$NEAR Catalyst Posts
January 16, 2026Single-day social intelligence recap and verified catalyst posts · ← Back to $NEAR Profile · Market Rankings
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33 source posts analyzed· 2026-01-16T18:37:13+00:00✦ $10B NEAR INTENTS VOLUME ✦ In 2025, NEAR Intents became the fastest-growing infrastructure for cross-chain swaps. Now, Intents is on its way to becoming the universal venue for trading crypto and more. More chains. More assets. More liquidity. More users. More commerce.
· 2026-01-16T14:37:33+00:00The veNEAR governance rewards campaign is ongoing! Lock NEAR, mint veNEAR, and claim rewards every two weeks. Rewards scale based on locked NEAR.
· 2026-01-16T03:49:42+00:00All of you marketing experts criticizing the STRK <> SOL <> NEAR campaign take yourself way too seriously and that is why Mert Yakovenko eats you for breakfast
· 2026-01-16T18:37:52+00:00$10,000,000,000 all-time volume for NEAR Intents! That’s a lot of zeroes and it happened way faster than anyone imagined. Shoutout to everyone who contributed to these zeroes, whether you swapped $10 or $1M.
· 2026-01-16T05:40:00+00:00$STRK ( @Starknet 's token) is now live on Solana via #NEARProtocol Intents
· 2026-01-16T16:29:24+00:00My AI agent and I have built DNS resolver via blockchain. http://neardns.near is available if you run near-dns locally or use my temporary public DNS server 185.149.40.161 in your network settings. For those of you who are still not on NEAR-DNS, you can get to the landing page
· 2026-01-16T18:42:53+00:00$10B volume. Such volume. Much swaps. More partners are joining every day, growing the network effects of @near_intents
· 2026-01-16T09:49:57+00:00@THORSwap now supports Bitcoin Cash cross-chain trading via @NEAR_Intents ! Swap Native $BCH to/from: Bitcoin, Solana, BNB Chain, XRP, Zcash, NEAR Protocol, TRON, Dogecoin, Litecoin, Avalanche Ethereum, Base, Polygon, OP Mainnet, Arbitrum, Monad Proudly @SwapKitPowered
· 2026-01-16T11:30:13+00:00Get started in Crypto without juggling Gas tokens Pay Gas in $SWEAT and bridge across chains in seconds with Sweat Wallet. $SWEAT on @NEARProtocol → $SWEAT on @BNBCHAIN ~30 seconds. No friction. Powered by @near_intents
· 2026-01-16T17:30:07+00:00Indexing almost always turns into a separate task. History, filtering, rebuilding datasets, delays between events and UI all of this quickly stops fitting into simple RPC calls In the NEAR ecosystem, there’s an indexing-focused tool called Goldsky. It reads NEAR data
· 2026-01-16T13:37:46+00:00Vik Sharma: "I'm pleasantly surprised at the volume of Near Intents activity in Cake after launch[ing] it along with Zcash" Vik is @cakewallet 's founder Yesterday, Cake Wallet announced adding $ZEC and a NEAR Intents implementation for privacy-focused, in-app swaps Study $NEAR
· 2026-01-16T17:00:01+00:00TOP PROJECTS BY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY GROWTH @aleph_im +466% @GMX_IO +272% @Aave +183% @NEARProtocol +145% @Aptos +143% @wormholecrypto +112% @zksync +104% @MultiversX +93.1% @CantonNetwork +67.1% @h_o_l_o_ +62.8% $ALEPH $GMX $AAVE $NEAR $APT $W $ZK $EGLD $CC $HOT
· 2026-01-16T10:32:34+00:00Grateful to be hanging with the NEAR fam in Lisbon
· 2026-01-16T18:52:39+00:00NEAR Intents just crossed $10B in all-time volume. From $1B in 305 days to doubling from $5B in 2 months. While bridges lost $2.8B to exploits, intent-based cross-chain swaps are proving you don't need bridges to move between chains. 15.7M swaps and counting.
