Shade NEAR Agents: AI That Controls Crypto Wallets — Without Trust Issues
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Jun 18, 2025
Imagine a world where your crypto wallet can manage itself. Where an AI assistant signs transactions across multiple blockchains, interacts with dApps, and makes smart decisions on your behalf — all without exposing your private keys or relying on a centralized server.
Imagine a world where your crypto wallet can manage itself. Where an AI assistant signs transactions across multiple blockchains, interacts with dApps, and makes smart decisions on your behalf — all without exposing your private keys or relying on a centralized server.
Imagine a world where your crypto wallet can manage itself. Where an AI assistant signs transactions across multiple blockchains, interacts with dApps, and makes smart decisions on your behalf — all without exposing your private keys or relying on a centralized server.
Welcome to NEAR Shade Agents, a groundbreaking innovation from the NEAR ecosystem that brings decentralized, intelligent agents to Web3.
What Are NEAR Shade Agents?
Shade Agents are autonomous, persistent AI agents that live on-chain and can manage wallets, perform transactions, and interact with data and smart contracts — securely and independently.
They combine the best of two worlds:
Trustless: Run inside secure hardware (TEEs — Trusted Execution Environments) that guarantees code integrity and confidentiality.
Persistent: Thanks to NEAR Protocol’s decentralized key management, these agents don’t lose access to your account — even if they move to a new machine.
What Makes NEAR Shade Agents Different?
Most Web3 “agents” today fall into one of two camps:
🟣 Trustless but fragile — They run in TEEs, but if the machine shuts down, they lose access.
🟣 Persistent but centralized — Controlled by a single server or company, which introduces a single point of failure.
Shade Agents break that tradeoff. They are both:
Trustless — running in verifiable, secure hardware.
Persistent — with account access that lives on-chain, not on any specific device.
How Does NEAR Shade Agents Work?
Here’s the magic:
A Shade Agent launches inside a secure enclave (TEE).
It proves that its code is genuine and safe to run.
Once verified, it can sign transactions and interact with contracts — without ever holding your private keys.
Anyone can spin up the same agent elsewhere, and it’ll still have access — because Shade Agents are stateless.
No centralized server. No risk of key leakage. No lock-in.
NEAR Shade Agents: A New Class of dApps
Shade Agents enable a powerful new concept: Agentic Protocols.
Think of them as proactive, AI-powered apps — not just waiting for user input, but monitoring, thinking, and acting on-chain.
Imagine:
An AI DeFi strategist optimizing your portfolio 24/7
A cross-chain arbitrage agent seizing profitable trades
A smart contract assistant that automates governance or DAO operations
All without trusting a company or server.
Why NEAR Shade Agents Matters
Shade Agents unlock the future of crypto:
Verifiable — You know what code is running.
Decentralized — No single point of failure or control.
Secure — No keys are exposed, and everything runs in a trusted environment.
Composable — They integrate seamlessly into any dApp.
It’s the intelligence of AI, the safety of crypto, and the resilience of the cloud — with none of the trust assumptions.
Welcome to the Shade NEAR Agents.
Ready to try it out? Join NEAR with Nightly, the wallet built for this new agentic future:
👉 Download Nightly
Welcome to NEAR Shade Agents, a groundbreaking innovation from the NEAR ecosystem that brings decentralized, intelligent agents to Web3.
What Are NEAR Shade Agents?
Shade Agents are autonomous, persistent AI agents that live on-chain and can manage wallets, perform transactions, and interact with data and smart contracts — securely and independently.
They combine the best of two worlds:
Trustless: Run inside secure hardware (TEEs — Trusted Execution Environments) that guarantees code integrity and confidentiality.
Persistent: Thanks to NEAR Protocol’s decentralized key management, these agents don’t lose access to your account — even if they move to a new machine.
What Makes NEAR Shade Agents Different?
Most Web3 “agents” today fall into one of two camps:
🟣 Trustless but fragile — They run in TEEs, but if the machine shuts down, they lose access.
