building pays off. 4m users on-board in 27 days. Congrats to @SweatEconomy for being fastest growing web3 app and prob 5% of all web3 wallets atm. #MassAdoptionIsNear1.4×0452542
77Dec 25, '23Merry Christmas! Let the dragon be with you!1.3×22k334501
78Jul 11, '25NEAR is the best choice Building on NEAR means never have to deal with lack of scale or fees. It means accessing liquidity and wallets of every chain. Never limit your Target Addre1.3×22k4525813
79Apr 9, '22Thanks @JasonYanowitz & @santiagoroel for having me! For anyone wanting to learn more about @NEARProtocol this week 👀 this is a great place to start – we cover sharding, compo1.3×03278428
80Nov 1, '21It has been amazing to see @NEARProtocol community coming together at NEAR CON. People working on everything from infra, DeFi, gaming, NFT artists, community and guild members, and1.3×0377823
81Feb 28, '22District I grew up in… What for?1.3×0370616
82Dec 25, '24I always forget in crypto we are suppose to announce the announcement instead of just shipping working products1.3×21k3591112
83Feb 18, '24If your feed is not full of dragons 🐉 are you even in NEAR ecosystem? Follow ppl who reply 👇1.3×21k329605
84Oct 7, '22New Whiteboard Series for your weekend viewing! This one features @tarunchitra from @gauntletnetwork unpacking maximal extractable value (MEV) in a Proof-of-Stake environment. Link1.3×02907850
85Feb 22, '22It’s sad that at this age people are dying due to political games. I wish everyone to stay safe independent of country or nationality, there is no justification of taking life. I h1.2×0417512
86May 12, '22"A world where people control their assets, data, and power of governance" is @NEARProtocol's mission The alternative is a world increasingly controlled by a few profit-driven part1.2×0375584
87Sep 16, '22Congrats to @Sweatcoin! With 120m installs and 13m accounts already on-chain and continue quickly growing they just enabled transfers/staking. This is coming to be the biggest app 1.2×03087212
88May 12, '22Congrats to @NEARProtocol for getting to 10m accounts on chain (not including @auroraisnear's). Lots of room to grow on the activating these users through out the ecosystem. Web3 i1.2×0373622
89Oct 13, '25Happy 5 years of @NEARProtocol MainNet! I'm proud of our community and the vision we're building together. In the last year in particular we've seen some amazing successes: launchi1.2×19k461627
90Jun 18, '24NEAR AI is working towards User-Owned AGI in 3 phases: - Teaching machines to code: AI Developer - Use AI Developer to teach machines to do research: AI Researcher - Use AI Researc1.1×18k3325418
91Nov 4, '21Ready to go at #WebSummit in 15m1.1×0371321
92Feb 26, '22It's surprising that nobody is talking about removing Putin from power? This is the simplest answer here to stop the war.1.0×0322381
93Nov 28, '24Happy Thanksgiving 🦃1.0×16k404131
94Dec 25, '21Merry Xmas to everyone!1.0×0359180
96Feb 24, '22The violence is never justified0.9×0340280
97Mar 11, '24See you in Dubai at @token2049, April 18-19! Lots of us from the @NEARProtocol ecosystem will be there to share new demos and progress on our contributions to Chain Abstraction.0.9×14k316486
98Feb 15, '201/ We just launched EVM execution environment on NEAR and have a bounty for #ETHDenver hackers to try it! More details on how to run Solidity/EVM contracts by just changing few bit0.9×0295342
99Mar 27, '25View post on X0.8×13k475173
100Jul 17, '25Welcome @SuiNetwork to the NEAR Intents ecosystem! Now Sui builders & DeFi users have access to lightning-fast cross-chain swaps in one click and unified liquidity across Web3,0.7×12k378387

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