NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin proposed 13 applications spanning AI pets, private trading, cross-chain payments, private AI tools and fundraising, alongside five ways developers could reach users. His ideas include NFT-based AI characters funded by NEAR balances, a universal checkout widget using NEAR Intents, escrowed event deposits across blockchains, private code and medical reviews, and AI benchmarking on confidential datasets. He also suggested distribution through Aurora wallet connections, NEARLegion, cross-promotions, Product Hunt and X, arguing in an Oct. 3 post that developers now need to focus on what to build and how to gain distribution as building becomes easier.