🟣 Persistent but centralized — Controlled by a single server or company, which introduces a single point of failure.
Shade Agents break that tradeoff. They are both:
Trustless — running in verifiable, secure hardware.
Persistent — with account access that lives on-chain, not on any specific device.
How Does NEAR Shade Agents Work?
Here’s the magic:
A Shade Agent launches inside a secure enclave (TEE).
It proves that its code is genuine and safe to run.
Once verified, it can sign transactions and interact with contracts — without ever holding your private keys.
Anyone can spin up the same agent elsewhere, and it’ll still have access — because Shade Agents are stateless.
No centralized server. No risk of key leakage. No lock-in.
NEAR Shade Agents: A New Class of dApps
Shade Agents enable a powerful new concept: Agentic Protocols.
Think of them as proactive, AI-powered apps — not just waiting for user input, but monitoring, thinking, and acting on-chain.
Imagine:
An AI DeFi strategist optimizing your portfolio 24/7
A cross-chain arbitrage agent seizing profitable trades
A smart contract assistant that automates governance or DAO operations
All without trusting a company or server.
Why NEAR Shade Agents Matters
Shade Agents unlock the future of crypto:
Verifiable — You know what code is running.
Decentralized — No single point of failure or control.
Secure — No keys are exposed, and everything runs in a trusted environment.
Composable — They integrate seamlessly into any dApp.
It’s the intelligence of AI, the safety of crypto, and the resilience of the cloud — with none of the trust assumptions.
Welcome to the Shade NEAR Agents.
Ready to try it out? Join NEAR with Nightly, the wallet built for this new agentic future:
👉 Download Nightly
Welcome to NEAR Shade Agents, a groundbreaking innovation from the NEAR ecosystem that brings decentralized, intelligent agents to Web3.
What Are NEAR Shade Agents?
Shade Agents are autonomous, persistent AI agents that live on-chain and can manage wallets, perform transactions, and interact with data and smart contracts — securely and independently.
They combine the best of two worlds:
Trustless: Run inside secure hardware (TEEs — Trusted Execution Environments) that guarantees code integrity and confidentiality.
Persistent: Thanks to NEAR Protocol’s decentralized key management, these agents don’t lose access to your account — even if they move to a new machine.
What Makes NEAR Shade Agents Different?
Most Web3 “agents” today fall into one of two camps:
🟣 Trustless but fragile — They run in TEEs, but if the machine shuts down, they lose access.
🟣 Persistent but centralized — Controlled by a single server or company, which introduces a single point of failure.
Shade Agents break that tradeoff. They are both:
Trustless — running in verifiable, secure hardware.
Persistent — with account access that lives on-chain, not on any specific device.
How Does NEAR Shade Agents Work?
Here’s the magic:
A Shade Agent launches inside a secure enclave (TEE).
It proves that its code is genuine and safe to run.
Once verified, it can sign transactions and interact with contracts — without ever holding your private keys.
Anyone can spin up the same agent elsewhere, and it’ll still have access — because Shade Agents are stateless.
No centralized server. No risk of key leakage. No lock-in.
NEAR Shade Agents: A New Class of dApps
Shade Agents enable a powerful new concept: Agentic Protocols.
Think of them as proactive, AI-powered apps — not just waiting for user input, but monitoring, thinking, and acting on-chain.
Imagine:
An AI DeFi strategist optimizing your portfolio 24/7
A cross-chain arbitrage agent seizing profitable trades
A smart contract assistant that automates governance or DAO operations
All without trusting a company or server.
Why NEAR Shade Agents Matters
Shade Agents unlock the future of crypto:
Verifiable — You know what code is running.
Decentralized — No single point of failure or control.
Secure — No keys are exposed, and everything runs in a trusted environment.
Composable — They integrate seamlessly into any dApp.
It’s the intelligence of AI, the safety of crypto, and the resilience of the cloud — with none of the trust assumptions.
Welcome to the Shade NEAR Agents.
Ready to try it out? Join NEAR with Nightly, the wallet built for this new agentic future:
👉 Download Nightly