NEAR Protocol Ties AI Privacy to Financial Infrastructure Control

NEAR Protocol linked privacy in artificial intelligence to who controls financial infrastructure, saying that control could influence global finance as the economy shifts toward AI agents owned by users.

The project’s framing connects the design of AI systems with control over the systems that manage financial activity and move capital. NEAR described user ownership of AI agents as part of that shift.

The remarks echo themes from NEAR’s Q3 discussion of privacy, AI and user ownership, which covered privacy, post-quantum solutions and the AI economy. At an October TOKEN2049 Singapore keynote, NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin also put default privacy at the center of the network’s vision for AI and finance.