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NEAR: The L1 Where Chain Abstraction Actually Works — but the Token Still Waits on the AI-Agent Economy

NEAR — co-founded by a Transformer co-author — shipped what most 'AI coins' only pitch: working chain abstraction (NEAR Intents, 35+ chains, ~$21.7B volume) and a fee-buyback flywheel, with inflation halved to 2.5%. But it's still net-inflationary and DeFi is thin (~$147M) vs a ~$2.4B cap.

Aptos: The Move L1 Where Institutional Liquidity Parks; but Doesn't Yet Circulate

Aptos quietly won real institutional money — BlackRock's BUIDL, Franklin Templeton's BENJI, native USDT/USDC, Stripe, an e-HKD pilot — on strong Move + Block-STM tech. But ~$1.86B parks on Aptos while ~$120M works in DeFi; APT stays net-inflationary even after the 2026 hard-cap overhaul.

Stellar: The Cross-Border Rail Institutions Use; and the Token That Doesn't Capture It

Stellar quietly became production infrastructure for regulated payments and tokenized RWAs — Franklin BENJI ($654M), native Circle USDC + CCTP, MoneyGram corridors — on an elegant non-PoS consensus. Two honest gaps: XLM decoupled from network usage, and a 7-org tier-1 quorum racing to 13.