William added that Near Protocol used a former DFINITY employee they fired in 2021. According to him, the ex-employee helped Near Protocol develop its cross-chain $NEAR Intents, warning of potential “legal implications.’

$NEAR Intents uses Chain Abstraction (powered by our proprietary tech) to custody assets on different chains, and then Intents basically just uses a market maker paid by them to swap them across chains according to people’s wishes.

DFINITY and Internet Computer claimed that the IP theft harmed them financially. In fact, William said that even $ICP crypto holders have been impacted by alleged $NEAR Intent theft. However, he didn’t mention any pending lawsuit, but noted that “something has to be worked…