A network of innovators, builders, and visionaries shaping the future of decentralized AI and Web3 - powered by NEAR.
The NEAR ecosystem has evolved rapidly since mainnet launch in 2020, building, pivoting, and growing into a thriving hub of innovation.
Today, we're seeing breakthroughs across the board:
It’s an incredible time to be here...
Most people don’t know where to start. And if I'm being totally open - I think it's even been difficult for those of us who have been here since mainnet in 2020 to keep up with everything going on.
I'd suggest the advancements and tools are evolving faster than most in the community can keep up. It's a good thing, but it also causes some challenges.
There are exciting projects everywhere, but few clear paths to contribute, learn, or collaborate meaningfully.
Builders feel siloed. Newcomers feel overwhelmed.
And too many great ideas are getting lost in the noise.
By staking your NEAR with Vital Point you gain more than yield. You gain entry into the Vital Point Guild, which we envision growing quickly to be a purpose-driven, high-impact group advancing adoption of web 3 and agentic AI to solve real-world challenges - things like digital identity, data sovereignty, and a flood of AI.
Your stake fuels the mission. Your rewards reflect your impact.
Think of staking like putting money into a high-interest savings account but for crypto. The easiest way to stake is to delegate your NEAR to a trusted validator.
When you stake your NEAR tokens, you're locking them into the network temporarily to help keep it secure and running smoothly, like how a bank uses your deposited money to support its operations and loans.
In return, the network pays you rewards - like interest - for your contribution. These rewards come in the form of more NEAR tokens, and they're earned and distributed automatically.
NEAR staking has historically generated a rate of return (since mainnet launch in 2020) of around 8–10% annually.
The Vital Point validator automatically allocates 5% of the rewards to the guild treasury and the remaining ~4% is allocated to members proportionate to their stake.
🔗 Stake to Support the Mission
Staking is how we fund the tools, platforms, and infrastructure Vital Point builds for members and the NEAR ecosystem. No VC. No middlemen. Just real builders and artisans (content creators) backed by the community.
💸 Earn While Empowering
Guild members receive NEAR staking rewards - working out to around 4% APY -automatically, while directly contributing to the growth of open-source and public-good tech. That's better than a savings account and your capital builds in value as the price of the NEAR token increases.
🛠️ Power Real-World Innovation
Your stake helps us build decentralized identity frameworks, AI agent orchestration platforms, provide courses and content, and developer tools used by the next generation of creators and communities.
🧙 Exclusive Access to the Guild
Members get access to the VP Academy, prototypes, tools, and experiments; opportunities to co-create; and visibility into where we're heading next. Not just passive staking - active participation.
🏗️ Backed by Battle-Tested Infrastructure
Our validator is run on a high-availability, secure server designed for maximum uptime and reliability - so your stake works for you, the guild and NEAR Protocol.
Unlock the power of autonomous AI agents that don’t just respond, they monitor and act. Build agents that can reason, make decisions, and take secure, verifiable action across systems, workflows, and data, with or without human intervention.
Build AI agents that don’t just work, they endure. Web3 architecture ensures resilience, continuity, and security without centralized control, even in the face of outages, attacks, or disruptions. Verifiable, tamper-resistant, and always available.
Design agents for real-world conditions. Integrate directly with your systems, act on live data, and execute tasks with precision and accountability. Automate workflows, make decisions, or coordinate across domains to put AI to work for you.
Welcome and train developers
We're looking for people of any experience/skill level interested in building the future. Vital Point Academy provides developer training that teaches you to how to build incredible experiences and open web applications on NEAR Protocol.
Recruit the collaborators and enablers
We welcome domain experts, product managers and investors willing to identify domain challenges and opportunities, manage product development, provide specialized knowledge, or furnish resource support to ensure development efforts produce effective solutions.
Support and grow the community
Vital Point AI is growing an inclusive and supportive community with useful resources and an organization where every member has a stake and contributes to its success. People are rewarded for the important roles they play in helping solve real-world issues while building the open web future.
Build Incredible Solutions
Vital Point AI is has several projects on the go at any time. Get involved in them, work on other's, or start your own.
Vital Point AI embraces diversity and inclusiveness. We value initiative and self-discipline. In short, no matter who you are or what your skill level, we want you to succeed. If you have the desire, motivation, persistence and discipline to put in the consistent effort to continually learn and become a great developer - we can have a long and collaborative relationship where everyone wins.
Innovation is what happens when someone with domain expertise and vision meets someone with the technical know-how to make it real.
Vital Point's mission is to facilitate as many of those connections as possible.
near resources
Vital Point leverages NEAR protocol as a foundational pillar of everything it does. The NEAR collective is a global collection of organizations collaboratively building NEAR.
It includes a number of extraordinary teams, championship-level competitive programmers, and a NEAR foundation backed by the best names in the crypto industry.
Vital Point runs a guild as part of the NEAR collective's guild program. Individuals, clubs, leaders, influencers, experts, communicators and others who believe in the project can start guilds like this one and spread the word.
Nice - but what exactly is NEAR?
NEAR is a sharded, developer-friendly, proof-of-stake blockchain. It is a brand new and fundamentally reimagined layer 1 protocol designed to independently power the base of the emerging Open Web stack. It is highly scalable and low-cost.
It's revolutionary blockchain tech that you can think of as a public, community-run platform (or cloud) that makes it easy, low-cost and effective to build amazing decentralized apps that people can actually use without worrying about growth issues.
Vital Point Academy
The Academy covers everything from beginner to advanced concepts leading to NEAR developer certification and beyond. It allows anyone, with any level of experience or knowledge, to learn to develop amazing decentralized applications on NEAR Protocol.
Community
Vital Point AI is constantly working to build its community through local and global initiatives. In addition to developers, we welcome domain experts, investors and people with ideas to set the favorable conditions for constant and ongoing innovation.
Production
With all the conditions and support in place, Vital Point AI aims to link developers and domain experts with a view to production of decentralized, open web enabled applications that solve real-world problems. We are aiming to see a variety of projects emerge and thrive.
If you want to help build solutions to interesting challenges - we want to see you succeed.