· 2026-01-16T13:26:56+00:00NEAR Intents has made $10B in all-time volume! → $17M in all-time fee revenue → 15M total swaps across 23+ chains out of the $10B → $2.15B (20%) in the last 30 days └→ by 541,074 unique addresses → $603M in the last week └→ by 137,961 unique addresses Study $NEAR
· 2026-01-16T13:29:48+00:00I'm pleasantly surprised at the volume of Near Intents activity in Cake after launch it along with Zcash
· 2026-01-16T20:38:08+00:00Winning Altcoin gets an analysis video this weekend $SEI $NEAR $IOTA $HBAR
· 2026-01-16T19:39:54+00:00Yeah, use private.near.ai instead
· 2026-01-16T13:21:30+00:00January 16th: 28 Reasons to Be Bullish on NEAR, the sparknotes version. Events this weekend in Frankfurt, Bali, Ibadan, and Abeokuta (links below)
· 2026-01-16T22:13:34+00:00Okay. I typed WAY TOO FAST> Corrected Errors in this post: $XEC, not ECH... DOH!!! $NEAR at 11am Thursday, not 1pm... DOH!!! Markus is @NexGenRecon , not @ NexGen... DOH!!! LOL Thank GOD it's Friday. Thanks for the corrections, @RavenSkullzNFT , @caincurrency and @jp_dawg
· 2026-01-16T09:40:58+00:00Bear market boss fight but $SHITZU isn’t even sweating $Shitzu just standing there with his pipe like: “Bro, we’ve cleared harder levels.” On $NEAR, every dip is just another stage.
· 2026-01-16T17:39:50+00:00Solana. NEAR. Starknet.
· 2026-01-16T22:04:02.634604+00:00Best Crypto Coin to Buy Alert: BlockDAG Priced at $0.001 Has Just 10 Days Left – NEAR and BGB Aren’t Moving Choosing the best crypto coin to buy in 2026 requires more than watching short-term price charts. Investors are looking for real opportunities, assets positioned for long-term strength, short
· 2026-01-16T12:34:02.574383+00:00Fraction AI Introduces Signature Agents, Allowing Users to Create and Share Their Own Agents Fraction AI has introduced Signature Agents, a new feature that allows users to create, deploy, and share personalized AI agents that autonomously manage stablecoins on-chain. Introduced on J
· 2026-01-16T07:00:47+00:00Node Studio Cohort 1: Key Insights Education is key. When the community learns and dives deep, they become part of the ecosystem and transform into builders. @maxone_lens shared that from any angle, anyone can get involved into the @NEARProtocol ecosystem.
· 2026-01-16T06:48:47+00:00这三个 Sol + Near + Starknet 三个不同钱包，怎么才能抱起来啊。 有没有办法把它们组到一个钱包里啊，这样用起来才方便……
· 2026-01-16T18:35:15+00:00Love Starknet Love Solana Love NEAR Love Bitcoin Love Ethereum Love Zcash Love ZK Bullish.
· 2026-01-16T18:44:41+00:00Great milestone, congratulations! Reported about it and NEAR Intents' growth for @coinspeaker ↓
· 2026-01-16T22:17:36+00:00One venue to rule them all. More chains. More liquidity. Zero friction.
· 2026-01-16T06:00:32+00:00DAILY NEAR INTENTS ACTIVITY [15.01.2026] @near_intents stats: Volume: $99.672M (-8.0%) Swaps: 44,391 (-49.8%) Unique Users: 10,987 (-45.4%) Fees Generated: $128,583.86 (-43.1%) Assets/Network Supported: 135 assets across 28 blockchains Access unstoppable liquidity and swap now:
· 2026-01-16T21:59:57+00:00!submit @nearweekbot
· 2026-01-16T10:36:11+00:00Congratulations to @NEARProtocol & @near_intents ! Glad to be part of the journey to NEARVANA
· 2026-01-16T11:34:02.527252+00:00Fraction AI Introduces Signature Agents, Allowing Users to Create and Share Their Own Agents Fraction AI has introduced Signature Agents, a new feature that allows users to create, deploy, and share personalized AI agents that autonomously manage stablecoins on-chain. Introduced on J