NEAR Protocol launches staking-based payment for AI fees, granting access to all 43 models on NEAR AI

Odaily Planet Daily News: NEAR Protocol announced that users can pay for confidential inference and persistent agent operation fees by staking NEAR, without needing to bind a credit card. Staked NEAR will be converted into monthly compute credits, with the credit scale growing alongside the staked amount. The funds themselves are not consumed and can be retrieved after unstaking. All 43 models on NEAR AI, including those from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, are accessible through this staking mechanism.