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Full disclosure I hold $Near.
I did a very deep objective dive into this serious $ICP v #Near IP drama and this is an honest take.
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The claim that $NEAR “stole” $ICP’s vetKeys technology deserves a serious examination of the facts, not accusations based on technological similarities.
And once you examine NEAR’s own research publication, DFINITY’s open-source repository, and the Apache 2.0 license, that accusation becomes considerably harder to substantiate.
Let’s establish a few things.
1. NEAR publicly acknowledged the similarity in February 2026.
On February 23, 2026, NEAR One published a technical research article titled Confidential Key Derivation in the MPC Network.
In that publication, NEAR’s researchers explicitly stated:
“While building our solution, we converged to a protocol similar to VetKeys, even though we were not aware of this result.”
Think about the significance of that statement.
NEAR wasn’t concealing the similarities. Its researchers publicly acknowledged the existence of a comparable cryptographic protocol and stated that they had arrived at their solution independently.
Does that statement independently prove they didn’t copy anything? Of course not.
But neither does the existence of similar technology prove that they did.
If you’re going to accuse developers of intellectual-property theft, the burden is on you to provide evidence supporting the allegation.
2. DFINITY deliberately released its vetKeys libraries under Apache License 2.0.
This is where the accusation becomes especially questionable.
DFINITY’s official vetKeys GitHub repository explicitly identifies Apache 2.0 as its license.
Apache 2.0 is not a restrictive, noncommercial license. It’s a permissive open-source license designed to encourage software adoption, modification, redistribution, and commercialization.
Under Apache 2.0, developers generally have the legal right to:
• Copy the licensed source code.
• Modify and improve it.
• Create derivative software.
• Integrate it into other applications.
• Redistribute the software.
• Incorporate it into commercial products.
• Compete with the original developer.
All subject to the terms of the license.
Let me emphasize that last point.
COMPETING WITH THE ORIGINAL DEVELOPER DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY VIOLATE AN OPEN-SOURCE LICENSE.
This is fundamental to understanding how open-source software works.
3. Apache 2.0 also contains an explicit patent license.
This is a particularly important detail that frequently gets overlooked.
Apache 2.0 provides recipients with a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free patent license covering certain patent claims held by contributors that are necessarily infringed by their contributions.
That patent grant has limits. It doesn’t automatically license every patent relating to the technology.
However, it provides more protection than a simple copyright permission.
So even the argument that DFINITY might own patents related to vetKeys needs to be examined against the actual scope of the license & any relevant patent claims.
4. Open source does not eliminate copyright—but it grants permission to do things copyright would otherwise restrict.
DFINITY retains copyright in its original contributions.
That is entirely consistent w/ open-source licensing.
The important distinction is that Apache 2.0 expressly authorizes specified uses of that copyrighted material.
A copyright holder generally cannot successfully claim infringement merely because someone exercised rights the holder already licensed to them.
To establish a meaningful infringement case, you would need to identify something like:
• A violation of the applicable license conditions.
• Unauthorized copying of separately protected code.
• Infringement of an applicable patent outside the license grant.
• Misappropriation of confidential information.
• Another independently actionable violation.
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i have been telling people this for days now
binance is doing some shady stuff right now
i guess they are trying to recoup the $6B from the hack
Binance keep pushing price into liquidations, and spot buyers are paying for it.
Spot CVD has been rising. Real buyers are taking coins off the market. But every time price tries to move, heavy selling on Binance slams it back down, straight into the zones where leveraged longs are stacked. Longs get wiped, price resets, and spot keeps quietly buying the dip.
It’s been happening since the hack: the same exchange, the same pattern, the same liquidation clusters getting hit again and again. Normally spot leads the real move. Right now Binance are sitting right on top of it.
I can’t tell you why. But when one venue keeps forcing liquidations while spot demand keeps getting stronger, that isn’t a normal market. And once that pressure stops, spot usually shows you where price wanted to go all along.
Are they recovering the losses?
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perps are fighting spot demand
who wins???
Iran war end or any agreement on peace talks will destroy these shorts
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always have dry powder on hand to make generational gains
A huge print is starting to come into view. We’re obviously not there yet, not even close, but the eventuality is taking shape.
Traders should be developing a gameplan in advance -- things to keep on the screen and an understanding of historical precedent.
Before a print happens, there can be a window in which inflation protection can be bought cheaply, because protection initially gets sold along with everything else. A good template for this (and everyone should get familiar with it) is gold’s decline in mid-late 2008, then its surge over the next few years as the Fed’s policy response to the crisis took hold. And note: In 2008, gold bottomed before stocks.
The main questions in these situations are timing and price: How long does the window stay open for acquiring protection before a policy response takes hold, and how cheap does protection get?
Big prints are rare (and history doesn’t repeat exactly) so there are no set answers or rules. Gold and BTC may have already seen most of their selling. But if opportunities do develop, investors with dry powder will be best positioned to take advantage of them (as always).
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😭😂
$BTC has literally never made a new low after forming a weekly HH.
Of course, that’s based on BTC having already impulsed from the bottom.
So, based on history, this next low should be a HL. BTC is already down 14%, and HTF market structure has shifted, so it’s likely we’re close to forming one.
If we somehow make a new LL after forming a weekly HH, I’ll probably deactivate my account.😂
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we are all lucky to be here
99.9% of the world has no clue
we are the .1%ers
The amount of shit you’ll have to sit through before BTC gets to 126K.
The chop, the fear, the constant it’s over posts, watching your position round trip and questioning whether you’re completely wrong.
Then, when BTC finally reaches 126K, people will call you lucky. They won’t remember the months of doubt or the pressure it took to hold through it. They’ll just say you got lucky.
Remember that.
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tell me more
2 years ago, I said to buy $MU when it was under $80. Its up 1350% already.
My target for $MU is at least $5000+ from here.
Right now, memory is the biggest bottleneck in AI says Elon Musk:
$WDC $45 → $750 up 1650%
$SNDK $45 → $2050 up 4550%
$STX $75 → $1110 up 1480%
$DRAM $25 → $75 up 300%
♻️ RESHARE this post and write 1 comment, I'll DM you the LAST memory stock no one is paying attention to that will 20x-50x.
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i blame all the idiots trading with leverage on these violent swings…
u shoot ur own bags in the foot
morons
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🚨 BIG NEWS FOR $BTC ADOPTION!
Dolomite just integrated $100 MILLION in Bitcoin-backed collateral through Concrete’s BTCcx and BitGo custody infrastructure.
This allows BTC to support on-chain borrowing WITHOUT having to sell the underlying Bitcoin.
Think about the implications:
Bitcoin is evolving from a store of value into productive collateral within global financial markets.
This isn’t $100M in new BTC purchases. It’s something structurally important: financial infrastructure being built AROUND Bitcoin.
Banks, custodians, DeFi and institutional lending are converging.
The next chapter of $BTC adoption is being written. 🔥
#Bitcoin #DeFi
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🚨 $BTC WHALE ALERT 🐳
The Hyperliquid whale is flipping AGAIN!
In just 37 minutes:
✅ Closed BTC LONG: +$10,500
🔴 Opened $8.38M SHORT
❌ Closed SHORT: -$332
🟢 Reopened 20 BTC LONG ($1.68M)
⚡ 40x leverage
🎯 Entry: $83,869
📍 BTC: $83,894
Whales are people too and they don’t have crystal balls! 🔮
Trade responsibly!
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