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NEAR launches staking payments for AI credits
NEAR has introduced a staking-based payment system for NEAR AI, letting users lock NEAR tokens to receive monthly compute credits instead of paying with conventional cloud billing, subscriptions, or credit cards. The model grants access to 43 hosted AI models from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Locked tokens are not spent; credits scale with stake size, aligning token ownership with AI compute access. NEAR aims to create practical token utility and crypto-native payment rails for developers and autonomous agents. Adoption remains uncertain, with questions around economics, credit predictability, user experience, and competition with traditional API billing.
Read Original Source ↗Chainlink launches TWAP price feeds on mainnet
Chainlink has launched Time-Weighted Average Price feeds on mainnet, offering 30-second and 60-second windows to supply manipulation-resistant crypto price data. Polymarket will begin using these feeds to settle short-duration markets from 7 August. Unlike single-snapshot oracles, the new feeds average prices over brief intervals, helping dilute the impact of sudden trades near expiry. They are delivered through Chainlink Data Streams, with access for existing credentialed users and pricing from $150 per month. Polymarket will migrate its 5-minute, 15-minute and 4-hour crypto markets to TWAP-based settlement, supported by $1 million in liquidity incentives during August. Chainlink continues soak testing and infrastructure calibration ahead of broader potential DeFi adoption.
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