exploit
NEAR Intents recovers full $3.8M after 48-hour ultimatum to exploiter
General Manager Alex Shevchenko issued a public 48-hour deadline on X; the attacker returned the funds and NEAR Intents closed its investigation on October 4.
Stories tagged: #near
governance
NEAR proposal would cut max issuance from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months
SVRN's Sal Ternullo filed a NEAR issuance-cut proposal (2.5% → 1.6% over two years), set for a House of Stake vote by Oct 11. Staking yield drops ~5.4% to ~3.5%; ~66M NEAR left unminted.
exploit
NEAR Intents drained for $3.8M via Omni deposit-layer bug
NEAR Intents paused cross-chain swaps on 11 networks Oct 1 after a bug in its Omni deposit/withdrawal layer let an attacker drain ~$3.8M. Contract patched; full reimbursement pledged.
protocol
Bitwise NEAR ETF (NRR) opens on NYSE Arca with in-house staking
The first US spot NEAR ETF starts trading on NYSE Arca with a 0.75% fee and staking rewards routed to shareholders through NAV.
protocol
NEAR ships v2.13 to mainnet: FIPS-204 ML-DSA signatures and dynamic resharding go live
NEAR activated protocol upgrade 2.13 on July 20, adding NIST-approved ML-DSA-65 as a third signature scheme and automatic shard splitting at epoch boundaries.
protocol
NEAR opens voting for protocol version 84 — Wasmtime runtime on mainnet
Validator voting for NEAR protocol version 84 opened June 10, 2026, 00:00 UTC. nearcore v2.12.0 switches the contract runtime to Wasmtime and enables Wasm bulk memory ops.