NEAR AI Cloud API achieves OpenAI compatibility for developers
NEAR Protocol (NEAR)
Editor:
Eugene Serbin
cryptobriefing.com reports that NEAR AI Cloud launched full OpenAI compatibility on December 3, 2025, allowing developers to switch infrastructure by changing a single URL and API key. The new setup supports both chat completions and legacy completions endpoints, with Python and JavaScript SDKs functioning out of the box. Requests are routed through a central gateway or directly to model-specific endpoints running inside Trusted Execution Environments, or TEEs.
These TEEs act as hardware-enforced private computation chambers where models process data in an environment even the host operator cannot inspect. NEAR’s TEE-hosted models, including GLM 5.2 variants, utilize Intel TDX combined with NVIDIA confidential computing hardware. Every request includes a complete attestation, providing cryptographic proof that computation occurred inside a genuine secure enclave without tampering.
Around July 2026, NEAR introduced a staking-based payment mechanism for AI compute credits, giving the NEAR token direct utility. The model catalog expanded between July and September 2026 to include integrations with LiteLLM, Aider, and Continue. This approach extends NEAR’s developer-focused philosophy by offering familiar AI tooling with blockchain-sourced privacy and payment infrastructure. However, TEE-based inference adds latency compared to standard GPU compute, and staking payments introduce token price volatility into enterprise operating costs.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for NEAR, measured when this story was written up on 11 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
NEAR is trading at $2.44 with a 1-hour buy ratio of 50.3% and a 4-hour buy ratio of 50.1%, indicating a slight majority of buyers in the short term. These short-term ratios are higher than the 24-hour buy ratio of 46.9%, suggesting that buying pressure is building in the immediate present compared to the last day. The 1-hour volume delta is positive at +$71,165, while the 4-hour delta is +$14,132, showing net inflows over these shorter windows. In contrast, the 24-hour volume delta is -$4,192,883, indicating that net selling has outweighed buying over the longer period. The cumulative volume delta for the 24-hour period closed at +$1,555,157, meaning that despite the negative delta, the total volume of buys exceeded sells over the full day. There were 13 hours of net buying out of 24, with a total spot volume of $68,643,003 and 469,747 trades recorded.
The latest daily buy ratio of 49.0% sits at the 37th percentile of the last 324 days, against a median of 49.7% - ordinary for this coin.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for NEAR, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
Over the preceding week, the average buy ratio was 50.4%, and the latest day’s ratio was 3.5 points lower than this average. Weekly volume was 1.05 times the average, indicating slightly higher activity than usual. The price increased by 24.9% over the eight-day period, with a total volume delta of +$6,346,594. Net buying occurred on 4 of the 7 days in the preceding week. This day is slightly less bullish on balance than the weekly average, but volume remains elevated compared to typical days.