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Coins•Nov 6, 2026

NEAR Co-Founder Illia Polosukhin Launches Delta League to Improve Open-Source AI Models

Key Highlights The Delta League initiative has commenced live testing using Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 0.8B open-weight model, demonstrating that verified crowdsourced edits can incrementally improve model benchmark scores. Upcoming platform expansions will allow architectural design modifications alongside weight updates, as well as customized evaluations tailored to enterprise-specific tasks. Spearheaded as part of Illia Polosukhin’s push for ...

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Coins•Oct 21, 2026

NEAR Protocol Announces 1M+ Tokens Staked for NEAR AI

Key Highlights: NEAR Protocol announced on October 21, 2026, that more than 1 million NEAR tokens were staked for inference with NEAR AI. The milestone was disclosed through NEAR Protocol’s official tweet. The reported total connects participation in the NEAR ecosystem with a practical AI inference use case. More Than 1 Million NEAR Tokens Directed ...

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Coins•Oct 3, 2026

NEAR Co-Founder Pitches AI Pets, Private Trading, and Cross-Chain Payments

Key Highlights NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin outlined an extensive roadmap of application concepts spanning cross-chain checkout widgets, autonomous AI agents, and non-custodial trading solutions. The blueprint highlights NEAR Intents and NEAR AI to resolve user onboarding hurdles, enabling cross-chain payments without direct bridges and funding AI compute through token staking. Institutional interest in NEAR infrastructure ...

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