NEAR Protocol Launches SOL Yield Product Using Confidential Accounts

NEAR is positioning confidential accounts as a differentiator in the crowded yield-product space, where privacy of deposit addresses has become a live concern for users moving assets across chains. The absence of a lock-up matters as much as the yield itself: it removes the usual friction that keeps capital parked in a vault, which could make the product more of a liquidity pass-through than a sticky deposit base. Whether that design draws sustained TVL or simply routes SOL through NEAR is the open question.