The fourth quarter of 2025 has emerged as a transformative period for industries NEAR Protocolaccordingly Nansen‘s latest quarterly analysis. Blockchain has reached many milestones, including the publicly verifiable benchmark of one million transactions per second (TPS), growth in cross-chain intent, and the introduction of artificial intelligence. infrastructure.
These advances underscore NEAR’s evolution toward a foundation for brokerage economyWhere autonomous AI agents perform complex financial and operational tasks.
Central to this progress was the rapid maturation of NEAR Intents, which has become the leading cross-chain execution layer for decentralized finance and automated finance. payments.
With over $7 billion in cumulative volume across more than 13 million swaps involving more than 125 assets on more than 25 blockchains, the platform has served 1.6 million unique users.
Its solver-based architecture allows users to specify desired outcomes with specialized entities that handle complex cross-chain execution.
In addition to new integrations with exchanges such as CoW Swap and ThorSwap, Starknet, Monad and Bitcoin Cashfurther expanded its reach.
This growth reflects increasing demand for seamless, purpose-driven interoperability.
On-chain metrics revealed strong activity, with the network processing 54 million transactions and engaging 20 million users during the quarter.
Daily averages reached 4.2 million transactions, driven by the dominant HOT Wallet, which accounted for 53.3% of activity with 28.8 million transactions.
While there was an 8.4% increase in local infrastructure activities compared to the previous quarter, Tether stablecoin its usage increased by 29%, signaling broader adoption and diversification.
Technically, NEAR has significantly strengthened its core protocol.
It achieved 1 million TPS using real code on 70 pieces of consumer hardware.
The number of shards increased to nine with full dynamic resharding capabilities, sharded smart contracts went live, and the validator set increased to 500 nodes.
These improvements increase scalability, decentralization, and overall capacity.
NEAR AI Cloud has broken new ground by offering hardware-assisted secret inference backed by cryptographic proofs, ideal for sensitive broker transactions.
Partnerships like ADI Chain for the TravAI travel platform using intent for automated bookings and payments demonstrate real-world applications.
Developer resources enhanced with new features SDKsWallet features like documents and social logins.
tokenomics It received a major boost via the Halving Upgrade, reducing maximum annual inflation from 5% to 2.5%.
With fully unlocked supply and a live fee sharing mechanism via Intents, NEAR’s economics look more sustainable.
Governance progressed with the launch of House of Stake, which implemented community-driven decisions weighted by staked tokens.
OceanPal Inc.’s $120 million investment in AI startups and trust and ETP listings by Grayscale, Bitwise and others have led to increased institutional interest.
The NEAR Legion community has grown to more than 4,100 members.
For the first quarter of 2026, NEAR offers IronClaw for private brokers, advanced custom purposes, a unified near.com super app spanning over 35 chains, and I have a representative Market place. These developments Positioning NEAR as a vertically integrated service provider in broker-driven trading, 2026.
