NEAR and IQ AI Partner to Advance Tokenized AI Agents

On Wednesday, the Near Protocol announced via a blog post that the NEAR Foundation and IQ AI have partnered to expand the ecosystem for tokenized AI agents, enabling agents to operate autonomously across multiple chains.

IQ AI develops infrastructure for tokenized AI agents capable of operating in digital and physical environments. Central among that infrastructure is IQ AI’s Agent Tokenization Platform (ATP), which enables developers to create AI agents capable of autonomously managing assets, executing financial strategies, and interacting with decentralized economies.

IQ AI has now integrated NEAR Intents into its Agent Development Kit, the developer toolkit used to build and deploy the intelligent agents for ATP. Within its ADK, IQ AI has created multiple specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for direct access to NEAR Intents and the NEAR blockchain, using a secure, standardized, two-way interface.

With NEAR Intents and the NEAR blockchain integrated directly into IQ AI’s Agent Development Kit, tokenized agents can autonomously trade, stake, and interact across chains without manual or centralized coordination.

NEAR Protocol is a decentralized application platform designed to make apps similarly usable to those on today’s web. The network runs on a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism called Nightshade, which aims to provide dynamic scalability and stabilize fees. NEAR is trading at $3.023, up 6.6% in the last 24 hours.