NEAR competition · 2026

One policy. Three track perspectives.

X3 Shield connects owner-defined rules, agent payment requests, and cross-chain quote checks. Explore each track with its own demonstration, source and evidence limits.

Choose a track

Three project perspectives are shown here. At the reviewed source snapshot, submission documents name Security and Agents; DeFi is proposed. Entry and judging status are not verified.

AI Security & Defense

Who stops an injected agent from paying an attacker?

The owner writes the spending mandate. The compiler rejects unsupported requests; the NEAR Guard checks signed quote terms against the stored rules.

Agent Economy

How can an agent request a payment within its owner's budget?

A payment program references an owner mandate with recipient and asset allowlists, per-payment and daily caps, approval thresholds, fees, slippage and expiry.

Unstoppable DeFi

What cross-chain transfer can a judge verify?

An .x3 program specified a Base Sepolia to NEAR testnet transfer. Its source hash was registered on Guard before the source transfer.

Follow the evidence

Local checks

Run the browser playground to edit policy and inspect a deterministic verdict. It does not sign or move funds.

NEAR Guard

Inspect historical testnet transactions and archived view results. A signed quote and a policy decision establish different facts.

Delivered funds

Inspect both finalized testnet chain records and the relay trust assumptions. Quote acceptance alone is insufficient.

Source evidence and judge walkthroughs