NEAR Miami during Consensus 2026 Miami brings together builders & AI platforms to explore user-owned agentic economies built on the NEAR stack.
Two very different agentic economies are possible. In one, closed platforms control intelligence and settlement. Agents act, but data, routing, and value flow belong to centralized providers. Economic power consolidates behind systems users can’t inspect. In the other, users own their AI and the value layer beneath it. Agents transact as principals, confidentially, verifiably, and on terms set by their users, who remain sovereign.
NEAR has made its choice.
Held during Consensus 2026 in Miami, this working forum convenes builders, protocol teams, and AI platforms to examine the infrastructure decisions that determine whether the agentic economy is user-owned. Sessions span the full NEAR stack: NEAR Intents for cross-chain execution, NEAR AI Cloud for confidential and verifiable inference, and near.com as the unified interface where it all converges.
Panels and firesides will include the biggest payment infrastructure providers across traditional finance and the blockchain industry, as well as major asset managers and DeFi platforms.
Speakers include:
- Zach Pandl, Head of Research, Grayscale
- Sal Ternullo, CEO, SVRN
- Nishkaam Mehta, CEO, Abound
- Nathan Stump, Head of Ecosystem Sales, BitGo, Inc.
- Alex Shevchenko, GM, NEAR Intents
- George Zeng, CPO & GM NEAR AI, NEAR Foundation
- Cameron Dennis, Director of AI, Growth & Infra, NEAR AI
- Steven Walbroehl, Co-Founder & CTO, Halborn
- Richard Harrison, VP Banking and Payments Partnerships, MoonPay
- David Schwed, COO, SVRN
- Hunter Horsley, Co-Founder & CEO, Bitwise Asset Management, Inc.
- Ari Medvinsky, CTO & Co-Founder, GetFailSafe.com
- Kendall Cole, Director, Proximity Labs
- Nigel Satenstein, GTM Lead, Bridge
- Alex Ruiz, Sr. Cloud Architect, Microsoft Corporation
- Tony Margarit, CFO, Zcash Open Development Lab (ZODL)
- Matt Kummel, Advisor, NEAR Foundation
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