# $NEAR Catalyst Posts & Social Intelligence Recap — August 26, 2025

> **Asset:** $NEAR  
> **Date:** 2025-08-26 (August 26, 2025)  
> **Canonical URL:** https://cryptitalk.com/tokens/near/2025-08-26  
> **Token Profile:** https://cryptitalk.com/tokens/near.md  
> **Market Rankings:** https://cryptitalk.com/rankings.md  

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## Curated Viral Posts & Community Evidence


### Post #1 by @StellarOrg
> **Author:** Stellar ([@StellarOrg](https://x.com/StellarOrg))  
> **Metrics:** 218 likes · 32 retweets · 15 comments · 14.4K views  

> **Posted:** 2025-08-26T21:05:31+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/StellarOrg/status/1960448545598923149](https://x.com/StellarOrg/status/1960448545598923149)  


> **Video Content:** Sample video description 9  

> 
> "This Friday, SDF's 
@adavaughan
 is going live on 
@StellarOrg
 with 
@chronear
, 
@NEARProtocol
's Head of Ecosystem Strategy, to discuss how NEAR Intents will power new DeFi use cases on Stellar and what this integration means for the ecosystem."


### Post #2 by @5267eth
> **Author:** QuBi ([@5267eth](https://x.com/5267eth))  
> **Metrics:** 273 likes · 63 retweets · 8 comments · 9.3K views  

> **Posted:** 2025-08-26T03:28:00+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/5267eth/status/1960182413025247565](https://x.com/5267eth/status/1960182413025247565)  


> **Visual Note:** Sample image description 40  

> 
> "AI Crypto Security Rankings (Certik) 

 $QUBIC –  91.3  | MC: $300M
 $ICP – 90.92 | MC: $5.4B
 $NEAR – 90.9 | MC: $7.6B
 $TAO (Bittensor) – 84.4 | MC: $3.3B
 $FET – 84.0 | MC: $2.6B

$QUBIC sits #1 in security, above projects with market caps 10x–25x bigger."


### Post #3 by @NEARProtocol
> **Author:** NEAR Protocol ([@NEARProtocol](https://x.com/NEARProtocol))  
> **Metrics:** 158 likes · 23 retweets · 24 comments · 8.9K views  

> **Posted:** 2025-08-26T13:42:14+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/1960336989179216185](https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/1960336989179216185)  


> **Video Content:** Sample video description 38  

> 
> "9 shards, 600ms block time, 1.2 second finality, 295 validators.

NEAR is ready for the era of private agents."


### Post #4 by @NEARProtocol
> **Author:** NEAR Protocol ([@NEARProtocol](https://x.com/NEARProtocol))  
> **Metrics:** 87 likes · 14 retweets · 27 comments · 5.1K views  

> **Posted:** 2025-08-26T20:15:57+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/1960436071436861826](https://x.com/NEARProtocol/status/1960436071436861826)  


> 
> "sharded.
multi-chain swaps. 
user-friendly. 
AI-focused. 

There is no L1 like NEAR."


### Post #5 by @Core_002
> **Author:** CORE (Satoshi) ([@Core_002](https://x.com/Core_002))  
> **Metrics:** 69 likes · 35 retweets · 31 comments · 2.3K views  

> **Posted:** 2025-08-26T03:47:36+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/Core_002/status/1960187347351339238](https://x.com/Core_002/status/1960187347351339238)  


> **Visual Note:** Sample image description 30  

> 
> "TOP #AI Projects by Social Activity 

$TAO  | $LINK | $INJ | $FET | $NEAR
$RENDER | $QUBIC | $PAAL | $VRA | $ROSE

 Which one are you most bullish on?

#NaunceInspectxyz
@inspectxyz"


### Post #6 by @vinibarbosabr
> **Author:** Vini Barbosa ([@vinibarbosabr](https://x.com/vinibarbosabr))  
> **Metrics:** 24 likes · 0 retweets · 4 comments · 971 views  

> **Posted:** 2025-08-26T18:02:47+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/vinibarbosabr/status/1960402561565122945](https://x.com/vinibarbosabr/status/1960402561565122945)  


> **Visual Note:** Sample image description 43  

> 
> "Joining NEAR Intents is a win-win scenario, imo.

The protocol is efficiently connecting all the most used chains.
Seamless cross-chain swaps and other potential applications.

All projects should be working to be part of it.

Chain abstraction is near.
Drop your recommendation"


### Post #7 by @satoshi_shadow
> **Author:** S. Shadow ([@satoshi_shadow](https://x.com/satoshi_shadow))  
> **Metrics:** 0 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 40 views  

> **Posted:** 2025-08-26T23:17:40+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/satoshi_shadow/status/1960481805129408743](https://x.com/satoshi_shadow/status/1960481805129408743)  


> **Video Content:** Sample video description 5  

> 
> "NEAR Protocol faces scrutiny over its AI plans. Investors question if ambitions are paying off, affecting crypto market sentiment and volatility. Watch closely. #Crypto #NEARProtocol"


### Post #8 by @vinibarbosabr
> **Author:** Vini Barbosa ([@vinibarbosabr](https://x.com/vinibarbosabr))  
> **Metrics:** 0 likes · 0 retweets · 0 comments · 15 views  

> **Posted:** 2025-08-26T14:11:19+00:00  


> **Source Link:** [https://x.com/vinibarbosabr/status/1960344308868894860](https://x.com/vinibarbosabr/status/1960344308868894860)  


> **Video Content:** Sample video description 23  

> 
> "If your defi/web3, onchain experience is not like this... 

→ 
@NEARProtocol
 
  ↳ Sign Tx,
  ↳ Pay ~ Ⓝ0.003 (~$0.01) in fees*,
  ↳ Wait 1.2 seconds,
  ↳ Tx fully received (cross-shard, deterministic finality).

...you should try NEAR.

Near also has zero downtime
(not many"




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